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The expressive arts interventions provide a great way to invite people into their internal realm. Come practice weaving several art modalities as a way to deepen your clients process and connection to self and the flow.
Learning Objectives:
– Identify 3 potential benefits of expressive arts interventions to use with clients in individual and group setting
– Practice at least 3 simple intermodal expressive arts interventions
In this presentation we will look at the core principles of Qigong, the intersection possibilities for psychotherapy and correlations to process therapy, and hopefully distinguish the ancient practice of Qigong as a framework for understanding and aligning with Universal processes which heals and balances the human system.
An informal survey of homeschooling families and their struggles with caring professionals. Hear what they want you to know about them, common myths and misconceptions about homeschooling, and how you can best serve your clients who also homeschool.
Participants will identify some common homeschooling myths and misconceptions, and identify strategies to untangle the subject of homeschooling from the more universal relational and human struggles.
Let’s explore our own experiences with covert narcissim, and how this impacts our ability to work objectively with the topic as it shows up in session. We will accomplish this through story telling, relaying experience, and experiential enactments.
Participants will identify 3 signs of covert narcissism, identify related counter transference and practice 3 process model skills and enactments.
Nearly three in every four people that seek out your support for therapy embody some form of religiousity or spirituality. And yet how many of us are appropriately trained to work with this powerful and vital aspect of their Being, and the ways in which it informs their wellbeing? This brief workshop will introduce the process of creating a safe space and inviting our clients into holistically exploring, healing and deepening this third arm of the mind-body-spirit essence.
Learning objectives.
Two main questions that my couple clients present me with are: “How do we stay connected and agree when we want different things?” and “How do we disagree and still stay connected when we want different things?” In this workshop I will discuss some ways of inviting clients into connection to self and ownership while at the same time being available and open to connection with a partner.
Participants will learn skills to invite clients in couples therapy into:
You’d be surprised just how experiential Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be. Come play and learn some new frames that just may inspire more flow and creativity with your enactments and invitations.
We will explore ways for experiential and process based therapists to adapt and take inspiration from methods and principles from two forms of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy TEAM-CBT and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Given the interests of the group, a selection of methods will be demonstrated and practiced. See some examples below:
The class will briefly introduce Buddhist psychology and how it can be applied in psychotherapy, particularly utilizing the tenets of releasing attachment to outcomes and allowing the present moment to unfold with clients.
Participants will learn the basic philosophy and orientation of zen Buddhism related to psychotherapy. Participants will also learn and practice some applied psychotherapeutic interventions and attitudes, and how they can be used with clients.
The drama triangle is a very useful shorthand to staying out of client’s systems, both internal and external. Some common places where therapists become entangled with client processes: fees and time, having an agenda and counter-transferance, and systems (internal, couples, families and groups). Therapists can use the drama triangle as an indicator system to re-orient to internal ease and flow in the therapist seat.
Participants will:
There’s an old saying, “Cost is fact, price is policy.” Before you can set a reasonable fee policy, you need to know what it cost you to see a client for an hour (and the answer is never “nothing”). This hour-and-a-half talk will walk you through a structured process to determine that cost.
