For All Mental Health Professionals and Coaches

Introducing SOUL – Ingredient for harmonizing diverse theoretical applications and eliminate haunting treatment issues.

Fee: $120.00
Location: Matunuck, RI

Most clinicians report discouragement when year after year clients return feeling troubled with the same issues that had been previously worked through regardless of how effective therapy/coaching may have appeared at the time of treatment closure. This is not surprising, every few years a new approach to therapy is discovered that has been designed and researched with outstanding treatment results. Consequently this new theory is like a new kid on the block and applied to all kinds of Mental Health and Addiction issues. Some theories stress cognition, others, body work, emotional release, nutrition, groups. Still, the drama continues and clients remain stuck.

Introducing the concept of Soul (religious or secular) is a powerful unifying concept for everything an individual stands for and lives by. It comes from the Greek (Psyche) and has been maintained through the ages as grounding and motivating force in one’s self and the world at large. It cannot be reduced, compartmentalized, rationalized; it simply is even though it can not be seen nor can the influence of soul be identified with specifics. The Gestaltist Sylvia Fleming Crocker, Ph.D. calls the soul the actual (indivisible) power of living …that which empowers those processes in living which constitute living actions themselves A Well-lived Life. p. 166).

In this 6-hour totally experiential workshop you will explore your own unsynchronized personal issues and learn to:

    • Differentiate between spiritual and secular meaning Soul
    • Resiliency and its components
    • Recognize language of the Soul
    • Create harmony with past
    • Harmonize uncommon symptoms with common ground
    • Organize symptoms from perspective of soul
    • Realize neglect of the soul in – physical/emotional symptoms
    • Recognize need for inclusion of soul when in fear of relapse
    • Honor yourself/soul for annoying reminders of unfinished business
    • Enhance your and your clients’ daily life.


    This class will be scheduled in 2010. Sign up for my newsletter (use the top right sign-up box) and I will inform you via email when the class is scheduled.

     

    Resources:

    Polster. E. (1987). Every Person’s Life is Worth a Novel. W.W. Norton Company. New York, NY.

    _________ (2006). Uncommon Ground. Harmonizing Psychotherapy & Community To Enhance Everyday Life. Zeig, Tucker & Theisen. Inc. Phoenix Arizona.

    Fleming Crocker, Sylvia (1999) A Well-lived Life: Essays in Gestalt Therapy. GIC Press, Cambridge, MA.

    Moore, Thomas (1992) Care of the Soul. Harper Collins, Publishers.

    Vaillant, E. George (2008). Spiritual Evolution. Broadway Books.