Description:
Brief therapy often requires an extraordinary degree of inventiveness and flexibility. Based on interviews with the world’s most creative therapists, this workshop explores those dimensions that are most conducive to breakthroughs—not only for changes in the client’s behavior, but also in the therapist. Greater creativity is possible for any professional who is willing to critically examine cherished assumptions and revitalize work in new ways.
Educational Objectives:
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
JEFFREY KOTTLER, PhD, is the author of 80 books including a dozen texts for counsellors and therapists that are used in universities around the world, and many classics for practicing therapists and educators. Some of his most highly regarded works include: On Being a Therapist, The Client Who Changed Me, Divine Madness, Changing People’s Lives While Transforming Your Own, and more recently, The Assassin and the Therapist: An Exploration of Truth in Psychotherapy and in Life and Creative Breakthroughs in Therapy: Tales of Transformation and Astonishment. Dr. Kottler has served as a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Lecturer in Peru, Thailand, and Iceland, as well as worked as a Visiting Professor in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Nepal. Jeffrey is currently Professor of Counselling in the Department at California State University, Fullerton. He has also co-founded Empower Nepali Girls (www.EmpowerNepaliGirls.org) which provides educational scholarships for lower caste girls at-risk in Nepal.