The School of Psychology at The University of Queensland is delighted to announce the return of the UQ Compassion Symposium for 2023.
The eighth iteration of this beloved event, the Symposium will bring together researchers, clinicians and students from a range of disciplines to showcase compassion-based research and practice.
Keynote: Friday 8 September 2023
Conference: Saturday 9 September 2023
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (exact location details to be confirmed)
The 2023 full-day format will again include two concurrent streams to provide an array of session options to conference delegates. Presenters will be given a 30-minute time-slot, which includes time for questions and discussion.
Program
| Time (AEST) | UQ Compassion Symposium 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Conference Registration | |
| OPENING PLENARY SESSION | ||
| Open | Dr Stan Steindl Welcome Address | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Prof Nathan Consedine Epic Failure and the Application of Compassion Science in Healthcare | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Alina Pavlova Healthcare compassion interventions’ co-design and feasibility inquiry with clinicians and healthcare leaders in Aotearoa/New Zealand | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Morning Tea (30 Minutes) | |
| MORNING CONCURRENT STREAMS | ||
| Stream 1 | Stream 2 | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Prof Jane Clemensen Compassion as an Antidote to Burnout in Healthcare | Dr Chris Edwards & Dr Ru Ying Cai The Aspect Self-Compassion Program for Autistic Adults (ASPAA) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Dr Petrina Barson The Richards Trauma Process: SelfCompassion in a Bottle | Dr Madeleine Fraser There is no self without the other: The Concordance of Self-Other Compassion in Daily Life and Its Link to Well-Being |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Stacey Freebody Self-Compassion as a Non-Negotiable Scaffold for Early Career Psychologists | Dylan Moloney-Gibb Three Circles: Validating a new digital measure of the three-affect regulation model that underpins compassion focused therapy |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Dr Nadine Levy & Caitlin Delainey A Duoethnographic Exploration of Compassionate Pedagogy: Risks, Opportunities, and Teaching Techniques | Sorcha Kaufmann Perceived Parental Support and Psychological Control and the Development of Adolescent SelfCompassion: A longitudinal, WithinPerson Approach |
| 10 minutes | Session Buffer Accommodates for stream-swapping and speaker setup | |
| 12:40 – 13:20 | Lunch (40 minutes) | |
| AFTERNOON CONCURRENT STREAMS | ||
| Stream 1 | Stream 2 | |
| 13:20 – 13:50 | Alicia Jones Children’s ability to identify regret and relief in others | Dr Jonathan Davies What do we Know about Compassion Meditators in Australia and Abroad? Population Level Insights from Recent Representative Surveys |
| 13:50 – 14:20 | Rita Princi-Hubbard The Student and Teacher Relationship: Exploring Behavioural and Neuroscience Variables that Impact upon Student and Teacher Wellbeing | Julia Adams The guru in your Pocket: Findings from a cross-sectional study on characteristics of aspiring, engaged and disengaged meditation app users |
| 14:20 – 14:50 | Glenys Oberg Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Traumatic Stress in Teachers. How they contribute to burnout and how they are related to Trauma Awareness | Dr Courtney Walton Self-Compassion and Mental Health in the Performing Arts |
| 14:50 – 15:20 | Dr Karyn Healy, Dr James Kirby, Kirsty Payne Can a brief compassionate focused therapy intervention enhance wellbeing of stressed staff in schools? | Dr Rachel Hannam Feeling Into Our Needs: A Body-Based Approach to Self-Compassion |
| 10 minutes | Session Buffer Accommodates for stream-swapping and speaker setup | |
| AFTERNOON PLENARY STREAMS | ||
| 15:50 – 16:20 | Dr Lynne Reeder & Dr Marcela Matos Future Research Directions in Compassion Science | |
| 16:20 – 16:50 | Dr Marcela Matos An Experiential Practice of Compassion | |
| Close | Dr James Kirby Conference wrap-up session | |
| 17:00 | Estimated End of Event | |
Please note this will be an ‘in person’ only event.
About Compassion Symposium
This cross-disciplinary symposium is designed to bring together academics, clinicians, researchers, and students from different disciplines within The University of Queensland and from the community, to present on how compassion is or could be a part of their research, studies, or practice.
The compassion symposium consists of the free keynote address, and the full-day conference.
About the Event
The School of Psychology at The University of Queensland is delighted to announce the return of the UQ Compassion Symposium for 2023. The eighth iteration of this beloved event, the Symposium will bring together researchers, clinicians and students from a range of disciplines to showcase compassion-based research and practice.
Registration for the Keynote Address and the Compassion Conference is now open. See below for full details and to register.
Keynote Address
At our 2023 Compassion Symposium Keynote Address, we are excited to welcome Dr Marcela Matos, Clinical Psychologist and Auxiliary Researcher at the Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive and Behavioral Intervention (CINEICC), University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Marcela will open the symposium with her talk titled 'The compassion (r)evolution: From easing suffering to awakening flourishing'.
For more information about Dr Matos and her presentation, click here.
The Keynote Address is a free in-person event.
Registration is essential.
Compassion Conference
The Compassion Conference is a full-day 'in-person' event which boasts an impressive and diverse line up of practitioners and researchers. Learn how compassion can be integrated into research, practice, work and daily life.