Full Course Description
Cultivating Non-Dual Awareness
Objectives
- Discuss how to guide clients through a meditation that helps them access their third “eye”</
- Guide clients through a process that helps them “dissolve” the self and achieve greater awareness
- Explain the role of the body in the Wholeness process
- Explore the difference between traditional mindfulness practice and the Wholeness practice
- Discuss when to schedule body scans over the course of general assessments and talk therapy
Outline
- Overview of cultivating non-dual awareness
- Why clients need a wholeness approach
- Issues that mindfulness doesn’t resolve
- Experiencing the wholeness of the self
- Notice the location of “I”
- Explore experiences through guided non-dual awareness processes
- Concluding remarks from Connirae Andreas
- Focusing on awareness rather than compassion
- Engaging clients with no non-dual awareness experience
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19/01/2015
The Power of Mindfulness Practice
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Objectives
- Articulate implications of mindfulness and awareness to help improve clinical outcomes.
Copyright :
08/12/2014
Escaping the Cybertrance
Program Information
Objectives
- Identify ways to help clients detach from their technological dependencies
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08/12/2014
Creating a Sacred Space in Psychotherapy
Objectives
- Discover how to make your therapy office a sacred space using decoration
- Use the power of ritual to get conversation with clients on a deeper level
- Identify two exercises to help clients promote mindful healing outside the therapy room
- Explain the difference between teaching therapy and teaching morality and virtue
- Dissect the relationship between Western mindfulness therapy and Eastern mindfulness traditions
Outline
- Overview of a sacred space
- Introducing a sacred space into the medical field
- Reducing “road noise” in your sacred space
- Experiencing sacred space
- Using a ritual to create a sacred space
- Explore the meanings of ritual
- Wrapping up with Jack Kornfield
- Gateways to other life dimensions
- “The Wise Heart” and additional trainings
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18/12/2014
The Power of Self-Compassion
Objectives
- Identify the difference between self-compassion and mindfulness training
- Discuss how to have a healthier relationship with angry thoughts
- Identify the “Unholy Trinity of Reactions” and explain how to overcome it
- Use self-compassionate questioning to teach clients self-care
- Demonstrate two exercises for down-regulating a client’s nervous system
Outline
- Overview of mindfulness and self-compassion
- Defining self-compassion
- Distinguishing mindfulness from self-compassion
- Experiencing self-compassion
- Learn the super-structure of compassion
- Explore the core elements of self-compassion through gestures
- Discover when to say no to compassion
- Concluding remarks from Chris Germer
- Allow yourself and your clients to be a “Comasssionate Mess”
- Additional resources from Chris Germer
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19/01/2015
The Fiction of the Self
Objectives
- Identify how mindfulness helps us realize the fallacies in the stories we create about ourselves, and the healing process therein
- Explain the concept of the “Super-Organism” and how mindfulness practice can help clients recognize the state of human interdependence
- Interpret your clients’ preoccupation with rank, and how mindfulness practice can undo this type of thinking
- Use body scans to help clients assess and articulate deeper sensations and tension
- Name one of the pitfalls to embracing mindfulness and the concept of interdependence too fully
Outline
- Overview of the fiction of the self
- “Mindfulness craze” and visions of one’s self
- Learning to let go of “bigger – better”
- Experiencing the fiction of the self
- Explore the somatic aspect of feelings
- Experience the powerful emotions affiliated with therapy
- How to celebrate insignificance
- Wrapping up with Ron Siegel
- Client response to fiction of self therapy approach
- Creating maps for experiences
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08/12/2014
Mindfulness, Healing and Transformation: The Pain and the Promise of Befriending the Full Catastrophe
When we first offered Bessel A. van der Kolk's 22nd Annual Trauma Conference on DVD, mental health professionals around the world asked for just a peek at Jon Kabat-Zinn’s closing presentation. Now, here is your chance to watch his inspiring speech!
Jon Kabat-Zinn has an important and powerful message that ALL people who help those in need must hear. He reminds us that we deal "with the full catastrophe of the human condition" and that, as professionals, we need to make sure that we take care of ourselves so that we are at our best, which in turn brings out the best in our clients every day.
Program Information
Objectives
- Discuss the necessity for therapists to take care of their own selves as they pursue their work with clients.
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21/05/2011