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SUMMARY:The Social Origins of Wilfred Bion’s Theories and Praxis - Presented by Karim G Dajani\, PsyD [Seminar]
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”11636″ img_size=”medium” image_hovers=”false”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]NARRATIVE \nThis workshop will present original work on the social unconscious and its application to Wilfred Bion’s theories and praxis.  The conception of a social unconscious was introduced at the very inception of our field (1924) by the first formally trained American Psychoanalyst – Trigant Burrow. It was intensely resisted and eventually erased from our working memory and curricula. It is an essential feature of the human unconscious.  Consideration of the social unconscious opens up pathways to working with deep mental structures that are organized around our experiences in groups and along shared social ideas we internalize and reproduce in our thinking\, perception and comportment.   \nThe day will begin with a presentation on the origins and functions of the social unconscious in psychoanalytic theory followed by a Question and Answer period. The exercise will give us shared conceptions and language that emerge from analytic scholarship on the social unconscious. Once we have our terms defined and the main ideas shared\, we will apply them to  Wilfred Bion’ original theories. Bion’s theories related to alpha function\, reverie\, container contained\, attacks on linking and transformation in K and O are enormously useful in our clinical work. They are discontinuous from the rest of psychoanalysis\, wildly creative\, intensely useful\, and capacious in every way.  \nOn the surface the social unconscious and Bion’ theories appear to be unrelated. However\, a deeper look will make it evident that they are intertwined. Bion was born in Mathura India where he lived for the first 9 years of his life. He was largely raised by an Indian Ayah (nanny) to whom he was very closely attached. From the vertices’ of a social unconscious Bion acquired an Indian cultural system from his Ayah and his social surroundings. Dr. Dajani will demonstrate the intimate connection between Bion’ theories and an Eastern Theistic Cultural system.  \nCombining insights from the social unconscious with Bion’s clinical theories will help you develop tools for widening and deepening your contact with your patients\, particularly those who are from different cultures and social positions. \n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE—6 hours \n8:30 – 9:00 am                      \nRegistration \n9:00 – 9:15 am   \n\n\n\n\n\nIntroduction of Presenter\n\n\n\n\n\n9:15 – 10:15 am   \n\n\n\n\n\nThe origins and functions of the social unconscious.  Elucidating the role the illusion of absolutism plays in shaping our perspective.\n\n\n\n\n\n10:15 – 10:30 am   \n\n\n\n\n\nBreak\n\n\n\n\n\n10:30 – 11:30 am   \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Social Unconscious in W. Bion’s theories\n\n\n\n\n\n11:30 – 12:00 noon   \n\n\n\n\n\nThe essence of Bion’s clinical approach\n\n\n\n\n\n12:00 – 1:00 pm   \n\n\n\n\n\nLunch Break\n\n\n\n\n\n1:00 – 2:00 pm   \n\n\n\n\n\nCase Presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n2:00 – 3:00 pm   \n\n\n\n\n\nCase Presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n3:00 – 4:00 pm   \n\n\n\n\n\nGroup discussion on working with the social unconscious.\n\n\n\n\n\n4:00 pm \n\n\n\n\n\nEnd of conference\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n1) This presentation builds upon key competencies\, skill sets\, and knowledge bases associated with the literature of contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy\, including models of object relations\, mentalization\, group objects\, and functions related to the social unconscious.  It builds upon graduate-level concepts and elaborates them into applied clinical methodologies directly relevant to psychodynamically informed psychotherapy. \n2) The content directly enhances psychodynamic clinical practice\, especially for clinicians working with culturally diverse populations. It offers theoretical elaboration and practical tools for assessment\, case formulation\, and clinical intervention rooted in both classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theory. \n3) This course is designed for licensed mental health professionals (psychologists\, MFTs\, LCSWs\, etc.) with foundational training in psychodynamic psychotherapy. The instructional level is intermediate\, assuming prior exposure to psychoanalytic principles and therapeutic technique. \n4) The content of this presentation is comprehensively based in the established literature of contemporary psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy\, especially as it relates to working with people across the spectrum of cultural and social difference.  The concepts and methodologies described are characteristic of the broadly accepted principles and theoretical frames associated with this well documented model of psychotherapy.  The inherent limitations of this content include the well-documented difficulties in establishing the empirical evidence of efficacy among competing models of psychotherapy\, which are complicated by competing assumptions about what represents desirable outcomes (for example\, behavior change vs. development of psychological capacities which may be difficult to measure).  The risks involved in this presented content include transient discomfort and emotional dislocation involved in addressing basic aspects and functions of the social unconscious as it relates to perception and thinking. \n5) This presentation will include a discussion of the cultural\, racial\, social manifestation of the social unconscious\, and the way culture acts as a lens for self and other perception.  For example\, the discussion will include a detailed analysis of the ways cultural propositions are reproduced in our theories and our thinking. This will give participants additional tools to work with cultural and social determinants that are part and parcel of every treatment\, not just the ones that are between people from different cultures.  \n\nBio: \nKarim G. Dajani\, PsyD\, is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising psychoanalyst. He specializes in working with issues related to cultural dislocation and displacement. His research and writing include publications on the links between cultural systems and the unconscious of individuals and groups. He sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. His recent works include a special issue dedicated to the social unconscious\, and a chapter on race and ethnicity in contemporary psychoanalytic theories and praxis that appears in the latest edition of the textbook on Psychoanalysis.   \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$150 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $180 after \nNon-Members:  \n$180 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $210 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, LPCCs and 6 CEs for Psychologists \n  \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents.  \n  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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LOCATION:FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael\, 1010 Northgate Dr\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
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SUMMARY:Here/Not Here: The Function of Dissociation in Everyday Life and the Clinical Encounter - Presented by Peter Goldberg\, PhD [Seminar]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE \nThis workshop explores dissociation as a universal and often adaptive feature of mental life—one that is functionally and phenomenologically distinct from both repression and splitting. Rather than viewing dissociation solely as pathological\, we will consider its role in facilitating transitions between self-states in both daily life and clinical settings. Particular attention will be paid to psychosomatic dissociation\, defined here as dynamic shifts in the mind’s relation to bodily states and perceptual experience. \nWe will examine the contrast between transient dissociative states—which enable novel\, flexible\, or even creative experiences—and the more entrenched “alter worlds” seen in clinical disorders. These latter states are typically characterized by a rigid\, timeless\, and isolative quality\, often leaving individuals cut off from embodied self-experience. \nThe therapeutic stance in work with dissociation will be considered in depth\, including the importance of the therapist’s attunement to somatic cues\, sensory experience\, and the therapeutic frame itself. Using clinical vignettes and detailed case material\, participants will learn to recognize and respond to both normative and pathological dissociation in the therapy room. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \nAt the conclusion of this program\, participants will be able to: \n\nDistinguish dissociation from related defense mechanisms such as repression and splitting.\nDescribe the features of everyday dissociative shifts and contrast them with pathological “alter world” states.\nIdentify the role of psychosomatic dissociation in self-state transitions.\nArticulate the therapist’s role—including sensory and attentional engagement—in treating dissociative states.\nExplain how the clinical frame can support re-integration in clients experiencing depersonalization and mind-body dislocation.\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE—6 hours \n8:30 – 9:00 am \nRegistration \n9:00 – 10:45 am   \n\nConceptual foundations: What is dissociation?\n\nDifferentiating dissociation from repression and splitting\nReview of key theoretical perspectives\n\n\n\n10:45—11:00 am \nBreak \n11:00 am—12:15 pm \n\nPsychosomatic dissociation and shifting self-states\n\nThe role of bodily awareness and consciousness\nNormative vs. pathological dissociative patterns\n\n\n\n12:15—1:15 pm                      \nLunch break \n1:15—2:30 pm \n\nClinical implications and therapist stance\n\nUse of the therapist’s attention\, body\, and sensory attunement\nThe role of the frame in containing dissociative material\n\n\n\n2:30—2:45 pm    \nBreak \n2:45—3:45pm    \n\nCase presentation and discussion\n\nApplication of course principles to real-world clinical work\nInteractive Q&A with participants\n\n\n\n3:45—4:00 pm    \nClosing discussion and wrap-up \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \nDissociation is a complex psychological phenomenon that is underemphasized in most doctoral training. This course deepens clinicians’ understanding of dissociative processes\, especially their embodied dimensions\, through theory and applied clinical discussion. \nThis course directly informs clinical practice\, particularly in work with clients experiencing trauma\, identity fragmentation\, or somatic disconnection. It also enhances clinical sensitivity to dissociative dynamics in ordinary psychotherapy processes. \nThis training is intended for licensed psychologists\, mental health professionals\, and advanced graduate students. The instructional level is intermediate to advanced\, assuming some familiarity with psychodynamic concepts and trauma theory. \nThe course is grounded in current psychodynamic and trauma-informed literature\, including contributions from affective neuroscience and somatic psychology. As with all theoretical frameworks\, the concepts discussed may require adaptation to the specific needs and contexts of individual clients. There are limitations to generalizability\, and dissociation should be understood as a spectrum phenomenon rather than a unitary diagnosis. \nThroughout the training\, participants will be encouraged to consider how dissociative processes manifest across cultural and individual differences. The presenter will address how sociocultural context\, developmental trauma\, and systems of power and oppression shape embodied experience and self-states. \n\nBio: \nPeter Goldberg is a Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California\, is Co-chair of Faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis\, and on the faculty of the Wright Institute in Berkeley. He is a co-author of Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press\, 2023) and has written and presented widely on a range of clinical and theoretical topics including the evolution of clinical theory in psychoanalysis; psychosomatic dissociation\, sensory experience in analysis and cultural life; transitional mechanisms and the function of the analytic frame; non-representational states; and the impact of social trauma on individual psychology.  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$150 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $180 after \nNon-Members:  \n$180 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $210 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, LPCCs and 6 CEs for Psychologists \n  \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents.  \n  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/here-not-here-the-function-of-dissociation-in-everyday-life-and-the-clinical-encounter-presented-by-peter-goldberg-phd-seminar/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Developing an Advanced Ethical Framework for Clinical Practice:  A Psychoanalytic Approach - Presented by Jennifer Kunst\, PhD [Class]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nThis seminar will offer an advanced framework for clinical practice through a psychoanalytic lens\, taking seriously the need for an “outside in” and an “inside out” approach to ethical considerations. The external established framework of legal and professional ethics serves as the foundation for an internal model that is fluid\, lived\, applied\, and emerging within the context of the clinical work itself. General rules and guidelines about ethical behavior serve as our compass. However\, we also need to develop an internal framework that can help us think and find our bearings in the challenging conditions that we encounter in the stormy conditions of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic work. Clinical examples and vignettes will be presented to deepen this exploration. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nDistinguish between a rule-based model of ethics and a model of lived ethics;\nCompare paternal and maternal models of legal/ethical principles;\nDifferentiate the features of serious boundary violations and ethical misdemeanors;\nDescribe a clinical scenario that illustrates the conflict between ethical ideals and clinicians’ basic human nature;\nList three factors that make it impossible for clinicians to realize their ethical ideals in psychodynamic psychotherapy;\nList three examples of ethical delinquencies or misdemeanors that might occur in a therapy session;\nIdentify two ways in which telephone sessions increase the possibility of minor ethical enactments.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 4 HOURS: \n9:00 am-10:30 am: Ethics from the Outside In and the Inside Out \nDr. Kunst will offer a presentation exploring the differences between legal\, ethical\, moral\, and technical considerations in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She will present a model in which the external framework of legal and ethical issues is valued as a foundation for the internalization of an ethical model that can be fluidly applied to unique clinical situations. She will ground this ethical framework in a modern theory of the Oedipus Complex that distinguishes paternal and maternal modes of functioning.  \n10:30 am-10:45 am: Break \n10:45 am-11:30 am: Impossible Ethics \nDr. Kunst will explore Sarah Ackerman’s paper\, Impossible Ethics\, in which she highlights the inevitable strains of psychodynamic work and the ways in which we must aspire to but cannot uphold our ideal ethics due to our human limitations\, conflicts\, and desires. She will explore concepts related to deferred action and neighborly love as essential to ethical work in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. \n11:30 am-11:35 am: Break \n11:35 am-12:15 pm: Ethical Misdemeanors \nDr. Kunst will explore Joyce Slochower’s paper\, The Analyst’s Secret Delinquencies\, distinguishing between boundary violations and boundary crossings. Ethical misdemeanors are ubiquitous in clinical work and can be understood as manifestations of clinical phenomena as well as the personal challenges that every clinician must face. A case example will illustrate these concepts. \n12:15 pm-12:20 pm: Break \n12:20 pm-1:00 pm: Altruism and Boundary Violations \nDr. Kunst will explore Beth Seelig’s paper\, Altruism and Boundary Violations\, a case study of a serious boundary violation by a therapist and the steps taken to understand and work through challenging clinical dilemmas in an ethical manner. \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM: \n1) Doctoral programs in psychology focus on establishing a rule based model of legal and ethical principles that is necessary but not sufficient for advanced clinical practice. In this workshop\, an advanced ethical framework will be presented that upholds the external legal and ethical framework and deepens ethical practice through the internalization of this framework\, drawing from a psychoanalytic theoretical model. \n  \n2) The knowledge the participant gains will enhance their psychological practice by teaching clinicians how to apply legal and ethical guidelines in specific challenging clinical situations in a fluid way. \n  \n3) The target audience is everyone who is working clinically in the mental health field.  The concepts will be explained simply enough so that they will be accessible to participants who are beginners in the field\, as well as those with advanced knowledge. \n  \n4) The content is grounded in peer-reviewed literature from highly regarded psychoanalytic journals. While psychoanalytic ethics is largely conceptual and clinically derived\, many of the principles discussed (e.g.\, therapeutic boundaries\, enactments\, countertransference) have also been discussed in broader psychotherapy outcome research. Limitations include the reliance on a single theoretical orientation and the need for appropriate supervision to avoid misapplication.. \n  \n5) While psychoanalytic theory has not always foregrounded cultural or identity-based differences\, this seminar will include examples and discussions of how ethical dilemmas can manifest differently depending on cultural context\, identity\, and therapist–client dynamics. The presenter will demonstrate how internalized ethical frameworks can be applied sensitively across diverse populations. \n\nBIO: \nDr. Jennifer Kunst is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Pasadena\, CA where she works with adults\, adolescents\, couples\, and families. She trained at the Psychoanalytic Center of California\, where she is a Training and Supervising Analyst and teaches courses on Kleinian theory and technique.  She is passionate about distilling the complexity of psychoanalysis into ideas that can be applied to everyday life. Her outreach projects include her Psychology Today blog\, “A Headshrinker’s Guide to the Galaxy”; her book\, “Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out” (Central Recovery Press\, 2014); and her online continuing education program for mental health professionals\, “Psychoanalytic Essentials”. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $120 after \nNon-members:  \n$120 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $140 after \n  \nCEs: \n4 CEs for LMFTs & LCSWs\, LPCCs and 4 CEs for Psychologists \n*Meets Requirements for Law & Ethics Continuing Education Credits* \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. \n 
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/developing-an-advanced-ethical-framework-for-clinical-practice-a-psychoanalytic-approach-presented-by-jennifer-kunst-phd-class/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Patients with Paranoia:  Psychotic and Nonpsychotic Paranoid Psychologies and their Clinical Implications - Presented by Nancy McWilliams\, PhD\, ABPP and Michael Garrett\, MD [Seminar]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE \nAlthough DSM criteria for diagnosing paranoia involve externally observable traits\, the speakers construe it as an intrapsychic process of disavowal and projection\, often related to trauma and inadequate psychological separation from caregivers. Although most visible in psychosis\, nonpsychotic paranoid states of mind are common. Dr. McWilliams will review scholarly literature and implications for treatment of nonpsychotic paranoia. Dr. Garrett will illuminate psychotic processes\, emphasizing psychotherapy that combines CBT and psychodynamic approaches. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants at this workshop should be able to:  \n\n Identify commonly understood persecutory paranoid dynamics (i.e.\, projection and denial of anger)\, as well as broader manifestations of paranoia involving projection and disavowal of other affects (e.g.\, erotomania\, paranoid jealousy\, megalomania\, paranoid hatred).    \n\n  \n\n Summarize the suspected developmental and relational etiologies associated with paranoid dynamics.\n\n  \n\n Relate paranoid thinking to inferred early modes of normal cognition.\n\n  \n\n Recognize therapeutic stances that have been known to threaten paranoid patients (e.g.\, excessive sympathy\, efforts to be neutral or abstinent to a degree that strikes the patient as inauthentic\, efforts to prove one’s goodness).\n\n  \n\n Describe therapist attitudes that can reduce shame and promote engagement with paranoid patients (e.g.\, unwavering respect\, ruthless honesty\, clarity about boundaries\, acknowledgement of the grain of truth in projections).\n\n  \n\n Develop skills in psychotherapeutic approaches to the treatment of patients with psychotic disorders\, based on research from both CBT and psychodynamic perspectives.\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE—6 hours \n8:30 – 9:00 am \nRegistration \n9:00 – 10:30 am                      \nDr. McWilliams will explore the concept of paranoia\, including the organizing subjective themes\, the different subtypes of paranoid reactions (persecutory paranoia\, paranoid hatred\, erotomania\, paranoid jealousy\, megalomania)\, and defenses that define these phenomena. \n10:30—10:40 am \nBreak \n10:40 am—12:00 noon  \nDr Garrett will discuss paranoia in patients with psychotic symptoms or tendencies\, explicating its origins in normal early patterns of thinking\, feeling\, and perception. He will relate paranoia to contemporary neuroscientific models of predictive processing and conceptualize psychotic paranoia as involving disguised recollections of relational trauma. \n12:00—1:00 pm                      \nLunch break \n1:00—2:30 pm \nDr. Garrett will describe the value of integrating cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) and psychodynamic treatment in helping patients with psychotic conditions. He posits that CBTp can help patients consider the possibility that their delusional beliefs are literally false\, while a psychodynamic approach can help them understand the figurative\, metaphorical truth of their symptoms as authentic expressions of their state of mind and past history. He will give a detailed presentation of the first 16 sessions in the successful therapy of a chronically psychotic woman\, unresponsive to medication\, who for 20 years believed she had a horrible smell\, and will show a video of her reflecting on her treatment. \n2:30—2:40 pm    \nBreak \n2:40—3:30pm    \nDr. McWilliams will introduce the concept of a psychotic level of personality organization\, with empirical support for this construct and implications for treatment of individuals at this level of organization. \n3:30—4:00pm    \nQuestions from and conversations with participants. Clinical examples. \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\n\n\nThis workshop will expand the participants’ knowledge about paranoia and its relevance to outcome in psychotherapy\, adding to clinicians’ knowledge about how to increase the solidity of the therapeutic alliance given the challenges to that alliance that paranoia often poses.\nRelevant empirical literature on treating paranoia suggests that a strictly biological approach is insufficient to help patients who suffer from the condition. Making a therapeutic relationship can be helped by the application of empirically demonstrated CBT for psychosis techniques and a general psychodynamic understanding of the meaning of paranoid symptoms. This knowledge should be helpful to therapists.\nThe target audience is everyone who is working in the mental health field with patients who struggle with paranoia. Most therapists see some patients with paranoia over the course of their careers. Germane concepts will be explained simply enough that they will be accessible to participants who are beginners in the field\, as well as to those with advanced knowledge.\nWhile the material is grounded in established research and clinical experience\, discussion of trauma and paranoia may evoke emotional discomfort in some participants. There is also a risk that misapplication of psychodynamic or CBT interventions without adequate training may inadvertently heighten patient distress.\nPresenters will highlight how cultural and sociopolitical context influences the perception and diagnosis of paranoia. For instance\, clinicians will be encouraged to differentiate between culturally adaptive beliefs and pathology\, and to consider structural threats (e.g.\, immigration status\, systemic racism) as legitimate contributors to hypervigilance. Diverse case examples will be used to illustrate how to tailor psychotherapeutic interventions across racial\, cultural\, and socioeconomic differences.\n\n\n\n\nBio: \nNancy McWilliams\, PhD\, ABPP\, is Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and practices in Lambertville\, New Jersey. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994\, rev. ed. 2011)\, Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999)\, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004) and Psychoanalytic Supervision (2021) and is associate editor of both editions of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006\, 2017). A former president of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association\, she has been featured in three APA videos of master clinicians. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge\, MA. Her books are available in 20 languages\, and she has taught in 30 countries.  \nMichael Garrett\, MD\, is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn\, New York. He is also on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) affiliated with NYU Medical Center in New York City. He received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his residency training in Psychiatry at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. He currently teaches and supervises clinicians doing psychotherapy for psychosis and is a consultant to several first-episode for psychosis teams in the United States and elsewhere. He has a particular interest in the integration of cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic treatment in the psychotherapy of psychosis\, as detailed in a Chapter in Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry 11th Ed titled Individual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis\, and in his recent book\, Garrett\, M. (2019) Psychotherapy for Psychosis: Integrating Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Treatments. Guilford Press/New York.  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$150 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $180 after \nNon-Members:  \n$180 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $210 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, LPCCs and 6 CEs for Psychologists \n  \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents.  \n  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/patients-with-paranoia-psychotic-and-nonpsychotic-paranoid-psychologies-and-their-clinical-implications-presented-by-nancy-mcwilliams-phd-abpp-and-michael-garrett-md-seminar/
