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10th Annual “Autumn in New York” Coherence Therapy Two-Day Intermediate Intensive Training

Are you seeking to advance your Coherence Therapy skills together with colleagues who share your commitment to doing deep, decisively effective work?

In this weekend intensive you will receive coaching tailored exactly to your individual learning curve. Each day of the workshop begins with a live demonstration by the instructors. Then, participants work together in small groups, doing their own real sessions and taking turns as therapist as the trainers provide real-time coaching that meets you at your skill level.

Each practice session is followed by a debriefing of the experience that addresses any and all aspects of Coherence Therapy, before starting a new session. It's an action learning intensive that will attune your left brain, right brain and subcortical brain for facilitating the natural process of memory reconsolidation that dissolves ingrained emotional patterns formed long ago.

In addition, experiencing Coherence Therapy as the client provides invaluable first-hand knowledge of the process. Everything you learn in this workshop will be useful immediately in your own sessions on Monday. At the end of each day, the group will sit back and view a session video.

Prerequisites for attending this workshop:

This is not an introductory workshop. Participation is only for licensed therapists and counselors (or students in accredited graduate training programs) who are already familiar with the entire methodology of Coherence Therapy by (a) having at least several months experience using Coherence Therapy with clients and (b) having studied any of the primary texts:
• The Coherence Therapy Practice Manual
• Unlocking the Emotional Brain
• Depth Oriented Brief Therapy

This program is for 12 CE

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

Presenters

Sara Bridges, Ph.D.

Sara K. Bridges, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Memphis, former president of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of the American Psychological Association), coeditor of the five-volume series Studies in Meaning, and author of the Coherence Therapy chapter in the 2016 graduate text, Contemporary Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy, published by Sage. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, presents at conferences and workshops internationally, and has an extensive list of publications in constructivist psychology, sex and marital therapy, couple therapy, multicultural psychology and childhood education. She also has a distinguished record of awards for academic and community service, including the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award of the University of Memphis.

Bruce Ecker, M.A., LMFT

Bruce Ecker, MA, LMFT, is co-originator of Coherence Therapy and coauthor of Unlocking the Emotional Brain: Eliminating Symptoms at Their Roots Using Memory Reconsolidation; the Coherence Therapy Practice Manual & Training Guide; and Depth Oriented Brief Therapy: How To Be Brief When You Were Trained To Be Deep and Vice Versa. Clarifying how transformational change takes place is the central theme of Bruce Ecker's clinical career, and he has contributed many innovations in concepts and methods of experiential psychotherapy. Since 2006 he has driven the clinical field's recognition of memory reconsolidation as the core process of transformational change and has developed the application of this brain research breakthrough to advancements in therapeutic effectiveness and psychotherapy integration. Bruce is a frequent presenter at conferences and workshops internationally, has taught extensively in clinical graduate programs, and is in private practice in New York City.

Sara K. Bridges, Ph.D. and Bruce Ecker, MA, LMFT, Directors, Coherence Psychology Institute

Target Audience:

Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists, Chemical Dependency Counselors, Educators, Nurses - All Levels

Course Objectives:

• Identify the specific features of experience that clients want changed (feelings, thoughts, behaviors, somatics, circumstances)

• Apply experiential techniques that bring into clients’ conscious awareness the non-conscious emotional learnings (schemas) that underlie and maintain unwanted patterns

• Distinguish the indicators of these schemas as they emerge during a session

• Create experiences that integrate the retrieved schemas into ongoing awareness

• Find a client’s vivid knowledge that specifically contradicts and disconfirms a retrieved schema

• Create an experience of the juxtaposition of the symptom-necessitating schema and the contradictory knowledge

• Inspect for the markers of transformational change

Agenda

Day 1: Saturday

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Registration and check-in
9:00 – 10:30	Welcome and learning goals for this workshop Demonstration of methodology Discussion of demonstration Guidelines for practice sessions in small groups
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 12:00	Small group experiential work with trainer coaching: session #1 Debriefing and discussion of learning
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.	Lunch (on your own)
1:00 – 2:15	Small group experiential work with trainer coaching: session #2 Debriefing and discussion of learning
2:15 – 2:30	Break
2:30 – 3:45	Small group experiential work with trainer coaching: session #3 Debriefing and discussion of learning
3:45 – 4:30	Session video viewing

Day 2: Sunday

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Registration and check-in
9:00 – 10:30	Questions and discussion from day 1 Live demonstration session by Bruce Ecker Discussion of how the session carried out Coherence Therapy
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 12:00	Small group experiential work with trainer coaching: session #4 Debriefing and discussion of learning
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.	Lunch (on your own)
1:00 – 2:15	Small group experiential work with trainer coaching: session #5 Debriefing and discussion of learning
2:15 – 2:30	Break
2:30 – 3:45	Small group experiential work with trainer coaching: session #6 Debriefing and discussion of learning
3:45 – 4:30	Session video viewing and closure