Patrick Faggianelli PhD EHI:7 Session Outline

Aikido and Psychotherapy

Patrick Faggianelli, PhD     90 minutes

Aikido is a Japanese martial art that has the stated aim of resolving conflict without violence and in such a way that no one gets injured. Aikido literally means the way of harmonizing (loving) energy. One of the important aikido philosophies is that one must “embrace one’s opponent with love.” In terms of this workshop, if anxiety and worry is “one’s opponent” the aiki approach is to love one’s anxiety and worry. Embedded in the practice of aikido are many concepts including physical self defense, the nature of the universe, the importance of partnership practice, the importance of developing a practice designed to align oneself with the energy of the universe. This seminar will explore underlying contextual elements which inform aikido and discuss, as well as experience, how those principles and practices can be understood and utilized in the practice of Existential, Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology and psychotherapy particularly in relation to the ability to befriend anxiety and worry.

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John Ingle, MA EHI:7 Session Outline

Somatic Trauma Therapy Insights From Near Death to Gentle, Everyday Ecstatic Living

John Ingle, MA    90 minutes

Outline:
Teaching process work on somatic trauma therapy in Russia for 15 years.
Stories of survival and enlightenment.
Insights and new possibilities.
Sensory guidance and resourcing insights to get through reliving near death experiences.
What to do with fear of existence exercise.

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Ali Miller, MFT EHI:7 Session Outline

Befriending Difficult Emotions through Self-Empathy: Nonviolent Communication as a Tool for Self-Compassion

Ali Miller, MFT    90 minutes

Nonviolent Communication (NVC), developed by Marshall Rosenberg, is deeply congruent with Carl Rogers’ humanistic, person-centered counseling approach. Much more than a communication or conflict resolution tool, NVC is an approach to being with others that offers the opportunity for tremendous healing and transformation. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to NVC principles and tools, with a focus on how NVC can be applied in the therapeutic setting. Particular attention will be given to teaching the skill of self-empathy for dealing with difficult emotions. Didactic and experiential components will be offered.

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Ken Bradford, PhD EHI:7 Session Outline

Rude Awakening: Trauma as a Portal to Authentic Presence

Ken Bradford, Ph.D.    90 minutes

This will be a contemplative inquiry-conversation considering how trauma – both extraordinary and ordinary – breaks us open to unwanted existential givens of insecurity, unpredictability, and impermanence. Broken-open, we find ourselves at a portal at which we can pause, recoil, or pass through. Daring to closely observe our own and others’ defensive reactions to trauma allows us to better bear what has seemed unbearable. This felt attention is a great power of depth psychotherapy as we know and practice it. Yet, in allowing psychological self-reckoning to deepen, trauma has the further, rude potential to attune us to a more fundamental awakeness as we come face to face with naked, unconstructed, and unconstructing presence.

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Janet Jacobson, ACE, CNA/HHA, RNA EHI:7 Session Outline

How Dancers Think and Feel

Janet Jacobson, American Council on Exercise(ACE), CNA/HHA, RNA    90 minutes

My cousin Richard contracted Parkinson’s when he was 63, which was 10 years ago. His daily determination to exercise keeps him from succumbing completely to this disease. In a recent conversation, I moaned that I was worrying too much and needed to let it go. “No!” he quickly replied. “That’s energy, use it.” Of course, he is so right! I’ve had amazing turnarounds within a moment of anxiety. Rather than try and “let go” of this surging emotion I directed its energy toward an immediate task and simultaneously experienced movement possibilities.

It helps to have a Dancer’s frame of mind when flushed with worry or anxiety. My proposal for this session is to give attendees an intimate introduction to the way Dancers think and feel so they may expand their kinesthetic sense and befriend anxiety and worry.

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Ilene Serlin, PhD, BC-DMT, Sarah Kass, PhD, Candice Hershman, MFT and Eleanor Criswell, PhD EHI:7 Session Outline

The Art of Embodiment

Ilene Serlin, PhD, BC-DMT, Sarah Kass, PhD, Candice Hershman, MFT and Eleanor Criswell, PhD    90 minutes

Anxiety is a natural response to the storms of life; embodiment can provide a calm center from which to experience and find courage and strength in these storms.

In this workshop, several approaches to embodiment will be explored. Kinaesthetic Imagining is a process by which participants awaken consciousness in the body (“incarnate perception”), develop the language and symbols of nonverbal experience (“kinetic melodies”), and discover meaning in their experience (“action hermeneutics”).

Another approach will explore the therapeutic body, the process of meaning-making with the abstract mind versus with affect and emotions, and the connections between ancient practices of yoga and modern somatic practices.

Embodiment is a crucial dimension of existential/humanistic psychology, but has not been as developed as the theoretical and philosophical ones. This workshop, therefore, aims to address this gap by contributing to the articulation of the “felt experienced” dimensions of an existential/humanistic psychology, while forming closer connections to related fields of somatic psychology and creativity studies.

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