LOCATION:FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael\, 1010 Northgate Dr\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:What Every Psychotherapist Needs to Know About Divorce: Know the Factors that Create Healthy Break Ups - Presented by Stephen H. Sulmeyer\, J.D.\, PhD [Class]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \n  \nDivorce has long been seen as a battle fought by adversarial attorneys\, often leaving both partners—and especially their children—as casualties. Ample research has explored the emotional and developmental toll of such high-conflict divorces\, and clinicians must be conversant with this body of work. Since the rise of divorce mediation in the 1970s\, the process of divorce has evolved significantly\, creating alternative\, less adversarial pathways and generating new research. \nIn California\, where over half of all first marriages end in divorce\, psychotherapists must understand the factors associated with both successful and poor outcomes for divorcing individuals and their children. In addition to research literacy\, clinicians benefit from psychodynamic and empathic skills that allow them to help patients navigate this complex transition. \nThis workshop will familiarize clinicians with the research on both litigated and non-litigated divorce processes\, their effects on parents and children\, and the various alternatives to traditional litigation. Participants will explore key risk\, resilience\, and stabilizing factors associated with different divorce trajectories\, as well as interventions available to help high-conflict couples co-parent effectively after separation. Clinicians will leave with tools to support their patients in ways that enhance psychological resilience and post-divorce family functioning. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\n Identify key legal\, ethical\, and clinical issues relevant to working with patients navigating divorce.\n Describe how therapists can communicate and collaborate with legal and divorce professionals to support clients during the divorce process.\n Identify at least five divorce process options\, including alternatives to litigation.\n Summarize research on risk and resilience factors for both adults and children undergoing divorce.\n Explain three core aspects of divorce law and the litigation process.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 4 HOURS: \n8:30 am – Registration \n9:00–9:15 am – Introduction \n\nPresenter introductions\nOverview of the day’s topic and structure\n\n9:15–10:15 am – Divorce: More Than a Legal Event \n\nReframing divorce as a multifaceted process (legal\, financial\, emotional)\nCultural and socioeconomic factors\nBasics of family law for clinicians\n\n10:15–11:00 am – Effects of Divorce on Adults \n\nDivorce as potential growth vs. trauma\nComparisons with dysfunctional intact families\nCo-parenting challenges\nEconomic and relational impacts\n\n11:00–11:15 am – Break \n11:15–12:00 pm – Divorce and Children: Risk and Resilience \n\nParenting plans: developmental considerations\nInfluence of parental mental health\, substance abuse\, domestic violence\nTailoring plans for diverse child needs\n\n12:00–12:30 pm – Working With Divorcing Patients \n\nHow and when to tell children\nSupporting patients emotionally through the process\n\n12:30–1:00 pm – Divorce Process Options \n\nMediation\, collaborative divorce\, litigation\, DIY approaches\nChoosing the right lawyer\nSupporting clients in making informed choices\n\n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM: \n1)  This program builds on the foundations of doctoral-level training by applying clinical\, legal\, and ethical concepts to the specific context of divorce. It offers both research-based insights and real-world applications to enhance clinical judgment and effectiveness. \n2) All clinicians will encounter patients affected by divorce. This program equips therapists to understand\, explain\, and apply relevant legal and psychological knowledge\, improving patient care and confidence in navigating complex family dynamics. \n3) This training is suitable for clinicians at all levels—from newly licensed practitioners to experienced therapists—who wish to deepen their understanding of divorce-related issues in clinical work. The material will be accessible to beginners while offering nuance and depth for advanced learners. \n4)  The content is based on peer-reviewed research with well-established validity and reliability. However\, research findings are statistical and do not always predict individual experiences. A central risk lies in overly rigid application of generalized data. Clinicians are encouraged to use this information as a framework for individualizing care. \n5) This program takes into account the diversity of clients in the Bay Area and beyond\, including intercultural marriages\, immigrant families\, non-marital co-parents\, and LGBTQ+ families. Discussion will include the importance of humility and cultural sensitivity when working with diverse populations\, and how to adapt divorce support to individual differences in background and worldview. \n  \n\nBIO: \nSTEPHEN H. SULMEYER\, J.D.\, Ph.D. is a mediator with JAMS in San Francisco and a clinical psychologist working with patients throughout California. As a mediator he specializes in complex and high-conflict disputes in a wide range of subject areas\, including family and divorce\, probate and elder\, family businesses\, business/commercial\, intellectual property\, employment\, discrimination\, partnerships\, and community matters. Steve has trained divorce professionals privately and at conferences sponsored by groups such as the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts\, the Association of Professional Family Mediators and the\nInternational Academy of Collaborative Professionals\, as well as local chapters of these and other organizations. Steve received his undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University\, and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sophia University)\, in Palo Alto\, California\, where he taught as a member of the adjunct faculty. He is the co-founder (with Judge Verna Adams) of the Marin Superior Court’s interdisciplinary settlement conference program\, in which mental health professionals and lawyers team up to assist judges in settling custody and other cases. He is also the founder and past president of\nIntegrative Mediation Bay Area\, a group that teams up mental health professionals and attorneys in a conjoint mediation model in family law and other cases. For further information see Steve’s website\, www.sulmeyermediation.com\, and his JAMS profile\, https://www.jamsadr.com/sulmeyer/. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$100 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $120 after \nNon-members:  \n$120 early registration up to 10 days prior to class\, $140 after \n  \nCEs: \n4 CEs for LMFTs & LCSWs\, LPCCs and 4 CEs for Psychologists \n  \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. \n 
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/what-every-psychotherapist-needs-to-know-about-divorce-know-the-factors-that-create-healthy-break-ups-presented-by-stephen-h-sulmeyer-j-d-phd-class/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Mission Impossible? An Intersubjective Approach To Doing Therapy In Dark Times - Presented by Jane Rubin\, PhD\, PhD\, PsyD [Study Group] [8-Days]
DESCRIPTION:Eight sessions\, the third Friday of the month:  \nOct. 17th\, Nov 21st\, Dec 19th\, 2025; Jan 16th\, Feb 20th\, Mar 20th\, Apr 17th\, May 15th\, 2026  \n12:30 – 2:30 pm \n  \nNARRATIVE:  \nMany of our patients come to therapy because they’re desperate to find\, or to rediscover\, a sense of possibility in their lives. They’ve lost faith in the possibility of finding meaningful work or a satisfying relationship\, of overcoming the obstacles that hold them back in their lives\, or of simply feeling better about themselves and their life direction. \nHolding a sense of possibility for our patients can sometimes be difficult. But it can be especially difficult in these times\, when so many possibilities–for health\, for education\, for racial and economic justice\, for financial security– are being foreclosed daily. \nIn this fraught environment\, how do we both acknowledge the reality of our present situation\, and hold out a sense of hope for our patients\, many of whom now have a whole new host of worries about how best to live through these difficult times? What do we do when we share our patients’ worries? What do we do when we don’t share them\, and have trouble understanding them? \nIntersubjectivity theory is based on the premise that patients’ and therapists’ experiences of the world are grounded in their unconscious organizing principles. Sometimes our organizing principles differ radically from each other–a situation Intersubjectivity theory refers to as an “intersubjective disjunction” . Sometimes they’re similar–what Intersubjectivity calls an “intersubjective conjunction”. Learning to work with intersubjective disjunctions and conjunctions is at the heart of working intersubjectively. It can be especially important in these times\, when patients’ and therapists’ fears and anxieties threaten to undermine our hopes for a better future. \nThe readings in this course will cover the basic concepts of Intersubjectivity theory\, including intersubjective conjunctions and disjunctions; the repetitive and developmental dimensions of the transference; and the intersubjective understanding of trauma. Through case presentations\, participants will learn to apply these concepts in clinical situations. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nDefine intersubjective disjunctions and conjunctions and describe how they manifest in the therapeutic relationship.\nIdentify and apply strategies to repair ruptures caused by intersubjective disjunctions in therapy.\nRecognize and address unrecognized intersubjective conjunctions\, understanding their potential impact on treatment dynamics.\nDefine transference and countertransference from an intersubjective perspective and differentiate between the repetitive and developmental dimensions of the transference.\nDescribe the difference between the forward edge and the trailing edge of the transference\, and explain when to focus on each dimension in treatment.\nApply intersubjectivity theory to therapeutic practice\, with a focus on helping patients maintain and cultivate a sense of hope and possibility during challenging times.\nIntegrate intersubjective theory concepts into clinical case work\, demonstrating increased facility in recognizing and working with intersubjective dynamics in diverse clinical settings.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 2 HOURS: \n12:30-1:15 pm \nInstructor will provide an in-depth analysis of a core concept in \nIntersubjectivity theory. Each class will focus on one of the following \nConcepts:  \n\nIntersubjective disjunctions and conjunctions.\nRupture and repair.\nRecognizing intersubjective conjunctions.\nThe intersubjective understanding of transference.\nThe forward edge and the trailing edge of the transference.\nThe repetitive and developmental dimensions of the transference.\nHow and when to work in each dimension of the transference.\nIdentifying and strengthening patients’ sense of possibility\n\n1:15-2:30 pm \nA participant will present a case and the class will discuss the case with the aim of integrating the theoretical concepts discussed in the first part of the class with actual clinical material. \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n1) How program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology: \nStudents in doctoral programs in psychology are usually introduced to basic psychoanalytic and psychodynamic concepts. They rarely receive any exposure to Intersubjectivity theory and other contemporary psychoanalytic theories\, or to the many ideas about the treatment process Intersubjectivity theory proposes. This course builds upon students’ doctoral level familiarity with basic psychoanalytic concepts to introduce them to more contemporary ways of thinking and practicing. \n2) How content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science: \nMany clinical psychologists struggle with how to successfully help patients who are struggling with maintaining a sense of hope and possibility. Some therapists share their patients’ sense of hopelessness\, and are unable to treat it effectively.  Other therapists become frustrated when their patients don’t share their hopefulness.  This content is specifically designed to give therapists more conceptual tools\, and practice in applying them\, so they can successfully treat patients who are struggling to maintain a sense of hope and possibility in their lives. \n3)  Target audience and instructional level of content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced): \nThe content for this course is intermediate. It assumes that participants have had some postgraduate clinical experience and that they have a basic familiarity with psychoanalytic ideas such as transference. \n4) Limitations of the content taught and their most common risks: \nI do not believe that there are risks to this material if people understand it well. One of the main objectives of contemporary psychoanalytic practice is not to injure our patients. One of the main objectives of this course is to help therapists work effectively so that their patients are able to achieve their goals without being retraumatized by their therapy. The limitations are that no one should ever rely on one group of theories in their work. There is nothing in contemporary psychoanalysis that precludes the use of CBT\, DBT\, or any other non psychoanalytic technique when that technique will be useful to the patient. \n5) How content reflects the appreciation of diverse populations: \nThe entire emphasis of contemporary psychoanalysis—and\, especially\, of Intersubjectivity theory—is that each patient and therapist brings his or her entire self into the treatment. This includes individual\, cultural\, and role differences. A major focus of this course is understanding how these differences play a role in the treatment\, and how understanding how best to work with them can enrich the therapeutic process. \n  \n\nBIO: \nJane Rubin\, PhD\, PhD\, PsyD\, received her PhD in philosophy from UC Berkeley and her PhD in clinical psychology from the Wright Institute. She did her psychoanalytic training at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She is in private practice in Berkeley. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Member Rate:  \n$400 early registration up to 10 days prior to first session\, $480 after      \nNon-member Rate:   \n$480 early registration up to 10 days prior to first session\, $560 after \nCEs: 16 CEs for LMFTs & LCSW\, LPCCs and 16 CEs for Psychologists.  Certificates issued after completion of 8 sessions. \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/mission-impossible-an-intersubjective-approach-to-doing-therapy-in-dark-times-presented-by-jane-rubin-phd-phd-psyd-study-group-8-days/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Study Groups
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SUMMARY:Relating Remotely: Applying Therapeutic Interaction and Outcome Research to Enhance Telehealth Clinical Skills  Katie Aafjes-van Doorn\, PhD [Seminar] [2-Day]
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Special Two (2) Evening Presentation – Sunday\, May 18\, 2025 & Thursday\, May 22\, 2025 \n  \nNARRATIVE: \nThis workshop will provide a 6-hour interactive training translating the latest psychotherapy research into clinical practice. The workshop covers didactics on the therapeutic alliance\, outcome monitoring\, and includes an experiential skills training focused on therapeutic challenges unique to teletherapy. The workshop is geared towards seasoned clinicians across different treatment modalities and is focused on work with adult patient populations. The workshop includes many clinical examples (videos\, transcripts\, vignettes) to link research\, theory and practice. The training workshop will take place in two parts: Sunday evening\, and Thursday evening. It includes an individual online deliberate skills practice\, and a 15 minute break each evening. \nThe workshop will consist of didactics of research and theory\, followed by interactive practice of therapeutic skills. During the first meeting\, the didactics will provide a summary of the latest research evidence and developments in the field of psychotherapy\, including the therapeutic alliance and routine outcome monitoring by sharing. Participants will practice how to implement alliance and symptom measures into clinical practice. This first meeting will end with an individual deliberate practice exercise that will be provided via an online link. This practice will allow participants to put their newly learned skills to the test. \nThe second meeting will start with a didactic training regarding the unique therapeutic challenges and opportunities in teletherapy. This includes the latest evidence on deliberate practice\, teletherapy process and outcomes\, and psychotherapy skills. Participants will be asked to design deliberate practice exercises targeted to their unique strengths and weaknesses. The last part of this training will be in the form of an individual deliberate practice exercise that will be provided via an online link. This last practice will allow participants to put their new learnt skills into practice. \n\nPredictors of Treatment Outcomes\nTherapeutic Relationship\nDeliberate Practice\nRoutine Outcome Monitoring\nTeletherapy Research\nFacilitative Interpersonal Skills Training\n\n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:  \n\nParticipants will be able to describe the four main therapeutic challenges in teletherapy practice\nParticipants will be able to describe the clinical benefits of using routine outcome monitoring in clinical practice\nParticipants will be able to identify the eight common factor therapeutic skills that relate to the alliance and treatment outcomes.\nParticipants will be able to demonstrate their own deliberate practice exercises to help them hone their therapeutic skills independently.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 6 HOURS:\n \n Day 1: 3 hours: 5:30 pm -8.30pm \n  \n5.30-7pm \nKatie Aafjes-van Doorn will present didactic material: summary of the latest research evidence and developments in the field of psychotherapy\, including the therapeutic alliance and routine outcome monitoring by sharing. \n7pm -7.15pm \nParticipants will practice how to implement alliance and symptom measures into clinical practice. These practices will take place in small breakout rooms. \n7.15pm-7.30pm: \nBreak \n7.30-8.30pm \nParticipants will complete an individual deliberate practice exercise that will be provided via an online link. This practice will allow participants to put their newly learned skills to the test\, and practice with different clinical scenarios. \n  \nDay 2: 3 hours: 5:30 pm- 8.30pm \n5.30-7pm: \nKatie Aafjes-van Doorn will provide didactic training regarding the unique therapeutic challenges and opportunities in teletherapy. This includes the latest evidence on deliberate practice\, teletherapy process and outcomes\, and psychotherapy skills. \n7pm -7.15pm \nParticipants will be asked to design deliberate practice exercises targeted to their unique strengths and weaknesses. \n7.15pm-7.30pm: \nBreak \n7.30-8.30pm \nParticipants will complete an individual deliberate practice exercise that will be provided via an online link. This practice will allow participants to put their newly learned skills to the test\, and practice with different clinical scenarios. \n  \n CONTENT CURRICULUM: \nThis workshop will build on the psychotherapy research taught at graduate programs\, providing the participants with updated knowledge about the use and usefulness of teletherapy\, and what we learnt from the research in the past 4 years. \n The content of this workshop is designed for clinicians\, and is directly applicable to psychotherapy practice. The workshop focuses on the therapeutic interaction between patient and clinician and how to make this as therapeutic as possible\, within the context of teletherapy via videoconferencing. \n This workshop is targeted for experienced clinicians who have had clinical experience with providing therapy either in-person or via videoconferencing\, or both. The educational level is intermediate. The individual practices at the end of each evening allow for personalization to the exact clinical strengths and weaknesses of the participant. \n The research evidence that will be presented is conducted by the presenter and her research team\, which means she can present it with confidence. There are no risks to the research reported\, but it will be limited by the clinical focus of the training. Moreover\, it might be slightly biased towards a psychodynamic therapy approach\, given the allegiance of the presenter/researcher. \n Most of the research content that will be presented is biased towards white\, female\, middle-class\, English-speaking samples of participants. However\, the presenter will supplement this with research from China and Europe. The individual practice exercises have been designed to target a wide range of patients\, and a wide arrange of clinical scenarios\, addressing diversity in our patient populations. \n  \n\nBIO: \nDr Aafjes-van Doorn is the Area Head of Social Sciences and a Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU Shanghai. Dr Aafjes-van Doorn obtained a Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and MSc in Psychological Research\, from the University of Oxford\, United Kingdom\, and a MSc in Clinical Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, the Netherlands. She completed her research postdoc at Adelphi University\, New York and joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Psychology\, Yeshiva University\, New York\, as Assistant Professor and recently was promoted to Associate Professor. She is Associate Editor for the journal Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice\, and the co-founder of Deliberate AI\, a technology company that develops multimodal AI measurements for mental health. She has published over 70 peer reviewed papers\, co-authored several books and book- chapters\, and is a regular speaker at (inter)national conferences. She is a licensed clinical Psychologist in the UK and USA. Dr. Aafjes-van Doorn’s work is in the intersection of technology and clinical practice\, translating this to improved patient outcomes. As an internationally licensed clinician and researcher\, she offers a global perspective on mental health research\, education and practice. She focuses on psychotherapy research and training\, especially with regards to the therapeutic relationship and the use of new technologies in this space. \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$120 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $150 after \nNon-Members:  \n$150 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $180 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, LPCC’s and 6 CE’s for Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/relating-remotely-applying-therapeutic-interaction-and-outcome-research-to-enhance-telehealth-clinical-skills-katie-aafjes-van-doorn-phd-seminar/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Trauma and Resiliency: Trauma Informed Care\, Embodied Self-Knowledge\, and Self-Care for Mental Health Providers Sara R. van Koningsveld\, MA\, LPCC\, BC-DMT\, RYT 200  [Seminar]
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]NARRATIVE: \nTrauma-informed care acknowledges the wisdom of the client and their mind-body experience of an event or situation that has impacted their way-of-life. Understanding trauma as a body-based experience\, mental health professionals are exposed throughout to the sensory and somatic memories of their clients. In assisting clients during their healing process\, therapists must also uphold best ethical practices by maintaining personal well-being. This workshop will address trauma informed care (TIC) from a body-based and somatic lens\, as well as the responsibility of managing stress and burnout in mental health settings. With the intention of fostering client resilience\, this presentation will explore the role of provider well being within the psychotherapeutic relationship and client outcomes. \nThis presentation will include research on the mind-body connection and trauma\, exploration of holistic health\, dance/movement therapy\, mindfulness\, and self-care techniques\, and discussion to support best practices in psychotherapy. Current research on TIC\, vicarious trauma in psychotherapy\, wellness and self-care\, burnout prevention\, and related frameworks will be discussed as a way to reinforce provider resilience and self-awareness with the energetic transference of psychotherapy. Throughout the seminar\, participants will be provided opportunities for self-exploration to identify their individual level of stress (and reduce indications of burnout)\, while promoting increased: self-knowledge\, self-care\, and understanding of holistic practices\, including mindfulness and creative expression. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \n\nDefine and explain the following key terms: body-based transference and countertransference\, burnout and compassion fatigue\, self-knowledge\, mindfulness\, resilience\, and mind-body connection as approaches to burnout prevention.\nIntegrate theoretical understanding of self-awareness and body knowledge by identifying one accessible\, time sensitive\, and restorative practice for every day burnout prevention and increasing client resilience.\nName two practical tools for identifying stress in the body (self and client) and the impacts of vicarious trauma and countertransference within psychotherapy sessions.\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE (ESTIMATED TIMELINE) \n8:30 AM         Registration \n9:00 AM         Introduction of presenter \n9:15 AM         Trauma Informed Care\, resilience\, and provider experiences \n9:50 AM         Building self-awareness through mindfulness practice (activity) \n10:00 AM       Self-awareness through mindfulness: clinical implications \n10:20 AM       Break \n10:30 AM       Body-mind connection: terminology and application in psychotherapy\nBody knowledge\, body-based countertransference \n11:30 AM       Mindful movement\, body-based strategies: facilitated movement \n11:40 AM       Mindful movement\, body-based strategies: clinical implications \n12:00 PM        Lunch \n1:00 PM          Living a balanced life: terminology \nSelf-care\, wellness\, well-being\, and burnout prevention \n1:45 PM          Self-reflection (activity) and small group discussion \n2:15 PM          Mindfulness in psychotherapy: terminology and practices \nDiscerning mindfulness and meditation \n3:00 PM          Break \n3:10 PM          Ethical applications of movement in psychotherapy \n3:35 PM          Closing movement practice: grounding and presence \n3:45 PM          Closing remarks and discussion \n4:00 PM          End of seminar/workshop \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \nContent presented in this seminar will enhance the knowledge base of post-graduate studies by introducing concepts from specialized studies in somatic and creative arts therapies. The seminar will build upon knowledge and competencies gained in doctoral studies regarding psychotherapy methods for treating trauma\, and provide integrative and practical applications of methods and techniques. \nContent presented in this workshop will enhance clinical practice through facilitation of documented strategies effective in the treatment of trauma and relevant to practitioner self-care. \nThis presentation informs best practices and limitations on scope of practice\, with consideration for specialized education and training requirements in somatic psychotherapy\, creative arts therapies\, and dance/movement therapy to obtain certification/credentialing. Content presented will address the neuroscience/neuropsychological implications of mindfulness on client and practitioner health and well-being. \nContent presented is intended for emerging and intermediate level practitioners\, with established foundational knowledge of trauma\, neuropsychology\, and client/patient-centered theories and approaches to psychotherapy. Content presumes knowledge of general terminology and theory relevant to trauma informed care\, stress\, burnout\, self-care\, wellness\, and resilience. \nContent presented in this seminar is based on established literature in the trauma therapy\, neuropsychology\, somatic psychology\, and dance/movement therapy fields\, as it relates to trauma informed care\, client/patient-centered psychotherapy\, mind-body connection\, polyvagal theory\, transference/countertransference\, wellness models\, and movement interventions. The methodologies described and facilitated are broadly accepted within the published research available on these topics. The limitations of presented content include the broad and competing literature regarding best practices in psychotherapy treatment for trauma. The content presented is limited due to lack of publication on specific techniques/methods for facilitating body-based trauma treatment and known outcomes. The risk involved in the content provided is relevant to scope of practice and ethical applications of body-based methods for non-credentialed professionals versus those certified in these theories and methods (ex: somatic psychotherapists\, dance/movement therapists\, et al.). \nThis presentation will discuss trauma informed care principles\, as relevant to serving diverse populations. The intersectionality of identity and mental health will be reviewed as relevant to treating clients with lived experience of trauma\, discrimination\, and other forms of marginalization. Activities and interventions will be introduced and facilitated with trauma informed language\, to support the development of ethical\, accessible\, and inclusive care. \n  \n\nBIO: \nSara R. van Koningsveld\, MA\, LPCC/NCC\, BC-DMT\, GL-CMA\, RYT 200 obtained her Master of Arts in Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling (2011) from Columbia College Chicago. For over 10 years\, Sara was employed in community mental health nonprofits across California\, providing clinical mental health services\, as well as supervision for graduate level clinicians. She has a passion for sharing knowledge\, teaching in higher education\, presenting at conferences\, and facilitating continuing education workshops globally. Sara is the founder of WholeYou Integrative Health and Professional Clinical Counseling\, Inc.\, which centers the mind-body connection in healing individuals\, groups\, and work environments. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$120 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $150 after \nNon-Members:  \n$150 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $180 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, LPCC’s\, and 6 CE’s for Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/trauma-and-resiliency-trauma-informed-care-embodied-self-knowledge-and-self-care-for-mental-health-providers-sara-r-van-koningsveld-ma-lpcc-bc-dmt-ryt-200-seminar/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250301T090000
