| |
Past Courses, Workshops & Trainings: 2004
February 13-15, 2004
Sexual Healing: Transforming the Sacred Wound
with Peter Levine, Ph.D.
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
Contact: Esalen, web: www.esalen.org
TEL: 831-667-3000;
FAX: 831-667-2724
Sexual trauma and abuse can wound us deeply, leaving scars that are physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Fortunately we are endowed with innate mechanisms that allow us to move through trauma. But why doesn't our natural healing process work more naturally for us? In part because we're unaccustomed to the sensations of healing; they feel alien to us. We don't realize the signals our body and mind express in attempting to return to balance and wholeness. When we experience the intense energy associated with survival we may be intimidated by its raw power. In addition, because of shame and self-blame we may shut down and retreat further or act out promiscuously. Past negative messages that have become habitual beliefs as well as unconscious urges to reenact trauma may also play a part in blocking healing. However, as we learn to own our instinctual power and surrender to certain subtle energies we find that they can transform to feelings of empowerment, ecstasy and oneness. In this workshop we will explore together tools we may use to harness and transform the energies of trauma. Activities include guided group awareness exercises, Yoga, individual work, and video material.
March 15, 2004
Advanced Mindbody Healing Approaches with the Difficult Patient
with Mark Weisberg, Ph.D.
American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
Anaheim, CA
FAX: 630-351-8490; web: www.asch.net
This one day intensive workshop is designed for all health professionals who are interested in the treatment of acute and chronic mindbody syndromes related to organic, traumatic, developmental, and situational stresses. The leaders will discuss the latest neurophysiologic advances integrated with recent psychotherapeutic and hypnotic innovations. Special emphasis is given to patients who present with perplexing symptoms which appear refractory to treatment, and to rapid hypnotic approaches that can stimulate significant positive responses for them. Topic areas include methods which facilitate management of a wide range of hard to treat somatic conditions, including fibromyalgia, asthma, migraines, chronic fatigue syndrome, panic disorder, phobia, anxiety, and autoimmune disease. Clinical discussion will include the interface of mindbody symptoms with personality disorders, dissociative diagnoses, organic conditions, addictions, and complicated transference-countertransference reactions. Participants are invited to discuss their most challenging clinical cases. Format includes lecture, demonstration, and brief practicum.
March 16, 2004
Integrating EMDR with Hypnosis in the Treatment of Trauma
with Harriet Hollander, Ph.D.
American society of Clinical Hypnosis, Anaheim, CA
This workshop will present innovative ways in which Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be integrated with hypnosis. The topics to be covered include: 1) A treatment intervention called Eye Closure, Eye Movements (ECEM) that can be used to treat trauma-based PTSD symptoms, including anxiety and panic; 2) The uses of EMDR combined with hypnosis in the treatment of physiological pain and psychological distress related to unresolved trauma.
March 17, 2004
Meridian Therapies and Hypnosis Strategies with Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorder Patients
with Lillian Gross, M.D.
American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
Anaheim, CA
This advanced workshop explores the synthesis of hypnotic techniques and energy psychology to provide cutting edge treatment for challenging patients with complex posttraumatic and dissociative symptoms. Topics include the treatment of: chronic complex pain; atypical anxiety, panic, and phobias; habit and eating disorders; and somatic disturbance. Dr. Gross and Dr. Phillips will share highly effective techniques that provide rapid links to healing resources, guidelines for introducing energy therapies, and ways of combining EP and hypnotic techniques to address complex needs. Clinical strategies will include the integration of hypnotic suggestion with the midline meridian approach to reduce intense negative affect and physiological distress, and pain and anxiety protocols to promote self-regulation and balance of the mind/body system. Special attention is given to possibilities that can expand the therapeutic toolkit to work effectively with this difficult population. The workshop format includes lecture, demonstration, brief practicum, and clinical case discussion. Participants are invited to bring their most challenging cases for consultation.
