Chair:- Rod Thomson, Public Health Director, Shropshire

Thursday 1st October

8:30 am – 9:30 am Registration

9:30 am – 9:40 amOpening Remarks:- Keith Barrow, Leader of Shropshire Council

9:40 am – 10:30 amProfessor Patrick Pietroni, Director, Centre for Psychological Therapies of Primary Care

10:30 am – 11:00 amFacilitated Discussion:- John Ballatt, Consultant to individuals, teams and organisations

11:00 am – 11:30 am Coffee/Tea

11:30 am – 1:00 pmSEMINARS

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Neuro-Science / 2
Business / 3
Healthcare / 4
Psychology, Psychiatry,
Psychotherapy / 5
Mediation, Conflict & Resolution
James Doty / Andrew Stone / Clare Gerada / Jeremy Holmes / Mohamed Keshavjee
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Community Resilience / 7
Education / 8
Inter-faith / 9
Creative Arts for Health / 10
Local Government
Mervyn Morris / Maurice Irfan Coles / Joan Brown Campbell / Tom Andrews and Dominic Abrams (tbc) / Keith Barrow

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch

Demonstration of Compassion in Action in Shropshire

Stalls from Local and Voluntary Organisations

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm WORKSHOPS

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Compassion Communities in Shropshire / 2
Providing Inclusive Mental Health Services – Working with Cultural diversity / 3
A Day At Designs in Mind / 4
Gold Standards Framework Centre for End of Life Care / 5
Compassionate Design
Paul Cronin
Chief Executive, Severn Hospice / Atiya Ali
Mental Health Community Development Worker for Ethnic Minority Groups / Catherine Wilks Designs in mind, a creative and social purpose working with adults in touch with Mental Health Services / Mark Thomas
Anglican Priest and Vicar of the town centre churches in Shrewsbury for 12 years. / Jessica Woolliscroft, EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant
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Beyond Mindful Eating / 7
Compassionate resilience for flourishing as a healthcare professional / 8
Reader Organisation bringing people and great literature together / 9
The Sound of Compassion / 10
Mindfulness for Well-being Introductory Workshop
Lucy Aphramor
Mindful Eating Expert, teaching relational nutrition, for food, people and justice / Paquita de Zulueta
Honarary Senior Clinical Lecture, Imperial College London / Helen Willows
GP and Reader bringing people together in weekly groups to listen to poems and stories read aloud. / Mike Edwards
Didgeridoo -
Overlapping and interconnected stories comprising words and images / Julie Howe
Mindfulness and Well-being Teacher

3.30 pm – 4:00 pmTea

4:00 pm – 5:00 pmFacilitated Discussion:- John Ballatt

BREAK - CHOIR

6.00 pm – 7.30 pm

"Darwin's Humanity”

Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK

Thursday 1 October 2015 6pm – 7.30pm

An evening withRuth Padel

Poet and Author(Great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin

Free to all Conference Delegates or £10 – please book at

Chair: Patrick Pietroni

Musical Interlude – Mike Edwards

Ruth Padel

8:00 pmConference Dinner, The Lion Hotel

The Lion Hotel, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1UY

To book, please telephone - 01743 353107 (£30)

Friday 2nd October

9:00 am – 10:00 amChair:- Jean Knox, Associate Professor in Clinical Training, University of Exeter

Plenary:-Paul Gilbert, Compassionate Focused Therapy Founder, University of Derby

10:00 am – 11:00 amFacilitated Discussion:- John Ballatt

11:00 am – 11:30 amTea/Coffee

11:30 am – 1:00 pmReflective Space:- Open Discussion Groups (to be announced at a later date)

1:30 pm – 2:00 pmLunch

2:00 pm – 2:30 pmPlenary:- John Ballatt and PatrickPietroni

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Karen Armstrong

Compassion – What Next?

Chaired by Patrick Pietroni

4:30 pm – 5:00 pmTea

This is a provision programme and some amendments may occur.

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