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SUMMARY:Anxiety as a Depth Experience: Exploring the Vicissitudes of Anxiety to Enable more Meaningful Treatment
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nPsychodynamic theory suggests that there is an hierarchy of anxieties. Some types of anxieties are native to the conditions of being a helpless infant\, and others emerge with increasing maturity and interpersonal connection. For example\, annihilation anxiety characterizes an existential and pre-verbal sense of inner disaster that belies description. Moral anxiety involves fear of doing the wrong thing or being “bad”. This seminar will explore a developmental continuum of anxieties\, the psychological states which underlie them\, and how they manifest in a person. The emphasis will be on psychodynamic descriptors of anxiety as a meaningful experience to be tolerated\, rather than on disease categories. The discussion will include a critique of common approaches to describing anxiety in terms of disease manifestation rather than internal subjective experience. The instructor will also review approaches for addressing different anxieties in psychotherapy and how they relate to different kinds of character structure. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nParticipants will be able to: \n\nDifferentiate three different types of anxiety as described in the psychodynamic literature\, including annihilation anxiety\, abandonment anxiety\, and moral anxiety.\nExplain neuropsychological bases of three different anxiety states\, locating each one in a functional area of the brain.\nDescribe three psychodynamically informed treatment strategies for addressing and resolving anxiety states in psychotherapy\, as evidenced by sample case conceptualization practice.\nAssess personality organization on three different cases based on type of anxiety states presenting clinically.\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE — 6 HOURS \n 8:30 am                                \n    Registration \n9:00                      \n   Introduction of presenter \n9:16 am – 10:30 am   \nOrientation to the role of anxiety in a psychodynamic theory\nAnxiety as meaningful experience rather than “symptom”\nPsychoanalytic perspectives: Signal anxiety vs. neurotic or psychotic anxieties\nAnxiety and Object Relations\nAnxiety\, attachment\, and regulation\nNeurobiology of anxiety \n10:30 am — 10:45 am \nBreak \n10:45 am — 11:00 am  \nA developmental hierarchy of anxieties \n11:00 — 11:30 am                      \nAnnihilation anxiety \n11:30 — 12:00 pm \nAbandonment anxiety \n12:00 — 1:00 pm \nLunch Break \n1:00 — 1:30 pm    \nMoral Anxiety \n1:30 — 1:45 pm    \nBreak \n1:45 pm — 2:30 pm \nTreatment considerations for annihilation\, abandonment\, and moral anxiety \n2:30 pm — 4:00 pm \nCrosswalking with personality organization \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM: \nThis seminar builds upon key competencies\, skill sets\, and knowledge bases associated with the literature of classic and contemporary psychanalytic psychotherapy\, as well as attachment theory and principles of the neurobiology of attachment. It builds upon graduate-level concepts and elaborates them into applied clinical methodologies directly relevant to psychodynamically informed psychotherapy. \nThis presentation directly informs the clinical praxis of understanding and conceptualizing anxiety\, in addition to effective psychotherapeutic management. The presentation includes a review of theoretical considerations as well as praxis considerations which directly inform treatment planning\, case conceptualization\, and the boundaries established in psychotherapy. \nThe content of this presentation represents intermediate level application of principles of psychodynamically informed psychotherapy. It presumes basic level knowledge of the assumptions and world-view inherent to several models of psychoanalytic psychotherapy (that is basic knowledge the principles of object relations\, self-psychology\, and related concepts.” \nThe content of this presentation is comprehensively based in the established literature of contemporary psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy\, especially as it relates to the function and role of anxiety in human experience and behavior.  The theoretical concepts and applied methodologies are characteristic of the broadly accepted principles and theoretical frames associated with this well documented model of psychotherapy.  The inherent limitations of this content include the well-documented difficulties in establishing the empirical evidence of efficacy among competing models of psychotherapy\, which are complicated by competing assumptions about what represents desirable outcomes (for example\, perspectives on reducing versus tolerating anxiety\, or the degree to which anxiety may be understood as adaptive or functional).  The risks involved in this presented content include transient discomfort and emotional impact involved in addressing anxiety states that will be familiar experiences for participants. \nThis presentation will include a discussion of the cultural\, racial\, and gender-based differences in the way anxiety manifests and is subjectively experienced.  For example\, the discussion will include analysis of the complex role of gender in the manifestation of annihilation versus abandonment anxiety. \n\nBIO:  \nDr. Bennett is a licensed psychologist\, lecturer\, and administrator with experience in public sector mental health and substance abuse treatment. His clinical background is in inpatient psychiatric settings and outpatient community mental health settings. He was formerly founder and first Director of Training for the Ventura County Behavioral Health Pre-Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology and Chair of the Santa Barbara County Psychological Association. He is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and currently chairs the Department of Counseling Psychology at Pacifica. His research interests include personality disorders\, comparative personality theory\, and internet applications for mental health. Dr. Bennett is also a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Poland III\, 1991-1993). He maintains a private practice in addition to his administration and teaching responsibilities. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$120 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $150 after \nNon-Members:  \n$150 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $180 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. \n 
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/anxiety-as-a-depth-experience-exploring-the-vicissitudes-of-anxiety-to-enable-more-meaningful-treatment/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Ascending Spiral Paths: An Integrated Approach to Understanding Personality Development Using Jungian and Psychoanalytic Theory  Presented by: Dr. Matthew Bennett\, PhD [Study Group] [4-Days]
DESCRIPTION:Four sessions\, the second Saturday of the month: Dec. 14\, 2024; Jan 11\, Feb. 8\, Mar. 8\, 2025  | 10:00am – 12:00pm \n  \nNARRATIVE:  \nPsychologist\, lecturer\, and author Dr. Matthew Bennett will review the content of his recently released book\, Integrated Analytical Psychology: Return to Freedom and Dignity.  The author reviews an integrative circumplex model of personality development combining the Jungian perspective of archetypal thematic content with psychoanalytic models emphasizing self-psychology and the progressive influence of defenses in personality development.  The integrative analytical model integrates an ascending evolution of mental representation ranging from archetypal origins to manifested behavioral traits\, with four thematic “quadrants” comprising content of the personality styles depicted in the literature of applied clinical psychology.  An evolutionary ascending spiral path ties together the levels and quadrants of personality development in a compelling narrative of personality development which combines Jungian emphasis on archetypal experience with psychoanalytic sensibilities around defensive styles and their role in evolution of a sense of self. \n  \nGOALS: \nParticipants will be able to: \n\nDifferentiate among 6 levels of mental representation represented in psychoanalytic\, Jungian\, and cognitive-behavioral theoretical perspectives: archetype\, symbol\, object\, complex\, schema\, and self.\nApply knowledge of four key personality organizations to psychotherapeutic methodology: schizoid\, narcissistic\, histrionic\, and depressive personalities.\nDescribe key features of deterministic chaos theory and complex adaptive systems theory in relation to personality development.\nExplain how knowledge of the above mentioned theories may be applied to psychotherapeutic process to enhance treatment outcomes for clients with psychopathology that arises from personality development.\n\n  \nSCHEDULE: \n8:30 am           Registration \n9 – 9:15           Introduction of presenter \n9:15 – 10:00    Mental Representation and its role in Personality Development \nArchetype \nSymbol \nObject \nComplex \nSchema \nSelf \n10:00 – 10:30  Archetypal Axes of Personality Development \n10:30 – 10:45 Break \n10:45 – 12:00  The Spiral Developmental Path and the Archetypal Quadrants \n1st Quadrant:   Sensitive Personalities \n2nd Quadrant:  Imperial Personalities \n3rd Quadrant:   Radiant Personalities \n4th Quadrant:   Depressive Personalities \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULM \nThis seminar builds upon key theoretical perspectives on mental representation drawn from psychoanalytic theory\, including object relations\, self psychology\, and intersubjective theory\, as well as Jungian and post-Jungian perspectives\, as well as complexity theory related to deterministic chaos and complex adaptive systems. \nThis presentation directly informs the clinical praxis of understanding and conceptualizing personality styles including direct explication of considerations for psychotherapeutic management. The presentation includes a review of theoretical considerations as well as praxis considerations which directly inform treatment planning\, case conceptualization\, and the boundaries established in psychotherapy. \nThe content of this presentation represents intermediate level application of principles of psychodynamically informed psychotherapy.  It presumes basic level knowledge of the assumptions and world-view inherent to several models of psychoanalytic psychotherapy (that is\, basic knowledge the principles of object relations\, self psychology\, and related concepts). \nThe content of this presentation is comprehensively based in the established literature of contemporary psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy\, especially as it related to the function and role of anxiety in human experience and behavior.  The theoretical concepts and applied methodologies are characteristic of the broadly accepted principles and theoretical frames associated with this well documented model of psychotherapy.  The inherent limitations of this content include the well-documented difficulties in establishing the empirical evidence of efficacy among competing models of psychotherapy\, which are complicated by competing assumptions about what represents desirable outcomes (for example\, perspectives on reducing versus tolerating anxiety\, or the degree to which anxiety may be understood as adaptive or functional).  The risks involved in this presented content include transient discomfort and emotional impact involved in addressing anxiety states that will be familiar experiences for participants. \nThis presentation will include a discussion of the cultural\, racial\, and gender-based differences in the way personality structure manifests and is subjectively experienced.  For example\, the discussion will include analysis of the complex role of gender in the manifestation of relational needs in personality development. \n  \n\nBIO: \nDr. Bennett is a licensed psychologist\, lecturer\, and administrator with experience in public sector mental health and substance abuse treatment. His clinical background is in inpatient psychiatric settings and outpatient community mental health settings. He was formerly founder and first Director of Training for the Ventura County Behavioral Health Pre-Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology and Chair of the Santa Barbara County Psychological Association.  He is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and currently chairs the Department of Counseling Psychology at Pacifica. His research interests include personality disorders\, comparative personality theory\, and internet applications for mental health. Dr. Bennett is also a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Poland III\, 1991-1993).  He maintains a private practice in addition to his administration and teaching responsibilities. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members:\n$160 early registration up to 10 weekdays prior to first session\, $200 after \nNon-Members:\n$200 early registration up to 10 weekdays prior to first session\, $240 after \nCEs: 8 CEs for LMFTs & LCSWs and 8 CEs for Psychologists. Certificates issued after completion of 4 sessions. \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/ascending-spiral-paths-an-integrated-approach-to-understanding-personality-development-using-jungian-and-psychoanalytic-theory-presented-by-matthew-bennett-phd-study-group-4-days/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Study Groups
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SUMMARY:Liberation Through Dreams: Synthesizing Jungian Insights and Ethnopsychology to Decolonize Clinical Practice and Enhance Cultural Sensitivity  Presented by: Nadia Thalji\, PhD [Seminar]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nThis presentation serves as the introduction to a seminar exploring relevance and symbiotic relationship between Jungian psychology and ethnopsychology within a postcolonial context. Participants will delve into the intricate landscape of dreams\, navigating cultural dream narratives and examining how Jungian archetypes intertwine with the impact of colonial histories. Special emphasis is placed on clinical implications\, offering insights into therapeutic approaches that bridge the realms of cultural sensitivity\, dream analysis\, and psychological healing. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVE: \n\nDemonstrate an understanding of the intersection between Jungian psychology\, ethnopsychology\, and postcolonial perspectives in the context of decolonizing clinical practice\nIdentify the cultural nuances and historical legacies shaping dream narratives with postcolonial framework\, incorporating Jungian archetypes into the analysis.\nAnalyze the clinical implications of integrating cultural sensitivity\, dream analysis\, and psychological healing within therapeutic approaches\, as discussed in the seminar.\nApply the principles of decolonizing clinical practice\, as outlined in the seminar\, to create psychotherapy strategies that honor cultural diversity and promote liberation through dream work.\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE \n8:30 am \nIntroduction of presenter \n9:00 am \nOverview of Jungian and Ethnopsychological Perspectives \n10:00 am \nExploration of Cultural Dream Narratives and Jungian Archetypes \n10:15 am \nBreak \n10:30 am \nClinical Implications: Therapeutic Approaches and Cultural Sensitivity \n11:00 am \nCase Studies: Integrating Ethnopsychology and Jungian Insights \n12:00 pm \nLunch Break \n1:00 pm \nDream Analysis Workshop: Interpreting Dreams within a Postcolonial Framework \n2:00 pm \nInteractive Discussion: Decolonizing Psychological Discourse \n3:00 pm \nStrategies for Incorporating Ethnopsychology and Jungian Insights into Clinical Practice \n4:00 pm \nEnd of Summer \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \nThis workshop will expand the participant’s knowledge about how culture and colonialism shape psychology through an application of Jungian archetypes and dream analysis. \nPeople who seek psychological help are often\, is not always\, impacted by colonial histories in ways they are typically unaware. An opportunity to expand and deepen psychotherapeutic treatment opens when practitioners hold in mind how people’s inner worlds are shaped by such histories. \nThe target audience is everyone who is working clinically in the mental health field.  The concepts will be explained simply enough so that they will be accessible to participants who are beginners in the field\, as well as those with advanced knowledge. \nThe content is based on research and theoretical developments in both the fields of psychology and ethnography published in peer reviewed journals.  None of the content incurs risks. \nThe content of this course is centered upon diversity and culture\, particularly as it relates to colonial histories. \n  \n\nBIO: \nDr. Nadia Thalji\, Ph.D.\, is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in depth psychology. She holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and is licensed by the California Board of Psychology. Fluent in English\, Spanish\, and Portuguese\, Dr. Thalji provides multicultural psychotherapy with training from The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia Jungiana in Brazil\, member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. \nAs an adjunct faculty at Antioch University\, Dr. Thalji teaches analytic psychology on dreams and active imagination. She has taught internationally\, hosting seminars and TED Circles. Her research on immigration as a liminal experience has enriched her clinical practice. She co-authored a paper on indigenous healing and the experiences of the Yawanawa women in the Amazon. She is completing additional certifications at Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia Jungiana in Brazil on analytic work with couples and the Mythology of the Orixas. In 2024\, she presented two panels on trauma at the 14th International Ferenczi Conference in Brazil. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$120 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $150 after \nNon-Members:  \n$150 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $180 C0 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/liberation-through-dreams-synthesizing-jungian-insights-and-ethnopsychology-to-decolonize-clinical-practice-and-enhance-cultural-sensitivity-presented-by-nadia-thalji-phd-seminar/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Individualities: Ten Angles of Vision on Personality Differences and the Difference They Make for Therapy  Presented by: Nancy McWilliams\, PhD\, ABPP [CLASS]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nAppreciating the implications of personality differences for clinical and supervisory work has been a central concern for psychotherapists since the early part of the twentieth century. Everyone has a personality\, whether or not it can be considered pathological. Ever since the 1980 revision of the DSM\, personality issues have been relegated to a section of “disorder” categories and described by measurable traits. In this workshop\, Dr. McWilliams will offer ten different lenses through which individuality has been viewed (temperament\, attachment style\, observed clinical pattern\, defensive structure\, affective organization\, implicit cognition\, drive tendencies\, self-definition versus self-in-relation orientation\, core relational theme\, and level of severity). She will offer empirical support for each perspective and\, using examples\, discuss practical clinical implications of each angle of vision\, especially that of level of severity\, for both psychotherapy and supervision. There will be time for questions and discussion. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to \n\nEnumerate ten angles of vision by which personality has been conceptualized by mental health Professionals and scholars\nDifferentiate between conceptualizing personality in terms of traits and construing it in terms of intersubjective themes;\nDescribe how to apply that knowledge toward more nuanced formulations of the psychologies of their clients and supervisees;\nDescribe eight areas in which experts of differing orientations agree about the treatment of borderline psychologies.\nList eight qualities of effective therapists that meta-analyses have identified.\nExplain how they can improve their work with patients based on such formulations\, especially in challenging professional circumstances;\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 4 HOURS: \n9:00 – 10:15 am \nDr. McWilliams will discuss 8 different perspectives on individuality\, with examples\, emphasizing implications for clinical work. She will cover temperament\, attachment style\, observed clinical pattern\, defensive structure\, affective style\, implicit cognition\, motivational systems (drive)\, and self-definition versus self-in-relationship orientations. \n10:15 – 11:00 am \nDr. McWilliams will cover the last two perspectives: inner working models (also called internalized object relations\, core conflictual relationship themes\, schemas\, and other labels) and level of severity. She will apply these concepts to working with patients organized at a healthy/neurotic level and a psychotic level\, respectively\, emphasizing the difference in the therapist’s approach. \n11:00 – 11:15 am  \nBreak \n11:15 – 12:00 pm \nDr. McWilliams will review the literature on working with patients in the borderline range of personality organization\, including but not limited to patients meeting DSM diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder. She will emphasize the areas on which therapists of diverse theoretical orientation are in agreement rather than taking a position in favor of a particular approach. \n12:00 – 1:00 pm \nDr. McWilliams will apply these concepts to the supervisory process and engage in a discussion with audience members about how they might apply them clinically. \nContent Curriculum:\n\n \nThis workshop will expand the participant’s knowledge about personality and its relevance to outcome in psychotherapy\, adding to the participant’s knowledge about how to increase the solidity of the therapeutic alliance based on an appreciation of the patient’s individuality. \nThe empirical literature on psychotherapy outcome has repeatedly demonstrated that the two factors responsible for the lion’s share of variance are personality factors (in both patient and therapist) and relational factors (the “fit” between them). \nThe target audience is everyone who is working clinically in the mental health field.  The concepts will be explained simply enough so that they will be accessible to participants who are beginners in the field\, as well as those with advanced knowledge. \nThe content is based on published empirical and clinical studies that have been peer-reviewed. None of the content involves risks. \nThere will be a special section in the lecture about appreciating individual differences based on age\, gender\, sexual orientation\, ethnicity\, class\, ability\, religious orientation\, and other factors. The cases selected for discussion will reflect diverse populations. \n  \n\nBIO: \nNancy McWilliams is Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and has a private practice in Lambertville\, NJ. She is author of four textbooks (on psychoanalytic diagnosis\, case formulation\, therapy\, and supervision) and is co-editor of both editions of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. A former president of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the American Psychological Association\, she is a member of the Austen Riggs Center Board of Trustees. Her books are available in 20 languages and she has taught in 30 countries. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$80 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $100 after \nNon-Members:  \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $120 after \nCEs: \n4 CEs for LMFTs & LCSWs and 4 CEs for Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. \n 
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/individualities-ten-angles-of-vision-on-personality-differences-and-the-difference-they-make-for-therapy-presented-by-nancy-mcwilliams-phd-abpp-class/
LOCATION:FOUR POINTS by Sheraton San Rafael\, 1010 Northgate Dr\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Anxiety\, Identity\, and the Therapy Relationship: Intersubjective Approaches to Resistance to Change  Presented by: Jane Rubin\, PhD [Study Group] [8-Days]
