Intimacy: Fear and
Fascination
AAP Summer Workshop
Advanced Training for Experienced Psychotherapists
Intimacy: Fear and
Fascination
AAP Summer Workshop
Advanced Training for Experienced Psychotherapists
What
is it that draws us to and repels us from intimate connections with
others? What is our yearning? What is it we fear? Why is shame connected to our need for
intimacy and the need so often disclaimed?
Is the prospect of transcending our isolation balanced by our fear of
engulfment and loss? Although the
culture claims intimacy as a solely positive aspect of life, we know there’s
much more to the story. If intimate
contact involves a mutual sharing of self through vulnerable revelation, then
it’s no surprise that the prospect and process of intimate connection evoke an
extensive range of affective and behavioral responses. Fascination and fear name two of a possibly
infinite list of reactions.
The
Academy, with its commitments to self-examination, self-awareness, and to the
person of the therapist, is arguably the field’s expert body on intimacy. A central tenet of existential humanistic
psychotherapy holds that relationship is foundational to both psychopathology
and healing. Thus, every day in our work
we strive to engage and “be there” with others and ourselves, and try to forge
a relationship based on authentic, vulnerable connection. Of course, our own issues with intimacy
inevitably impact our work and our clients.
To do this work is to struggle with intimacy. Join us at Deer Creek as we continue our
personal and professional struggles to intimately engage.
The
purpose of the
-To
enhance the person of the psychotherapist
-To
challenge the experienced psychotherapist to professional excellence
-To
explore the relationship of person and process to psychotherapy
Participants at this AAP Summer Workshop will
engage in theme-focused workshops and process groups in which they will have
the opportunity to:
Acquire new skills regarding the recognition and
treatment of intimacy-based interpersonal difficulties for clients.
Explore various clinical approaches to intervention
aimed at the barriers to intimacy for the client and his/her significant
others.
Enhance therapists’ ability to identify their own
barriers to intimacy and the subsequent countertransferential implications.
Interact with other therapists around personal and
professional issues generated by aspects of intimacy in their personal and
professional lives.
Confidentiality
regarding personal material is expected from everyone.
Workshops
are smoke free and may not be recorded by participants.
Workshops
will start on time and latecomers may be refused entry.
Welcome! Welcome back.
We are eager to present this workshop to you for your education,
sustenance, and delight. We hope you
will join us in what we assure you will be a program filled with intimacy and
challenge, anxiety and growth. We look
forward to sharing with you this savory banquet, this moveable feast that is
the AAP Summer Workshop.
Roy
and Phyllis Clymer, Co-Chairs
Joel
H. Marcus (Program Co-chair with Phyllis), Jeri Bonner, Tom Burns, Ellen Carr,
Cindy Galinski, Burt Grenell, Susan Jacobson, Lucy Kerewsky, Tamara Lubliner,
Deborah Winegar, Jack Winegar.
Nancy
Hunt, Consultant: Questions?
(510) 268-1786, aapoffice@sbcglobal.net
We
return to
The
The
Center has 110 guest rooms, all ours!
Rooms with balconies, kings and lofts are available. All meeting rooms and many guest rooms are
handicapped accessible. Members arriving
before Wednesday must contact the hotel
for rooms.
The
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for those driving. We will have
transportation from the
This program is co-sponsored
by the
ACFEI is recognized by the
National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for
National Certified Counselors. We adhere
to NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines.
ACFEI (provider #1052), is
approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association
of Social Work Boards (ASWB, www.aswb.org,
telephone: 1-800-225-6880), through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE)
program. ACFEI maintains responsibility.
ACFEI is an approved
provider of the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, (approval PCE 1896).
The
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The Program
WEDNESDAY,
JUNE 9
Afternoon
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T1-ONGOING TRAINING INSTITUTE I
Traditional
therapeutic dynamics take on a particular form and valence when experienced by women
together. The deep therapy relationship
becomes the container for intense experiences of love and hate, desire and
repulsion, hope and fear. Through case
materials, readings and discussion we will explore these complex but
potentially transforming relationships. Continues Thursday morning,
Lorrie
Hallman, Ph.D. is
a seasoned therapist who has focused on women’s issues, including feminist theory,
depression, anxiety, and the experience of sexual orientation. She remains fascinated by the intra-psychic
life of the individual and the influence of the psychotherapy relationship.
