Dr Ashleigh McLellan

Dr Ashleigh McLellan is a Clinical Psychologist and has spent the last two year carefully connecting her professional knowledge and experience to bring ‘compassion focused coaching’ to the corporate and executive coaching world.

Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) pioneered by Professor Paul Gilbert is continually being adapted and applied to organisational and business contexts, education and politics. Compassion is defined in this model as: a sensitivity to the suffering (problems/pain) in the self and others with a commitment to try and alleviate and prevent it.

Ashleigh invites delegates to reflect upon their perspectives and behavioural patterns. Using Compassionate Mind Training models and exercises, she make clear that compassion is not an emotion it is a motivation which is rooted in our evolved systems of care giving and receiving.

In working with individuals and groups she helps delegates explore their understanding of compassion and tease out any resistance, blocks or fears they may have to it. Importantly she highlights that compassion is not just for other people, nor is it weak, soft, or ‘fluffy’.