DESCRIPTION:Eight sessions\, the third Friday of the month: Oct. 18\, Nov 15\, Dec 20\, 2024 | Jan 17\, Feb 21\, Mar 21\, Apr 18\, May 16\, 2025 | 12:30 – 2:30 pm \nNARRATIVE:\nIt’s a truism in therapy\, and in our culture in general\, that change is difficult. Some kinds of change are more difficult than others\, however. One of the most difficult\, if not the most difficult\, kinds of personal change is one that involves a fundamental shift in an individual’s sense of identity. \nOne sign of the difficulty of this kind of change is the catastrophic anxiety that often accompanies. Loss of relationships\, natural disasters\, life-threatening illnesses\, and many other predictions of doom can be signs that an individual is on the precipice of making deep changes in their understanding of who they are. \nPopular recommendations for dealing with catastrophic anxiety leave it up to the individual. A random web search produces recommendations such as “Catastrophic thoughts are more likely to take over when experiencing fatigue or stress. Getting enough rest and engaging in stress-relieving techniques\, such as exercise\, meditation\, and journaling\, can all help a person feel better.” \nThere’s nothing wrong with these recommendations. However\, from the point of view of intersubjectivity theory\, they leave out the most important thing–the relational context in which catastrophic anxieties arise. Past and present relationships and\, most crucially\, our patients’ relationships with us\, are critical in determining whether our patients overcome their catastrophic fears or are undone by them. \nIn this course\, we’ll examine intersubjective approaches to understanding and treating fear of the kind of change that involves questions like: Who will I be if I’m not the person my significant others seem to need me to be? Will I destroy my relationships with my significant others if I become the person I want and need to be? How do I know who I want to be? \nTopics will include: 1) Robert Stolorow’s concept of existential anxiety; 2) Steven Stern’s concept of psychic homelessness; 3) Leonard Shengold’s ideas about the relationship between change and loss and 4) Bernard Brandchaft’s concept of the dread not to repeat. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nUnderstand the difference between catastrophic anxiety and other forms of anxiety.\nIdentify four signs that a patient is experiencing catastrophic anxiety.\nDescribe at least four ways catastrophic anxiety can manifest itself in the relationship between patient and therapist.\nDescribe how to work in the transference to reduce catastrophic anxiety.\nDescribe the relationship between catastrophic anxiety and anxious attachment.\nDescribe the relationship between catastrophic anxiety and disorganized attachment.\n\nThe seminar will include discussion of readings\, followed by case presentations by the participants. The case presentations are intended to help participants effectively translate the ideas in the readings from theory to practice. Participants should develop greater facility in recognizing\, and helping patients to find relief from\, catastrophic anxiety. \n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE: \n12:30-1:15 pm \nInstructor will provide an in-depth analysis of a core concept in intersubjectivity theory’s understanding of catastrophic anxiety. Each class will focus on one of the following concepts: \n\n\n\nDefining catastrophic anxiety.\nThe relationship between existential anxiety and catastrophic anxiety.\nHow psychic homelessness contributes to catastrophic anxiety.\nHow major losses contribute to catastrophic anxiety.\nThe  relationship between pathological accommodation and catastrophic anxiety.\nHow to recognize the  signs that a patient is experiencing catastrophic anxiety.\nHow to recognize transference manifestations of catastrophic anxiety.\nHow to work in the transference to reduce catastrophic anxiety.\n\n\n\n1:15-2:30 pm \nA participant will present a case and the class will discuss the case with the aim of integrating the theoretical concepts discussed in the first part of the class with actual clinical material. \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \nStudents in doctoral programs in psychology are usually introduced to basic psychoanalytic and psychodynamic concepts. They rarely receive any exposure to intersubjectivity theory and other contemporary psychoanalytic theories\, or to the many ideas about the treatment process intersubjectivity theory proposes. This course builds upon students’ doctoral level familiarity with basic psychoanalytic concepts to introduce them to more contemporary ways of thinking and practicing. \nMany clinical psychologists struggle with how to successfully help patients who are struggling with overwhelming\, seemingly irrational\, anxieties. Sometimes they blame their patients for not getting better. Other times\, they blame themselves for being ineffective. This content is specifically designed to give therapists more conceptual tools\, and practice in applying them\, so they can successfully treat patients who suffer from catastrophic anxieties. \nThe content for this course is intermediate. It assumes that participants have had some postgraduate clinical experience and that they have a basic familiarity with psychoanalytic ideas such as transference. \nI don’t believe that there are risks to this material if people understand it well. One of the main objectives of contemporary psychoanalytic practice is not to injure our patients. One of the main objectives of this course is to help therapists work effectively so that their patients are able to achieve their goals without being retraumatized by their therapy. \nThe limitations are that no one should ever rely on one group of theories in their work. There is nothing in contemporary psychoanalysis that precludes the use of CBT\, DBT\, or any other non-psychoanalytic technique when that technique will be useful to the patient. The entire emphasis of contemporary psychoanalysis—and\, especially\, of intersubjectivity theory—is that each patient and therapist bring his or her entire self into the treatment. This includes individual\, cultural\, and role differences. A major focus of this course is understanding how these differences play a role in the treatment\, and how understanding how best to work with them can enrich the therapeutic process. \n  \n\nBIO: \nJane Rubin\, PhD\, PhD\, PsyD\, received her PhD in philosophy from UC Berkeley and her PhD in clinical psychology from the Wright Institute. She did her psychoanalytic training at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She is in private practice in Berkeley. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nNon Members:\n$400 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to first session\, $480 after \nCIP Members:\n$320 early registration\, up to 10 days prior to first session\, $400 after \nCEs: 16 CEs for LMFTs & LCSWs and 16 CEs for Psychologists. Certificates issued after completion of the 8 sessions. \nThe Community Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for these programs and their contents. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible for those with disabilities. Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to the workshop/training. \nCancellations must be received in writing 10 business days prior to the seminar\, class\, or first study group session for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. Cancellations less than ten days will not be refunded. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/anxiety-identity-and-the-therapy-relationship-intersubjective-approaches-to-resistance-to-change-presented-by-jane-rubin-phd-study-group-8-days/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Study Groups
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SUMMARY:Climate Change in the Consultation Room:  Treating Climate Distress and Increasing Pro-Environmental Behavior  - Presented by Barbara Easterlin\, PhD [Class]
DESCRIPTION:**This event is zoom only** \nNARRATIVE \nThis presentation will provide a foundational background about the origins and mental health impacts of climate change\, how to identify clients’ climate distress\, and therapeutic practices that enhance resilience\, adaptation\, and coping. \nThe climate and environmental crisis is the most complex existential threat humanity is facing. According to recent research (2021) by the Yale School of Climate Communications\, 73% of Americans feel that the climate crisis is real and 60% believe it is human caused. In the world of mental health\, we know that internal factors such as emotions\, beliefs\, and attitudes influence behavior\, but behaviors occur within a powerful context of cultural beliefs\, social networks\, social status inequalities\, race\, and income\, as well as government policies and the larger environmental ecosystems within these individual factors exist. \nPsychotherapy of climate distress must occur within these larger systems\, but an individual’s coping skills and action that enhance each person’s resilience are important. Research and psychotherapeutic practices will be presented that help to identify climate distress within the context of a client’s biographical and psychological frame\, and to integrate these knowledge bases. In addition\, the nascent field discussion of ethical responses to the climate crisis from mental health practitioners will be discussed. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \n By the end of this course\, participants will be able to: \n\n Describe climate change impacts on mental health including common emotional responses as well as psychological defenses and behaviors that accompany climate crisis awareness.\nDefine the key principles of the emerging field of Climate Psychology and the field’s attention to the inequitable impact of climate change on vulnerable social\, racial\, regional\, and demographic populations.\nDescribe human evolutionary and neuropsychological limitations that inhibit individual and collective action to mitigate the destructive impact of climate change and how these can be surmounted to address the emerging crisis.\nDevelop clinical strategies to improve sense of agency\, emotional regulation\, and resilience and to identify and treat challenging climate change related emotions\, such as anxiety about the future\, existential despair\, grief\, anger\, confusion\, and the amplifying impact of the climate crisis on existing mood and anxiety disorders.\n\n COURSE OUTLINE \n 9:00 -10:00 am; \n\nArriving and Brief Introductions\nIntroduction to Climate Psychology: 5 key points with attention to the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations (social\, racial\, regional & impoverished populations)\nEvolutionary neurobiology and socio-cultural-economic conditions that underlie origins of the current climate emergency\n\n10:00 -10:05 am:  \nBreak \n10:05-11:15 am:   \nMental Health Impacts of the climate crisis and climate events — common emotional responses\, and defenses \n 11:15-11: 20 am:  \nBreak \n11:25 am-12:45 pm: \nVignettes and Clinical psychotherapy skills for addressing climate distress \n12:45-1 pm:  \nQ&A \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\nClimate change and the social justice issues surrounding the global ecological and biodiversity loss crisis have been recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) as issues that have significant mental health impacts. Our patients bring these issues as well as related existential dilemmas to our consultation rooms\, however\, a very recent study published in the March edition of the journal Ecopsychology showed that fewer than a third of 770 therapists “report feeling well to discuss mental health impacts of climate change with their clients.”\nContent will provide an overview of the field of climate psychology using vignettes and small group discussion of ethical issues that bear on discussing these issues in the consultation room\, as well as social and psychological research that describes how the climate crisis is tied to behavior\, emotion\, and psychological defenses. Skill development is woven throughout the presentation.\nThis course is at the beginner level and appropriate for Mental Health clinicians\, climate communicators\, activists and educators.\nAll material sourced for this presentation will represent current clinical research in the field of climate psychology\, which is frequently survey- and behavior reporting-based. Statistics provided as part of this presentation are derived from peer reviewed journals in climate science\, psychology\, and social psychology.  Assessment instruments for climate distress\, presented for this topic\, have been validated and normed in a variety of countries around the world.\n\nThe limitations of the material being taught include: \n\nClimate psychology is a fairly new discipline; interventions have not yet been tested in large populations;\nThere are a variety of ethical principles and emotional tone that come into play when any topic has a political or controversial base.\nConversations have the potential to become polarized; participants will be reminded that this workshop is for clinical skill development\, not to expose or thresh out their own views on the veracity of climate science or politics.\nThe topic of climate change can be emotionally triggering for some. Participants will be provided a preview of what will be covered in the workshop as well as self-care strategies and methods of contacting the instructor to “sidebar” if necessary.\nA good part of the introduction to climate psychology describes the impact of colonization and marginalization of vulnerable populations. These include BIPOC & LGBTQ groups\, Aging people\, and women.  Some of these same populations who are impacted the worst also have rich traditions of earth care that will be touched on in the presentation.  Clinical work with BIPOC groups especially requires a culturally sensitive knowledge of ways in which they are doubly or triply damaged by climate change — due to systemic failures of social and cultural equity\, these groups are often situated near damaged ecosystems and have been denied access to resources that might mitigate some of this harm.\n\n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members:  \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellations must be received in writing by email: admin@cipmarin.org\, 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee. \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/climate-change-in-the-consultation-room-treating-climate-distress-and-increasing-pro-environmental-behavior-presented-by-barbara-easterlin-phd-class/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living\, Conscious Dying  - Presented by Dale Borglum\, PhD [2 DAY WORKSHOP] [CO-SPONSORED]
DESCRIPTION:**This event is via zoom only** \n2 DAY SEMINAR: March 23 & 24\, 2024 \nNARRATIVE: \nFor thirty-five years I have been blessed to be in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing– healing in relationship to death\, healing in relationship to illness\, in relationship to a wounded heart\, to separation from their own self. My consuming interest\, both personally and professionally has been the healing process. Why do some people experience wholeness as they approach death while others lose themselves in denial\, depression\, distraction? Why is it that some of the most alive and awake Westerners I’ve known have been\, almost without exception\, people near death? Is there some powerful truth about life and about healing that you and I can receive from these few who\, as they went through the process of dying\, deeply realized their own wholeness? \nBringing emotional/spiritual support to someone with a life-threatening illness is a twofold task. First\, help the client realize they are more than that which will die – the finite self – the body and the personality. At the same time\, honor this finite self\, healing it’s woundedness\, it’s identification with separateness. Rumi said\, “Grief is the garden of compassion.” The transmuting separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion is the heart of the work. Confusion\, anxiety\, and depression\, anger are typical responses arising as the end of a life approaches\, both for the patient and for their family. \nThis presentation will explore possibilities for realizing wholeness at the edge of life where illness\, grief and loss arise. Both psychological and spiritual tools will be used in the investigation of these profound and challenging issues. We will offer participants the opportunity to explore the deeper questions surrounding\, healing and the sacred\, so that each of us can better embody an enlivened sense of being in the world in each moment rather than a sense of isolation and denial. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:\nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nDescribe the defining characteristics of compassion.\nDistinguish between compassion and pity.\nFully understand the somatic foundation for being able to let go of identification with separateness.\nUnderstand how to transmute the separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion.\nBe familiar with several contemplative practices that will help a client transmute fear of dying into acceptance.\nSkillfully work with one’s own fear of death as it is resonated by the client’s situation.\nEnable one’s client to use the prognosis of a life-threatening illness as an opportunity to become more present and alive.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE -TWO DAY WORKSHOP – 15 hrs. \nSchedule for Day One \n8:45 – 9:00 \nRegistration \n9:00 – 10:00 \nOverview of the healing paradigm: motivation\, invocation\, awareness\, grounding\, centering compassion\, empowerment\, wholeness. \n10:00 – 11:00 \nIntroduction of participants as an awareness exercise \n11:00 – 12:00 \nMotivation for healing. \nCultivating awareness of the emotional patterns which cause suffering. \nBecoming present in one’s body as the foundation for opening the heart of compassion. \n12:00 – 12:30 \nGrounding and centering experiential exercises. \n12:30 – 1:30   \nLunch \n1:30 – 3:00    \nCompassion \n\n\n\nDefinition of compassion and discussion of its qualities and benefits\nConnectedness\, spaciousness and warmth\nRelationship between compassion and appropriate boundaries\n How compassion prevents burnout\n\n\n\n3:00 – 4:00 \n“Grief is the garden of compassion.” \n\n\n\nTransforming the separation of grief into the connectedness of compassion\nConscious grief work – We are all grieving.\n\n\n\n4:00 – 5:00    \nGuided compassion meditation \n\n\n\nGroup exercise exploring compassion.\n\n\n\n5:00 – 5:30 \nEmpowerment \n\n\n\nDefinition of empowerment\nHow the spacious mind of compassion leads to empowerment.\nHow empowerment leads to healing\n\n\n\nSchedule for Day Two \n9:00 – 10:00 \nGuided meditation. Review of the healing paradigm. Q & A. \n10:00 – 11:00 \nCaregiving \n\n\n\nCaregiving as psychological/spiritual work on oneself\nCaregiving for the dying\n\nSpecial practices to help heal fear of death.\n\n\nFear of death – All fear is fear of death.\n\n\n\n11:00 – 12:00  \nWorking with physical pain \n\n\n\nConfusion between pain and fear of pain\nPain meditation\n\n\n\n12:00 – 12:30 \nForgiveness \n12:30 – 1:30 \nLunch \n1:30 – 3:00 \nContemplative and experiential practices to transmute fear of death\, to cultivate the heart of compassion\, to accept loss of control. \n3:00 – 4:00    \nWhat is it that dies and what is it that does not die?\nWhat happens when you die?\nHow can the certainty of death yet the uncertainty of the time of our death lead to awakening rather than to fear? \n4:00 – 4:30 \nDiscussion of suicide and the right to die. \n4:30 – 5:00   \nWholeness \n\n\n\nDefinition of Wholeness\nHealing as different from curing\nWholeness or healing as the goal of all practice.\nHealing guided meditation\n\n\n\n5:00 – 6:00    \nClosing and evaluation \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\nThis program will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology by exploring the transpersonal\, the meditative\, and the spiritual components necessary for conscious death. We will explore how identification with ego structure and fear of death are intimately connected.\nThe aim of psychological practice traditionally is to create a healthier\, efficiently functioning mind and particularly a healthy ego structure. In the potentially profoundly transformative time at the end of life\, healing and understanding that transcend egoic concern are often more available than any other time in a person’s life. The appreciation of this possibility is of central importance to those supporting clients who might be approaching death.\nThe target audience is clinical social workers\, marriage and family therapists\, psychologists\, and nurses were working with patients confronting a life-threatening illness\, their loved ones\, and those grieving. Instruction summarizes introductory and intermediate foundational concepts which then leads to advanced content for the majority of the workshop.\nThe materials presented during this workshop have been developed and utilized during 40 years of working directly with thousands of dying clients\, their families and their caregivers. As well these materials had been presented during trainings at hundreds of hospitals and hospices throughout North America. The efficacy of this content is limited by the willingness of the client to explore the possibility of deep transformation during a time of great crisis. The effects of opioid analgesic medication and also bodily symptoms that often accompany the end stages of terminal illness both can limit the transformative power of the materials presented. The only risk that has been encountered is that occasionally when a client is consciously working with her fear of death\, long repressed difficult emotions can burst forth in her physically weakened condition requiring great sensitivity on the part of the practitioner.\nDr. Borglum spent years as a group facilitator at San Quentin Penitentiary and as an AIDS/HIV counselor at High General Hospital in Oakland. At both of these facilities there was a wide range of race\, sexual orientation\, and socioeconomic backgrounds represented. When supporting a client who is confronting a life-threatening illness\, conditioned emotional patterns inherent in different backgrounds and orientations often mask the deeper underlying fear of death. Cultivating deeper awareness and compassion through lecture and experiential materials presented during this workshop will enable the participant to distinguish between cultural\, individual\, and role differences on the one hand\, and\, on the other\, inherent fear of death.\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nTwo Day Event (February 23 and February 24) – 15 CEs\, $290 \nYou may register online by visiting www.livingdying.org\, and clicking on Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living/Conscious Dying. You may also send a check or money order to Living/Dying Project at P.O. Box 357\, Fairfax\, CA 94978. With your payment please include your email address and if you wish C.E.’s include license number and degree.You may also register by phone: please call 415-456-3915.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/healing-at-the-edge-conscious-living-conscious-dying-presented-by-dale-borglum-phd-2-day-workshop-co-sponsored-3/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Psychotherapy Through a Jungian Lens: Navigating the Relationship Between the Unconscious and Conscious Mind in Personal Psychological Development  - Presented by Carolyn Bray\, PhD [Seminar]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE \nOne of Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung’s most notable and underlying theories contributing to the field of psychology is the concept referred to in Jungian terms as the “Ego/Self axis.” It suggests a relationship between an individual’s conscious and unconscious psychological life.  The term “Ego” signifies one’s consciousness\, and the term “Self” identifies the overall organizing principle uniting the psychological whole of an individual.  In the field of psychology\, we are generally more familiar working with the consciousness of an individual\, often referred to as the self\, but in this seminar we will expand on that knowledge to include an understanding of different types of consciousness: introverted\, extroverted\, feeling\, thinking\, sensory\, intuitive. We will extend our awareness of consciousness into the less familiar\, the land of the unconscious or the psyche. We will examine this relationship in a didactic\, discussion\, and case presentation format. Through case presentations\, participants will come to recognize how unconscious material can materialize in individual sessions via dreams\, gestures\, fantasies\, body movement\, metaphors\, identifications with fictional characters\, etc.  This unconscious material can be golden for the process of personal psychological development. Becoming consciously aware of the shadows lurking in the unconscious can bring light into the darkness of certain fears\, uncertainties\, and self-doubts\, therefore becoming transformative. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \nUpon completing this seminar\, participants should be able to: \n\n\n\nDescribe the Jungian concept of the “Ego-Self Axis.”\nIdentify the two attitudes of consciousness described by Jung and understand their applications in clinical practice.\nIdentify the eight functions of consciousness described by Jung and understand their applications in clinical practice.\nDescribe the differences in a clinical setting between conscious and unconscious patient material.\nIdentify patients’ conscious concerns that are literal and concrete\, and require clinical treatment.\nIdentify patients’ unconscious concerns that are metaphoric and symbolic\, and in need of a clinical response.\nDescribe and discuss the use of dreams and other unconscious patient material within a clinical setting\n\n\n\n  \nSEMINAR COURSE OUTLINE—6 hours \n 8:30 am                                \n    Registration \n9:00 – 9:10 am                      \n   Introduction of presenter \n9:10– 10:30 am   \nJungian Theory of the Ego-Self Axis \nConsciousness and Unconsciousness \nTypes of Consciousness\, Attitudes\, and Functions \n                    Case Vignette \n10:30—10:40 am \nBreak \n10:40 am—12:00 noon  \nUnconscious Material in a Clinical Setting \nAnalysis of Unconscious Patient Material\, Utilization of the “Ego/Self Axis” \nCase Vignette \n12:00—1:00 pm                      \n Lunch \n1:00—1:30 pm \n Q & A \n1:30—2:30 \nWorking with the “Ego/Self Axis” in Clinical Practice \n Case Vignette \n2:30—2:40 pm    \nBreak \n2:40—4:00pm    \nCase Vignettes from Participants \n Q & A \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\n\n\nThe differences in individual personalities and cognitive functioning are addressed in programs for school counselors and in business management programs\, but are rarely explored in depth in most graduate training programs in psychology. Understanding the personality differences found in individual behaviors\, communication style\, and emotional regulation remains a relatively new frontier in the field of psychology. Even more rare in graduate training programs in psychology\, is the study of different clinical approaches to the conscious and unconscious psychological concerns. This presentation addresses these gaps in psychological training.\nPatients need their therapist to be attuned to their individual needs; their differences and diversity in conscious attitudes and functioning addressed by the therapist allows the patient to feel heard and seen\, enhancing the therapeutic alliance. The therapist attending to the patient’s unconscious needs speaks to the very depths of the patient’s existence and their endured traumas.\nThe target audience is intermediate to advanced psychologists who have clinical experience\, but little exposure to the Jungian theory of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious mind of an individual.\nDetermining an individual’s psychological type is best achieved by utilizing the test instrument Myers-Briggs along with the therapist’s experience and understanding of the individual. There are certain risks\, however\, that this combination does not account for cultural differences\, and caution should be taken. There are four theories considering the importance of dreaming: physiological\, psychodynamic\, Jungian\, and cognitive. Neuroscientific researcher at Tuft’s Allen Discovery Center\, Erik Hoel\, researched the links between the function that fiction\, the arts\, and dreaming serve human brains. His theory suggests dreams\, like fiction\, may provide a cognitive utility for the human brain. However\, dream research is a formidable task because dreaming is only accessible through subject reporting and not through direct observation. As the field of psychology utilizes functional MRI’s\, which offer direct observation opportunities\, we might expect more accurate research information in the future concerning the function of dreams in the human brain.\nJung’s theory of psychological types supports the concept of psychological diversity; however\, it was not developed during a time when cultural and role differences were necessarily considered. Dreams\, and other metaphoric or unconscious material\, such as myths\, are culturally diverse and the primary themes found in myths from different cultures reveal the universal nature of the human condition with respect to common feelings of anger\, fear\, jealousy\, envy\, power\, etc. Participants will be encouraged to explore with their patients their diverse understandings of images and emotions revealed within their conscious and unconscious experiences.\n\n\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$100 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $120 after \nNon-Members:  \n$130 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $150 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellations must be received in writing by email: admin@cipmarin.org\, 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/psychotherapy-through-a-jungian-lens-navigating-the-relationship-between-the-unconscious-and-conscious-mind-in-personal-psychological-development-presented-by-carolyn-bray-phd-seminar/
