Description:
This workshop will address the rapid treatment of trauma and psychosomatic disorders by utilizing an Ericksonian orientation that understands the importance of the symptom as a pathway to inner healing. The skills needed for the rapid treatment of trauma will be reviewed. The course will highlight Ericksonian methods for the immediate reorganization of transforming somatic-affective experience into new healing rhythms in the body.
Educational Objectives:
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, MFT, SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner) is a Creativity and Communication Consultant, and an Executive and Leadership Coach, with a private psychotherapy practice working with individuals, couples, families, and groups in Santa Monica, California. He is the Executive Director of the OpenMind® Training Institute, a leading-edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in core creativity, mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and mindfulness meditation. For more than forty-four years, Alexander has been a trainer of healthcare professionals in North America, as well as in Europe, Russia, Japan, China, and Australia. As a Mindfulness and Zen Buddhist practitioner, he specializes in utilizing mindfulness meditation in his professional and corporate work to help people transform their lives by accessing the mind states that open the portal to their core creativity.
Anita Jung LPC, DAPA, originally from Europe, is most well known for weaving together a tapestry of music and trance to access and transform therapeutic states. She routinely teaches by invitation to professional audiences internationally. Her therapeutic CDs incorporate music and Ericksonian hypnosis and are published in the United States and in Germany. In addition to a private practice she serves as the President of the Central Texas Society of Clinical Hypnosis and directs the Counseling Services Division at Life-Works in Austin, Texas.