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CranioSacral Therapy I October 1-4, 2009 By Upledger Institute
CE Hours: 32
In this workshop you'll learn gentle techniques to normalize the craniosacral system and allow the body to self- correct. By unraveling pain and dysfunction at the source, you'll naturally help eliminate stress, strengthen resistance to disease, and enhance health in every dimension.
Course Highlights: By the end of this 4-day workshop you should be able to:
This workshop lays the groundwork for true compassionate living and teaching. During this day long workshop we explore the meaning of true compassion and become aware of how we are connected with our students and neighbors. This workshop is a mixture of Asana Practice, group discussion and group exercises all culminating in a deeper understanding of how to apply compassion first to ourselves and then to others. The effort you put into this workshop will greatly influence your ability to weave these understandings seamlessly into your life and your teaching, helping you along your path to inspiring change in others as well as yourself! *this workshop is not limited to yoga teachers or teachers in training!
Reiki I Certification
By Amy Hamel, Reiki Master Teacher, Crystal Healer and Channel CE Hours: 4
Undefended Love: When Close is Not Enough
March 16, 2009
May 16-17, 2009
http://undefendedlove.com/
CE Hours: 10
The capacity exists in all of us to love without defenses or requirements, so that real intimacy-direct, unmediated, heart-to-heart connection with ourselves and with our partner-becomes a lifelong expression of our deepest nature. This is the power of Undefended Love, a transformative path that guides us beyond close, companion-based partnerships toward intimate relationships, where each moment is a fresh, spontaneous expression of who we genuinely are.
This workshop, open to couples and individuals, offers a vision to cut through personal differences and reach the direct connection-with ourselves and others-that can only occur when the heart is undefended. The focus is on shifting our center of gravity away from our conditioned personality (the places where we feel stuck, confused, hurt, and defensive) toward our essential self (the part of us that is free, whole, connected, peaceful, powerful, and joyful).
Through lively experiential practices, participants will learn:
• What unconditional love really is and how to achieve it
• How to sustain our experience of ourselves regardless of what our partner is feeling
• How to "dissolve" rather than "resolve" relationship problems
• When "needs" can be unexpected guides to undiscovered inner resources
• How problems can be entry points to deeper connection
• Why there is no difference between men and women when it comes to intimate loving • How comfort and safety can prevent rather than promote intimacy
Prana Power Yoga Teacher Training
http://pranapoweryoga.com/
200 hours, Yoga Alliance Certified
Mindfulness, Willingness and Radical Acceptance in Psychotherapy
January 12 - April 19, 2009
April 14-15, 2008
By Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP
CE Hours: 12
Mindfulness skills have emerged as an important focus of several empirically supported treatments. The roots of mindfulness are in the contemplative practices common to both eastern and western spiritual disciplines and to the emerging scientific knowledge about the benefits of “allowing” experiences rather than suppressing or avoiding them. Both eastern and western psychologies as well as spiritual practices, are converging on the same insights. This training is aimed at therapists wishing to integrate mindfulness into their clinical practice and daily lives. It will be both experiential and tutorial, consisting of practicing and discussing various mindfulness exercises or practices (both in and outside of the seminar) combined with lecture and discussion of strategies for teaching each of the mindfulness skills. The specific mindfulness skills taught in this symposium come from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), an empirically supported treatment for individuals with borderline personality disorder. Part of the treatment consists of teaching and coaching individuals in very specific mindfulness skills and practice of mindfulness by the therapist. This symposium will present an overview of these specific skills, and strategies for how to integrate them into clinical practice. The workshop is intended for therapists using all approaches and is not aimed specifically at DBT or CBT therapists.
Workshop Objectives
• Participants will be able to describe three states of mind and how each relates to the cultivation of wise mind.
