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Practical Parts Work: A Day-Long Workshop with Tom Holmes

Practical Parts Work: A Day-Long Workshop with Tom Holmes

Workshop Description:
This workshop offers an introduction to the “Parts Work” model based on Tom Holmes’ book of the same title, Parts Work: An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life, which evolved out of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model developed by Richard Schwartz. While largely adopting the systemic principles and therapeutic methods of IFS, Parts Work is an integrative model that offers mental health professionals new ways to facilitate the healing process for their clients as well as allowing therapists to bring more ease to their practice, reduce burnout, and bring more joy to their work.

This day-long workshop for mental health professionals will include an introduction to the IFS process as well as offer experiential exercises designed to help participants apply the Parts Work model to their own life and therapeutic work. Through supporting the state of Wise Self, or awakening and “tuning” the heart, therapists are more able to walk with others through those areas of life where there is pain and darkness and at the same time find precious peace and joy in the connection and process.

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About the Presenter:

Tom Holmes, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Western Michigan University. In addition to his teaching at the University, he has offered many seminars in the US, Europe, and the Middle East on the integration of Parts Work and spirituality as a resource for therapist burnout prevention and the development of therapeutic conditions. His book Parts Work: An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life (2007), now in its 4th edition, is widely appreciated by clinicians and community members. It has been translated into German, Korean, and Italian and will soon be available in Arabic and Hebrew. Dr. Holmes received training in IFS from Richard Schwartz in the late 1980’s and has been teaching, training and practicing Parts Work ever since.

Date and Time:
Saturday, January 25, 2020 from 9 am to 5 pm (Lunch on your own for 1.5 hours, starting at or close to noon)

Location: Triple Crane Monastery, 7665 Werkner Rd, Chelsea, MI 48118

Cost: $150

Discount: Early registration discount of $125 if register before midnight on Dec 8, 2019

Learning Objectives: As a result of attending this program, participants will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a clear conceptual understanding of the Parts Work and IFS model.
  2. Articulate several of the key parts of their own internal system.
  3. Identify qualities of Wise Self and how they differ from qualities of parts that may show up in clients’ presentations.
  4. Express an experiential understanding of Self and how to nourish Self in their everyday life and in their work with clients.
  5. Identify dynamics in their own system which contribute to stress and ways to return to being centered when stressful conditions arise.

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Cancellation Policy: Full refund if notice received before 8 a.m. on December 28, 2019.

Intended Audience: Psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, counselors, and marriage and family therapists are encouraged to attend.

Continuing Education Credits: This workshop for mental health professionals is co-sponsored by Partners in Healing and the Institute for Continuing Education. CE credit is offered for the disciplines listed below. The program offers 6.00 contact hours, with full attendance required. The CE processing fee is $25 and may be paid on site. Application forms for CE credit will be available on site. CE verification is mailed to attendees following the program. To receive CE credit, participants must complete all CE paperwork, sign in/out, and submit a completed evaluation of the program. If you have questions regarding CE credit, the program, learning objectives, or grievance issues, contact The Institute at: instconted@aol.com.

Session Ranking: This workshop is appropriate for mental health professionals at all levels of expertise. Participants are urged to review the program description to determine appropriateness for professional and personal continuing education.

Fees Include: Workshop, hand-outs, continental breakfast, morning and afternoon snacks, beverage service throughout the day.

A.D.A.: If you have needs, please contact chatcherkay@gmail.com

Psychology: The Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute maintains responsibility for the program.

Social Work: The Institute for Continuing Education is recognized as a provider of continuing education by the Ohio Board of Social Work and Counseling, Provider RCS 030001. The Michigan Board of Social Work accepts programs approved by other state boards of social work.

Counseling: The Institute is recognized as a provider of continuing education by the Ohio Board Social Work and Counseling, provider RCS 030001. NBCC credit is not offered.

Marriage/Family Therapy: The Institute is recognized by the Ohio Board MFT, Provider RTX 100501.

NOTE: It is the responsibility of attendees to determine if CE credit offered by The Institute for Continuing Education meets the regulations of their state licensing/certification board. If you have questions regarding CE credit, the program, learning objectives, or grievance issues, contact The Institute at: instconted@aol.com.

Workshops

Trauma Stabilization: A Map and Rules of the Road

Trauma Stabilization: A Map and Rules of the Road

Workshop Description:
Stabilization is the first and foremost order of business when dealing with the treatment of trauma. This day-long workshop for mental health professionals will draw on the wisdom and tools of the masters in the field while providing a coherent roadmap and “rules of the road”. Topics include trauma-informed assessment, teaching emotion regulation, limiting self-harming behaviors, integrating disparate parts of self, and therapist self-care.

About the Presenter:
Sharon Gold-Steinberg, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who maintains a full-time therapy and consulting practice in Ann Arbor. She dedicates her career both to treating trauma and to educating mental health and allied professionals who work with traumatized populations. She was a clinical supervisor and lecturer at the University of Michigan for 15 years. Sharon is a certified practitioner of Sensorimotor psychotherapy. She is a co-founding member of Partners in Healing and of Therapist Refresh.

Date and Location:
Friday, May 1, 2020 at the Brattleboro Retreat Conference Center in Brattleboro, Vermont

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Announcing our 6th annual spring workshop

“The Joy of Practicing What We Preach: A Half-Day Self-Care Retreat” offered by Sharon Gold-Steinberg, Ph.D., Carryn Lund, LMSW, RYT, and the Partners in Healing “Community Band” (because we all need a little help from our friends!)

