Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT)
Fiona Brandon
Routledge eBooks April 5, 2023 DOI: 10.4324/9781003243588-17 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Interventions | Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT) Mindfulness Breath-work |
| Key points | Argues that Compassion-Based Resilience Training can serve as an adjunctive therapeutic support for individuals and couples who struggle with intimate relationships, using mindfulness, compassion, and breath-work practices to help clients shift from stress-reactive or trauma-based states into compassionate mindsets that support intimacy and care. |
Abstract
In this chapter, Fiona Brandon focuses on the ways Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT) can be used as an adjunctive support for individual clients and couples who struggle to cultivate loving and supportive long-term intimate relationships. The chapter describes how the CBRT therapeutic framework and curriculum helps clients become conscious of, get curious about, and shift out of, stress-reactive or traumatic states of mind and into more equanimous and compassionate mindsets that support them to engage in, and nourish adult intimate relationships. The mindfulness, compassion, and breath-work practices that CBRT offers are the medicines that directly counter the reactivity of stress and trauma, along with the distorted perceptions of self and others informed by them. The practices encourage clients to go beyond an intellectual understanding of their personal and relational blocks to an embodied curative experience of progressive change that brings about an optimal mindset for love, intimacy, and care. Fiona Brandon offers a number of clinical examples of ways to bring the CBRT framework, and the accompanying contemplative practices, into a clinician&s;s work with clients.