Imago Relationship Therapists of Ontario and TAPE Educational Services
Two events in Toronto with Harville Hendrix, PhD Imago Relationship Therapists of Ontario and TAPE Educational Services present:
- Public event: “Getting the Love You Want”
Date: June 17, 2010, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cost: Early bird (before May 14, 2010): $50.00 + GST per person, $75.00 + GST per couple
Regular: $75 + GST per person
- Two-day couples counselling course for professionals
Date: June 18 & 19, 2010
Cost: $295 + GST
Location for both events: Chestnut Street Residence, University of Toronto (89 Chestnut St.), Ballroom – Second Level
For more information and to register, please visit http://imagohendrix.tapestudies.com
To contact an Imago therapist near you, please visit http://www.imago-canada-international.ca
Psycho-Spiritual Supervision Group
Facilitator: Pat Archer, Clinical Member, OSP
What does it mean to bring a spiritual perspective to psychotherapy?
Using your case material, the group will identify opportunities to work at this intersection - to expand spiritual awareness while staying attuned to clients' psychological needs. You will explore how your therapeutic skills can assist your clients with their spiritual tasks as you listen to the language they use and the meaning they bring to their spiritual nature.
Questions you can expect to explore include:
• Does this affect the use of empathy?
• How do we avoid the "spiritual bypass"?
• What is assigned to the self and what to the Self?
A parallel between spiritual work and the relational modality of psychotherapy will be evident in the facilitator's style. By its nature, however, the group is non-dogmatic; therefore all modalities of psychotherapy and spiritual orientations are welcome.
Dates and Times: Bi-weekly TBA
Size: 4 participants
Location: Bloor Street West @ Runnymede
Fee: $50 per
Facilitator: Pat Archer, Clinical Member OSP
To express your interest, register or enquire further, contact Pat at
416-927-8213 or pat@patarchercoaching.com
In addition to 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist and leadership coach Pat Archer brings 40 years of diverse spiritual influences to the question of our psycho-spiritual nature.
Psychoanalytic Complexity: Theoretical Innovation and Clinical Practice
Date: Saturday May 1st 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Registration starts at 8:30 a.m.)
Location: Le Nouvel Hôtel, room Dorchester / Maisonneuve
1740 West René-Lévesque Blvd, Montréal, (514) 931-8841
Metro Guy-Concordia
Indoor parking: entrance on Saint-Mathieu St.
At this conference, Bill Coburn will introduce and elaborate a Psychoanalytic Complexity Perspective, a cutting-edge approach to applying nonlinear dynamics systems theory to psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. Although well-established in disciplines such as physics, molecular biology, and many other natural sciences, the study of complexity is relatively new to psychoanalysis. This new perspective is enhancing the theory of intersubjectivity’s explanatory capacity and it is now revolutionizing our views about the emergence and transformation of emotional life and meaning. Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are thereby offered a richer paradigm with which to engage in the experiential worlds of each of their patients. Psychoanalytic Complexity Theory embodies a deep respect for the complexity of human experiencing, profoundly altering our conceptualizations of human development, psychopathology, relationality, and therapeutic action and change. Complexity is concerned with:
- the emergence and patterning of emotional experience from the self-organization and cooperation of many parts;
- the conditions necessary to produce adaptive change;
- the process of making meaning out of apparent randomness;
- the process by which the "rules" of human relating change as a result of the "play";
- a vision of the clinical narrative as an emergent property of the larger relational and historical system of which each of the participant is an integral constituent.
The therapeutic advantage of a psychoanalytic complexity sensibility emerges not in technical prescriptions, but through a modification of the therapist’s essential attitudes and presuppositions about the patient and the therapeutic relationship that may determine a positive therapeutic outcome. Bill Coburn’s explication of Complexity Theory will be augmented by a dramatic slide and video presentation along with rich clinical examples. Registrants can expect to leave with a sound understanding of the fundamentals of complexity theory and its therapeutic application to human relating, emotional experience, meaning-making, and therapeutic action and change.
Learning Objectives
During this one day conference, participants will first be given a review of the central concepts of Complexity Theory and their application to psychoanalytic theory and practice. Application of this new understanding by the participants will enhance their understanding of the clinical exchange in the following way:
- Participants will form a more in-depth and contemporary understanding of the current usage of this theoretical approach in the understanding of human development, psychopathology, relationality and the process of change.
- Participants will improve their ability to recognize and apply these ideas to their own work in psychotherapy by being able to recognize the emergence and patterning of emotional experience from the self-organization and cooperation of many parts.