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Vipassana Meditation Center, Shelburn, Massachusetts See dhamma.org for description.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
By Cathy Moonshine, PhD, MAC, CADC III via PESI CE Hours: 6.0
Learning Objectives:
August 2006
April 20, 2006
1. Learning and conceptualizing how to utilize the specific techniques of DBT including: a. Mindfulness Skills
b. Distress Tolerance Skills
c. Emotional Regulation Skills
d. Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
2. Exploring basic structure and philosophy of DBT.
3. Developing knowledge and skills about how to utilize DBT with clients.
4. Identify additional tools and resources for implementing DBT.
5. Exploring the importance of therapist self-care in the DBT treatment process.
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Collaborative Therapy with Couples and Families
By William Madsen, PhD at The Family Institute of Cambridge CE Hours: 6.0
Therapeutic Writing as Adjunct to Therapy
March 10, 2006
January 13, 2006
By Claire Willis, LICSW at The Family Institute of Cambridge
CE Hours: 4.0
This experiential workshop will introduce participants to the use of therapeutic writing in psychotherapy. Research has shown that expressive writing as a psychotherapeutic technique promotes health and well being. First, we will introduce writing exercises and techniques suitable for individual, group and couples therapy. Next, we will explore ways to adapt these to the therapist's own practice. Other topics include: use of poetry in psychotherapy, how writing cultivates the unencumbered voice, and the therapist's own history with and attitude toward writing. Participants will receive a collection of writing exercises and an extensive bibliography.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment November 4, 2005 By Susan Lee Tohn, LICSW at NASW Massachusetts Chapter Workshop
CE Hours: 6.0
Solution focused therapy concepts can be applied to a therapy session, case management, supervision, management meetings, groups and more. Learn more about the practical application of solution-focused concepts to your work. You will have the opportunity to watch actual videotaped sessions, practice your skills with role-playing, and leave empowered to immediately utilize solution-focused questions with your clients.
This is an advanced, practice-oriented program aimed at helping participants become more skilled in working with their clients in a Solution Focused manner. This program is designed for participants who have already taken a course in Solution Focused Treatment, or have read the July 2005 FOCUS course on Solution Focused Treatment, or a book on the topic. The presenter will assume that participants understand the 13 solution focused assumptions and the paradigm for cooperating with clients and will build on that knowledge.
Come prepared to listen, discuss, watch video-taped therapy sessions, and put it all together with role-plays. Participants will leave this program empowered to immediately utilize Solution Focused questions with their clients.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to
1. Ask the Miracle question and the appropriate follow-up questions. 2. Elicit, amplify and reinforce exception questions.
3. Measure client progress by utilizing a variety of scales.
A Fresh Approach to Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress
June 2005
By Donald Wexler, MD, FAGPA, CGP, William R. Mark, MDiv.
Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy
CE Hours: 3.0
We have learned that the phenomena of Post-Traumatic Stress (nightmares, early morning awakening, panic, rage, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts) are natural phenomena. They are expressions of attachment to the traumatic experience for the purpose of undoing it. They occur when the individual is in a dissociative state, asleep, or awake. Workshop participants will learn the guidelines for individual and group psychotherapy of Post-Traumatic Stress.
Safety in Groups for Trauma Survivors: From Implicit to Explicit Goal June 2005 By Tanya Terry Gurian, APRN, BC
Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy
CE Hours: 3.0
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) involves a disruption in the individual’s ability to stay safe and experience a sense of safety. Judith Herman describes establishment of safety as the major stage of the first stage of treatment. Establishing safety is critical in stage one of group therapy with trauma survivors regardless of the format. This workshop will explore methods for making groups safe and helping group members generalize that learning to their lives.
Necessary Losses: Growth Through Losing, Leaving, and Letting Go June 2005
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By Bruce Bernstein, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, ABPP
Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy
CE Hours: 3.0
Sometimes change requires letting go of relationships or parts of our lives that we have held dear. We will explore those losses necessary for us to move on and let new experiences emerge. Our focus will be on the presenter’s own struggles, as well as the related experiences of workshop participants.
CranioSacral Therapy I October 1-4, 2009 By Upledger Institute
CE Hours: 32
In this workshop you'll learn gentle techniques to normalize the craniosacral system and allow the body to self- correct. By unraveling pain and dysfunction at the source, you'll naturally help eliminate stress, strengthen resistance to disease, and enhance health in every dimension.
