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This workshop focuses on two seemingly contradictory
challenges in contemporary therapy: 1) how to make therapy
briefer and more effective; and 2) how to make therapeutic
work more soulful and cennective with life-affirming
energies.
Based on Dr. Gilligan's book The Courage to Love:
Principles and Practices of Self-relations Psychotherapy,
the presentation will emphasize the self-relations approach
to psychotherapy. Symptoms are seen as an awakening
of a person's soul or center, and the therapeutic conversations
are seen as mediums for midwifing these awakenings to
full realization.
This deep life affirming approach describes methods
and techniques for transforming a problem complaint
into a soution outcome, in ways that clients learn to
recognize the "non-rational" and unexpected events in
their lives as gifts to be opened and enjoyed. It is
based in part on the revolutionarly work of Milton Erickson,
the last psychiatriast who developed many ways to utilize
even the most negative parts of a person's life as resources.
Goals and Objectives:
Participants will learn:
1. six principles for bringing "soul" into brief therapy;
2. three exercises for accessing inner wisdom (in yourself
and clients);
3. how to develop and maintain mindfulness and bodymind
centering;
4. the generative principle and methods of sponsorship;
5. a six-step brief therapy method for transforming
a symptom into a solution.
Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D. is a psychologist practicing
in Encinitas, CA. In addition to his private practice,
he travels around the world presenting his work in self-relations
psychotherapy to both professional and general audiences.
His books include The courage to love, Therapeutic
trances, Brief therapy (with J. Zeig, Therapeutic
conversations (with R. Price), and The legacy
of Erickson. His website address is www.StephenGilligan.com.
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