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.
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.
Many thoughtful and perfectly logical treatment strategies in family therapy fail because the intervention goal is two steps ahead of the client. By looking two steps back from this goal, the therapist can design the appropriate sub-tasks and the primary task can be successfully completed. The most commonly encountered sub-tasks will be discussed.
Improvisational theater is a useful component in brief therapeutic approaches. It can be used for different therapeutic purposes. One important goal to be achieved is the patient's development of a healthier body perception as well as their natural recognition and expression of sensual feelings. In this context, the use of improvisational theater elements helps to connect with forgotten or hidden resources of abused women with multiple trauma symptoms. By absorbing the patient's unconscious mind in a state of creative, sensual energy the patient's potential is utilized and can serve as a powerful catalyst to energize their own healing resources.
We are often of many minds as we approach the interactions, decisions and crisis of our daily lives. By utilizing the intriguing language of the computer world, we will learn how to identify and enhance awareness of the many selves we inhabit and to recognize their internal relationships with each other. We will also learn strategies for using these concepts to activate and facilitate. This workshop will be experiential with a didactic introduction and discussion.
"Paradox" is a frequently used term, but less frequently understood and effectively used in brief therapy. This dynamic and light-hearted presentation will borrow Weber's widely accepted construct of Just Noticeable Difference to make the case for Erickson's "tipping the first domino" with pattern analysis and paradoxical intervention. This approach to psychotherapy will be demonstrated and discussed using case examples from the presenter and the participants.
The Law and Ethics Workshop covers emerging legal and ethical issues for mental health practition- ers of all disciplines. The four-hour program addresses issues including confidentiality and privilege, note-taking, record-keeping, coping with subpoenas, the impact of professional society ethical codes on regulation of mental health practice, liability exposure with suicidal patients, and recent develop- ments in “Tarasoff situations.”
This program focuses more closely on the needs of clinicians who fall into particularly high risk groups. Topics include confidentiality and privilege for children, coping with high-conflict divorce/custody families, the regressive impact of the regulatory environment on family therapy in particular, supervision/consultation issues that arise for professionals whose agency positions may include functions that conflict with ethical codes.