Course Highlights: By the end of this 4-day workshop you should be able to:
- Describe the scientific foundation and principles of CranioSacral Therapy - and why it's the key to relieving pain and dysfunction at their source
- Demonstrate finely tuned palpation skills you can rely on as highly sensitive and intuitive healthcare tools
- Identify the subtle craniosacral rhythm and interpret its patterns to accurately evaluate dysfunction and improvements
- Locate the source of physical problems by traveling through the fascial system, that complex web of tissue that impacts all body structures and systems
- Release dural tube restrictions to enhance interactions between the central nervous system and the rest of the body
- Use techniques that produce dramatic health and relaxation effects, including Direction of Energy and Still-Point Induction
- Work with approaches to a number of common ailments such as TMJ dysfunction, head and neck pain, central nervous system disorders and many more
- Put a simple, effective 10-Step Protocol into practice right away
Wellness Coaching 13-week Training Program July-October 2009
http://wellcoach.com/
Our coaching methodology integrates principles and tools from behavioral psychology, positive psychology, motivational interviewing, social cognitive theory, self-determination theory, constructive development, and relational cultural theory and is consistent with the International Coach Federation's core coaching competencies.
You will be trained to use basic coaching skills and methodologies and use the Wellcoaches web coaching platform, enabling you to:
- Use coaching skills, tools, and processes in all client interventions (individual or group group) in consumer, corporate, hospital, physician practice, or health-club setting.
- Become a polished, professional, and confident certified health coach or wellness coach, working with clients in-person or by phone.
- Optional use of a web coaching platform to minimize paperwork and present a professional image.
- Systematically collect, assess, and help clients master health and wellness in: health risk evaluation,
physical activity, stress management, and nutrition/weight management
- Apply science-based coaching skills in formal coaching programs or short client
interactions/interventions
- Guide the development of client visions and goals while utilizing accepted national standards and
guidelines
- Track, evaluate, and adjust a client's progress using the latest coaching techniques and web
technology
- Visually monitor exercise performance using live video-conferencing, if you are have fitness
credentials
- Empower your clients to establish and sustain a higher level of wellness than they can do alone
Compassionate Teacher Training June 13thth/21st, 2009 By Sue Jones,
http://yogahope.org/
CE Hours: 16
This workshop lays the groundwork for true compassionate living and teaching. During this day long workshop we explore the meaning of true compassion and become aware of how we are connected with our students and neighbors. This workshop is a mixture of Asana Practice, group discussion and group exercises all culminating in a deeper understanding of how to apply compassion first to ourselves and then to others. The effort you put into this workshop will greatly influence your ability to weave these understandings seamlessly into your life and your teaching, helping you along your path to inspiring change in others as well as yourself! *this workshop is not limited to yoga teachers or teachers in training!
Reiki I Certification
By Amy Hamel, Reiki Master Teacher, Crystal Healer and Channel CE Hours: 4
Undefended Love: When Close is Not Enough
March 16, 2009
May 16-17, 2009
http://undefendedlove.com/
CE Hours: 10
The capacity exists in all of us to love without defenses or requirements, so that real intimacy-direct, unmediated, heart-to-heart connection with ourselves and with our partner-becomes a lifelong expression of our deepest nature. This is the power of Undefended Love, a transformative path that guides us beyond close, companion-based partnerships toward intimate relationships, where each moment is a fresh, spontaneous expression of who we genuinely are.
This workshop, open to couples and individuals, offers a vision to cut through personal differences and reach the direct connection-with ourselves and others-that can only occur when the heart is undefended. The focus is on shifting our center of gravity away from our conditioned personality (the places where we feel stuck, confused, hurt, and defensive) toward our essential self (the part of us that is free, whole, connected, peaceful, powerful, and joyful).
