Positive psychology is talking about concepts of flourishing, happiness and well-being. Through practical exercises, useful strategies and demonstration, learn about the up-to-date developments in this growing field, its clinical applications and the relevance for your life as well as the lives of your clients.
Finding sources of funding can be difficult. Responding to requests for proposals doesn't have to be. This is a "nuts and bolts" workshop which offers a solution-focused approach to preparing grants.
The Enneagram System of Personality Types may be the most profound and practical way to know ourselves and others and be a bridge between psychology and spirituality. This workshop will be a sophisticated introduction to using the Enneagram as an insightful tool to empower therapist growth and effectiveness.
This workshop presents several Energy Psychology techniques that can be used to reduce stress, rebalance the energy system and turn on positive energies. Additional methods include techniques that can help prevent as well as treat chronic stress symptoms. These approaches can be easily taught to clients and are equally effective for therapist self-care.
This workshop explores how the Native American belief system contains ingredients to keep the mind and body in harmony and promote well-being. We'll explore adding into therapy sessions totem strengths, shaman journeys, medicine wheels, time-frames, respect and gratitude; the circle of life and symbols as reminders of the "right path."
Working with terminally ill patients and their families is necessarily time-limited. The effects of such work can be dramatic and lasting for both patient and survivors. This magnifies the effects of such therapy and thus underscores the importance of intervening elegantly and boldly, moving through patients' (and therapists') fear of death.
This workshop poses a brief substance abuse treatment which acknowledges and accommodates the personal needs being addressed by substance abuse. Client self-empowerment and relapse prevention are built into the intervention. This method develops a safe framework for addressing any subsequent mental health themes directly or indirectly related to substance misuse. A particular form of body language know as ideomotor signaling is established in this procedure.
In this workshop participants will learn a new method of brief therapy techniques to cure anxiety and panic disorder, inspired by material and attitudes learned from Dr. Erickson's work. This advanced approach uses pacing, reframing, utilization, conversational trance and Erickson's style of form-fitting treatment for each patient.
Ericksonian psychotherapy emphasizes the importance of tailoring. In this workshop, we will learn how to utilize sung trances where the client's own vocabulary, interspersal and future orientation will be used. Brief interventions will be presented while using sung trances and participants will learn how to compose their own interventions using music and hypnotic language. Audience participation will be invited.