Program Description:

Psychotherapists, professionals who devote themselves to caring for the emotional well-being of others, often miss the joy and satisfaction of providing the same level of care and nourishment for themselves. Self-care may be something we prescribe to others or something that we believe we deserve only when feeling burned out or depleted by our work. Yet, finding ways to engage in various forms of self-care while doing our work as psychotherapists provides us with almost endless opportunities to deepen our awareness of self, heighten our attunement to joy, and enhance our ability to make meaning and grow spiritually while we work. Practicing psychotherapy relies on the use of one’s self as a primary instrument for resonance, attunement, containment, compassion, play, and the cultivation of inspiration and hope. These resources can be bolstered by a sense of community and the support of colleagues.

In this half-day retreat, we will explore joy, gratitude, playfulness, pleasure and vitality through contemplative practices such as mindfulness, breathwork, music, and gentle movement. These practices will allow us to deepen and cultivate these experiences for ourselves and, resultantly, into all relationships in our lives, including those with our clients. During the retreat, we’re not going to talk about therapist self-care, we are going to experience it! No previous experience with any of these modalities is required—come as you are, dress comfortably for the day, and prepare to enjoy!

About the Presenters:

Sharon Gold-Steinberg, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice in Ann Arbor and is a co-founder—along with Carrie Hatcher-Kay, Ph.D. and César Valdez, LMSW–of Partners in Healing, an organization dedicated to providing support and training to psychotherapists. She is a certified practitioner of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Along with her colleague, Carryn Lund, LMSW, RYT, she offers a weekly class, “Friday Refresh,” that incorporates contemplative practices to support therapists in resourcing and balancing their nervous systems and in building community. Carryn is a therapist, yoga teacher, and founding partner of Grove Emotional Health Collaborative in Ann Arbor. Sharon and Carryn are creating a website, Therapist Refresh, to expand the reach of this local program. This retreat also will help celebrate the launching of their website.
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Announcing our 5th annual spring workshop

“To Err is Human: Therapist Mistakes as Therapeutic Opportunities” by Janina Fisher, PhD

Program Description:

Like parenting, psychotherapy can be only “good enough.” Therapeutic mistakes are inevitable, but they occur in the privacy of an office with no one but the client with whom we could process them fully. We may pause to critique ourselves or try to ignore the shame we feel, but we rarely have the chance to turn them into opportunities.

This workshop explores how what drives us to take on the work of psychotherapy can also contribute to “mistakes of the heart.” We make mistakes because we care so much, because we want to help—not because we don’t. Whether the mistakes we make are clinically misattuned or the result of our own internal conflicts, there is much to learn both about the power of “repair,” what happens when therapist and client resolve to recover from the rupture to the relationship caused by empathic failure, small administrative mistakes, or even ethical errors.

Early attachment is built upon the cycles of infant distress and parental ‘repair.’ The emphasis is less on understanding and more on intuiting what the child needs so that feelings of distress are soothed, comforted, or transformed from painful to pleasurable, and tears turn to laughter. In this workshop, we will learn how to use the therapeutic relationship to heal the wounds of childhood by repairing the inevitable ‘misses’ that accompany our best efforts as therapists.

About the Presenter:
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Janina Fisher, PhD is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Instructor at the Trauma Center, founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, a faculty member of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Fisher has been an invited speaker nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of neurobiological research and new trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic approaches. You can read more about her work at www.janinafisher.com.

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Announcing our 4th annual spring workshop

“Harness the Natural Cycles of Change with Couples and Families: The Collaborative Change Model for Treating Complex Trauma” by Mary Jo Barrett, MSW from the Center for Contextual Change

Program Description:

This workshop will present a practical three-tiered strength-based contextual model which simplifies the understanding and treatment of the complex nature of intergenerational trauma and neglect. We will explore the repetitive cycles of trauma and will learn how to harness the natural cycles of change when working with individuals, couples, and families through the Collaborative Change Model.

In Stage One of the Collaborative Change Model, therapists create a context for treatment through assessing strengths and vulnerabilities, emphasizing safety and the importance of acknowledgment. In Stage Two, the action mode, the focus is on techniques and interventions to use for particular symptomatic patterns of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. Emphasis will be given to working with couples when one of the partners has a trauma history or to helping an individual client who may have a partner or loved one who has a trauma history. We will explore the integration of different theoretical approaches, such as IFS, EMDR, CBT, DBT, Family Systems etc. Stage Three will bring us to the most effective ways to help clients consolidate their gains and prevent relapse.

As a result of this course, participants will be able to:

  • apply the Collaborative Change Model to complex trauma cases.
  • incorporate psycho-education for and treatment of loved ones of those with trauma history.
  • demonstrate interventions utilized to create a non-traumatic therapeutic environment.
  • articulate the guidelines for effective trauma treatment.
  • apply the concepts of ethical attunement to their practice.
  • support themselves in the midst of working with difficult cases.

 

About the Presenter:
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Mary Jo Barrett, MSW is the founder and director of the Center for Contextual Change in Chicago, IL., a clinic specializing in The Collaborative Change Model, a component phase model for working with individuals, families, and groups.  This nationally prominent expert in the treatment of trauma, especially within the family context, is known for being an innovator and collaborator as a teacher and as a therapist. She is a popular presenter at Psychotherapy Networker and other conferences nationally and internationally and is on the faculties of the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and the Family Institute of Northwestern University.

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