OMTI CLINICAL TRAINING - Clinical Training Programs for Professionals, Students & Trainees
CEUs Available for Nurses, Psychologists, MFTs and LCSWs
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Monthly Supervision and Therapist Clinical Training Groups in Mindfulness Based Integrative Mind-Body Therapies This training is useful for mental healthcare & integrated medical practitioners including nurses, holistic body workers, dental technicians, physician assistants and all medical doctors such as Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors and Health Care Workers. The training and supervision groups will concentrate on developing clinical skills utilizing case consultations, clinical demonstrations and supervised therapist/client dyads. Participants will meet monthly either in Topanga, CA or via nationwide teleconference meetings. Click on link for a schedule of meeting dates and times. Major areas of clinical emphasis include:
Mindfulness Based Integrative Mind-Body Therapies (Modules 1, 2, 3, 4) Recent advances in somatic and integral psychotherapy and neurobiology, and the integration of Eastern wisdom traditions and other mind-body healing therapies into modern psychological practice, have revolutionized current thinking about the resolution of trauma, painful patterns of thought and destructive emotions. A new perspective is emerging which views symptoms of suffering as the body's wisdom pathways for creating communication between the unconscious and the aware self for promoting somatic re-learning, healing and transformation. This cutting-edge program provides a rare opportunity for sustained education in somatic psychology. It will be taught by psychotherapist Ronald Alexander, a renowned pioneer in mind-body therapies who leads professional trainings and clinical supervision groups in Gestalt therapy, Ericksonian hypnosis and other integrated modalities throughout the world and is a long-time teacher of meditation and Buddhist psychology. The training will include direct experience, clinical demonstrations, practicum, theory and the teaching of clinical skills to support practitioners to become more creative and resourceful when treating body symptoms, trauma, pain, and mood and somatic disorders. Skills to help practitioners navigate complex issues, such as transference and counter transference will also be taught. The modalities we will use for developing clinical skills and deepening our own healing process will include: body-centered psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, relational psychoanalytic approaches, Buddhist psychology, mindfulness-based practices, non-dual meditation and other mind-body healing methods for accessing the somatic "core-self." We will place special emphasis on the rapid treatment of trauma and psychosomatic disorders with Ericksonian hypnosis and somatic psychotherapy, highly effective techniques that understand the importance of the symptom as a pathway to inner healing. We will learn to use the symptom to access the unconscious and its healing inner resources with hypnotic trance, storytelling and metaphor as well as the use of framing and re-framing. This training program is open to all psychologists, psychotherapists and healthcare professionals as well as those individuals involved in education, the healing arts, holistic health, psychology and behavioral medical approaches. Ideally, the complete course would be scheduled over a period of one year in four three-day workshops (modules). Each of the modules can be a standalone workshop or as part of the whole program, ultimately leading to a certificate in Clinical Training in Mind-Body Healing Therapies. THE FOUR MODULES ARE AS FOLLOWS: Mindfulness, Trauma and Trance: Gestalt-Somatic and Ericksonian Mind-Body Approaches This workshop and/or short course addresses the rapid treatment of trauma by utilizing both Mindfulness practice and Ericksonian orientations that understand the importance of the symptom as a pathway to inner healing. We will review the clinical skills of tracking, pacing and utilization of the symptom for accessing the unconscious and inner resources with mindfulness and trance. The course will highlight Milton Erickson’s use of storytelling, metaphor and rapid trance induction as well as the use of mindfulness practice for framing, re-framing and de-framing the immediate reorganization of transforming somatic-affective experience into new healing rhythms in the body. These methods allow the body to open healthier pathways for new somatic learnings. We will also emphasize the use of naturalistic hypnotic trance, guided mindfulness practice, and healing metaphors for generating new learnings in mind-body healing therapies. Educational Objectives Workshop/Course Summary For 2500 years, Buddhist meditation practices have developed what is referred to as “skillful methods” for study and transformation of the mind-body process. These meditation and visualization practices help to cultivate self-regulation through awareness training-developing concentration, releasing