May 8, 2004
Meeting on the Midline: Treating Extreme Stress
Energy Psychology Conference
Phoenix, AZ
Many clients who have been traumatized have great difficulty managing extreme states of stress and distress. In these states, they are often overwhelmed by intrusive emotional reactions such as rage, terror, and grief, and dissociated from the internal and external resources that might help provide calming and grounding. This workshop demonstrates how the midline meridian technique, (also called the Negative Affect Erasing Method) developed by Fred Gallo, Ph.D., can be modified to work with the special needs of clients with complex PTSD and dissociative disorders including DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). Specific protocols presented include those that assist with clearing extreme somatoaffective distress, promote integration of fragmented ego states, and install strengthening resources related to positive attachment experiences as well as to empowering personal capacities. Synthesis of this EP technique with EMDR and hypnotic suggestion will also be explored.
May 14-16, 2004
Body Focused Psychotherapy
Paris, France
Contact: D. VARMA
Sakti Institute
This workshop is designed to focus on the treatment of various somatic issues that present in psychotherapy. These include acute and chronic pain problems including headache, arthritis, back pain; autoimmune problems such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and lupus; conflicts related to eating disorders and distortions of body image and awareness; and various mind/body syndromes, including atypical anxiety and panic, somatoform dissociation, and somatization symptoms. Topic areas will include the interface between psychological and physiological pain; the neurobiology of attachment trauma and other post-traumatic phenomena; psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) research and the importance of self-regulation; and somatic representations and dissociated memory. Models for treatment will incorporate clinical, Ericksonian, and medical hypnosis; uses of EMDR and Energy Psychology; and Somatic Experiencing®. The workshop format emphasizes a balance of lecture, demonstration, brief experiential and practice exercises, and clinical case consultation.
May 22-23, 2004
Healing the Divided Self: Clinical Applications of Ego-State Therapy
Aix-en-Provence, France
Contact: Annie Gasse, email: annie.gasse@noeticus.fr.
This workshop offers a wide range of treatment approaches within a four-stage model of treatment designed to treat self-division resulting from developmental conflicts and physical, sexual, emotional, and ritualized abuse. These conditions include PTSD, atypical anxiety and depressive disorders, and DID (dissociative identity disorder). Topic areas include effective uses of hypnotic suggestion, reconstruction of trauma, false and true memory issues, promoting mastery and resolution of traumatic experiences, managing internal boundaries, developing self-soothing, and enhancing personality integration. Special attention is focused on ego-strengthening through positive utilization of client resistances and defenses, resolution of various post-traumatic symptoms, and ways of using the therapeutic alliance as a powerful resource. Participants are encouraged to bring their most difficult case material for discussion. Live demonstrations, clinical case discussions, and practice sessions are featured.
May 28-30, 2004
Healing for the Mind and Body
Copenhagen, Denmark
Contact: Povl Krog, email: pmk@smerteteam.dk
TEL: (45) 48 25 13 00;
FAX (45) 48 25 13 04
This workshop is designed to focus on treatment that promotes optimal connection between mind and body. Often patients who suffer psychological and physical health imbalance exhibit symptoms that reflect excessive focus on either mental or somatic processes. Participants will learn how to approach chronic somatic and psychological symptoms so that balance is restored. Topic areas will include working with acute and chronic pain problems, autoimmune difficulties such as fibromyalgia, posttraumatic and dissociative symptoms, and various mind/body syndromes, including atypical anxiety and panic and somatization symptoms. The treatment model is a multi-modal approach that incorporates clinical, Ericksonian, and medical hypnosis; uses of EMDR and Energy Psychology; and Somatic Experiencing®. The workshop format emphasizes a balance of lecture, demonstration, brief experiential and practice exercises, and clinical case consultation.
June 28-July 2, 2004
Hypnosis and Mind-Body Healing
with Carol Ginandes, Ph.D.
Cape Cod, MA
Contact: New England Education Institute (NEEI)
TEL: 413-499-1489
FAX: 413-499-6584
Email: educate@neei.org, web: www.neei.org
This workshop demonstrates how hypnosis can be utilized as a powerful intervention in the mind-body healing process. Participants will learn hypnotic techniques to help diminish physical discomfort, alleviate emotional distress that often accompanies and contributes to health imbalance, enhance the patient¹s ego strength and sense of mastery, resolve unconscious barriers that often block efforts toward wholeness and health, and directly accelerate the organic healing process.