Through lively experiential practices, participants will learn:
• What unconditional love really is and how to achieve it
• How to sustain our experience of ourselves regardless of what our partner is feeling
• How to "dissolve" rather than "resolve" relationship problems
• When "needs" can be unexpected guides to undiscovered inner resources
• How problems can be entry points to deeper connection
• Why there is no difference between men and women when it comes to intimate loving • How comfort and safety can prevent rather than promote intimacy
Prana Power Yoga Teacher Training
http://pranapoweryoga.com/
200 hours, Yoga Alliance Certified
Mindfulness, Willingness and Radical Acceptance in Psychotherapy
January 12 - April 19, 2009
April 14-15, 2008
By Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP
CE Hours: 12
Mindfulness skills have emerged as an important focus of several empirically supported treatments. The roots of mindfulness are in the contemplative practices common to both eastern and western spiritual disciplines and to the emerging scientific knowledge about the benefits of “allowing” experiences rather than suppressing or avoiding them. Both eastern and western psychologies as well as spiritual practices, are converging on the same insights. This training is aimed at therapists wishing to integrate mindfulness into their clinical practice and daily lives. It will be both experiential and tutorial, consisting of practicing and discussing various mindfulness exercises or practices (both in and outside of the seminar) combined with lecture and discussion of strategies for teaching each of the mindfulness skills. The specific mindfulness skills taught in this symposium come from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), an empirically supported treatment for individuals with borderline personality disorder. Part of the treatment consists of teaching and coaching individuals in very specific mindfulness skills and practice of mindfulness by the therapist. This symposium will present an overview of these specific skills, and strategies for how to integrate them into clinical practice. The workshop is intended for therapists using all approaches and is not aimed specifically at DBT or CBT therapists.
Workshop Objectives
• Participants will be able to describe three states of mind and how each relates to the cultivation of wise mind.
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- Participants will be able to define and describe the three “What” skills (Observe, Describe, and Participate).
- Participants will be able to define and describe the three “How” skills (Non-Judgmental, One-Mindful, and Effectiveness).
- Participants will be able to describe two distress tolerance principles—Radical Acceptance and Willingness and their relationship to mindfulness practice.
- Participants will learn how to conduct practice session with mindfulness.
Narrative Approaches to Therapy Oct. 2006 - Apr. 2007 (20 weeks, 4 hrs/wk) By William Madsen, PhD at The Family Institute of Cambridge
CE Hours: 60
Narrative Therapy offers an exciting, effective approach to clinical and community work. It is a collaborative, competency-based approach that takes into account the larger political and cultural context in which problems arise. This program helps clinicians integrate narrative ideas into their own clinical practice and develop a clinical stance grounded in respect, connection, curiosity, and hope. Participants will develop a practical understanding of the following ideas as they apply to therapy:
-Social constructionist ideas and a story metaphor
-Cultural discourses and their influence on everyday life
-Collaboration, transparency, and accountability as a professional guidelines -Externalizing, re-authoring and re-membering conversations
-Letter writing, reflecting teams, and witnessing practices
The program offers experientially based sessions with live and videotaped clinical material and clinical consultation. We will combine narrative ideas with other cutting edge developments both inside and outside the field of mental health. Special attention will be paid to integrating ideas into participants' own work settings and examining institutional practices that can support the development of narrative ideas. The program will include guest presenters to address specialized concerns.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To examine the effects of the relational stance we hold with clients.
To integrate narrative ideas into one's own clinical practice.
To learn clinical practices that support respect, connection, curiosity, and hope.
Creating Loving Relationships Mar. 2006 - May 2006 (10 weeks, 2 hrs/wk) By Charlie Verge, PhD at The Family Institute of Cambridge
CE Hours: 0
Based on the Program in Couples Therapy, this seminar is open to couples and individuals who want to build more loving relationships. Participants learn how to create intimate partnerships with respect, devotion, appreciation and honesty that form the basis for lasting happiness. Each week a different theme will be addressed in depth providing specific ideas and suggestions for building love. All are welcome with or without partners. This seminar is chock full of valuable information for improving intimacy skills to enhance the quality of true loving connection.
