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James Kirby

@jameskirby.bsky.social
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Clinical Psychologist | PhD | Assoc. Prof. & Co-Director of Compassionate Mind Research Group at The University of Queensland

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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Super excited about our upcoming 3-day Introduction to Compassion Focused Therapy workshop we’ll be running March 18-20 2026 in Brisbane. Come join Stan Steindl and me for some CFT fun. Treat yourself to a last minute Christmas gift 🎁 www.trybooking.com/events/landi...
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Aaron Frost - clin psych @aaronfrostclinpsyc.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Wha I tell my supervisees when they confess that they are seeing a client they don’t like Therapists don't always like all of their clients youtu.be/4iCrtgTggXA
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Therapists don't always like all of their clients
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Haven’t been able to stop playing around with the my three circles app. In screenshots below it shows the loving kindness track I did, as well as my circles pre & post. The graph is how I’ve been tracking over the last week. Here is a link to the app: apps.apple.com/au/app/my-th...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Absolutely thrilled to announce that My Three Circles is now available for download on Apple! Track your emotions over time using the Three Circles, central in Compassion Focused Therapy. Also a range of audio guided exercises apps.apple.com/au/app/my-th...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My PhD student Teagan Lloyd-Collins just had her first pub accepted in Clinical Child & Family Psychology Review! A Compassion-Focused Approach to Support Parents After Preterm Birth It’s available now as a preprint here: osf.io/preprints/psya… Congratulations!
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Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract Come join this exciting community of researchers Nov 24-25 - Register now! #philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
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ASPP 2025 Melbourne
Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025
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Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
📢Keynote speakers📢: Claire O'Callaghan, Cammi Murrup-Stewart, James Kirby, Lu Teng, Peter Godfrey-Smith @claireocallaghan.bsky.social @cmurrupstewart.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social @petergs.bsky.social
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Compassion as a transdiagnostic target www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being - Nature Reviews Psychology
Compassion, self-compassion and fears of compassion influence well-being and clinical symptoms and syndromes. In this Review, Kirby elaborates on these links to elucidate the role for compassion in th...
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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
3/3 Researchers from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany: @annimekelburg.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @laramaliske.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social from University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia: @jameskirby.bsky.social Journal of Affective Disorders doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A complete honour to be giving the Kurt Aaron Oration for 2025 as part of the PAH Health Symposium. This year the theme is, “Innovation, inspiration and creation: It starts with a spark”. 26-29 August 2025 www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/hospital-and...
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PAH Health Symposium
Join us for Queensland’s premier health and research conference.
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Self-Attitudes Lab @attitudeslab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Dr. Allison Kelly presented a poster at #CPA2025 sharing findings that #SelfCompassion indirectly promoted more help-seeking intentions and motives by facilitating greater engagement with personal feelings of distress. Thank you to everyone who came to check it out!
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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Interested in #compassion based interventions? Learn all about their effects on #brain Big congrats & thx to @annimekelburg.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @laramaliske.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Super cool to have our work spotlighted in this great piece in Greater Good Science Center on how to help dads. All credit to Daniel, Vincent Mancini, Trevor Mazzucchelli, and Jack for leading the work! What Helps Dads in Transitioning to Parenthood? greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
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What Helps Dads in Transitioning to Parenthood?
New research finds that self-compassion and mindfulness can help new fathers stay well and bond with their babies.
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a Meaningful Life greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
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How Research Cuts Are Hurting the Science of a Meaningful Life
Everything we offer at Greater Good is based on scientific research. Now that work is being threatened.
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ACBS @myacbs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Have you used the Three Circle Model in your work? A new digital measure has been developed & tested with young adults, showing promising validity & reliability for capturing these systems dynamically in both clinical & research settings. Drop your experiences & questions below zurl.co/aQDtt #ACBS
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Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 10/04/2025
📣Our April issue is live! Cover: Vicarious & collective memory Also in this issue: 🫂Compassion as a transdiagnostic mental health target ⚖️Evaluating expertise & implications for legal contexts ⚙️Cognitive mechanics Read more: go.nature.com/4csm3JC #psychology #psychscisky
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... A fantastic study led by my PhD student Dylan Moloney-Gibb with Chase Sherwell, Jamin Day, Sasha Lynn. The findings support the use of this measure as a brief, dynamic scale that captures central CFT theory & can be easily used with clients or in research contexts.
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Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Testing a digital and interactive scale (the three circles) to assess emotion regulation
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
An absolute honour to be speaking as part of this panal at the Perinatal Society of Australia & New Zealand at the Brisbane Convention Centre today. Our symposium was titled Beyone Birth: Compassionate Care After Birth Trauma.