Workshop leaders will present a multi-modal hypnotic model with hypnotic strategies that can be tailored to patients with a wide variety of mind-body conditions, such as autoimmune disorders, migraines, cardiovascular disorders, fibromyalgia, gastrointestinal disorders, and complex chronic pain syndromes. Topics include: Using conversational hypnosis to strengthen the healing relationship, preparing patients for successful surgery, teaching patients self-suggestion to activate inherent self-healing systems, exploring and resolving inner conflicts that contribute to intractable symptoms and failed medical interventions, and ways of creating effective imagery to address specific health concerns.
Special emphasis is given to patients who present with chronic symptoms that appear unresponsive to treatment, and to hypnotic strategies that can stimulate positive responses for them. The training format will feature didactic, experiential, demonstration, and practicum components.The course is appropriate for all health professionals who have completed at least the equivalent of intermediate level training in clinical hypnosis and /or guided visualization strategies who wish to expand their expertise in fostering positive health outcomes.
July 17-18, 2004
Hypnosis, Behavioral Medicine, and Mind-Body Healing
Alameda, CA
Contact: Kimberly Bissell, Continuing Education
TEL: (415) 955-2028
FAX: (415) 955-2062
Email: kbissell@alliant.edu, web: www.alliant.edu
This course presents various applications of clinical, medical, and Ericksonian hypnosis with three types of stress-related conditions that commonly present in medical and psychological treatment contexts. These are: Stresses related to organic conditions such as autoimmune and systemic dysfunction; posttraumatic and extreme stresses, and situational distress. Topics include the hypnotic treatment of traumatic stress triggered by illness, accident, injury, invasive medical procedures, and childhood abuse and neglect; intervention approaches for fears related to life threatening illness such as cancer, autoimmune syndromes, and cardiac disease; preparation for surgery and invasive medical and dental procedures; and hypnotic management of situational stresses that contribute to the formation of mindbody symptoms. As time permits, the synthesis of hypnosis with EMDR and energy psychology methods including TFT, EDxTM, and body focused psychotherapy will be explored. Workshop format includes: lecture and discussion, live and video demonstrations, brief practicum experience, and clinical case consultation.
September 17-19, 2004
Body Focused Psychotherapy
Copenhagen, Denmark
This course presents various applications of clinical, medical, and Ericksonian hypnosis with three types of stress-related conditions that commonly present in medical and psychological treatment contexts. These are: Stresses related to organic conditions such as autoimmune and systemic dysfunction; posttraumatic and extreme stresses, and situational distress. Topics include the hypnotic treatment of traumatic stress triggered by illness, accident, injury, invasive medical procedures, and childhood abuse and neglect; intervention approaches for fears related to life threatening illness such as cancer, autoimmune syndromes, and cardiac disease; preparation for surgery and invasive medical and dental procedures; and hypnotic management of situational stresses that contribute to the formation of mindbody symptoms. As time permits, the synthesis of hypnosis with EMDR and energy psychology methods including TFT, EDxTM, and body focused psychotherapy will be explored. Workshop format includes: lecture and discussion, live and video demonstrations, brief practicum experience, and clinical case consultation.
September 20 through November 12, 2004
Online Training Advances in Energy Psychology
National Institute for the Application of Behavoral Medicine
To Register call 800-743-2226 or go to: web: www.nicabm.com
The emerging field of Energy Psychology offers promising new possibilities for successfully and efficiently treating many problems that do not respond well to mainstream psychotherapy and medical interventions. In this course, you will learn specific protocols for the rapid treatment of anxiety, chronic stress reactions, phobias, panic disorders, depression, and pain, as well as for chronic trauma-related symptoms such as debilitating anger, terror, extreme stress and grief.