The Borderline
Relationship: Vicissitudes, Promise and
Healing
In order to understand the borderline relationship
cognitively and emotionally we will make use of a variety of frameworks. These will include psychodynamic theory of
borderline personality development, experiential and psychomotor psychotherapy
approaches, neurophysiological models of trauma and post traumatic reaction,
spiritual practices and, not least, our common humanness. Continues Thursday morning,
Bruce Schell, Ph.D.
is a clinical psychologist who has practiced psychotherapy for over 30
years. As a professor of Family and
Preventative Medicine, he has taught medical students for the last 18 years. He has published numerous articles and
presented at local and national meetings.
MORNING
(
T-1 CONTINUED
T-2 CONTINUED
#1-The
Courage to be Intimate After Loss
In the aftermath of significant loss like the death of
a loved one, the end of a marriage or partnership, the loss of physical
abilities due to illness or accident people often experience residual conflict
about such profound change. Such losses compel us to examine our working
understandings and constructs about ourselves, our relationships with others
and our lives. On one side is a very
strong and real urgency to incorporate the loss and move on. An equally powerful opposite pull is to
resist change and to yearn for the familiar past. This 2-day process group will strive to
create a space for these conflicting pulls with an emphasis on creating
relationships that speak to both sides of this human condition. (Limit 15) 6 CE credits
Adam Klein, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in
Marc Chagall’s depiction of “The Fiddler on the
Roof” captures an essential human dilemma:
how can we live and express ourselves fully, authentically, passionately
without losing our balance in a dangerous, hurtful world. Nowhere is this paradox more salient than in
the intimate work of Experiential Psychotherapy, where openness, authenticity
and immediacy are essential yet where reflection, thoughtfulness and
constructive circumspection must prevail.
This 2-day process group will provide attendees opportunities to
practice this seemingly paradoxical skill in a non-directive group where
sharing, exploring, and constructive responding will be the group task. (Limit
24) 6 CE credits
Marc Feldman, Ph.D.,
has been a psychotherapist in
#3-Explorations
in Intimacy: Confronting Fear and
Fascination in a Process Group
Intimacy is a state of encountering others that attracts
and repels us. This 2-day process group
will explore the edge between fascination with and fear of intimacy that is
engendered in a process group. (Limit
15) 6 CE credits
Murray Scher, Ph.D.,
has been leading groups for more than thirty years. He has long been interested in issues
involving intimacy. A well published and
experienced psychologist, he is a past president of AAP.
Lyn Sommer, Ph.D., enjoys
confronting the challenge of intimacy in her work with couples, parent-child
dyads and groups in her
In therapy and in other relationships, moments
arise when a choice is made to surrender to an internal directive which risks
much, or to back off and play it safe.
Each of us has done both. What
allows for the choice for surrender at a given moment? We will explore this question, both in
ourselves and with each other. (Limit
14) 3 CE credits
Molly Donovan, Ph.D.,
is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the
#5-Who
Is Your Practice? Relating to Your Practice
As If It Were A Significant Other
We
project our history with significant others—parents, siblings, spouses, and
friends—not only onto our patients but also our practice, as if it were
a human entity. Our psychotherapy
practices thus may become objects for us that at different moments are good and
bad, nurturing and depriving, abandoning and engulfing, predictable and
capricious, stimulating and deadening, affirming and diminishing, etc. These and other projected inner states and
irrational attachments powerfully affect our passion for the work and the
success of our practice. This workshop
will encourage participants to explore frightening and fascinating connections
to their practices and will employ personal sharing, imaging, experiential exercises
and the use of the group process. (Limit
15) 3 CE credits
Stephen
Shere, Ph.D.,
has maintained a full time practice in
We sit together in the therapeutic hour. What contributed to the presence or distance
in our clients and us? How do we
overcome the fear/anxiety/excitement of closeness? We will explore these themes in the processes
of the group, role-play, and videotapes of therapy sessions. (Limit 12) 3 CE credits
Grover Criswell, M.DIV., has
been a pastoral psychotherapist and teacher of psychotherapy since 1968. His academic training was at
#7-Focus
on Friendship: Experiencing and
Exploring the Dark Side of Nonsexual Intimate Relationships
This theme-flavored process group offers an
opportunity to experience and explore similarities and differences in the ways
that female-female, male-male, and female-male pairs of friends deal with
competition, envy, jealousy, manipulation, lies, betrayal, fears of all
sorts. Come on your own… or come with a
friend. (Limit 16) 3 CE credits
Penelope Penland, Ed.D., a
27-year AAP member, holds a B.A. in English from
#8-Fear
and Fascination with the Creative Process:
Building a Deeper Intimacy
What are your fears and/or fascinations when
engaging creativity in the therapeutic process?