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 05/03/2025
Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being Review by James N. Kirby (@jameskirby.bsky.social) Web: go.nature.com/43lyXqc PDF: rdcu.be/echYo #psychology #clinicalpsych #psychscisky
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Just out now in @natrevpsych.bsky.social “Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being" www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Compassion as a transdiagnostic target to reduce mental health symptoms and promote well-being - Nature Reviews Psychology
Compassion, self-compassion and fears of compassion influence well-being and clinical symptoms and syndromes. In this Review, Kirby elaborates on these links to elucidate the role for compassion in th...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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Insights: Helping Self-Critical Parents Cultivate Self-Compassion And Why It’s Important – Dr James Kirby | Psychology Tools
We met with Dr J Kirby, co-author of A brief compassion focused therapy intervention can help self-critical parents and their children (2023)
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New paper out looking at self-compassion in Dad’s. Led by a super star team including Daniel van Heerden, Trevor G. Mazzucchelli, Jack D. Brett and Vincent O. Mancini. Lucky to be part of the ride Some very cool stuff in here. Open access, just click on the link link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Fathers’ Self-Compassion and Child Attachment Quality: Testing a Sequential Indirect Effect via Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Loneliness, and Psychological Distress in Two Paternal Samples - Mindfu...
Objectives Self-compassion has emerged as a promising treatment target to promote healthy parent–child relationships, though mostly in maternal samples. The mechanisms through which self-compassion ma...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Here are some preliminary sketches we are going to use for a new Compassion Focused Therapy resource we have coming out soon…..super excited!!!! 🔵🔴🟢 illustrations by the brilliant Nicole Lekach
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Had an excellent time at the 2025 Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine (ASBHM) on the Good Cost. My Keynote was on Compassion as a Transdiagnostic Target to help with Mental Health @UQPsych. Highly recommend this conference which will be in Auckland 2026!
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Congratulations Ton-Lin for successfully passing your confirmation today. His PhD is focused on the institutional factors influencing compassion in healthcare. Very lucky to have the expertise of Prof Nathan Consedine as Associate supervisor! And yes Ton-Lin much taller than me
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Just out, led by Dr Chase Sherwell with a great team including Dr Deanna Varley and team at Minds & Hearts. We looked at daily compassion practices for Autistic adults assessing self report, experience sampling and heart rate variability link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Examining the Impact of a Brief Compassion Focused Intervention on Everyday Experiences of Compassion in Autistic Adults Through Psychophysiology and Experience Sampling - Applied Psychophysiology and...
Autistic adults experience greater rates of anxiety and depression compared to the general population. Compassion-focused therapy interventions, aimed at promoting self-compassion capabilities, have s...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
New paper coming out where we evaluated a multimodal approach to investigating self-paced compassion focused interventions for autistic adults. Before our paper is officially published, check out this AI produced 4-min podcast highlighting the findings on.soundcloud.com/k4buxmq4bEzU...
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Podcast summary of Sherwell et al 2025
Listen to Podcast summary of Sherwell et al 2025 by Chasesherwell #np on #SoundCloud
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Super excited about this one. Definitely the hardest paper I’ve written. But certainly most satisfying and rewarding. And thanks to all my friends and colleagues who listened to me during it. Hopefully be out in a few months. Now going through final editing and re-drawing of the visuals
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
A massive congratulations to Dr Deanna Varley who graduated today from the University of Queensland with a 2024 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Higher Degree by Research Theses! Dr Chase Sherwell and I couldn’t be more happy for you Deanna! Woohoo!!!!!
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Aspect - Autism Spectrum Australia @aspectaus.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Make a fresh start in 2025- We invite parents of Autistic children in Australia to join clinical psychologist @jameskirby.bsky.social for a free 2-hour online workshop exploring the benefits of self-compassion on parent/family #wellbeing www.tinyurl.com/arcapsc @arcap-aus.bsky.social #MentalHealth
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Another workshop done to help those who want to donate blood but fear needles. Awesome to be part of this research project with UQ and Lifeblood and the whole team. The participants are just amazing!!
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Tim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · 23/11/2024
More evidence that "therapists cannot rely on their clinical judgement alone to assess client progress and outcomes and will depend on routine outcome monitoring to detect client deterioration".
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Do Therapists Know When Their Clients Deteriorate? An Investigation of Therapists' Ability to Estimate and Predict Client Change During and After Psychotherapy
In routine outcome monitoring, psychotherapists receive feedback from their clients about their self-reported progress during therapy. This practice is based on research indicating that therapists ov....
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We’ve got a bunch of free resources available including on our Compassionate Mind Research Group podcast. It has lots of tracks of compassion focused exercises, please feel free to use and share on.soundcloud.com/yvfQVpKfSAZX...
