Upcoming Classes and Workshops
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Vaporize Your Anxiety
Saturday, September 24, 2011 • 10am-5pm • Cost $150 • CEUs available
The Center for Intentional Living is excited to offer this one day seminar designed by Great Life Technologies and presented by Charlie Verge Ph.D. on dissolving stress and anxiety in your life. During this seminar you will learn cutting edge technology that trains individuals how to quickly resolve their symptoms of stress and anxiety without drugs or long term therapy. These techniques are founded on the innovative work of Tom Stone and are relatively new to the field, yet offer powerful new methods of restoring calm and peace to your life. This Seminar requires no background in therapy or counseling of any kind. Join us and discover this remarkable new approach to the challenges of stress and anxiety in your life.
In this Seminar you will learn:
- Four stress resolution techniques so you can continue to resolve stressful situations in your life.
- How to live without anxiety which results in loss of sleep, feelings of worry, and fear of the future.
- How to become emotionally self-sufficient and handle outside circumstances without the fear of overwhelm.
- How to live a life of ease and energy instead of struggle, tension, and fear.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn powerful new methods of resolving the problems of anxiety and stress in our life.
A Taste of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (With Paula Zerfoss)
Saturday, October 1, 2011 • 10:00am-4:30pm • Cost $95 • CEUs available
Come and enjoy learning about Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, the newest empirically-tested method of doing couple therapy. This workshop will give you a good taste for the basics of EFT. If you would like to learn the basic underpinnings and techniques of EFT to see whether you can combine these with the good therapy you already practice, then this workshop is for you.
This workshop will give you the basic theoretical foundations of EFT along with a basic outline of the 9 Steps and 3 Stages that make EFT so unique and effective even with seemingly intractable, high-conflict couples. Originally developed by Dr. Susan Johnson, EFT has gained an international following based upon its effectiveness and its ability to prevent recidivism to distress when the program is completed. There will be role plays and video clips to enhance your understanding of the method which has been called “highly effective, with 70-73% of couples reaching recovery” by The New York Times (April, 2005).
We will look at the application of Bowlby’s theory of Attachment as it applies to adult intimate relationships as well as the distinct contributions that Experiential methods and Systems theory have played in the development of EFT. We will also try to explore (given time) whether and how well EFT blends with other modalities.
Paula Zerfoss, MSW, LCSW, AAMFT, has been practicing EFT since 2005. She has presented and assisted EFT trainings all over North America. She currently sees couples and supervises other EFT practitioners in Jamaica Plain, MA.
This workshop is full. Please consider our next upcoming workshop, "Working with Affairs."
Program in Couple Therapy: The Art of Facilitating Intimacy
With Charlie Verge, Ph.D.
20 Thursday mornings, beginning October 6, 2011 • 10am-12pm • Cost $800, plus a $25 non-refundable application fee
** The $25 non-refundable application fee registers you for an informational interview to be held in August or September (dates TBD).
This interactive training program focuses on the successful development of skills for facilitating growth and change with couples in therapy. Drawing on all major approaches to couple work, including psychodynamic, psychodramatic, systemic, strategic, narrative, emotionally focused, attachment theory, Gestalt, internal family systems, communication theories, and psycho-spiritual methods, the course results in an increased repertoire of effective interventions. Participants will learn ways to create safe and successful conversations; practice intervention strategies that reduce reactivity and heal relational wounds; and build more confidence and freedom of expression in helping couples achieve new levels of communication and intimacy. The course emphasizes specific facilitation techniques, with special attention paid to the therapeutic relationship in triangles; developing expansive language and tone; conversation of intimacy; compassionate confrontation: creating contexts for enhanced intimacy, love, and partnering; and establishing safe space and effective pacing. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the movement of language, emotion, and behavior in clinical settings through role plays, exercises, video analysis, and live work. A wide range of issues will be addressed, including diversity, addictions, affairs, sexuality, power and control, divorce, illness, and death. The program is suitable for therapists in the public sector and those in private practice.
Program Dates:
October 6, 13, 20, 27
November 3, 10, 17
December 1, 8, 15, 22
January 5, 12, 19, 26
February 2, 9, 23
March 1, 8
*March 15 (snow day make-up session)
Working with Affairs: Helping Couples Heal
Saturday, November 5, 2011 • 10am-4pm • Cost $85 • 5 CEUs available
This day long workshop presents a proven stage specific model for helping couples work through and heal from the pain of discovering an affair: Healing the trauma, discovering the dynamics, creating the context for betrayal, and building a new and fulfilling relationship post that affair. A series of interventions and communication processes specific to each stage of recovery is taught and demonstrated. Examples from actual cases are reported and ample time is allotted for participants to ask questions specific to their work. Cases with a variety of types of affairs and stages of awareness of the secret, and strategies for working with all of them are covered. The working intention in this model is that not only can couples heal from an affair, but can also develop a stronger and more loving relationship than ever before. Couple therapists equipped with the strategies presented in this workshop can greatly facilitate their growth toward that goal.
This workshop is now full. Registration is closed.
Core Dynamics Training For Professionals
With Tom Stone, author of The Power of How and Vaporize Your Anxiety, and founder of this new model, and Charlie Verge Ph.D. Director of CIL and former Director, Couple Therapy Training, Family Institute of Cambridge
Saturday: November 12, 2011 10:00 - 6:00 • Sunday: November 13, 2011 10:00 - 5:00 • 13 CEU's For NASW, LMFT, LMHC • Cost $299
Come learn this revolutionary new approach to understanding the 12 underlying core dynamics of human conditioning and the 8 Pure Awareness techniques that rapidly dissolve them. This experiential intensive training led by Tom Stone and Charlie Verge provides new insights and personal development techniques to come out of the grip of old patterns and conditioning that unleash your potential for greater freedom and clarity. Clinicians will be trained in powerful methods that assist clients in making major breakthroughs in the work of therapy with surprising ease. Therapists, coaches, counselors, clergy, and all practitioners who work with individuals, couples, families, or groups will benefit enormously from this training that integrates easily within any other methodology. This is a rare opportunity to train with the innovator of this cutting edge approach. Don't miss this training.
Core Dynamics Training
CANCELED FOR THIS DATE: TO BE RESCHEDULED
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