LOCATION:Community Institute for Psychotherapy\, 1330 Lincoln Ave.\, Suite 201\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living\, Conscious Dying – Presented by Dale Borglum\, PhD [1 DAY WORKSHOP] [CO-SPONSORED]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nFor 35 years I have been blessed to be in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing – healing in relationship to death\, healing in relationship to illness\, in relationship to a wounded heart\, to separation from their own self. My consuming interest\, both personally and professionally\, has been the healing process. Why do some people experience wholeness as they approach death\, while others lose themselves in denial\, depression\, distraction? Why is it that some of the most alive and awake Westerners I’ve known have been\, almost without exception\, people near death? Is there some powerful truth about life and about healing that you and I can receive from these few who\, as they went through the process of dying\, deeply realized their own wholeness? \nBringing emotional/spiritual support to someone with a life-threatening illness is a twofold task.  First\, help the client realize they are more than that which will die – the finite self – the body and personality. At the same time\, honor this finite self\, healing its woundedness\, its identification with separateness. Rumi said “Grief is the garden of compassion.” This transmuting separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion is that the heart of the work. Confusion\, anxiety\, depression\, anger are typical responses arising as the end of a life approaches\, both for patients and their families. \nThis presentation will explore possibilities for realizing wholeness at the edge of life where illness\, grief\, and loss arise. Both psychological and spiritual tools will be used in the investigation of these profound and challenging issues. We will offer participants the opportunity to explore the deeper questions surrounding death\, healing\, and the sacred\, so that each of us can better embody an enlivened sense of being in the world in each moment rather than a sense of isolation and denial. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:  \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nDescribe the defining characteristics of compassion.\nDistinguish between compassion and pity.\nFully understand the somatic foundation for being able to let go of identification with separateness.\nUnderstand how to transmute the separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion.\nBe familiar with several contemplative practices that will help a client transmute fear of dying into acceptance.\nSkillfully work with one’s own fear of death as it is resonated by the client’s situation.\nEnable one’s client to use the prognosis of a life-threatening illness as an opportunity to become more present and alive.\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE – 1 Day Workshop – 8 hrs.: \n8:45 – 9:00 am    \nRegistration \n9:00 – 10:00 am  \nOverview of the healing paradigm-motivation\, invocation\, awareness\, grounding\, centering\, compassion\, empowerment\, wholeness. \n10:00 – 11:00 am \nMotivation for healing. Cultivating awareness of the emotional patterns that cause suffering. Becoming present in one’s body as the foundation for opening the heart of compassion. \n11:00 – 12:30 pm  \nCompassion \n          A. Definition of compassion and discussion of its qualities and benefits \n1. Connectedness\, spaciousness and warmth \nB. Relationship between compassion and appropriate boundaries \nC. How compassion prevents burnout. \nD. “Grief is the garden of compassion.” \n1. Transforming the separation of grief into the connectedness of compassion \n2. Grief work – We are all grieving \nE. Guided compassion meditation \nF. Group exercise exploring compassion. \n12:30 – 1:30 pm \nLunch \n1:30 – 2:00 pm    \nContemplative practices to transmute fear of death\, to cultivate the heart of compassion\, to accept loss of control. \n2:00 – 3:00 pm     \nEmpowerment \n\n\n\nDefinition of empowerment\nHow the spacious mind of compassion leads to empowerment\nHow empowerment leads to healing\n\n\n\n3:00 – 4:00 pm  \nCaregiving \n\n\n\nCaregiving as psychological/spiritual work on oneself\nCaregiving for the dying\n\nSpecial practices to heal fear of death\n\n\nFear of death\n\nAll fear is fear of death\n\n\nWorking with physical pain\n\nConfusion between pain and fear of pain\nPain meditation\n\n\n\n\n\n4:00 – 5:00 pm  \nWhat is it that dies and what is it that does not die? \nWhat happens when you die? \nHow can the certainty of death yet the uncertainty of the time of our death \nlead to awakening rather than to fear? \n5:00 – 5:30 pm \nWholeness \n\n\n\nDefinition of wholeness\nHealing as different from curing\nWholeness or healing as the goal of all practice\nHealing guided meditation\n\n\n\n5:30  – 6:00 pm \nComplete evaluations and closing \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\nThis program will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology by exploring the transpersonal\, the meditative\, and the spiritual components necessary for conscious death. We will explore how identification with ego structure and fear of death are intimately connected.\nThe aim of psychological practice traditionally is to create a healthier\, efficiently functioning mind and particularly a healthy ego structure. In the potentially profoundly transformative time at the end of life\, healing and understanding that transcend egoic concern are often more available than at any other time in a person’s life. The appreciation of this possibility is of central importance to those supporting clients who might be approaching death.\nThe target audience is clinical social workers\, marriage and family therapists\, psychologists and nurses working with patients confronting a life-threatening illness\, their loved ones\, and those grieving. Instruction summarizes introductory and intermediate foundational concepts which then leads to advance content for the majority of the workshop.\nThe materials presented during this workshop have been developed and utilized during 40 years of working directly with thousands of dying clients\, their families and their caregivers. As well\, these materials have been presented during trainings at hundreds of hospitals and hospices throughout North America. The efficacy of this content is limited by the willingness of the client to explore the possibility of deep transformation during a time of great crisis. The effects of opioid analgesic medication and also bodily symptoms that often accompany the end stages of terminal illness both can limit the transformative power of the materials presented. The only risk that has been encountered is that occasionally when a client is consciously working with her fear of death\, long repressed difficult emotions can burst forth in her physically weakened condition requiring great sensitivity on the part of the practitioner.\nDr. Borglum spent years as a group facilitator at San Quentin Penitentiary and as an AIDS/HIV counselor at High General Hospital in Oakland. At both of these facilities there was a wide range of race\, sexual orientation\, and socioeconomic backgrounds represented. When supporting a client who is confronting a life-threatening illness\, conditioned emotional patterns inherent in different backgrounds and orientations often mask the deeper underlying fear of death. Cultivating deeper awareness and compassion through the lecture and experiential materials presented during this workshop will enable participants to distinguish between cultural\, individual\, and role differences on the one hand\, and\, on the other\, inherent fear of death.\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nOne Day – 8 CEs\, $175 \nYou may register online by visiting www.livingdying.org\, and clicking on Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living/Conscious Dying. You may also send a check or money order to Living/Dying Project at P.O. Box 357\, Fairfax\, CA 94978. With your payment\, please include your email address and if you wish C.E.’s includes license number and degree. You may also register by phone: please call 415-456-3915.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/healing-at-the-edge-conscious-living-conscious-dying-presented-by-dale-borglum-phd-1-day-workshop-co-sponsored/
LOCATION:Finley Center\, 2060 W. College Avenue\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Why Am I Feeling (or Behaving) this Way? How Working with Trauma Impacts the Clinician   - Presented by Julie Robbins [Class]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE:  \nThis workshop will focus on issues related vicarious and secondary trauma that impact professionals who work with vulnerable populations and populations with histories of child maltreatment\, trauma\, and complex trauma. The class will also address those clinicians who work regularly with clients with intense pain\, grief\, and loss.  Definitions and differences between burn out\, countertransference (how our personal experiences may interfere with our work)\, compassion fatigue\, and secondary trauma will be reviewed.  Signs and symptoms of secondary trauma\, as well as indications that it is interfering in one’s work or personal life\, will be discussed. A self-assessment tool(s) will be given.  Specific triggers that could activate secondary trauma will also be presented. The workshop will conclude with strategies for restorative work\, self-care\, and prevention. There will be an opportunity for clinicians to bring examples of their own experiences and how this is currently (or in the past) being managed during the Q and A time slot. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:  \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\n\n\nDefine secondary traumatization\nList and explain three characteristics of secondary traumatization\nList and describe three ways to prevent secondary traumatization\nUnderstand how to develop a self-care plan and list two ways that you can use this for your own self-care\n\n\n\n COURSE OUTLINE – 3 HOURS:  \n9:00 – 9:30 am \nJulie Robbins will present an overview of countertransference and secondary traumatization. \n9:30 – 10:00 am \nJulie Robbins will describe the indicators of secondary trauma. \n10:00 – 10:30 am  \n                        Julie Robbins will present on self-assessment tools. \n10:30 – 10:45 am BREAK \n10:45 – 11:15 am \nWe will explore ways to identify countertransference and secondary traumatization. \n11:15 am– 12:00 noon \nJulie Robbins will present on how to work with countertransference and secondary traumatization self-care and restorative work\, and also will discuss prevention. \n CONTENT CURRICULUM:  \n\n\n\nThis class builds on the already existing doctoral program by expanding the participant’s base knowledge of countertransference and trauma by explaining the differences between the two and how not only one’s own trauma\, but exposure to client’s trauma can cause secondary trauma.\nTrauma\, particularly interpersonal abuse and violence\, affects a significant portion of the general population. This class will enhance participants’ knowledge of trauma\, as well as provide some tools to work more effectively with trauma both in and out of sessions.\nThis workshop is applicable to all providers in the field of mental health who are currently (or in the future will be) working directly with treating child and adult survivors of trauma. The concepts are basic enough to be integrated by a new clinician\, as well as to expand an experienced clinician’s knowledge base.  This workshop applies mostly to those who have had some experience working directly with clients with trauma (especially interpersonal/chronic/complex) experiences.\nThe content is not only based on textbooks fairly common to the treatment of trauma and other publications (peer reviewed) directly addressing issues of secondary trauma but based on the instructor’s over 40 years of clinical experience (directly doing long-term treatment of child\, adolescent\, and adult survivors of interpersonal trauma. There is little risk in presenting this material and it may be limited (in sustainability) without each participant following up their individual needs with a clinical supervisor and/or therapist.\nThe material presented can be applied to all clients\, gender\, sexual orientations\, and culture. Each participant will be welcome to ask specific questions regarding a case where they may be having difficulty applying the concepts to a specific culture/religion/sexual orientation\, etc.\n\n\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members:  \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 3 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellations must be received in writing by email: admin@cipmarin.org\, 10 business days prior to the seminar or class for a refund minus a $25 cancellation fee.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/why-am-i-feeling-or-behaving-this-way-how-working-with-trauma-impacts-the-clinician-presented-by-julie-robbins-class/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living\, Conscious Dying – Presented by Dale Borglum\, [2 DAY WORKSHOP] [CO-SPONSORED]
DESCRIPTION:2 DAY SEMINAR: February 10 and 11\, 2024 \nNARRATIVE: \nFor thirty-five years I have been blessed to be in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing –healing in relationship to death\, healing in relationship to illness\, in relationship to a wounded heart\, to separation from their own self. My consuming interest\, both personally and professionally\, has been the healing process. Why do some people experience wholeness as they approach death while others lose themselves in denial\, depression\, distraction? Why is it that some of the most alive and awake Westerners I’ve known have been\, almost without exception\, people near death? I s there some powerful truth about life and about healing that you and I can receive from these few who\, as they went through the process of dying\, deeply realized their own wholeness? \nBringing emotional/spiritual support to someone with a life-threatening illness is a twofold task. First\, help the client realize they are more than that which will die – the finite self – the body and personality. At the same time\, honor this finite self\, healing it’s woundedness\, it’s identification with separateness. Rumi said\, “Grief is the garden of compassion.” This transmuting separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion is the heart of the work. Confusion\, anxiety\, depression\, anger are typical responses arising as the end of a life approaches\, both for the patient and for their family. \nThis presentation will explore possibilities for realizing wholeness at the edge of life where illness\, grief\, and loss arise. Both psychological and spiritual tools will be used in the investigation of these profound and challenging issues. We will offer participants the opportunity to explore the deeper questions surrounding death\, healing\, and the sacred\, so that each of us can better embody an enlivened sense of being in the world in each moment rather than a sense of isolation and denial. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:   \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\n\n\nDescribe the defining characteristics of compassion.\nDistinguish between compassion and pity.\nFully understand the somatic foundation for being able to let go of identification with separateness.\nUnderstand how to transmute the separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion.\nBe familiar with several contemplative practices that will help a client transmute fear of dying into acceptance.\nSkillfully work with one’s own fear of death as it is resonated by the client’s situation.\nEnable one’s client to use the prognosis of a life-threatening illness as an opportunity to become more present and alive.\n\n\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE -TWO DAY WORKSHOP – 15 hrs. \nSchedule for Day One \n8:45 – 9:00AM \nRegistration \n9:00 – 10:00AM     \nOverview of the healing paradigm: motivation\, invocation\, awareness\, grounding\, centering\, compassion\, empowerment\, wholeness. \n10:00 – 11:00AM   \nIntroduction of participants as an awareness exercise \n11:00 – 12:00PM   \nMotivation for healing. \nCultivating awareness of the emotional patterns which cause suffering. \nBecoming present in one’s body as the foundation for opening the heart of compassion. \n12:00 – 12:30PM \nGrounding and centering experiential exercises. \n12:30 – 1:30PM    \nLunch \n1:30 – 3:00PM \nCompassion \n\n\n\nDefinition of compassion and discussion of its qualities and benefits\nConnectedness\, spaciousness and warmth\nRelationship between compassion and appropriate boundaries\nHow compassion prevents burnout\n\n\n\n3:00 – 4:00PM \n“Grief is the garden of compassion” \n\n\n\nTransforming the separation of grief into the connectedness of compassion\nConscious grief work – We are all grieving\n\n\n\n4:00 – 5:00PM   \nGuided compassion meditation \n\n\n\nGroup exercise exploring compassion\n\n\n\n5:00 – 5:30PM    \nEmpowerment \n\n\n\nDefinition of empowerment\nHow the spacious mind of compassion leads to empowerment\nHow empowerment leads to healing\n\n\n\nSchedule for Day Two \n9:00 – 10:00AM   \nGuided meditation. Review of the healing paradigm. Q & A. \n10:00 – 11:00AM \nCaregiving \n\n\n\nCaregiving as psychological/spiritual work on oneself\nCaregiving for the dying\nSpecial practices to help heal fear of death\nFear of death – All fear is fear of death.\n\n\n\n 11:00 – 12:00PM   \nWorking with physical pain \n\n\n\nConfusion between pain and fear of pain\nPain meditation\n\n\n\n12:00 – 12:30PM \nForgiveness \n12:30 – 1:30PM \nLunch \n1:30 – 3:00PM      \nContemplative and experiential practices to transmute fear of death\, to cultivate the heart of compassion\, to accept loss of control. \n 3:00 – 4:00PM \nWhat is it that dies and what is it that does not die? \nWhat happens when you die? \nHow can the certainty of death yet the uncertainty of the time of our death lead to awakening rather than to fear? \n4:00 – 4:30PM  \nDiscussion of suicide and the right to die \n4:30 – 5:00PM  \n  Wholeness \n\n\n\nDefinition of Wholeness\nHealing as different from curing\nWholeness or healing as the goal of all practice\nHealing guided meditation\n\n\n\n5:00 – 5:30PM \nClosing and evaluation \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\n This program will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology by exploring the transpersonal\, the meditative\, and the spiritual components necessary for conscious death. We will explore how identification with ego structure and fear of death are intimately connected.\nThe aim of psychological practice traditionally is to create a healthier\, efficiently functioning mind and particularly a healthy ego structure. In the potentially profoundly transformative time at the end of life\, healing and understanding that transcend egoic concern are often more available than at any other time in a person’s life. The appreciation of this possibility is of central importance to those supporting clients who might be approaching death.\nThe target audience is clinical social workers\, marriage and family therapists\, psychologists and nurses were working with patients confronting a life-threatening illness\, their loved ones\, and those grieving. Instruction summarizes introductory and intermediate foundational concepts which then leads to advanced content for the majority of the workshop.\nThe materials presented during this workshop have been developed and utilized during 40 years of working directly with thousands of dying clients\, their families and their caregivers. As well these materials had been presented during trainings at hundreds of hospitals and hospices throughout North America. The efficacy of this content is limited by the willingness of the client to explore the possibility of deep transformation during a time of great crisis. The effects of opioid analgesic medication and also bodily symptoms that often accompany the end stages of terminal illness both can limit the transformative power of the materials presented. The only risk that has been encountered is that occasionally when a client is consciously working with her fear of death\, long repressed difficult emotions can burst forth in her physically weakened condition requiring great sensitivity on the part of the practitioner.\nBorglum spent years as a group facilitator at San Quentin Penitentiary and as an AIDS/HIV counselor at High General Hospital in Oakland. At both of these facilities there was a wide range of race\, sexual orientation\, and socioeconomic backgrounds represented. When supporting a client who is confronting a life-threatening illness\, conditioned emotional patterns inherent in different backgrounds and orientations often mask the deeper underlying fear of death. Cultivating deeper awareness and compassion through the lecture and experiential materials presented during this workshop will enable the participant to distinguish between cultural\, individual\, and role differences on the one hand\, and\, on the other\, inherent fear of death.\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nTwo Day Event (February 10 and February 11) – 15 CEs\, $290 \nYou may register online by visiting www.livingdying.org\, and clicking on Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living/Conscious Dying. You may also send a check or money order to Living/Dying Project at P.O. Box 357\, Fairfax\, CA 94978. With your payment please include your email address and if you wish C.E.’s include license number and degree.You may also register by phone: please call 415-456-3915.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/healing-at-the-edge-conscious-living-conscious-dying-presented-by-dale-borglum-2-day-workshop-co-sponsored/
LOCATION:Montague Hall\, 5 Richmond Row\, San Anselmo\, CA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living\, Conscious Dying – Presented by Dale Borglum\, PhD [1 DAY WORKSHOP] [CO-SPONSORED]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nFor 35 years I have been blessed to be in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing – healing in relationship to death\, healing in relationship to illness\, in relationship to a wounded heart\, to separation from their own self. My consuming interest\, both personally and professionally\, has been the healing process. Why do some people experience wholeness as they approach death\, while others lose themselves in denial\, depression\, distraction? Why is it that some of the most alive and awake Westerners I’ve known have been\, almost without exception\, people near death? Is there some powerful truth about life and about healing that you and I can receive from these few who\, as they went through the process of dying\, deeply realized their own wholeness? \nBringing emotional/spiritual support to someone with a life-threatening illness is a twofold task.  First\, help the client realize they are more than that which will die – the finite self – the body and personality. At the same time\, honor this finite self\, healing its woundedness\, its identification with separateness. Rumi said “Grief is the garden of compassion.” This transmuting separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion is that the heart of the work. Confusion\, anxiety\, depression\, anger are typical responses arising as the end of a life approaches\, both for patients and their families. \nThis presentation will explore possibilities for realizing wholeness at the edge of life where illness\, grief\, and loss arise. Both psychological and spiritual tools will be used in the investigation of these profound and challenging issues. We will offer participants the opportunity to explore the deeper questions surrounding death\, healing\, and the sacred\, so that each of us can better embody an enlivened sense of being in the world in each moment rather than a sense of isolation and denial. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES:  \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \nDescribe the defining characteristics of compassion. \n\nDistinguish between compassion and pity.\nFully understand the somatic foundation for being able to let go of identification with separateness.\nUnderstand how to transmute the separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion.\nBe familiar with several contemplative practices that will help a client transmute fear of dying into acceptance.\nSkillfully work with one’s own fear of death as it is resonated by the client’s situation.\nEnable one’s client to use the prognosis of a life-threatening illness as an opportunity to become more present and alive.\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE – 1 Day Workshop – 8 hrs.: \n8:45 – 9:00 am    \nRegistration \n9:00 – 10:00 am  \nOverview of the healing paradigm-motivation\, invocation\, awareness\, grounding\, centering\, compassion\, empowerment\, wholeness. \n10:00 – 11:00 am \nMotivation for healing. Cultivating awareness of the emotional patterns that cause suffering. Becoming present in one’s body as the foundation for opening the heart of compassion. \n11:00 – 12:30 pm \nCompassion \n          A. Definition of compassion and discussion of its qualities and benefits \n1. Connectedness\, spaciousness and warmth \nB. Relationship between compassion and appropriate boundaries \nC. How compassion prevents burnout. \nD. “Grief is the garden of compassion.” \n1. Transforming the separation of grief into the connectedness of compassion \n2. Grief work – We are all grieving \nE. Guided compassion meditation \nF. Group exercise exploring compassion. \n  \n12:30 – 1:30 pm \nLunch \n1:30 – 2:00 pm    \nContemplative practices to transmute fear of death\, to cultivate the heart of compassion\, to accept loss of control. \n2:00 – 3:00 pm     \nEmpowerment \n\n\n\nDefinition of empowerment\nHow the spacious mind of compassion leads to empowerment\nHow empowerment leads to healing\n\n\n\n3:00 – 4:00 pm  \nCaregiving \n\n\n\nCaregiving as psychological/spiritual work on oneself\nCaregiving for the dying\n\nSpecial practices to heal fear of death\n\n\nFear of death\n\nAll fear is fear of death\n\n\nWorking with physical pain\n\nConfusion between pain and fear of pain\nPain meditation\n\n\n\n\n\n4:00 – 5:00 pm  \nWhat is it that dies and what is it that does not die? \nWhat happens when you die? \nHow can the certainty of death yet the uncertainty of the time of our death \nlead to awakening rather than to fear? \n5:00 – 5:30 pm \nWholeness \n\n\n\nDefinition of wholeness\nHealing as different from curing\nWholeness or healing as the goal of all practice\nHealing guided meditation\n\n\n\n5:30  – 6:00 pm \nComplete evaluations and closing \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\nThis program will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology by exploring the transpersonal\, the meditative\, and the spiritual components necessary for conscious death. We will explore how identification with ego structure and fear of death are intimately connected.\nThe aim of psychological practice traditionally is to create a healthier\, efficiently functioning mind and particularly a healthy ego structure. In the potentially profoundly transformative time at the end of life\, healing and understanding that transcend egoic concern are often more available than at any other time in a person’s life. The appreciation of this possibility is of central importance to those supporting clients who might be approaching death.\nThe target audience is clinical social workers\, marriage and family therapists\, psychologists and nurses working with patients confronting a life-threatening illness\, their loved ones\, and those grieving. Instruction summarizes introductory and intermediate foundational concepts which then leads to advance content for the majority of the workshop.\nThe materials presented during this workshop have been developed and utilized during 40 years of working directly with thousands of dying clients\, their families and their caregivers. As well\, these materials have been presented during trainings at hundreds of hospitals and hospices throughout North America. The efficacy of this content is limited by the willingness of the client to explore the possibility of deep transformation during a time of great crisis. The effects of opioid analgesic medication and also bodily symptoms that often accompany the end stages of terminal illness both can limit the transformative power of the materials presented. The only risk that has been encountered is that occasionally when a client is consciously working with her fear of death\, long repressed difficult emotions can burst forth in her physically weakened condition requiring great sensitivity on the part of the practitioner.\nDr. Borglum spent years as a group facilitator at San Quentin Penitentiary and as an AIDS/HIV counselor at High General Hospital in Oakland. At both of these facilities there was a wide range of race\, sexual orientation\, and socioeconomic backgrounds represented. When supporting a client who is confronting a life-threatening illness\, conditioned emotional patterns inherent in different backgrounds and orientations often mask the deeper underlying fear of death. Cultivating deeper awareness and compassion through the lecture and experiential materials presented during this workshop will enable participants to distinguish between cultural\, individual\, and role differences on the one hand\, and\, on the other\, inherent fear of death.\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nOne Day – 8 CEs\, $175 \nYou may register online by visiting www.livingdying.org\, and clicking on Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living/Conscious Dying. You may also send a check or money order to Living/Dying Project at P.O. Box 357\, Fairfax\, CA 94978. With your payment\, please include your email address and if you wish C.E.’s includes license number and degree. You may also register by phone: please call 415-456-3915.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/healing-at-the-edge-conscious-living-conscious-dying-presented-by-dale-borglum-phd-1-day-workshop-co-sponsored-2/
LOCATION:Spiritual Life Center at St. Agnes\, 1611 Oak Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Subverting Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) Strategies that Promote Healing and Secure Attachment  - Presented by Vilma Reyes\, PsyD [Seminar]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE \nThis training will deepen the understanding of how interpersonal and collective trauma manifests itself across generations if it’s not interrupted; and how providers can use intergenerational strengths and healing to lift hope and resilience in the family. Presenter will provide a solid foundation based on attachment theory and decades of research on the relational impact of complex trauma in early childhood. She will propose a theoretical frame to help providers conceptualize the common struggles between parents and young children\, and will present strategies informed by the evidence-based intervention\, Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). There will be opportunities to apply these strategies to clinical scenarios. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nIdentify two ways interpersonal and collective trauma impact children’s development and the caregiver-child relationship.\nDescribe two examples of how relational trauma causes ruptures in attachment.\nUnderstand and be able to identify two ways to apply the concepts of Ghosts in the Nursery and Angels in the Nursery in working with families.\nIdentify one way they would use intergenerational strengths in working with families.\nExplain the concept of the CPP Triangle of Explanations and name one example of how to use it in working with families.\nIdentify two ways the strategies learned aim to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of trauma.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 6 hrs   (VIRTUAL) \n9:00 – 10:00 am         \nIntroduction and review of the impact of interpersonal and collective trauma \n10:00 -10:30 am     \nIntergenerational transmission of trauma: Ghosts and Angels in the Nursery \n10:30 – 10:50 am        \n  Break \n10:50 am – 12:00 pm \nIntergenerational transmission of trauma: Ghosts and Angels in the Nursery continued. \n12:00 – 1:00 pm    \nLunch Break \n1:00 – 1:20 pm       \nInterrupting intergenerational transmission of trauma \n1:20 to 2:30 pm    \nReflective practice as a way to prevent vicarious trauma \n2:30 – 2:40 pm   \nBreak \n2:40 to 4:00 pm   \nWrapping up\, questions and discussion \n4:00 pm         \nEnd \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\n\n\nThis course builds on a foundation of attachment theory\, basic early childhood development\, and trauma theory. Content will integrate and deepen these concepts and provide examples of Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) informed interventions to intervene across generations.\nThere is a robust body of literature to support the profound impact of early childhood adversity in one’s physical and mental wellbeing across the lifespan. Learning strategies that can be implemented with caregivers and their children to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of trauma is of utmost relevance to psychological practice.\nThis is an intermediate to advanced level course aimed at licensed mental health professionals.\nCPP is an evidence-based intervention supported by fivr randomized controlled trials and extensive pre-post research over the course of 24 years. The limitations and risks of learning trauma-focused modalities is that it might trigger one’s own unhealed trauma. Trainer will be mindful of this in the selection of the materials and will give participants the choice to regulate as needed. The limitations and risks to CPP-informed interventions\, as with any therapeutic intervention\, is that each person might respond differently. Clinicians have the responsibility to present clients with informed consent about the potential benefits and risks of any intervention.\nThis healing-centered approach acknowledges the strong individual and collective impact of complex trauma—structural inequalities\, racial violence and more—and encourages participants to question systems of oppression that often cause the historical trauma that is transmitted across generations. This course also taps into the collective strength and wisdom within communities to propel us towards equity and healing.\n\n\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$100 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $120 after \nNon-Members:  \n$130 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $150 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/subverting-intergenerational-transmission-of-trauma-child-parent-psychotherapy-cpp-strategies-that-promote-healing-and-secure-attachment-presented-by-vilma-reyes-psyd-seminar/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:What’s Gone Wrong with the American Mind and What We Clinicians Can Do About It  - Presented by Bryant Welch\, JD\, PHD\, ABPP [Class]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE \nOver the last decade the political climate in America has been especially perplexing for therapists and their patients alike. In this workshop\, Dr. Welch\, a highly trained psychotherapist and political advocate for mental health and social justice\, will describe in clinical terms just how and why so many minds are running amok. He will illustrate how minds are overtaxed and what needs to be done to refortify them so they can fill the many demanding tasks of participating in a democracy. \nDr. Welch’s written works on the topic\, based on his personal experience in Washington\, D.C.\, have been extremely prophetic as he has predicted since the early 2000’s the increasing deterioration of Americans’ psychological functioning in the political arena and their increasing vulnerability to authoritarian minds. More specifically\, he explains the psychological vulnerabilities the contemporary mind has to challenge its ability to form a solid reality sense; essential to uphold the demands a democracy place on its citizens. \nHe will show how and why the reality functioning has been undercut by social and political forces\, some of them by design and some not. He will also show how other shifts in the structure of our society are further disrupting our embattled minds. Finally\, drawing on many changes in the mental health community\, he will show how we can begin to reverse these corrosive forces. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \n Upon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nList three impacts current forms of political manipulation have on the American Mind.\nIdentify areas of the mind that are particularly vulnerable to political manipulation.\nList three reasons why political gaslighting has been so much more powerful in contemporary America.\nExplain the vulnerabilities of the mind in key areas in a way that will help attendees’ patients develop an ability to see through and resist the impact of political gaslighting.\nDescribe the relationship between trauma and political confusion.\nExplain three reasons why conspiracy theories and irrational political attitudes are the inevitable result of contemporary political manipulation.\nIdentify how eastern contemplative traditions can be helpful at the present time for strengthening the mind of patients and therapists alike.\n\n  \nCOURSE OUTLINE – 4 Hours \n9:00 to 10:15 am    \nDr. Welch will provide the dynamic model of the mind that has been so traumatized that people are now unable to form their own view of reality. \n10:15 to 11:00 am    \nIn this section\, Dr. Welch will describe what he calls the true battleground states in America; paranoia\, sexual perplexity\, and envy\, and illustrate how they are used to manipulate the mind and cause people to support candidates who do not have their best interest at heart and divide Americans from one another. \n11:00 to 11:15 am \nBreak \n11:15 am to 12:00 noon \nDr. Welch will show how critical professions and institutions that have historically supported the independent functioning of the mind have been themselves undermined and are now largely unable to fulfill their historical roles to help stabilize the American mind in its hour of crisis. \n12:00 noon to 1:00 pm \nDr. Welch will explain why\, despite these assaults on the mind\, there is great hope for the American mind\, especially given the increasing penetration of Eastern contemplative practices. \n  \nCOURSE CURRICULUM  \n\n\n\nThe program shows attendees how to apply the psychological concepts of reality testing\, regression\, paranoia\, envy\, and sexual perplexity to the instability in the American political world.\nThe knowledge participants gain will enhance their clinical work by helping them see that many of the psychological concepts they employ in assessing and treating the human mind in their practices are very powerful explanatory agents for the massive chaos currently confronting the American political realm.\nThe target audience is everyone who is working clinically in the mental health field. The concepts will be explained simply enough so that they will be accessible to participants who are beginners in the field\, as well as those with advanced knowledge.\nThe content is based on many materials and articles that have been peer reviewed and others that have been reviewed by leading legal\, political\, and psychological scholars. None of the content involves risk.\nThe clinical approach presented can be applied to all clients\, independent of cultural and role differences. Most importantly\, however\, it explains at length how primitive racist attitudes\, unconscious homophobic feeling states\, and misogyny have been used to manipulate the mind in the political arena.\n\n\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members:  \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs and Psychologists; Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours’ notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/whats-gone-wrong-with-the-american-mind-and-what-we-clinicians-can-do-about-it-presented-by-bryant-welch-jd-phd-abpp-class/
LOCATION:Embassy Suites San Rafael\, 101 McInnis Pkwy\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytically Informed Assessment of Character Pathology  Presented by Matthew Bennett\, PsyD [Seminar]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE \nThis presentation serves as the introduction to a series of planned seminars on specific personality styles. The seminar will review broadly psychodynamic perspectives on the diagnosis of personality organization and personality disorder.   The emphasis will be diagnosing personality organization as an aid to conducting psychotherapy.  Dr. Bennett will provide an overview of the psychodynamic sensibility in diagnosing personality disorder\, highlighting the clinical usefulness of identifying and describing patterns of handling affect\, defensive styles\, and perceiving interpersonal reality.  This discussion will include rationales for diagnosis (including cautions about the limits of diagnosis) and the importance of assuming certain “stances” in psychotherapy based on personality diagnosis.  Dr. Bennett will also review the traditional tripartite psychoanalytic rubric of organizing personality development into psychotic\, borderline\, and neurotic ranges of organization\, including the clinical implications for each.  The presentation will then include a more in-depth analysis of some of the more prominent personality styles\, including schizoid\, narcissistic\, histrionic\, and depressive styles. As a result\, the presentation will include emphasis on both level of personality organization and type. \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \n\n\n\nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to:\nDemonstrate working knowledge of characteristic defensive styles associated with commonly documented personality organizations\, as evidenced by a case role-play.\nIdentify four key features of psychotic\, characterological / borderline\, and neurotic / normal personality development in therapy populations.\nAnalyze key features of interpersonal behavior in such a way as to develop tentative hypotheses about underlying character organization through a sample case conceptualization.\nCreate a psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy case conceptualization based on identification of defensive styles\, as evidenced by sample case conceptualization practice.\n\n\n\nCOURSE OUTLINE \n8:30 am    \nRegistration \n9:00 am   \nIntroduction of presenter \n9:15 am    \nThe psychodynamic sensibility and underlying assumptions.  Functional vs. Trait based descriptions.  The role of symptoms and goals of treatment. \n10:00 am       \nCriteria for developmental health of the personality: mentalization\, ambivalence\, observing ego\, affect tolerance\, reality testing\, & mature vs. primitive defenses \n10:15-10:30   \nBreak \n10:30 am  \nPsychotic\, Borderline\, and Neurotic Levels of Personality Development \n11:00 am  \nSchizoid personalities \n12:00 pm     \nLunch Break \n1:00 pm    \nNarcissistic personalities \n2:00 pm \nHistrionic Personalities \n3:00 pm   \nDepressive Personalities \n4:00 pm \nEnd of Conference \n  \nCONTENT CURRICULUM \n\n This presentation builds upon key competencies\, skill sets\, and knowledge bases associated with the literature of contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy\, including models of object relations\, mentalization\, self-psychology\, and principles of intersubjectivity. It builds upon graduate-level concepts and elaborates them into applied clinical methodologies directly relevant to psychodynamically informed psychotherapy.\nThis presentation directly informs the clinical praxis of applied psychotherapy. It includes a review of theoretical considerations as well as praxis considerations which directly inform treatment planning\, case conceptualization\, and the boundaries established in psychotherapy.\nThe content of this presentation represents intermediate level application of principles of psychodynamically informed psychotherapy. It presumes basic level knowledge of the assumptions and world-view inherent to several models of psychoanalytic psychotherapy (that is\, basic knowledge the principles of object relations\, self-psychology\, and related concepts).\nThe content of this presentation is comprehensively based in the established literature of contemporary psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy\, especially as it relates to personality theory and self-psychology. The concepts and methodologies described are characteristic of the broadly accepted principles and theoretical frames associated with this well-documented model of psychotherapy.  The inherent limitations of this content include the well-documented difficulties in establishing the empirical evidence of efficacy among competing models of psychotherapy\, which are complicated by competing assumptions about what represents desirable outcomes (e.g.\,behavior change vs. development of psychological capacities which may be difficult to measure).  The risks involved in this presented content include transient discomfort and emotional dislocation involved in addressing basic personality patterns which may be recognized as important parts of the selves of the participants.\nThis presentation will include a discussion of the cultural\, racial\, and gender-based manifestation of personality patterns\, and the way culture acts as a lens to the manifestation of underlying character structure. For example\, the discussion will include analysis of the complex reasons why certain personality traits appear associated with gender\, and the relationship between these observed character traits and the forces of socialization and culture.\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$100 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $120 after \nNon-Members:  \n$130 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $150 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program. \n 
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/psychoanalytically-informed-assessment-of-character-pathology-presented-by-matthew-bennett-psyd-seminar/
LOCATION:Embassy Suites San Rafael\, 101 McInnis Pkwy\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:From Accommodation to Emancipation: Insights from Contemporary Psychoanalysis on Finding Freedom from Traumatic Attachments  - Presented by Jane Rubin\, PhD\, PhD\, PsyD [Study Group] [8 Sessions]
DESCRIPTION:Eight sessions\, the third Friday of the month:\nOct 20\, Nov 17\, Dec 15\, 2023; Jan 19\, Feb 16\, Mar 15\, Apr 19\, May 17\, 2024 \n  \n\nNARRATIVE: \n\nMost patients come into therapy with hope for relief from their traumas\, and with dread that therapy itself will be traumatizing. Anna Ornstein famously referred to this dread as “the dread to repeat” — patients’ anxiety that their therapists will treat them the same way as the traumatizing figures of their past. \nSelf-psychology and intersubjectivity theory have developed an extensive literature about how therapists can recognize the dread to repeat\, and how we can act in ways that\, over time\, both help patients to understand their trauma and its effect on their lives\, and to feel less potentially traumatized by the therapy process itself. \nIn many essays over the course of his career\, the self-psychologist Bernard Brandchaft identified an equally powerful anxiety that therapists often fail to recognize – what he called “the dread not to repeat.” The dread not to repeat is the overwhelming anxiety that accompanies the loosening of emotional ties to traumatizing figures. It is often responsible for situations in which therapy grinds to a halt\, or even seems to be going backwards\, as patients seem to surrender the gains they’ve made and return to the emotional patterns that brought them into treatment in the first place. \nHelping patients overcome these anxieties\, so they can free themselves from the traumatic attachments that are imprisoning them\, requires recognizing when patients are exhibiting the dread to repeat and when they are exhibiting the dread not to repeat\, and adjusting our interventions accordingly. Failure to do this can result in treatments that can feel stuck\, and that become frustrating to both patient and therapist. \nIn this class\, we’ll study the work of Brandchaft\, along with other practitioners of contemporary self-psychology and intersubjectivity theory\, to understand how to recognize the difference between the dread to repeat and the dread not to repeat\, and to work effectively to help patients free themselves from traumatic attachments. \nTopics will include: 1) the difference between the dread to repeat and the dread not to repeat\, and how to work effectively with each; 2) the importance of tracking patients’ affective shifts from enthusiasm to malaise; 3) pathological accommodation\, and how to recognize and work with it; 4) working with depression; 5) working with obsessional disorders. \nThe seminar will include discussion of readings\, followed by case presentations by the participants. The case presentations are intended to help participants effectively translate the ideas of Brandchaft and other writers from theory to practice. Participants should develop greater facility in recognizing\, and helping patients to find relief from\, traumatic attachments. \n  \n2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nExplain the difference between the dread to repeat\, and the dread not to repeat.\nDescribe three different techniques for working with the dread to repeat versus the dread not to repeat.\nDemonstrate three effective ways of tracking affective shifts from enthusiasm to malaise.\nDefine pathological accommodation and explain how it differs from other forms of attachment.\nExplain the difference between trailing edge and forward edge transferences.\nDemonstrate three ways of working with forward edge versus trailing edge transferences.\nExplain three ways of working with depressive disorders from an intersubjective perspective.\nExplain how to work with obsessional disorders from an intersubjective perspective.\n\n  \n3. COURSE OUTLINE – 3 HOURS:  \n12:30-1:15 pm \nInstructor will provide an in-depth analysis of a core concept in intersubjectivity theory. Each class will focus on one of the following concepts: 1) the difference between the dread to repeat and the dread not to repeat; 2) the different techniques for working with the dread to repeat versus the dread not to repeat; 3) effective ways of tracking affective shifts from enthusiasm to malaise; 4) pathological accommodation\, and explain how it differs from other forms of attachment; 5) trailing edge and forward edge transferences; 6) how to work with forward edge versus trailing edge transferences; 7) working with depressive disorders; 8) working with obsessional disorders. \n1:15-2:30 pm \nA participant will present a case and the class will discuss the case with the aim of integrating the theoretical concepts discussed in the first part of the class with actual clinical material. \n  \n4. CONTENT CURRICULUM \n\nStudents in doctoral programs in psychology are usually introduced to basic psychoanalytic and psychodynamic concepts. They rarely receive any exposure to contemporary psychoanalysis and to the many ideas about the treatment process it proposes. This course builds upon students’ doctoral level familiarity with basic psychoanalytic concepts to introduce them to more contemporary ways of thinking and practicing.\nMany clinical psychologists struggle with how to successfully work with patients who seem to regress at a certain point in their therapy. They often come to the conclusion that the therapy has been a failure\, and they blame themselves for this. This content is specifically designed to give therapists more conceptual tools\, and practice in applying them\, so they can recognize when pathological accommodation is keeping patients from making further progress in therapy.\nThe content for this course is intermediate. It assumes that participants have had some postgraduate clinical experience\, and that they have a basic familiarity with psychoanalytic ideas such as transference.\nI don’t believe that there are risks to this material if people understand it well. One of the main objectives of contemporary psychoanalytic practice is not to injure our patients. One of the main objectives of this course is to help therapists work effectively so that their patients are able to achieve their goals without being retraumatized by their therapy. The limitations are that no one should ever rely on one group of theories in their work. There is nothing in contemporary psychoanalysis that precludes the use of CBT\, DBT\, or any other non-psychoanalytic technique when that technique will be useful to the patient.\nThe entire emphasis of contemporary psychoanalysis—and\, especially\, of self-psychology\, intersubjectivity theory\, and specificity theory—is that each patient and therapist brings his or her entire self into the treatment. This includes individual\, cultural\, and role differences. A major focus of this course is understanding how these differences play a role in the treatment\, and how understanding how best to work with them can enrich the therapeutic process.\n\n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members:\n$260 early registration up to 10 weekdays prior to first session\, $280 after \nNon-Members:\n$340 early registration up to 10 weekdays prior to first session\, $360 after \nCEs: 16 CEs for LMFTs & LCSWs and 16 CEs for Psychologists. Certificates issued after completion of 8 sessions. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \nCancellations must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours’ notice. \nAccommodation for Special Needs: Accommodations will be made wherever possible to accommodate those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure that proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/from-accommodation-to-emancipation-insights-from-contemporary-psychoanalysis-on-finding-freedom-from-traumatic-attachments-presented-by-jane-rubin-phd-phd-psyd-study-group-8-sessions/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Study Groups
