Discover new ways to address the larger issues of purpose and meaning that often lie at the edge of the therapeutic conversation by incorporating rituals that invoke life’s larger mysteries. One of the field’s most respected Buddhist practitioners will discuss how to: 

• Use rituals to enhance the experience of safety, communion, and soulfulness in therapy
• Introducing grounding and cleansing practices as well as a variety of spiritual traditions to deepen the impact of trauma treatment 
• Bring poetry, myths and storytelling into the therapeutic conversation
• Address issues of morality and virtue issues in the treatment room 

Objectives

1. Discover how to make your therapy office a sacred space using decoration
2. Use the power of ritual to get conversation with clients on a deeper level
3. Identify two exercises to help clients promote mindful healing outside the therapy room
4. Explain the difference between teaching therapy and teaching morality and virtue
5. Dissect the relationship between Western mindfulness therapy and Eastern mindfulness traditions

Outline

• Overview of a sacred space
  • Introducing a sacred space into the medical field
  • Reducing “road noise” in your sacred space
• Experiencing sacred space
  • Using a ritual to create a sacred space
  • Explore the meanings of ritual
• Wrapping up with Jack Kornfield
  • Gateways to other life dimensions
• “The Wise Heart” and additional trainings