Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors, MFTs, MD’s, Nurses, and Creative Arts Therapists – All Levels

• Practice your ability to more present, engaged, and psychobiologically attuned to your patients

• Recognize your own “affect phobias” that get in the way of your patient’s healing journey

• Enhance your ability to Use your Self as a Healing Mechanism (e.g. through self disclosure of feelings and patient’s impact on you, etc.)

• Accelerate, enhance and complete the healing process by “leading” more and advocating more fiercely on behalf of your patients

• Sharpen your moment-to-moment tracking skills focusing on words, affect, resonance, and the body

• Transform shame, pathogenic affects, core erroneous beliefs about the self and other

• Integrate a more present, engaged and purposeful use of your own emotional experience in your work with clients.

• Develop a strong, embodied therapeutic Presence

• Identify the ways in which your own "affect phobias" can get in the way of doing deep, emotional work

• Utilize (use) your selves more as the corrective emotional experience (e.g. through judicious self disclosure of feelings and patient's impact on you, etc.)

• Formulate and utilize portrayals in transforming trauma

• Access and utilize your own healing journey to benefit your patients’ healing journeys

• Integrate the power of your whole Self, viscerally impacted by your patients’ histories and core affective experiences, to guide your interventions

• Demonstrate moment-to-moment tracking skills focusing on words, affect, and the body

• Construct explicit and experiential work with the experience of attachment and intersubjective delight

Day 1 Agenda

9:00 – 10:45       Video and Didactic on the key ingredients to developing a strong, embodied therapeutic Presence

10:45 – 11:00     Break

11:00 – 12:30     The Intimacy of Moment-to-Moment Relational Work: Explicit and experiential work with the experience of attachment and intersubjective delight

12:30 – 2:00       Lunch

2:00 – 3:30         Clinical Videotape

3:30 – 3:45         Break

3:45 – 4:30         Live Demo and/or Clinical videotape

4:30 – 5:00         Wrap-up

Day 2 Agenda

9:00 – 10:45       What’s required of us? And what gets in the way?

10:45 – 11:00     Break

11:00 – 12:30     Transforming Shame, Pathogenic Affects, Unbearable Aloneness through the Therapist’s ‘Fierce Love”

2:30 – 2:00         Lunch

2:00 – 3:30         Clinical Videotape

3:30 – 3:45         Break

3:45 – 4:30         Live Demo and/or Clinical videotape

4:30 – 5:00         Wrap-up