OpenMind Training: Innovations in Meditation and Mind/Body Healing

OpenMInd Training; a unique method of mind/body healing that integrates the wisdom teachings of the east and western psychology.This process and or training program provide instruction in meditation and mind/body healing from both a psychological and spiritual perspective. The focus is on the practice, experience and benefits of meditation and self-healing in daily life.
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Clinical Training in Mind/Body Healing Psychotherapies

The training and supervision groups will concentrate on developing clinical skills, case consultation, clinical demonstrations and supervised therapist/client dyads. These groups meet twice per month for 2 hours are limited to 8 participants, the commitment after the first 3 months is for the remaining 9 months of one year. Most groups however, matriculate through a 3-year clinical training cycle. CEU”S are available 2 per each weekly session.
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Psychotherapy: Individual – Couples – Groups

My clinical orientation includes but is not limited to the following areas of specialization: Mind/Body Healing psychotherapies; Gestalt Therapy, Somatic and Ericksonian Hypnosis, Psychoanalytic: Relational, Intersubjective, and Short term Dynamic Psychotherapies, Holistic (Meditation and Yoga therapy) and Integrative Behavioral Medicine. For more information on fees, appointments and timing call my office directly at 310-395-2243
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Professional & Executive Coaching and The Art of Leadership

“Leadership is complicated. It has many facets: respect, experience, emotional strength, people skills, discipline, vision, momentum, timing…That’s why leaders require so much seasoning to be effective.”
- John Maxwell, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

Professional & Personal Leadership Coaching Groups are offered as weekend off-site retreats, or I meet at your corporate location monthly for 3 hours (up to 12 participants). Professional Coaching is values based and best suited for the individual who is oriented towards achieving excellence and winning in his or her life, career or creative pursuit. It is a model that embraces the themes of
responsibility, accountability and the activation of the self in the here and now. Individuals interested in multi-leader coaching groups can participate at my office in Santa Monica. Individual coaching, teambuilding and leadership courses are also available. These weekday evening and Saturday groups are now forming. Call for details at 310-395-2243.
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Creativity and Leadership Training

This Training is for individuals interested in exploring an intensive experiential process to become more effective creative in their role as leaders both in personal and professional life settings. Designed for entrepreneurs, executives, managers, and others committed to improving their communication and leadership skills, it is especially intended for those open to doing deep personal work to transform the self.
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Coaching and Training in Communication

I offer the Leadership and Take Action Now model of coaching that integrates values based coaching and a gestalt model for present centered leadership and life activation.
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OpenMind Training provides instruction in meditation and mind/body healing from both a psychological and spiritual perspective. The focus is on the practice, experience and benefits of meditation and self-healing in daily life.

Meditation helps to cultivate self-regulation through relaxation and the development of attention skills. Training in mind/body healing facilitates awareness of the inner resources of the Core Self—trust, comfort, time and curiosity—for the activation of the healthy and creative aspects of the unconscious mind. This promotes insight, wellness and individuation.

Meditative techniques of the various Buddhists schools, particularly Tibetan and Zen as well as Advaita (Vedic-non dual) will be explored. These methods utilize mindfulness, insight, visualization and presence to activate physiological and psychological energies whose merger can produce powerful states of mind to penetrate into the reality of our being and experience a spacious quality of freedom. Teachings on the practices and principles of Buddhist psychology and their applications for resolving afflictive factors of mind, mood and happiness will be taught.

Participants will also be taught various forms of breathing, chanting, trance states, and mind/body healing exercises. This workshop can help participants acquire skills to calm the mind, regulate affect states, develop trust with the unconscious, and explore inner healing resources. The workshop is designed for anyone from beginning to advance.

Recommended reading: Goldstein and Kornfield, Seeking the Heart of Wisdom. Epstein, Mark, Thoughts without a Thinker. Suzuki, Shunryu, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Rossi, E The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing.Echardt Tolle, The Power of Now

CEU’S available for Ph.D, MFT, MSW, and Nurses
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Clinical Training in Mind/Body Healing Psychotherapies
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The training and supervision groups will concentrate on developing clinical skills, Case consultation, clinical demonstrations and supervised therapist/client dyads.

