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Digital Seminar

Advanced Mindfulness in the Counseling Process


Average Rating:
   7
Faculty:
Terry Fralich, LCPC
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Nov 18, 2015
Product Code:
POS048735
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

  • Create an effective therapeutic presence
  • Accelerate changes in the brain and improve client outcomes
  • Teach mindfulness to clients and motivate them to practice mindfulness outside of session

This is not your ordinary mindfulness seminar.

If you are frustrated with treatment outcomes using mindfulness in clinical work, chances are you are missing two core elements that research shows are essential to good therapy and treatment success.

Most mindfulness seminars provide you with a basic understanding of the “what and the why” of meditation. You likely leave feeling frustrated, trying to make connections to mindfulness and improve therapeutic outcomes.

This workshop will give you the tools that will improve two key areas:

  • Master therapeutic presence
  • Create brain-change in your clients

An overwhelming amount of research suggests that therapist presence is one of the most important factors for change. Many therapists believe they are either skilled at presence or they are not. WRONG!

In this seminar you will learn and practice a technique called Sky-Like Mind that will enable you to be more settled, open and focused with clients. This practice is guaranteed to improve the stability of your presence, thereby creating stronger connections with your clients and improving outcomes.

OUTLINE

The Elements of Therapeutic Presence

  • Presence
  • Attunement
  • Resonance
  • Trust
  • Energy and attitude

Using Mindfulness Skills to Strengthen Therapeutic Presence

  • Practice stabilizing the mind: The foundation of focus
  • Practice self-regulation: The foundation of settled-ness
  • Practice spaciousness: The foundation of openness

The Benefits of Strengthening Therapeutic Presence

  • Accelerated process of the client feeling seen, soothed, safe and secure
  • Increased credibility
  • Strengthened foundation for motivating the client
  • Greater ease in doing counseling

Exercise: The Practice of Cultivating a Relaxed, Open and Stable Presence: Sky-Like Mind

  • Discussion: The ease of letting counseling flow through you

Teaching Mindfulness to Clients: What Are We Actually Doing

  • The Mindfulness Growth Model
  • The Five Core Skills of Mindfulness
    • Setting and reaffirming intention
    • Cultivating a witnessing awareness
    • Stabilizing attention
    • Strengthening self-regulation
    • Practicing loving-kindness

Motivating Clients to Practice Mindfulness

  • The placebo effect: Generating hope for the client
  • The assurances from neuroscience: mindfulness and neuroplasticity
  • Techniques for client practice
  • Mindful transitions
  • The Circle of Liberation
  • The Stop-Breathe-Reflect-Choose practice
  • Self-regulations exercises

Mindfulness and Burnout

  • Assessing your potential for burnout
    • Exhaustion
    • A sense of inefficacy
    • Cynicism
  • Sitting with the suffering of others
  • How burnout can lead to ethical violations
  • Using mindfulness skills to avoid burnout
  • Mindful Transitions
  • Effective re-generation: The benefits of Sky-Like Mind
  • The Witness and awareness of your inner landscape
  • Mindfulness and the essential nature of self-care

Exercise: Cultivating an Inner Refuge

Closing Discussion: Integrating Mindfulness Practice into Your Personal and Professional Lives

OBJECTIVES

  1. Explain the elements of therapeutic presence and their impact on client outcomes.
  2. Define the relationship between mindfulness and effectiveness with clients.
  3. Implement mindfulness practice that cultivates a relaxed, open, focused and non-judgmental presence with clients.
  4. Improve teaching of mindfulness skills to clients.
  5. Increase effectiveness of motivating clients to practice mindfulness for healthy change.
  6. Understand the basic components and risks of burnout.
  7. Use mindfulness practice to strengthen ease in doing counseling and avoiding burnout.
  8. Develop strategies for the integration of mindfulness practices in personal and professional aspects of your life.

 

ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.

 

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


Counselors

This intermediate self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Texas Counselors

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors. Provider #: 2477. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists

This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. Provider # 503. This self-study package qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this self-study activity qualifies for 6.0 credits.


Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

NAADAC

This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6.0 CE in the Counseling Services skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.


California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CCAPP-EI)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: OS-03-036-1025. This activity meets the qualifications for 6.0 CEH's (continuing education hours).


Connecticut Addiction Counselors

Provider #120924. This course has been approved as a CCB approved training and has been awarded 6.25 hours by the Connecticut Certification Board.


Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of  Registered Nursing, Provider #: 17118 for 6.0 self-study contact hours. 

** You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

CE Broker


Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 7.6 self-study contact hours. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.



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Faculty

Terry Fralich, LCPC's Profile

Terry Fralich, LCPC Related seminars and products

Mindfulness Center of Southern Maine


Terry Fralich, LCPC, is a co-founder of the Mindfulness Retreat Center of Maine and former Adjunct Faculty Member of the University of Southern Maine Graduate School. He has led more than 400 seminars, trainings and retreats at the Center, at Omega Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, both nationally and internationally. His expertise consists of mindfulness, neuroscience, CBT, brain change, emotional intelligence, stress reduction, meditation and the treatment of anxiety and depression. He has been teaching transformative mindfulness skills and practices for 20 years and has pursued his own practice of mindfulness and meditation for 40 years.

Terry studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama for 25 years and with some of the American pioneers of mindfulness, including Jon Kabat-Zinn and John Welwood. His first book, Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide to Mindfulness, was cited as one of “the 12 essential books on mindfulness.” His second book, The Five Core Skills of Mindfulness: A Direct Path to More Confidence, Joy and Love, presents his clear and unique approach to mindfulness practice as a powerful force for healthy change in our everyday lives. Prior to becoming a mindfulness therapist, academic and author, Terry was an attorney who practiced law in New York City, Los Angeles and Portland, Maine.

Speaker Disclosure:

Financial: Terry Fralich is in private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Terry Fralich has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive) Access never expires for this product.

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professional

Reviews

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Overall:      4.6

Total Reviews: 7

Comments

MICHAEL C - Brookfield, Connecticut

"Terry Fralich great facilitator / teacher"

Franzi C - MONMOUTH, Oregon

"outstanding and inspiring seminar. Great presenter. Nice energy."

dorothy p - ATLANTA, Georgia

"This is one of the very best seminars I have attended....the speaker was excellent, respectful of questions and comments, easy to comprehend format, practical information for personal use and with clients....very much enjoyed the learning process. "

Eleanore S - Sand Point, Alaska

"Great!"

Ann M - NORTH KINGSTOWN, Rhode Island

"Enlightening. Powerful Knowledge"

Christine K - ALPHARETTA, Georgia

"enjoyed the presentation and the webinar format"

Alexis R - West Chester, Pennsylvania

"Terry was and is great! Thank you PESI this was excellent."

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.

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