- Participants will gain an understanding of how Contemporary Self Psychology and the clinical approaches informed by these ideas and principles enable the therapist to facilitate the making of meaning out of randomness and to create conditions necessary for adaptive change.
The Speaker
Bill Coburn is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and is an Editorial Board Member of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He is a Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and at the Northwestern Center for Psychoanalysis in Portland, Oregon. He is a Council Member of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP) and an Advisory Board Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). Author of numerous articles and book chapters, he has researched and written extensively in the areas of intersubjectivity, complexity, countertransference, and supervision. He recently co-edited and published, with Nancy VanDerHeide, Self and Systems: Explorations in Contemporary Self Psychology, and is currently co-editing, with Roger Frie, a book titled The Challenge of Individuality: New Perspectives in Psychoanalytic Contextualism (Routledge).
For further information visit: http://www.intersubjectivite.com/drupal/node/173
Divorce Impasse Counselling – Part 1: Basic Concepts & Clinical Applications
A 2-day Workshop for Mental Health Professionals
Dates: **Rescheduled** (Previously scheduled for February 26 & 27, 2010)
Friday, May 14, 2010 (2-9 pm)
Saturday, May 15, 2010 (10 am-6 pm)
Location: Oshawa Clinic, 2nd Fl. East Wing, 117 King Street East, Oshawa, ON
Fees: Early Bird*/Student fee of $279; Regular fee of $349
*Early Bird registration is available until April 16, 2010.
To register, visit our website: http://www.oshawapsychotherapytraining.com
Course Description: Parents and children in high-conflict or chronically conflicted separation/divorce situations present a significant challenge to mental health professionals trying to assist these families. This 2-day course will provide an overview of various models and interventions used with high-conflict families. The following topics will be covered:
- Characteristics of high conflict families: Risk factors for children
- Understanding the effects on children: Current models
- The “Divorce Impasse” Model: Understanding the family dynamics
- Current legal and clinical approaches in managing and treating high conflict cases
- Differentiating high conflict from abuse and alienating behaviour
- Individual counselling with children
- Decreasing parental conflict
- Systemic approaches to working with estranged and alienated children and their parents
View the course schedule: http://www.oshawapsychotherapytraining.com
Dr. Helen Radovanovic, Ph.D., C. Psych., is a registered psychologist in private practice. She is a founding member of the Toronto-based "Family Solutions", a private practice organization that offers services to separating and divorcing families and also to professionals who work with these families through mentorships, internships, training and consultation.
There is limited number of spaces available for this workshop so we encourage you to register early and avoid being disappointed.
We look forward to seeing you!
“Counselling: What’s on the Horizon?”
The Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association Presents
2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
May 11-14, 2010, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Peaceful Schools: Not just a Dream - Hetty van Gurp
Founder of Peaceful Schools International, an organization that provides
international support to schools committed to creating a culture of
peace
Civility and Society: Inner and Outer Worlds - Benet Davetian
Director of the Civility Institute and Chair and Associate Professor of
Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island
Full Circle – Kevin Cameron
Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Threat Assessment and
Trauma Response
Click here for the full flyer
Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR)
Do some of your clients have issues that can be traced to an earlier trauma? Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is an amazingly effective technique in reducing, or even eliminating, the negative effects of traumas. This training workshop gives you the skills and understanding to use this technique with your clients. The Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) recognizes this Traumatic Incident Reduction Workshop with 24 CE credit hours.
Here’s what some participants said after our recent TIR Workshops:
“I feel so amazed at having experienced it. I leave the workshop with new skills, confidence to apply the techniques, and have grown personally. I couldn’t have asked for a better workshop. Thank you so much.” Francine T., M.Ed., Counsellor, Ontario
“Excellent, informative workshop given by a superb facilitator. I’ve received powerful tools to help clients. The final day was SO POWERFUL! Thank you!!” Erin M., Victim Services, Ontario
“Workshop exceeded my expectations. The process of TIR allows for quicker release of charge than I would have imagined. Wonderful.” Darlene G., Counsellor, Ontario
“Learning TIR was quite an awakening experience even though I have been working as a professional counselor for years.” Takanori K., Counsellor, Ontario
“Impressive powerful techniques ...” Sylvie F., Ph.D., Psychotherapist, Ontario
“Amazing four days! The techniques are fantastic and it is unbelievable how well they work.” Else S., M.Psych, Counsellor, Ontario
About TIR: Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is an exciting and effective method employed by trained counsellors, therapists, and social workers. Client problems often stem from painful past incidents. These include such traumas as unresolved grief from bereavement, loss of relationships, and physical and emotional damage from violence or accidents. Traumas may lead to such difficulties as intense anxiety, lack of success in school or work, troubled relationships, and even PTSD. The impact of past traumas can hinder a person for years, and even a lifetime.
TIR, when applied correctly, reduces or even eliminates the negative impact of past trauma for most people. Through this process the client experiences a change in feelings and attitudes, and often has some new insight that removes the heavy burden s/he has been carrying. The result is that the client feels empowered and can face life with renewed confidence.
"TIR simply pulls PTSD and most anxiety and panic disorders out by their roots. Literally. Not in 30+ years of practice have I used a more remarkable effective clinical procedure." Robert H. Moore, Ph.D., Psychologist, CTS.
"I have been in private practice ... during the past twenty-three years, and my greatest success – and satisfaction – has been using TIR.” Pauline Carey, Registered Clinical Counsellor, B.C. Canada
“... TIR is a truly special and effective therapy. I have had sessions of TIR myself as a client and had dramatic personal results, even though up to now I have considered that therapies don't seem to work on me. TIR comprises simple elegant techniques which empower clients to accomplish the changes they want, facilitated by their own innate resources and natural leaning towards self fulfillment. I only wish I had found TIR many years ago." Julie de Burgh, Qualified Social worker, Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist, U.K.
Basic Info:
We are hosting 4-day training workshops in Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) at the following times and locations:
April 29 – May 2, 2010 (Thursday to Sunday, inclusive)
Location: West Toronto, 80 Ward Street
Cost: $899.00 [Price includes GST, lunches and snacks.]
Register: http://www.tapestudies.com/TIR
Or contact Dianna Chu at d.chu@tapestudies.com
May 28-31, 2010 (Friday to Monday, inclusive)
Location: Horseshoe Valley (near Barrie), Ontario
Cost: Early Bird registration is $651 if registered by April 28, 2010
Thereafter, registration is $735 [price includes GST, lunches and snacks.]
Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/518600147
July 23-26, 2010 (Friday to Monday, inclusive)
Location: Horseshoe Valley (near Barrie), Ontario
Cost: Early Bird registration is $700.60 if registered by June 23, 2010
Thereafter, registration is $791 [price includes HST, lunches and snacks.]
Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/518612183
October 21-24, 2010 (Thursday to Sunday, inclusive)
Location: Horseshoe Valley (near Barrie), Ontario
Cost: Early Bird registration is $700.60 if registered by September 21, 2010
Thereafter, registration is $791. [price includes HST, lunches and snacks]
Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/518617198
More workshop info:
For more info go to: http://www.tir.org/training/ws/tirw.html
Or, reply to this email message and we will send you an information package. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at 705-835-0752.
Registration is limited to 10 people to ensure an optimal learning experience. If you are planning to register, do not delay.
Successful workshop participants will be qualified as TIR facilitators.
Participants will be eligible to receive 24 continuing education credit hours from the CCPA.
GROUP THERAPY FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS
Leader: Steve Schklar, Certified Group Psychotherapist, AGPA Clinical Member OSP, Member CAPT
Group Therapy for Therapists is an ongoing psychodynamic/interpersonal process group. Therapists who recognize that professionals struggle with the human condition and experience problems in living just as our clients do will benefit from this opportunity.
This is a group in which we can talk about the unique stresses and difficulties of our work and how they affect us personally. The better we understand ourselves the more we increase our capacity to work interpersonally in all relationships.
The opportunity to come together and work in this way is potent and has been too rare. This realization has been a major impetus for me in my decision to make this group experience available.
In this group, you will:
- Pay attention to the group itself, and how we experience each other as individuals and the group as a whole.
- Pay attention to counter-transference issues as they arise in your work and in the "here and now" of the process group experience. This is not case conferencing.
- Explore your own issues arising from your therapeutic work and your life. This is not a supervision group but we will each learn much about doing better work.
An established leader of therapy groups for over 15 years, I‚m a member of both the American and Canadian Group Psychotherapy Associations and participate annually in national and international group therapy conferences and training.
Group Therapy for Psychotherapists meets weekly on Tuesdays from 12:00 to 1:30. It is an ongoing group, with membership changing over time (just like life).
The fee is $50.00 per session, payable monthly. The group is limited to seven members.
For more information or to schedule an initial consultation please call me at 416-603-2177, or email me at sschklar@rogers.com. The fee for the consultation is $50.00.
Location: 140A Euclid Avenue, Toronto, ON
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