Dates: March 8 – 10, 2019; 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sliding Scale: $225 – 600. Code RD1M19 .
18 CE credits available for $180, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

This event is now SOLD OUT.

Description:
The energy of self-love is full of paradoxes. Self-love is what makes genuine connection to others possible. Self-love often triggers our self-loathing, shame, hurt, rage, and fear – and this is no accident. True self-love is the antidote to narcissism and self-centeredness.

Blending Tibetan Buddhism, trauma theory, Internal Family Systems therapy; neuroscience, and social justice; this will be a potent weekend of transformative exploration. Expect to gain a deeper understanding of self-love; clarity on your personal roadblocks to self-love; healing centered engagement; quiet periods for practicing self-metta and processing; all in an atmosphere held with humor, radical acceptance, and spaciousness.

Please bring writing materials, and a mala or any string of beads.

Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. Continuing Education (CE) credit available. See below for attendance requirements and more information.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
Based on the content of this program, you will be able to:

• Describe the difference between trauma-sensitivity and Healing Centered Engagement (HCE);
• Describe the contexts in which trauma-sensitivity should be central to working with clients;
• Describe the contexts in which Healing Centered Engagement should be central to working with clients;
• Describe practical tools to offer to clients on how to make their meditation practice trauma-informed;
• Describe why the perception of safety is central to all trauma-focused work;
• Utilize mindfulness based breathing techniques for calming anxiety and emotional fatigue that can be shared with clients and prevent your own vicarious trauma;
• Describe skills of attunement and attending to clients;
• Describe what “the holding environment” (D. Winnicott) is;
• Describe why skills of attunement are amongst the most crucial skills for a clinician to develop;
• Describe the neurological basis of Abraham Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs”;
• Describe the fundamental view of “parts work” from Internal Family Systems therapy;
• Describe how “part work” is a departure from pathologizing patient symptomology and engenders a more client-centered approach.

CE content rating: Intermediate