Vipassana Meditation Center, Shelburn, Massachusetts See dhamma.org for description.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
By Cathy Moonshine, PhD, MAC, CADC III via PESI CE Hours: 6.0
Learning Objectives:
August 2006
April 20, 2006
1. Learning and conceptualizing how to utilize the specific techniques of DBT including: a. Mindfulness Skills
b. Distress Tolerance Skills
c. Emotional Regulation Skills
d. Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
2. Exploring basic structure and philosophy of DBT.
3. Developing knowledge and skills about how to utilize DBT with clients.
4. Identify additional tools and resources for implementing DBT.
5. Exploring the importance of therapist self-care in the DBT treatment process.
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Collaborative Therapy with Couples and Families
By William Madsen, PhD at The Family Institute of Cambridge CE Hours: 6.0
Therapeutic Writing as Adjunct to Therapy
March 10, 2006
January 13, 2006
By Claire Willis, LICSW at The Family Institute of Cambridge
CE Hours: 4.0
This experiential workshop will introduce participants to the use of therapeutic writing in psychotherapy. Research has shown that expressive writing as a psychotherapeutic technique promotes health and well being. First, we will introduce writing exercises and techniques suitable for individual, group and couples therapy. Next, we will explore ways to adapt these to the therapist's own practice. Other topics include: use of poetry in psychotherapy, how writing cultivates the unencumbered voice, and the therapist's own history with and attitude toward writing. Participants will receive a collection of writing exercises and an extensive bibliography.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment November 4, 2005 By Susan Lee Tohn, LICSW at NASW Massachusetts Chapter Workshop
CE Hours: 6.0
Solution focused therapy concepts can be applied to a therapy session, case management, supervision, management meetings, groups and more. Learn more about the practical application of solution-focused concepts to your work. You will have the opportunity to watch actual videotaped sessions, practice your skills with role-playing, and leave empowered to immediately utilize solution-focused questions with your clients.
This is an advanced, practice-oriented program aimed at helping participants become more skilled in working with their clients in a Solution Focused manner. This program is designed for participants who have already taken a course in Solution Focused Treatment, or have read the July 2005 FOCUS course on Solution Focused Treatment, or a book on the topic. The presenter will assume that participants understand the 13 solution focused assumptions and the paradigm for cooperating with clients and will build on that knowledge.
Come prepared to listen, discuss, watch video-taped therapy sessions, and put it all together with role-plays. Participants will leave this program empowered to immediately utilize Solution Focused questions with their clients.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to
1. Ask the Miracle question and the appropriate follow-up questions. 2. Elicit, amplify and reinforce exception questions.
3. Measure client progress by utilizing a variety of scales.
A Fresh Approach to Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress
June 2005
By Donald Wexler, MD, FAGPA, CGP, William R. Mark, MDiv.
Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy
CE Hours: 3.0
We have learned that the phenomena of Post-Traumatic Stress (nightmares, early morning awakening, panic, rage, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts) are natural phenomena. They are expressions of attachment to the traumatic experience for the purpose of undoing it. They occur when the individual is in a dissociative state, asleep, or awake. Workshop participants will learn the guidelines for individual and group psychotherapy of Post-Traumatic Stress.
Safety in Groups for Trauma Survivors: From Implicit to Explicit Goal June 2005 By Tanya Terry Gurian, APRN, BC
Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy
CE Hours: 3.0
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) involves a disruption in the individual’s ability to stay safe and experience a sense of safety. Judith Herman describes establishment of safety as the major stage of the first stage of treatment. Establishing safety is critical in stage one of group therapy with trauma survivors regardless of the format. This workshop will explore methods for making groups safe and helping group members generalize that learning to their lives.
Necessary Losses: Growth Through Losing, Leaving, and Letting Go June 2005
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By Bruce Bernstein, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, ABPP
Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy
CE Hours: 3.0
Sometimes change requires letting go of relationships or parts of our lives that we have held dear. We will explore those losses necessary for us to move on and let new experiences emerge. Our focus will be on the presenter’s own struggles, as well as the related experiences of workshop participants.