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Gabor Maté Compassionate Inquiry Master Class: A powerful approach for healing anxiety, addictions, ADHD, and more

Program Information

Objectives

Determine how to help clients access core emotional states through body-based awareness.
Employ a technique to help clients develop new and healthier ways of relating to their intrapsychic experiences.
Differentiate how to uncover early traumatic events of childhood and unconscious feeling states.
Devise how to cultivate deeper therapeutic presence by bringing awareness to unconscious patterns and processes that are exacerbating client symptoms.
Measure the impacts of childhood trauma on psychological functioning and well-being in adulthood.
Demonstrate how to keep clients engaged in present-moment experiences using a mind-body framework.

Outline

SESSION 1: An Introduction to Compassionate Inquiry with Gabor Mate
In this session, the founder of Compassionate Inquiry, Gabor Mate joins Rich Simon to share how his approach differs from other forms of psychotherapy and the core components that guide his work with every client he sees, as well as an overview of the kind of work you’ll watch Gabor doing in the coming sessions.

SESSION 2: “I Just Can’t Stop”: Using Compassionate Inquiry to Go Beyond Addictive Behaviors
In this session, we meet Elizabeth who has a long history of addiction, 21 detox centers and 5 treatment centers and continues to relapse. Watch as Gabor helps her see herself in a new way using the core principles of Compassionate Inquiry.

SESSION 3: “I Need to Protect Myself”: Using Compassionate Inquiry in Abusive Relationships
In this session, we meet Joanne who feels guilty for pushing her brother away because of behaviors caused by his addiction. She struggles with how to have a relationship with him and at the same time protect herself without feeling guilty. See how Gabor gently guides her to re-frame this problem and help resolve it in this one session.

SESSION 4: “Why is This Doing This to Me?”: Uncovering the Source of Anxiety and Panic with Compassionate Inquiry
In this session, Gabor works with Eleni who experiences intense anxiety, derealization, and panic attacks following a complicated medical condition. Even though that condition is now resolved, it deeply affected her sense of who she is. She feels vulnerable and scared now, and Gabor helps her identify the source of her anxiety and ways to begin to resolve it in this short session.

SESSION 5: “It’s OK to Tune Out”: The Secret Language of ADHD in Compassionate Inquiry
In this session, Gabor works with Renee who comes to him with a lifelong struggle with ADHD and the guilt and shame that often go along with it feeling like she is constantly tuning out and missing things. This is a condition Gabor works with often and has written about – see here as he gets creative and takes a completely different approach to helping her overcome ADHD and self-judgment using Compassionate Inquiry.

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 01/31/2020

Psychedelics in Modern Healing

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Objectives

Appraise the differences among various psychedelic substances and their potential uses in a therapeutic setting.
Investigate the process of introducing and preparing for a psychedelic-based session with clients.
Assess how to integrate what has been experienced and learned in a psychedelic journey after the session.

Outline

Four Concepts of Therapeutic Psychedelic Use

Set & Setting
- Most Important Determinants: Set & Setting
- 1960’s Push for Psychedelics in Treating Mental Health Issues
Integration of Experience into One’s Life
- Psychedelic Experiences Are Not Transformative of Themselves
- Transformation Comes with Integration
Expectations vs. Experience
- Expectations Get in the Way of Experience
- Exploring What the Experience Was About
Attitude of Curiosity

Psychedelics & Pain

Belief that One Cannot Handle Pain
Embracing Your Ability to Handle Pain
Feeling in a Safe, Held Context
Connecting with Oneself

1960’s Cultural Phenomenon & Psychedelics

Vietnam War, Racism, “Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30”
Young Adult Use of Psychedelics Leads to “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” Situation
Repression of Psychedelic Research

Creation of Retreats

Focusing on Setting & Integration
Increasing Self-Awareness & Self-Processing
Creating Shared Community

Psychedelic Drugs

Ayahuasca
Ketamine
MDMA
Psilocybin
Psychedelics: The Royal Road to the Unconscious

Q&A; Introduction to Andrew Tatarski (Center for Optimal Living)

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/23/2019

The Myth of Normal in an Insane Culture

Program Information

Objectives

Evaluate the current model of behaviorally focused parenting by highlighting how the failure to promote attachment results in an interference of the development of children's brains.
Investigate how the impact of early childhood adaptability impacts adulthood, leading to adults with greater mental health, medical, and substance abuse problems.
Defend the importance of having a trauma-informed understanding when treating clients and the ability to recognize that trauma underlies many of the problems clients present with in psychotherapy and medical treatment.
Appraise how physical and mental illness are natural outcomes of a way of life inimical to genuine human needs, and the ways in which treatment must go beyond a focus on symptoms to address the causes of dysfunction from a bio-psycho-social perspective.

Outline

Limitations of the Medical Model

Societal Increase of Drug Overdose, Diseases, Mental Health Issues
Mind & Body as Separate
Individuals as Separate from One Another
Individuals as Separate from Environment
Medical Model=Individual Biology
Addictions as Personal Choices or Genetic Pre-Disposition

Interpersonal Biology

Biopsychosocial Model
The Societal Epidemic of Loneliness
A Society that Engenders Isolation & Loneliness
Human Needs & Stressors

Societal Denial of Human Needs

Behavioral-Focused Parenting
Failure to Meet Attachment Needs

Brain Development

Impact of Environment on Brain Development
Impact of Early Childhood Adaptations on Adulthood
Quality of Parental Interaction on Psychological & Brain Development

Trauma

Recognizing Childhood Trauma
Trauma-Informed Care

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals