Clinician Heal Thyself: How to become more aware of your emotions so you can take care of yourself and those you treat
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Overall Learning Objectives:
In this experiential workshop you’ll learn powerful new ways of experiencing your emotional state. You’ll have the opportunity to connect more fully with yourself and develop a self-caring state. You will discover a growing sense of well-being in yourself and see how it enhances the healing process for those you treat. Your more present, curious, and authentic stance will help your patients become aware of their emotions. They, too, will connect with themselves and heal. In this workshop, you’ll learn and practice many Self Connection Therapy and Affect Phobia Therapy techniques and make them part of your therapeutic repertoire.
Learning Objectives:
- Increase your emotional awareness
- How to quickly gain access to more of your healing capacity
- Become more aware of physical sensations and how they can be utilized
- Discover the unseen right before your eyes
- Use your heart to heal yourself and others
Learning Methods:
- Viewing and discussing video-segments of psychotherapy sessions
- Participation in interactive exercises
- Using video feedback to develop self-awareness
- Demonstration of therapist video self-observation leading to patient self-observation
- Live experience of the process with Osborn and Alpert
Literature:
- L.M., ‘Researching therapist emotions and countertransference’. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 2000; 7:322-328
- Schanche, E., Stiles, T. C., McCullough, L., Svartberg, M., & Nielsen, G. H. (2011). The relationship between activating affects, inhibitory affects, and self-compassion in patients with Cluster C personality disorders. Psychotherapy, 48, 293-303. doi:10.1037/a0022012
- Searls, H., Coutertransference and Related Subjects: Selected Papers, University Press, 1979
- Maroda, K., Psychodynamic Techniques: Working with Emotion in the Therapeutic Relationship: Guilford Press, 2010
- Ulvenes, P. G., Berggraf, L., Hoffart, A., Stiles, T. C., Svartberg, M., McCullough, L., & Wampold, B. E. (2012). Different processes for different therapies: Therapist actions, therapeutic bond, and outcome. Psychotherapy, 49, 291-302. doi:10.1037/a0027895
Video:
Michael Alpert, video segment
Kristin Osborn, video segment
One- Day Workshop
0900-0930 Introduction
0930-1000 Didactic Instruction
1000-1100 Interactive Exercise: Mirror Mirror & Video Demo #1
1100-1115 Break
1115-12:15 Video Demo #2 & Discusion
12:15-1:00 Live Demonstration #1 & Discussion
1300-1415 Lunch
1415-1515 Interactive Exercise
1515-1530 Break
1530-1630 Live Demonstration #2
1630-1650 Q&A
1650-1700 Transition