Major areas of clinical emphasis include:

• Gestalt Therapy, Somatic Psychotherapy and Ericksonian Mind/Body Healing Therapies.
• Self-psychology, intersubjectivity and relational dialogues.
• Exploring the contact boundary, its therapeutic functions and healing dialogue.
• Identification and resolution of transference and counter transference treatment issues.
• Accessing internal resources and tracking process.
• Utilization of the unconscious for the healing of trauma.
• Somatic resolution and energy therapies for the resolution of neurobiological disorders.
• Metaphors, frames and creative orientations in mind/body healing therapy.

Psychotherapy: Individual – Couples – Groups
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GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

Groups meet for 2 hrs once per week on Monday or Wednesday evenings between 5:20-7:30 pm.
Groups are male and female balanced. The methods include but are not limited to the practice of Gestalt Therapy, Self Psychology, Ericksonian Hypnosis, Somatic Psychotherapy, Leadership Coaching and self-development. For more information on fees, appointments and timing call my office directly at 310-395-2243

The groups are available for men and women who would benefit from the experience of addressing issues involving the relational aspects of male and female interaction, the self, mutuality and impasses in interpersonal relationships. The groups look at personal, professional and family issues as well as group process that mirror interactions in group members’ life experiences. Attention to blind spots in communication, self-esteem and resistance are attended to. We encourage the exploration of both unconscious and intersubjective issues in a safe and supportive environment where insight, awareness, creativity and healing become possibilities.
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Professional & Executive Coaching and The Art of Leadership
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Individual Leadership Coaching and Groups season and develop the highest abilities in professionals seeking to improve their performance or advance their careers. In these groups, I assess your workplace patterns and give you challenging feedback in order to heighten your leadership awareness. Together we set goals that target your priorities, and then I-We or the group will hold you accountable to the steps you agree to pursue as you face the issues and challenges that have been barriers. Because learning is incremental, professional coaching and leadership coaching groups allow you to practice skills and get up-to-date feedback and course corrections that ensure your success.

In these groups, you will learn to develop trust, address blind-spots, remove blocks to creativity and build support for transforming vision into reality. Participants share information on leadership styles, improve coaching skills; learn to solve creative problems and role-play exercises using real-life work examples.
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Creativity and Leadership Training
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I offer what is called the Leadership and Take Action Now model of coaching that integrates values based coaching and a gestalt model for present centered leadership and life activation. In this Training the role of the creative unconscious for activating ones innate creative potentialities through the teachings and trainings of Zen Meditation, Trance Work as well as a gestalt-based leadership style are the methods for creative leadership enhancement. Individuals leave the Training more in touch with how to activate andutilize the inner core resources of the creative unconscious. The model of leadership is a Transformational model that highlights and emphasis the core Strengths of the leader: a model of leading from the inside out
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Coaching and Training in Communication
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I offer what is called the Leadership and Take Action Now model of coaching that integrates values based coaching and a gestalt model for present centered leadership and life activation. My style of coaching utilizes assessments, asking the right questions, listening carefully to what you tell me, identifying your resources (experiences and qualities), helping you overcome blocks to success, helping you develop a high degree of self-care, helping you identify your personal standards, assisting you in clarifying your goals and imagining and articulating your vision. I use a step-by-step strategy and I will help you to continually evaluate your progress.Coaching is not psychotherapy and at times there can be crossing over in the process however for the most part we will attempt to keep our focus on the coaching side of the couch.

Coaching usually leads to significant improvements and many changes in one’s life. The pros and cons of coaching will be discussed together. It is imperative that as our process unfolds that both you and I communicate together so that changes and positive improvements and alterations to this work can be made thereby, insuring the best possible outcomes. Since this work is a process of Inquiry and Dialogue it becomes both of our responsibilities for the productivity and creativity of our sessions.

I believe that each of my clients is unique, creative, and responsible for moving their own life forward. I look forward to working with you and deeply supporting you in your process of change and transformation.
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