ABSTRACT
A large, public city hospital is the service setting for a weekly suicide attempters group held on the psychiatric floor. I and staff members run an intervention group using Cognitively-Based Compassion Training© or CBCT©, which invites participants to calm their minds in order to investigate their thoughts, sensations, and feelings from a non-judging and actively compassionate perspective. As group members honestly share their struggles, certain edges in the script, portions of the protocol become their territory for creative intervention. Chapter practices teach how to listen for what must be let go or changed in a protocol script so that healing can move forward. Freed insights develop new or rebuilt pathways of service. Exercises using comparative drawings highlight how pieces of changed or burned protocols edge toward clearer stakes that foster more resilient service.