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Compassionate Mind Training Skills
Welcome to The Compassion Mind Research Group Podcast Series. This Podcast series is from the Compassionate Mind Research Group lab at the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. The pod
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Stan Steindl @drstansteindl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hi. I've have just arrived here! I am a clinical psychologist, trainer, researcher and YouTube/Podcast content creator. If you would like to hear about the podcast in particular, you can find my trailer here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...
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Compassion in a T-Shirt Trailer
Podcast Episode · Compassion in a T-Shirt · Trailer · 2m
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
There were very large reductions in burnout & clinically significant improvements in mental health problems under both conditions. The results provide preliminary evidence that CFT-enhanced training improves secondary traumatic stress and compassion satisfaction. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The effectiveness of brief workplace compassion-focussed training in improving wellbeing of stressed school employees - Karyn L Healy, Kirsty Payne, James N Kirby, 2024
Australian teachers and school employees report high levels of stress-related mental health problems. Previous theory and research show that workplace training ...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Fantastic day at the UQ Learning Lab symposium. Phenomenal talks, terrific research and just a wonderful group of people. Thanks Dr Stephanie MacMahon for pulling it altogether!
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Great fun to be discussing the potential value of a 4-day week as part of a panel discussion on ABCs Radio National www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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The 4-Day-Week − creating a better work life balance or just more stress? - ABC listen
Pressing a full-time  workload into four days sounds like simply adding more stress to your job – even if you keep your pay. But many people who have tried this model say that one would need to pay th...
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Greg Depow @gregdepow.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'm excited to share with you all that my paper on A Positive Empathy Intervention to Improve Well-being on Instagram with @minzlicht.bsky.social and Victoria Oldemburgo de Melo has been accepted for publication at Emotion 😁🥳 osf.io/preprints/ps.... In this work, we tested a brief intervention 1/3
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In my work with Compassion Focused Therapy we use a model of emotion regulation we call The Three Circle model which comprises threat, drive and soothing. Here is a little animation video explaining the model youtu.be/C6AgWnr0bZQ?...
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The Three Functions of Emotions - CFT 3 Circles
YouTube video by All Things Compassion
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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Jonathan Birch on the edge of sentience - a Philosophy Bites interview podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Jonathan Birch on the Edge of Sentience
Podcast Episode · Philosophy Bites · 21/10/2024 · 28m
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Daily effects of a brief compassion‐focused intervention for self‐compassion. Great to be part of this with Dr Deanna Varley and Dr Chase Sherwell #365daysofcompassion bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Interventions for increasing self-compassion are typically assessed through retrospective reports, which may not accurately capture everyday self-compassionate behaviour. Our study addresses this usi...
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Shawn Prest @shawnprest.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
I'm looking forward to attending and participating in the UQ Compassion Symposium next week psychology.uq.edu.au/event/4514/c... I'll be presenting on meditative deconstruction and compassion. @hohwy.bsky.social and @kevinberryman.bsky.social also presenting from the M3CS! @jameskirby.bsky.social
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Compassion Symposium
Bringing together academics, clinicians, researchers, and students from different disciplines within UQ and from the community, to present on how compassion is or could be a part of their research, st...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
In a new pre-print experience sampling study led by Deanna Varley we found noticing your suffering & not acting leads to -ve emotional experience, but if you do act it leads to +ve emotional experience. Self-compassionate action for the win osf.io/preprints/ps...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Who we care about is limited – but our research shows how humans can expand their ‘moral circle’. Great to do this with @drcharlie.bsky.social theconversation.com/who-we-care-...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Can we expand our moral circles & include others typically beyond our moral boundary? Turns out we can! A Brief Compassion Focused Intervention Can Increase Moral Expansiveness: A Randomized Controlled Trial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
An absolute career highlight to be speaking as part of the 2024 Mind and Life Summer Research Institute with some amazing people on such an important topic. If you are interested in coming there is still time to apply, deadline Jan 29th, all details here: www.mindandlife.org/event/summer...
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 11/01/2024
We’re excited to announce that Nature Reviews Psychology is now on Bluesky! Please help spread the word by following us and reposting.   #PsychSciSky #Psychology #socialpsyc #cogpsyc #ClinPsych #devpsy
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Compassion toward others and self-compassion predict mental and physical well-being: a 5-year longitudinal study of 1090 community-dwelling adults across the lifespan www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Pumped with getting these proofs today from #mindfulness on how a brief #compassion focused therapy seminar can increase moral expansiveness @drcharlie.bsky.social
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James Kirby @jameskirby.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
It was great bringing this together with co-editors Myriam Mongrain & Dacher Keltner. Thanks to those who contributed! Expanding the science of compassion, volume II #365daysofcompassion www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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