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SUMMARY:Developments in Interventional Psychiatry: ECT\, TMS\, Psychedelic Medicine and the intersection with psycho-spiritual experience accessed through expanded states of consciousness  - Presented by: Kaila Compton\, MD\, and Eleanor Woodward\, MD [CLASS]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nWe’re in a rich and revolutionary time\, exploring a new landscape of interventions in psychiatry – and new understandings about what leads to psychic relief. Evolving brain science and a resumption of research into the beneficial effects of psychedelics on mental health is leading to new interventions for patients who have not responded to traditional psychiatric medications and therapy. The early research findings signal a paradigm shift in how we understand and treat human suffering and personal growth in all its forms. Many of these treatments have been historically misrepresented\, misunderstood\, or met with healthy skepticism by the medical and psychological communities\, and wariness by patients. As the benefit and mechanism of action in these interventions is better understood and the outcomes are more widely recognized and established through clinical research trials\, their use is becoming more familiar and easily integrated into our armamentarium of approaches to psychological distress and wellness. \nThis seminar is an opportunity to hear from two psychiatrists from our community who are on the cutting edge of providing these treatments. We will explore the history and current research on these new interventions\, and how they give us a different perspective on the treatment of specific mental health conditions\, and on experiences of wholeness\, self-acceptance\, and safety. We’ll consider when to refer patients for treatment\, how to access evidence-based interventions and practitioners\, what the process looks like for patients\, and what benefits and risks to anticipate. We will look at clinical material to reflect on how psychiatric and psychological approaches overlap and inform each other as a patient integrates these experiences\, and the role of psychotherapy as a critical complement. Finally\, we’ll look forward to what the future of psychiatry may offer in years to come\, and how the promise of these treatments may contribute to greater wellness for individuals\, communities\, and even society as a whole. \n  \n2. SOURCE MATERIAL: \nFitzgerald\, P B.\, Daskalakis\, J Z. An Introduction to the Basic Principles of TMS and RTMS. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment for Depressive Disorders\, 2013. \nPinna\, M.\, et al. Clinical and biological predictors of response to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): a review. Neuroscience Letters\, 2018. \nSerafini\, G.\, et al. The Role of Ketamine in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Systematic Review. Current Neuropharmacology\, 2014. \nSial\, O.\, et al. Ketamine: The final frontier or another depressing end? Behavioral Brain Research\, 2020. \n  \n3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: \n\nAttendees will have a greater understanding of the history and current state of Interventional Psychiatry.\nAttendees will be able to identify TMS as a treatment for mental health conditions\, which symptoms are targeted in this intervention\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, and what the risks and benefits are.\nAttendees will be able to identify Ketamine infusion as a treatment for mental health conditions\, which symptoms are targeted in this intervention\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, and what the risks and benefits are.\nAttendees will be able to identify ECT as a treatment for mental health conditions\, which symptoms are targeted in this intervention\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, and what the risks and benefits are.\nAttendees will be able to identify 3 myths and misperceptions about Interventional Psychiatry.\nAttendees will be able to identify 2 mechanisms of change when using psychedelic medicine\, and 3 typical benefits of these interventions.\nAttendees will understand how to access evidence-based interventions and practitioners using Interventional Psychiatry in their community.\n\n  \n4. COURSE OUTLINE – 3 hrs.: \n9:00 – 9:05 a.m. \nCIP staff welcome participants\, review program schedule\, explain. \nCE process. Introduce Drs Compton and Woodward \n9:05 – 9:45 a.m.  \n Introduction to Interventional Psychiatry: \nThe core elements: TMS\, Ketamine\, ECT\, and other interventions. \nThe history of Interventional Psychiatry – myths and misperceptions \nFrom the past to current – recent research as a cause for hope \n9:45 – 10:30 a.m. \nBreaking it down: \nTMS – what is it\, what is happening in the break that provides benefit\, what symptoms does it target\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, risks and contra-indications; how patients access this kind of treatment. \nKetamine – what is it\, what is happening in the break that provides benefit\, what symptoms does it target\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, risks and contra-indications; how patients access this kind of treatment \nECT – what is it\, what is happening in the break that provides benefit\, what symptoms does it target\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, risks and contra-indications; how patients access this kind of treatment \nMDMA – what is it\, what is happening in the break that provides benefit\, what symptoms does it target\, which patients are most likely to benefit\, risks and contra-indications; how patients access this kind of treatment \n10:30 – 10:45 a.m. \nMorning Break \n10:45 – 11:15 a.m.    \nPsychedelic medicine\, expanded states of consciousness\, and psycho-spiritual connections for treatment and for wellness \nQuestions and discussion \n11:15 – 11:55 a.m. \nIntegrating Interventional Psychiatry and Psychotherapy\, as part of treatment and making meaning of the treatment experience \nQuestions and discussion \n11:55 – 12:00 p.m.      \nConclusion. CIP staff thanks presenters\, explains CE process. Attendees complete evaluations. \n  \n5. CRITERION 1.1 to 1.3: \nThis program meets Criterion 1.2\, as it reflects ethical\, professional\, or regulatory developments relevant to the discipline of psychology. \n  \n6. COURSE CURRICULUM \n1) Describe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology. \nThis program offers psychologists and other mental health clinicians a greater understanding of Interventional Psychiatry. This serves psychologists to more effectively collaborate with allied professionals\, and to better serve the needs of clients with difficult-to-treat mental conditions through knowledge of and access to a greater range of treatment interventions. \n2)  Describe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science. \nThe field of Psychiatry continues to develop and reveal novel interventions that research indicates can have a significant impact on the reduction of psychological suffering. The ability of mental health practitioners to provide the highest quality of psychological services is enhanced by understanding the history\, mechanism of action\, benefit\, risk\, and means to refer patients to treatments offered by Interventional Psychiatry. \n3)  Describe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced) \nThis advanced program is targeted to providers of psychological services in private practice or community mental health; to mental health professionals involved in the education\, training\, or supervision of psychological trainees; or leaders of mental health agencies that may provide referrals and recommendations in best practices in care for specific psychiatric conditions. \n4)  Describe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present. What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks? \nThis program will present specific and general guidelines for assessing and referring patients to Interventional Psychiatry\, based on outcome research indicating that these treatments may offer more effective remission of symptoms than traditional psychopharmacologic interventions. The empirical bases of these findings were on hold for many years\, when these treatments were misunderstood or politicized. A resumption of research has led to a wider acceptance of\, and interest in\, novel approaches to psychological suffering and wellness. While many aspects of Interventional Psychiatry are still under investigation\, these treatments rely on policies\, procedures\, and general ethical and clinical guidelines published by the APA. Limitations include a) providing information about all possible benefits and potential risks is beyond the scope of this program\, b) treatment for individual patients requires professional assessment of that individual’s psychiatric and medical appropriateness\, c) treatment protocols are still in development\, and may include titration of dosing or a series of treatments to achieve the best remission of symptoms. \n5) Describe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse populations and how you intend to acknowledge and respect the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences. \nMental health practitioners serve a wide range of diverse clients. Therefore\, the content of this program will specifically address how providers take client diversity into consideration when considering Interventional Psychiatry treatments\, their perceived benefits\, and patient’s trepidation based on historical or cultural experiences of being subjected to novel medical treatment in the service of research. Sensitivity towards and accommodations for multiple areas of diversity will be addressed in this program. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $90 after \nNon-Members:  \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $115 after \nCEs: 3 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours’ notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/developments-in-interventional-psychiatry-ect-tms-psychedelic-medicine-and-the-intersection-with-psycho-spiritual-experience-accessed-through-expanded-states-of-consciousness-presented-by-kaila/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:The Challenge of Extraversion: Staying Engaged with the Other  - Presented by John Beebe\, PhD [SEMINAR]
DESCRIPTION:**This event is zoom only** \nNARRATIVE: \nThe problem of the extravert in therapy is that the patient’s desire to stay engaged with significant Others places a demand for interaction upon the therapist who may be trying to get the patient to step back and reflect. For the therapist\, the paradox that emerges with patients who are skilled at interaction becomes\, how you help the extraverted well-adapted get past their own successes in that regard. This seminar will identify four types of extraverted consciousness that each of us has to some degree. It will discuss how patients preferring an extraverted consciousness may employ it with the expectation that the therapist\, since in a helping profession\, will want to connect also in an extraverted way. The difference between a normal extraverted transference and narcissistic demand will be explored\, and we will discover how even therapist who are primarily introverted can use extraverted consciousness to support clients in engaging with internal objects. \n  \n2. SOURCE MATERIAL \nBeebe\, J. (2012). Psychological Types in Freud and Jung. Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche 6(3)\, 58 – 71. \nBeebe\, J. (2017). Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness. Routledge. \nBeebe\, J. (2017). Foreword to C. G. Jung\, Psychological Types. Routledge Classics\, xvi-xx. \nBeebe\, J. (2015). Demonic Consciousness as a Dynamic of Evil: Jungian Approaches to Understanding Evil. In Humanizing Evil: Psychoanalytic\, Philosophical and Clinical Perspectives. R. Naso & J. Mills\, Eds. Routledge\, 69-88. \nJung\, C. G. (1921/1971). “The Extraverted Type\,” Chapter 10/2\, pp. 333-372 of Psychological Types\, In Collected Works\, volume 6. Princeton University Press. \nShapiro\, K. & Alexander\, I. (1975). The experience of introversion: An integration of phenomenological\, empirical\, and Jungian approaches. Duke University Press. \nVon Franz\, M.L. & Hillman\, J. (1971/1998). Lectures on Jung’s Typology. Spring Publications. \n  \n3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES \nUpon completing this seminar\, participants should be able to: \n\nExplain how introverted and extraverted forms of awareness complement and serve as checks and balances on each other.\nList the eight types of consciousness that Jung distinguished in Psychological Types.\nDescribe the qualitative difference between seeking to identify the meaning of an internal object by comparing it to a pre-existing archetype and engaging\, experiencing\, and enjoying the presence of that object for its own sake.\nIdentify two forms of extraverted consciousness that Jung labeled “irrational” and explain how the label “irrational” in this context is not pejorative.\nDiscuss the difference between healthy extraversion and pathological narcissism.\nList keywords that can be used to identify each of the four extraverted types of consciousness and their uses.\n\n  \n4. SEMINAR COURSE OUTLINE – 6 hrs. \n8:30 am   \nRegistration \n9:00 – 9:10 am  \nIntroduction of presenter \n9:10 – 10:30 am \nContrast the attitudes of introversion and extraversion. \nDefine the four functions of consciousness that can be used in either an extraverted or an introverted way \nDefine eight possible spines of consciousness linking extraversion and introversion. \nDiscriminate between rational and irrational consciousness. \nExplore how extraverted consciousness can engage with the unconscious. \nDifferentiate between extraversion and relatedness. \nDiscriminate between introversion and withdrawal from social interaction. \n10:30 – 10:40 am \nBreak \n10:40 – 11:10 a.m. \nFirst film excerpt and analysis \n11:10 -12:00                      \nSecond film excerpt and analysis \n12:00 – 1:00 pm  \nLunch \n1:00 – 1:15 pm \nQ & A \n1:15 – 1:55 pm \nThird film excerpt and analysis \n1:55 – 2:30 pm \nFourth film excerpt and analysis \n2:30 – 2:40 pm  \nBreak \n2:40 – 3:45 pm \nConsider how the use of an extraverted type of consciousness varies by role. \nDescribe challenges facing four types of extraverted clients. \n Strategize about how to mirror and support such clients. \nExplore the intersection of cultural and psychological diversity in                                                                 creating extraverted patterns of behavior. \n3:45 – 4:00 pm     \nQ&A \n  \n5. CRITERION 1.1 to 1.3 \nThis course meets the Criterion 1.1. \n  \n6. CONTENT CURRICULUM \n1. Describe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology. \nThe subject of personality differences present from birth and how they affect cognitive learning and affect regulation remains a research topic that is in its infancy within most graduate training programs in psychology. Howard Gardner’s work on multiple intelligences is an example of one approach to the subject. This presentation addresses that area of potentially fruitful inquiry. \n2. Describe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science. \nEvery client has the capacity and need to develop their extraverted consciousness—to be engaged and able to identify and merge experientially with others responding to life experiences they do not want to face alone.  Extraverted clients tend to engage in this way almost immediately with their therapists.  Introverted clients also describe the same capacity in themselves when they are in the role of nurturing and mentoring other people.  Both kinds of clients need the therapist to be able to understand and support the client’s extraverted processes and realize that they are not necessarily self-falsifications. \n3. Describe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced). \nThe target audience is psychologists who have had some clinical experience but are not well-trained in the Jungian theory of psychological type as a depth psychology model. \n4. Describe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present.  What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks? \nTo accurately diagnose the innately natural psychological type of a client can be difficult\, but fortunately it is not necessary to do this right away to enable type theory to benefit a client. As we work with clients in psychotherapy\, we merely need to be attentive to what kinds of consciousness the client expresses and what kinds of s/he seems to be much less aware of. Over time\, a pattern of consciousness will emerge\, and the therapist can begin to see the client’s typological strengths and notice which types of consciousness are used defensively or under stress. In working with patients\, it is a mistake to assume too quickly that you know their psychological type\, even in cases where the client reports the result of a type of instrument\, such as the Myers-Briggs Indicator. These indicators can point the way toward a type of diagnosis\, but they certainly do not always give accurate or consistent results. \n5. Describe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse populations and how you intend to acknowledge and respect of the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences. \nThe theory of psychological type is one that recognizes and normalizes psychological diversity. It asserts that different people pay attention using different types of awareness and that all eight of these kinds of consciousness are equally valid and healthy\, though they are not all equally useful in some situation. Like individuals\, cultures and subcultures tend to emphasize and value certain types of consciousness more than others. Thus\, there can be conflicts and misunderstandings. As type theory has developed over the past century\, it has also become clearer that individuals gravitate to different types of consciousness depending on the role they are playing in each moment. Thus\, a person will consistently use one type of consciousness when they need to heroically rise to a challenge and master a situation but will turn to other types of consciousness when they are being parental\, or playful\, or are defending themselves under stress. \nBio \nJohn Beebe is the creator of the eight-function\, eight-archetype model of psychological types. A Jungian analyst and past president of the C.G Jung Institute of San Francisco\, he is the author of Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness and co-editor\, with Ernst Falzeder\, of The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C.G Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan. John has spearheaded a Jungian typological approach to the analysis of film and has written the preface to the recent Routledge Classics edition of Jung’s 1921 book\, Psychological Types. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$100 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $120 after \nNon-Members:  \n$130 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $150 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/the-challenge-of-extraversion-staying-engaged-with-the-other-presented-by-john-beebe-phd-seminar/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:The Lively Language of the Dreaming Mind - Presented by Meredith Sabini\, PhD [CLASS]
DESCRIPTION:NARRATIVE: \nInterested in a fresh perspective on dreams and dreaming? Although dreams can be hard to understand due to their metaphoric and imagistic language\, much can be gleaned using the practical approach this workshop offers. How to obtain dreams on intake\, discern diagnostic and prognostic information from them\, and help clients link dream content to their ongoing issues—these will be our focus. \nUsing the “Anatomy of a Dream” protocol with dreams provided or brought in\, this in vitro workshop offers the unique opportunity to discover that dreams can clarify a client’s resilience\, object relations\, executive functions\, and core conflicts. By taking this workshop\, you will no longer feel stymied when a client asks what a dream “means” OR have to fall back on the standard clinical cliché\, “What do you think/feel?” By focusing your natural curiosity and good observational skills on what’s actually in a dream\, you will be able to formulate relevant questions and make sensitive and sensible comments that link dream content with a client’s situation. Suitable for psychotherapists of any orientation and experience level. \n  \n2. SOURCE MATERIAL \nBolstad\, C. et al. (2021). Factor analysis of disturbing dreams and nightmares. Dreaming\, 31:4\, 329–41. \nEllis\, L. (2019). Common factors leading to a universal approach to dreamwork. Dreaming\, 29:1\, 22–34. \nOlsen\, M. R. (2020). Conscious use of dreams in waking life for decision-making\, problem-solving\, attitude formation\, and behavioral change. Dreaming\, 30:3\, 257–66. \nRimish\, A. et al. (2020). Dreams in anxiety disorders. International Journal of Dream Research\, 13:1\, 1–16. \nSabini\, M. (2013). Dreams: In sickness and in health. Dream Time\, 30:2\, 6–9\, 30. \nSaez-Uribarri\, I.\, Oberst\, U. (2018). Attributes of the dream self related to anxiety upon awakening. International Journal of Dream Research\, 13:1\, 29–30. \nVedfelt\, O. (2020). Integration versus conflict between schools of dream theory and dreamwork. Journal of Analytical Psychology\, 65:1\, 88–115. \n  \nLEARNING OBJECTIVES \nBased on participating in this didactic/experiential workshop\, attendees will be able to: \n\nObtain nightmares\, recurring\, and recent dreams from clients in any clinical setting\nDiscern clients’ resilience\, executive functions\, core conflicts\, and object relations based on specific components in dreams\nElicit relevant associations from clients that help them link dream content to their psychodynamic issues and life context\nShift the focus from “what a dream means” in the abstract to an active and creative engagement with clients\, jointly exploring their dream life.\n\n  \n3. COURSE OUTLINE – 4 HRS \nHour 1 \nGeneral query re sleep patterns \nSegmented sleep: the new normal \nToo few or too many dreams: symptoms? \n3 specific questions re nightmares\, recurring\, and recent dreams \nRe-telling a dream for clarification lets client hear it for the first time \nDoing a dream inquiry to flesh out scenes \nHour 2 \nAnatomy of a Dream basic components: setting\, atmosphere\, theme\, figures\, dreamer’s stance\, resources\, dynamic tension \nElucidating these components for/with the client \nClinical implications/correlations of each component based on empirical research \nTeaching clients to make relevant associations \nWhat qualities might a dream figure represent? \nTitling the emotional/imagistic core of the dream as a narrative \nHour 3 \nLinking dream content to client’s past\, present\, future \n\n\n\nWhat does the opening line suggest about a dream’s topic?\nIs the setting from childhood or adult life?\nA demonstration “unpacking” of a dream using Anatomy protocol\nBreaking into dyads to try out the Anatomy protocol\n\n\n\nHour 4 \nDepending on group size and preferences\, we will do dreamwork in dyads in 15-minute segments\, with presenter listening in and offering suggestions \n  \n4. CRITERION 1.1 to 1.3 \nThis program meets Criterion 1.1. \n  \n5. CONTENT CURRICULUM \n\nDescribe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology.The course teaches clinicians in-depth strategies for working therapeutically with client’s dreams and unconscious.\nDescribe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science.Dreaming is an important gateway to the unconscious\, thus helping clients be curious about their dreams\, their function and possible interpretations is valuable.\nDescribe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced).This class is appropriate for intermediate and advanced licensed clinicians\nDescribe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present. What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks?This presentation focuses on training therapists to work therapeutically with dream material. As in all aspects of clinical work\, care must be taken with any interpretations.\nDescribe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse populations and how you intend to acknowledge and respect of the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences.This class focuses on dream material and is relevant across cultures.\n\nBio \nMeredith Sabini\, PhD (CA lic 7397)\, founder-director of The Dream Institute of Northern California\, in Berkeley\, has been a frequent presenter at CIP. She has publications on dreams related to illness\, women’s issues\, creativity\, spiritual practice\, and ecopsychology. A psychotherapist for the first 20 years of her career\, she has been specializing in dream consultation and training since 1997. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$75 early registration 10 business days prior to class; $90 after \nNon-Members:  \n$100 early registration up to 10 business days prior to class\, $115 after \nCEs: 4 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/the-lively-language-of-the-dreaming-mind-presented-by-meredith-sabini-phd-class/
LOCATION:San Rafael Community Center\, 618 B Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Professional Development
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SUMMARY:The Dynamics of Personality Development: Freud\, Klein\, and Bion Unplugged - Presented by Jennifer Kunst\, PhD [SEMINAR]