Each week you will learn:
• How Energy Psychology Can Benefit Your Practice
• Why Energy Assessment Can Significantly Improve Your Practice
• How to Get Optimal Results Working with Stress and Anxiety
• How Negative Beliefs Contribute to Chronic Symtoms
• How to Maximize Your Effectiveness with Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma Symptoms
• How to Help Clients Manage Intense States of Emotional and Physical Pain
• How to Harness the Power of the Seven Energy Centers
• How to Evolve Your Energy Practice
By completing this online e-training participants will become certified in the clinical use of Energy Psychology.
September 21-22, 2004
Advanced Methods in Ego-State Therapy
Vaxjo, Sweden
Contact: Marie-Kristensson-Svardh
Kristensson-Svärdh Marie PsykoterapiPS
Email: marie.kristensson-svardh@ltkronoberg.se
October 8-10, 2004
Healing for Healers
with Noelle Poncelet, Ph.D.
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
Contact: Esalen, web: www.esalen.org
TEL: 831-667-3000
FAX: 831-667-2724
In our work devoted to caring for the multifaceted needs of others, we encounter fear and anxiety, emotional and physical suffering, and desperation and urgency. Moreover, our sensitivity often makes us react strongly to daily signs that our world is in crisis. Over time, these demands take their toll in the form of unrelenting stress, compassion and empathy fatigue, and eventual burnout.
This workshop will focus on developing skills for spiritual, emotional and physical renewal. Experiential exercises will help to identify ways of tapping into unlimited inner resources that maximize personal growth and creativity for healers. These exercises encompass training in the practice of mindfulness meditation, access to rejuvenating playful states, and uses of self-hypnosis to transmute the tyranny of clock time into artful self-expression and ritual. The workshop will also present practices for identifying and removing obstacles that limit our attention to self-care, including uses of voice dialogue, ego-state therapy, and energy psychology methods.
We welcome healers from all traditions to this mini-retreat/workshop weekend. Join us as we celebrate the autumn season by making a deeper commitment to taking care of our hearts, spirits, bodies, and minds.
October 15, 2004
Healing for Healers: Secondary Trauma and Compassion Fatigue
San Rafael, CA
Contact Diane Rose, Marin CAMFT
Our work as therapists is devoted to caring for the multifaceted needs of others. Each day, we encounter fear and anxiety; emotional, physical and spiritual suffering; and desperation and urgency. In addition, the sensitivities we have cultivated as professionals can activate strong responses to crises in our world. Over time, these demands take their toll on us in the form of unrelenting stress, compassion and empathy fatigue, and eventual burnout.
This presentation will focus on finding inspiration within the emerging field of Energy Psychology to develop skills for spiritual, emotional, and physical renewal. Mini-demonstrations and brief experiential exercises will help us to tap into the subtle energy systems that can maximize inner balance, restoring health and wellbeing, while also resetting the equilibrium of the nervous system that is activated by the traumatizing effects of clinical practice. Primary emphasis will be placed on self-healing, although clinical questions for application of Energy Psychology principles and techniques will also be considered.
November 14-16, 2004
Sexual Healing: Transforming the Sacred Wound
with Peter Levine, Ph.D.
Energy Psychology Conference, Toronto, Canada
Contact: Sharon Cass O¹Toole, email: sharon@meridianpsych.com
The wounds of sexual trauma and abuse leave scars that are physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. There is a high co-morbidity for victims of childhood sexual abuse with autoimmune and other medical problems, depression, Axis II disorders, anxiety symptoms, and sexual dysfunction. This workshop explores the innate biological mechanisms that allow us to move through trauma and the cultural, familial, and psychological barriers that pose barriers to resolution. Emphasis will be placed on recognizing the signals expressed at somatic, psychological, and transpersonal levels in the organism¹s attempts to return to balance and wholeness. Participants will also learn to recognize and work with the intense energies associated with survival, shame, and unconscious urges to reenact trauma that can block recovery. In this two-day workshop we will explore and practice tools drawn from Somatic Experiencing®, Energy Psychology, and other orientations to harness and transform the energies of trauma. Activities include guided group awareness exercises, demonstrations, skills practicum, case consultation, and video material.
Back to Top
| |
|