painful affects and applying the principles of Buddhist psychology to resolve afflictive factors of mind-body trauma. Two essential keys for unlocking the dys-regulated flows of affective experiences that keep the sympathetic nervous system in hyper arousal is through the direct and rapid use of trance and guided mindfulness inductions. The field of trauma as seen through recent understandings in neurobiology now see the importance of utilizing direct methods of promoting and stimulating parasympathetic activity thereby enabling the brain/mind/body to rest, relax and heal. The work of Milton Erickson and his many creative contributions and collaborators brought new insights and methodologies to the field of hypnosis and mind-body healing. Erickson’s therapeutic use of rapid and deep induction that integrates storytelling, metaphors, confusion and other methods for deepening trance and engaging the patient’s unconscious towards healing were pioneering contributions to this new paradigm of thought. Therefore, within this new view affective experience has taken on an entirely new meaning, one in which symptoms are now seen as the body’s wisdom pathways for creating communication between the unconscious and the self for promoting healing. This course will address brief solutions for treating trauma by utilizing Ericksonian and Buddhist Mindfulness orientations. We will review the clinical skills of tracking, pacing and utilization of the symptom as the pathway for accessing the creative unconscious with trance for the rapid treatment of trauma. The course will highlight Milton Erickson’s use of storytelling, metaphor and rapid trance induction as well as the use of framing, re-framing and de-framing for the immediate reorganization of transforming somatic-affective experience into new healing rhythms in the body. These methods allow the body to open healthier pathways for new somatic learnings. Two questions for True/False CEU From Symptom to Solution: The Skillful Intervention A Clinical Practicum "Symptoms are unique forms of communication...." Milton Erickson Milton Erickson the creator of the Ericksonian approach for mind-body healing held the view that psychosomatic symptoms were a direct gateway to the healing power of the creative unconscious. Through the wisdom of this novel approach to mind-body healing, one can learn to see these symptoms as solutions or psychological and spiritual learning’s for generating positive therapeutic outcomes for unusual and difficult cases. This course will provide training in both Erickson's revolutionary approach as well as leading edge skills in the field of somatic therapies for the rapid treatment of trauma, pain and other somatic imbalances. By utilizing the mind-body method for reframing trauma, painful somatic affective experiences can be transformed into new healing rhythms in the body -- oftentimes with dramatic and immediate results. Learning Objectives: This workshop will provide clinical skills and advanced training: This workshop will provide training for all health professionals, educators, and consultants who want new clinical skills for changing the way they think and feel and creating opportunities for personal and/or systemic transformation. The workshop will include teaching Ericksonian hypnotic methods, Somatic breathing styles, Gestalt-Relational process work, Mindfulness Meditation Training and Buddhist Psychology, communication and leadership skills. Regardless of background, this training program will give the participants a solid base of understanding for how to effectively facilitate the healing of the body-mind, both in themselves, organizations, and the group field and with clients. The workshop will be a balance of theory and practice, direct experience and clinical demonstration, personal growth and professional development. Anyone seeking to develop skills in handling the treatment of emotional or physical trauma, pain, mood and other somatic disorders and how they create conflict in the group field as well as systems change should benefit from the program. The Future of the Body: Clinical Practicum in Somatics, Mindfulness & Integrative Mind-Body Therapies Psychosomatic symptoms are a direct gateway to the healing power of the creative unconscious. One can learn to see these symptoms as solutions for generating positive therapeutic outcomes and opening new healing pathways. This five module course will provide training for health professionals, educators, and consultants wanting to develop new clinical skills. It will be a balance of theory and practice, direct experience and clinical demonstration, personal growth and professional development. We will review the clinical skills of tracking, pacing and utilization of the symptom for accessing the unconscious and inner resources with somatics, mindfulness and trance. Five Module Schedule Teaching Methods Assessment Methods Recommended Reading for all Workshops/Courses: Additional recommendations are: Optional Reading: |
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