DESCRIPTION:**This event will be via zoom only** \nNARRATIVE: \nIn this workshop\, Dr. Jennifer Kunst will provide an in-depth exploration of key concepts of psychoanalysis from the vantage point of the dynamic process of personality development. She will draw from the ideas of Sigmund Freud\, Melanie Klein\, and Wilfred Bion\, applying their ideas to the challenges of modern life as well as clinical practice. Key concepts include various ways of conceptualizing the unconscious\, the life and death instincts\, psychic equilibrium and psychic change\, the Oedipus complex\, the interplay between dependence and independence\, transference\, and the interaction between internal and external worlds. She will utilize clinical case material\, movie clips\, poems\, and stories to bring these concepts to life. Two live role plays will demonstrate how these concepts can be applied to actual clinical psychotherapy practice. \nThe use of a psychoanalytic approach has a longstanding tradition\, beginning with Freud. His pioneering ideas were expanded by Melanie Klein and the rich clinical tradition that evolved from her clinical work with patients who are difficult to reach. This program overviews the historical roots of the Kleinian model as well as current creative thinking and application of her work to a wide variety of patient populations in psychotherapeutic practice. \n  \n2. SOURCE MATERIAL: \nThis program is derived from the following works: \nAbram\, J. and Hinsehelwood\, R. D. (2018). The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott. New York: Routledge.\nAlvarez\, A. (2012). The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children. New York: Routledge.\nBritton\, R. (2003). Sex\, Death and the Super-ego. London: Karnac.\nGarvey\, P. and Long\, K. (2018). The Klein Tradition: Lines of Development\, Evolution of Theory and Practice Over the Decades. New York: Routledge.\nJoseph\, B. (1989). Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: The Papers of Betty Joseph. London: Routledge.\nKunst\, J. (2014). Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out. Las Vegas: Central Recovery Press.\nSpillius\, E. (editor) (1988). Melanie Klein Today: Developments in theory and practice. Volume 1: Mainly Theory AND Volume 2: Mainly Practice. London: Routledge.\nSteiner\, J. (1993). Psychic Retreats. London: Routledge. \n  \n3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n1. Name three models of describing the unconscious;\n2. Identify one purpose and one result of the death instinct;\n3. List two factors that help a person choose psychic change over psychic equilibrium;\n4. Differentiate Freud’s conceptualization of the Oedipus complex from Klein’s conceptualization of the Oedipus complex;\n5. Identify two unconscious obstacles to developing healthy dependence;\n6. Differentiate two ways of understanding the transference;\n7. Name the unconscious mechanism that links the internal world to the external world. \n  \n4. COURSE OUTLINE – 6 hrs: \n8:30 am \nRegistration \n9:00 – 10:00 am \nFrom Mechanistic to Alive: Evolving Models of the Unconscious \n9:00 -10:20 am \nDiscussion\, Q & A \n10:20 -10:30 am \nBreak \n10:30 – 11:30 am \nFriends and Foes of Change: The Life and Death Instincts\, Psychic\nEquilibrium and Psychic Change \n11:30 am to 12:00 \nRole play \n12:00 to 1:00 pm \nLunch \n1:00 to 2:00 pm \nFrom Fear to Love: Revisioning the Oedipus Complex as the Interplay\nBetween Dependence and Independence \n2:00 to 2:10 pm \nBreak \n2:10 to 3:10 pm \nTransference: Why Both the Internal and External Worlds Matter \n3:10 to 3:30 pm \nRole play \n3:30 – 4:00 pm \nQuestions and Answers. Review and completion of the day. \n  \n5. CRITERION 1.1 to 1.3. \nThis program meets Criterion 1.1. \n  \n6. CONTENT CURRICULUM \n1) Describe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology. \nDoctoral programs in psychology focus on short-term\, evidence-based general psychotherapy approaches. This program will offer a psychoanalytic model that has been demonstrated to offer deeper and more lasting psychotherapeutic change. \n2) Describe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science. \nThe content of this program is focused on the psychoanalytic theory and technique of psychotherapy and its application to clinical cases in a wide variety of settings. \n3) Describe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced). \nThe target audience includes practicing mental health clinicians working in individual psychotherapy. It will be accessible to students\, early career clinicians\, and experienced clinicians with basic psychodynamic training. \n4) Describe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present. What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks? \nThere is extensive literature on the theory and clinical practice of psychoanalysis\, including British object relations theory and practice. There is also a growing body of research on the positive long-term outcomes of psychodynamic and psychoanalytic models. The limitations of this approach include the additional training\, time\, and cost needed to implement the model in actual practice. \n5) Describe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse populations and how you intend to acknowledge and respect of the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences. \nPsychoanalytic models do not often address diversity and differences. This workshop is an effort to widen this scope to demonstrate how the psychoanalytic model can be applied productively in a wide range of settings and to diverse clientele in a respectful\, sensitive\, and effective way. \n  \nBio \nDr. Jennifer Kunst is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Pasadena\, CA\, where she works with adults\, adolescents\, couples\, and families. She trained at the Psychoanalytic Center of California\, where she is a Training and Supervising Analyst and teaches courses on Kleinian theory and technique. She is passionate about distilling the complexity of psychoanalysis into ideas that can be applied to everyday life. Her outreach projects include her Psychology Today blog\, “A Headshrinker’s Guide to the Galaxy\,” and her book\, Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out (Central Recovery Press\, 2014).  \n  \n\nCOST:  \nCIP Members: \n$100 early registration 10 business days prior to seminar; $120 after \nNon-Members:  \n$130 early registration up to 10 business days prior to seminar\, $150 after \nCEs: 6 CEs for LMFTs\, LCSWs\, and Psychologists. Participants must attend the full live session and complete the evaluation at the end to receive a CE completion certificate. \nCommunity Institute for Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Community Institute for Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  \nCancellation must be received in writing by email: Full refund if canceled 48 hours prior to the event; $25 cancellation fee if canceled with less than 48 hours notice.  \nAccommodations will be made wherever possible to those with disabilities.  Please let us know of any disabilities upon registration\, to ensure proper accommodations are put in place prior to workshop/training. \nGrievance Procedure: CIP will respond to complaints in a reasonable\, ethical and timely manner\, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Chair of CIP’s Professional Development Committee. \nAnti-Discrimination Policy: CIP shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service\, program or activity based on gender\, race\, creed\, national origin\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age or other prohibited basis. CIP does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. CIP will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice. \n*There is no conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/the-dynamics-of-personality-development-freud-klein-and-bion-unplugged-presented-by-jennifer-kunst-phd-seminar/
LOCATION:Zoom Only\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living\, Conscious Dying  – Presented by Dale Borglum [1 DAY WORKSHOP] [CO-SPONSORED]
DESCRIPTION:One Day – 8 CES\, $175 \nNARRATIVE: \nFor 35 years I have been blessed to be in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing – healing in relationship to death\, healing in relationship to illness\, in relationship to a wounded heart\, to separation from their own self. My consuming interest\, both personally and professionally\, has been the healing process. Why do some people experience wholeness as they approach death\, while others lose themselves in denial\, depression\, distraction? Why is it that some of the most alive and awake Westerners I’ve known have been\, almost without exception\, people near death? Is there some powerful truth about life and about healing that you and I can receive from these few who\, as they went through the process of dying\, deeply realized their own wholeness? \nBringing emotional/spiritual support to someone with a life-threatening illness is a twofold task.  First\, help the client realize they are more than that which will die – the finite self – the body and personality. At the same time\, honor this finite self\, healing its woundedness\, its identification with separateness. Rumi said “Grief is the garden of compassion.” This transmuting separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion is that the heart of the work. Confusion\, anxiety\, depression\, anger are typical responses arising as the end of a life approaches\, both for patients and their families. \nThis presentation will explore possibilities for realizing wholeness at the edge of life where illness\, grief\, and loss arise. Both psychological and spiritual tools will be used in the investigation of these profound and challenging issues. We will offer participants the opportunity to explore the deeper questions surrounding death\, healing\, and the sacred\, so that each of us can better embody an enlivened sense of being in the world in each moment rather than a sense of isolation and denial. \n  \n2. SOURCE MATERIAL: \nThis program is derived from the following works: \nDrawing on over 40 years of clinical experience\, the presenter demonstrates a variety of psychological\, meditative\, and somatic techniques to enable workshop attendees to avoid burnout by recognizing and balancing their internal energetic responses and to help their clients work with fear of death. Longstanding attitudes and techniques from transpersonal psychology are first presented and then explored through experiential exercises. \nDass\, Ram\, Borglum\, Dale\, Goleman\, Daniel\, Bonner\, Dwarka. (1978)\nJourney of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook. New York\, NY: Bantam Books. \nRosa\, William\, Estes\, Tarron\, Watson\, Jean. (2016) Caring science conscious dying: An emerging metaparadigm. Nursing Science Quarterly. \nLee\, Raymond L. M.  (2010) Mortality and Re-enchantment: Conscious dying as individualized spirituality. Journal of Contemporary Religion. \nRosa\, William\, Estes\, Tarron (2016) What end-of-life care needs now. Advances in Nursing Science\, Volume 39\, Number 4\, October/December 2016\, pp. 333-345(13). \nGroebe\, Bernadette\, Strupp\, Julia\, Eisenmann\, Yvonne\, Schmidt\, Holger\, Schlomann\, Anna\, Rietz\, Christian\, Voltz\, Christian (2108). Measuring attitudes towards the dying process: A systematic review of tools. Palliative Medicine. \nF. M. Kamm (2017). The purpose of my death: Death\, dying\, and meaning. Ethics\, Volume 127\, Number 3 | April 2017. \nLind-Kyle\, Patt (2017). Embracing the End of Life. Woodbury\, MN: Llewllyn Publications. \nHolecek\, Andrew (2013). Preparing to Die. Ithaca\, NY: Snow Lion Publications. \n  \n3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\nDescribe the defining characteristics of compassion.\nDistinguish between compassion and pity.\nFully understand the somatic foundation for being able to let go of identification with separateness.\nUnderstand how to transmute the separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion.\nBe familiar with several contemplative practices that will help a client transmute fear of dying into acceptance.\nSkillfully work with one’s own fear of death as it is resonated by the client’s situation.\nEnable one’s client to use the prognosis of a life-threatening illness as an opportunity to become more present and alive.\n\n  \n4. COURSE OUTLINE – 1 Day Workshop – 8 hrs: \n8:45 – 9:00 am \nRegistration \n9:00 – 10:00 am \nOverview of the healing paradigm-motivation\, invocation\, awareness\, grounding\, centering\, compassion\, empowerment\, wholeness. \n 10:00 – 11:00 am \nMotivation for healing. Cultivating awareness of the emotional patterns that cause suffering. Becoming present in one’s body as the foundation for opening the heart of compassion. \n11:00 – 12:30 pm        \nCompassion \n\n\n\n\n\nDefinition of compassion and discussion of its qualities and benefits\n\nConnectedness\, spaciousness and warmth\n\n\nRelationship between compassion and appropriate boundaries\nHow compassion prevents burnout\n“Grief is the garden of compassion\n\nTransforming the separation of grief into the connectedness of compassion\nGrief work – We are all grieving\n\n\nGuided compassion meditation\nGroup exercise exploring compassion\n\n\n\n\n\n12:30 – 1:30 pm          \nLunch \n1:30 – 2:00 pm \nContemplative practices to transmute fear of death\, to cultivate the heart of compassion\, to accept loss of control. \n 2:00 – 3:00 pm           \nEmpowerment \n\n\n\n\n\nDefinition of empowerment\nHow the spacious mind of compassion leads to empowerment\nHow empowerment leads to healing\n\n\n\n\n\n3:00 – 4:00 pm            \nCaregiving \n\n\n\n\n\nCaregiving as psychological/spiritual work on oneself\nCaregiving for the dying\n\nSpecial practices to heal fear of death\n\n\nFear of death\n\nAll fear is fear of death\n\n\nWorking with physical pain\n\nConfusion between pain and fear of pain\nPain meditation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:00 – 5:00 pm            \nWhat is it that dies and what is it that does not die? \nWhat happens when you die? \nHow can the certainty of death yet the uncertainty of the time of our death lead to awakening rather than to fear. \n5:00 – 5:30 pm \nWholeness \n\n\n\n\n\nDefinition of wholeness\nHealing as different from curing\nWholeness or healing as the goal of all practice\nHealing guided meditation\n\n\n\n\n\n 5:30 – 6:00 pm           \nComplete evaluations and closing \n  \n5. CRITERION 1.1 to 1.3. \n1.1 Program content focuses on application of psychological assessment and/or intervention methods that have overall consistent and credible empirical support in the contemporary peer reviewed scientific literature beyond those publications and other types of communications devoted primarily to the promotion of the approach. \n  \n 6. CONTENT CURRICULUM \n1)  Describe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology. \nThis program will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology by exploring the transpersonal\, the meditative\, and the spiritual components necessary for conscious death. We will explore how identification with ego structure and fear of death are intimately connected. \n2)  Describe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science. \nThe aim of psychological practice traditionally is to create a healthier\, efficiently functioning mind and particularly a healthy ego structure. In the potentially profoundly transformative time at the end of life\, healing and understanding that transcend egoic concern are often more available than at any other time in a person’s life. The appreciation of this possibility is of central importance to those supporting clients who might be approaching death. \n3)  Describe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced). \nThe target audience is clinical social workers\, marriage and family therapists\, psychologists and nurses working with patients confronting a life-threatening illness\, their loved ones\, and those grieving. Instruction summarizes introductory and intermediate foundational concepts which then leads to advance content for the majority of the workshop. \n4)  Describe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present.  What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks? \nThe materials presented during this workshop have been developed and utilized during 40 years of working directly with thousands of dying clients\, their families and their caregivers. As well\, these materials have been presented during trainings at hundreds of hospitals and hospices throughout North America. The efficacy of this content is limited by the willingness of the client to explore the possibility of deep transformation during a time of great crisis. The effects of opioid analgesic medication and also bodily symptoms that often accompany the end stages of terminal illness both can limit the transformative power of the materials presented. The only risk that has been encountered is that occasionally when a client is consciously working with her fear of death\, long repressed difficult emotions can burst forth in her physically weakened condition requiring great sensitivity on the part of the practitioner. \n5) Describe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse populations and how you intend to acknowledge and respect of the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences. \nDr. Borglum spent years as a group facilitator at San Quentin Penitentiary and as an AIDS/HIV counsellor at High General Hospital in Oakland. At both of these facilities there was a wide range of race\, sexual orientation\, and socioeconomic backgrounds represented. When supporting a client who is confronting a life-threatening illness\, conditioned emotional patterns inherent in different backgrounds and orientations often mask the deeper underlying fear of death. Cultivating deeper awareness and compassion through the lecture and experiential materials presented during this workshop will enable participants to distinguish between cultural\, individual\, and role differences on the one hand\, and\, on the other\, inherent fear of death. \n  \nBIO: \nDale Borglum\, PhD\, founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and\, since 1986\, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass\, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook. Dale gives workshops on the topics of meditation\, healing\, and spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness\, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nOne Day – 8 CES\, $175 \nYou may register online by visiting www.livingdying.org\, and clicking on Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living/Conscious Dying. You may also send a check or money order to Living/Dying Project at P.O. Box 357\, Fairfax\, CA 94978. With your payment\, please include your email address and if you wish C.E.’s includes license number and degree. You may also register by phone: please call 415-456-3915.
URL:https://cipmarin.org/event/healing-at-the-edge-conscious-living-conscious-dying-presented-by-dale-borglum-1-day-workshop-co-sponsored-2/
LOCATION:https://cipmarin.org/event/healing-at-the-edge-conscious-living-conscious-dying-presented-by-dale-borglum-1-day-workshop-co-sponsored-2/
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SUMMARY:Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living\, Conscious Dying – Presented by Dale Borglum\, PhD [2 DAY WORKSHOP] [CO-SPONSORED]
DESCRIPTION:Two Day Event (February 25th and February 26th)  – 15 CES\, $290 \nNARRATIVE: \nFor thirty-five years I have been blessed to be in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing – healing in a relationship to death\, healing in relationship to illness\, in relationship to a wounded heart\, to separation from their own self. My consuming interest\, both personally and professionally\, has been the healing process. Why do some people experience wholeness as they approach death while others lose themselves in denial\, depression\, distraction? Why is it that some of the most alive and awake Westerners I’ve known have been\, almost without exception\, people near death? Is there some powerful truth about life and about healing that you and I can receive from these few who\, as they went through the process of dying\, deeply realized their own wholeness? \nBringing emotional/spiritual support to someone with a life-threatening illness is a twofold task. First\, help the client realize they are more than that which will die – the finite self – the body and personality. At the same time\, honor this finite self\, healing it’s woundedness\, it’s identification with separateness. Rumi said\, “Grief is the garden of compassion.” This transmuting separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion is the heart of the work. Confusion\, anxiety\, depression\, anger are typical responses arising as the end of a life approaches\, both for the patient and for their family. \nThis presentation will explore possibilities for realizing wholeness at the edge of life where illness\, grief and loss arise. Both psychological and spiritual tools will be used in the investigation of these profound and challenging issues. We will offer participants the opportunity to explore the deeper questions surrounding death\, healing and the sacred\, so that each of us can better embody an enlivened sense of being in the world each moment rather than a sense of isolation and denial. \n  \n2. SOURCE MATERIAL: \nThis program is derived from the following works: \nDrawing on over 40 years of clinical experience\, the presenter demonstrates a variety of psychological\, meditative\, and somatic techniques to enable workshop attendees to avoid burnout by recognizing and balancing their internal energetic responses and to help their clients work with fear of death. Longstanding attitudes and techniques from transpersonal psychology are first presented and then explored through experiential exercises. \nDass\, Ram PhD\, Borglum\, Dale PhD\, Goleman\, Daniel\, PhD\, Bonner\, Dwarka (1978)\nJourney of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook\nBantam Books \nWilliam Rosa\, RN; MS\, Tarron Estes\, BA\, Jean Watson\, RN; PhD; FAAN (2016)\nCaring Science Conscious Dying: An Emerging Metaparadigm\nNursing Science Quarterly \nRaymond L. M. Lee (2010)\nMortality and Re-enchantment: Conscious Dying as Individualized Spirituality\nJournal of Contemporary Religion \nRosa\, William; Estes\, Tarron (2016)\nWhat End-of-Life Care Needs Now\nAdvances in Nursing Science\, Volume 39\, Number 4\, October/December 2016\, pp. 333-345(13) \nBernadette Groebe\, Julia Strupp\, Yvonne Eisenmann\, Holger Schmidt\, Anna Schlomann\, Christian Rietz\, Raymond Voltz (2108)\nMeasuring attitudes towards the dying process: A systematic review of tools\nPalliative Medicine \nM. Kamm (2017)\nThe Purpose of My Death: Death\, Dying\, and Meaning\nEthics\, Volume 127\, Number 3 | April 2017 \nLind-Kyle\, Patt (2017)\nEmbracing the End of Life\nLlewllyn Publications \nHolecek\, Andrew (2013)\nPreparing to Die\nSnow Lion Publications \n  \n3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: \nUpon completion of this workshop\, participants should be able to: \n\n\n\nDescribe the defining characteristics of compassion.\nDistinguish between compassion and pity.\nFully understand the somatic foundation for being able to let go of identification with separateness.\nUnderstand how to transmute the separateness of grief into the connectedness of compassion.\nBe familiar with several contemplative practices that will help a client transmute fear of dying into acceptance.\nSkillfully work with one’s own fear of death as it is resonated by the client’s situation.\nEnable one’s client to use the prognosis of a life-threatening illness as an opportunity to become more present and alive.\n\n\n\n  \n4. COURSE OUTLINE -TWO DAY WORKSHOP – 15 hrs. \nSchedule for Day One \n8:45 – 9:00 \nRegistration \n9:00 – 10:00 \nOverview of the healing paradigm: motivation\, invocation\, awareness\, grounding\, centering\, compassion\, empowerment\, wholeness. \n10:00 – 11:00 \nIntroduction of participants as an awareness exercise \n11:00 – 12:00 \nMotivation for healing. \nCultivating awareness of the emotional patterns which cause suffering. \nBecoming present in one’s body as the foundation for opening the heart of compassion. \n12:00 – 12:30 \nGrounding and centering experiential exercises. \n12:30 – 1:30 \nLunch \n1:30 – 3:00 \nCompassion \n\n\n\n\n\nDefinition of compassion and discussion of its qualities and benefits\n\nConnectedness\, spaciousness and warmth\n\n\nRelationship between compassion and appropriate boundaries\nHow compassion prevents burnout\n\n\n\n\n\n3:00 – 4:00 \nGrief is the garden of compassion \n\n\n\n\n\nTransforming the separation of grief into the connectedness of compassion\nConscious grief work – We are all grieving\n\n\n\n\n\n4:00 – 5:00 \nGuided compassion meditation \n\n\n\n\n\nGroup exercise exploring compassion\n\n\n\n\n\n5:00 – 5:30 \nEmpowerment \n\n\n\n\n\nDefinition of empowerment\nHow the spacious mind of compassion leads to empowerment\nHow empowerment leads to healing\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule for Day Two \n9:00 – 10:00 \nGuided meditation. Review of the healing paradigm. Q & A. \n10:00 – 11:00 \nCaregiving \n\n\n\n\n\nCaregiving as psychological/spiritual work on oneself\nCaregiving for the dying\n\nSpecial practices to help heal fear of death\n\n\nFear of death – All fear is fear of death.\n\n\n\n\n\n11:00 – 12:00 \nWorking with physical pain \n\n\n\n\n\nConfusion between pain and fear of pain\nPain meditation\n\n\n\n\n\n12:00 – 12:30 \nForgiveness \n12:30 – 1:30 \nLunch \n1:30 – 3:00 \nContemplative and experiential practices to transmute fear of death\, to cultivate the heart of compassion\, to accept loss of control. \n3:00 – 4:00 \nWhat is it that dies and what is it that does not die?\nWhat happens when you die?\nHow can the certainty of death yet the uncertainty of the time of our death lead to awakening rather than to fear? \n4:00 – 4:30 \nDiscussion of suicide and the right to die \n4:30 – 5:00 \nWholeness \n\n\n\n\n\nDefinition of Wholeness\nHealing as different from curing\nWholeness or healing as the goal of all practice\nHealing guided meditation\n\n\n\n\n\n5:00 – 5:30 \nClosing and evaluation \n5. CRITERION 1.1 to 1.3 \nThe design of this program satisfies criterion 1.2 \n  \n6. CONTENT CURRICULUM \n1)  Describe how your program content will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology. \n2)  Describe how your content is specifically relevant to psychological practice\, education\, or science. \n3)  Describe your target audience and the instructional level of your content (introductory\, intermediate\, or advanced). \n4)  Describe the accuracy\, utility\, and the empirical basis of the materials that you will present.  What are the limitations of the content being taught and their most common risks? \n5) Describe how your content reflects the appreciation of a diverse population and how you intend to acknowledge and respect of the richness of cultural\, individual and role differences. \n************************ \n1) This program will build upon the foundation of a completed doctoral program in psychology by exploring the transpersonal\, the meditative\, and the spiritual components necessary for conscious death. We will explore how identification with ego structure and fear of death are intimately connected. \n2) The aim of psychological practice traditionally is to create a more healthy\, efficiently functioning mind and particularly a healthy ego structure. In the potentially profoundly transformative time at the end of life\, healing and understanding that transcend egoic concern are often more available than at any other time in a person’s life. The appreciation of this possibility is of central importance to those supporting clients who might be approaching death. \n3) The target audience is clinical social workers\, marriage and family therapists\, psychologists and nurses were working with patients confronting a life-threatening illness\, their loved ones\, and those grieving. Instruction summarizes introductory and intermediate foundational concepts which then leads to advanced content for the majority of the workshop. \n4) The materials presented during this workshop have been developed and utilized during 40 years of working directly with thousands of dying clients\, their families and their caregivers. As well these materials had been presented during trainings at hundreds of hospitals and hospices throughout North America. The efficacy of this content is limited by the willingness of the client to explore the possibility of deep transformation during a time of great crisis. The effects of opioid analgesic medication and also bodily symptoms that often accompany the end stages of terminal illness both can limit the transformative power of the materials presented. The only risk that has been encountered is that occasionally when a client is consciously working with her fear of death\, long repressed difficult emotions can burst forth in her physically weakened condition requiring great sensitivity on the part of the practitioner. \n5) Dr. Borglum spent years as a group facilitator at San Quentin Penitentiary and as an AIDS/HIV counselor at High General Hospital in Oakland. At both of these facilities there was a wide range of race\, sexual orientation\, and socioeconomic backgrounds represented. When supporting a client who is confronting a life-threatening illness\, conditioned emotional patterns inherent in different backgrounds and orientations often mask the deeper underlying fear of death. Cultivating deeper awareness and compassion through the lecture and experiential materials presented during this workshop will enable the participant to distinguish between cultural\, individual\, and role differences on the one hand\, and\, on the other\, inherent fear of death. \n  \nBIO: \nDale Borglum\, PhD\, founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and\, since 1986\, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-author with Ram Dass\, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook. Dale gives workshops on the topics of meditation\, healing\, and spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness\, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. \n  \n\nCOST:  \nTwo Day Event (February 25th and February 26th) – 15 CES\, $290 \nYou may register online by visiting www.livingdying.org\, and clicking on Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living/Conscious Dying. You may also send a check or money order to Living/Dying Project at P.O. Box 357\, Fairfax\, CA 94978. With your payment please include your email address and if you wish C.E.’s include license number and degree.You may also register by phone: please call 415-456-3915.
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