In this workshop, participants will share their history of creative
endeavors both in and out of the therapy room (samples and/or photos are
welcome); hand paint a piece of clothing (something brought from home); and
gain insight into how their fear and fascination with the creative process
affect intimacy in their practices and lives.
(Limit 8) 3 CE credits Note:
Materials fee of $10 paid to the leader at the workshop
Pati Young, LCSW-C, is
a licensed clinical social worker/artist with over 13 years experience. Her current clinical practice uses a
self-developed model of psychotherapy called “Creative Process
Psychotherapy”. This is a short-term
complementary psychotherapeutic process aimed at enlivening the client’s
creativity as a personal growth tool both within and outside the treatment
room. She also designs and hand-paints
wearable art clothing.
We will gather in a sacred circle of women to
address our anger for the wounding received from our fathers. Using large group sharing and small group
work with a body-based, bioenergetics, experiential process, we will explore
that which remains held, stored, believed, and possibly even cherished in
us. (Limit 15 women) 3 CE credits
Laura June, Ph.D.,
is a licensed psychologist with a private practice of adult psychotherapy in
Who are we in intimate relationships? To what do we feel entitled? Do we forego feeling entitled to much of
anything in our most important relationships?
This workshop will encourage participants to examine the dance between
ourselves and those with whom we are intimate.
Is the dance one of loving embrace or of martyred deprivation? We will explore what we expect for ourselves
including the good, the bad, and the ugly.
(Limit 15) 3 CE credits
Ellen Weber Libby, Ph.D., is
a psychotherapist in
Note: This workshop will meet from
Nicholas Kirsch, Ph.D., a
lifelong jock and competition junkie is fascinated at how competition increases
and decreases performance, enjoyment, and intimacy in sports and in all
significant relationships. He wonders if
he could live without the raw energy, joy and camaraderie that come with
playing competitive team sports.
This workshop will focus on chemically dependency
including an exploration and discussion of what sort of patterns are set, not
only in the people who are chemically dependent, but in their families as
well. Participants will have an
opportunity for intimate sharing as they look at some of these effects, and
discuss their own cases and situations that are of interest. This workshop meets
criteria for Ethics CE. (Limit 20) 3 CE credits
Phillip Guinsburg, Ph.D.,
is a licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor, who is currently President
Elect of the
This workshop offers an experiential, interactive
opportunity to explore the vicissitudes of intimacy in a psychotherapeutic
setting; especially as it relates to the relationship between patient and
therapist. Participants will focus on
their own fear and fascination with the nature of intimacy and how it manifests
itself in the work. (Limit 12) 3 CE
credits
Elliott Blum, Ph.D.,
has been in private practice for over 30 years.
He has directed clinical psychology and research training programs for
over 20 years.
Ronnie Koenig, Ph.D.,
has been in the private practice of psychotherapy for over 25 years, and in AAP
for almost that long. Both venues have
offered opportunities to experience fearful and fascinating aspects of
intimacy.
MORNING
(
#1 KLEIN AND ROBINSON CONTINUED
#2 FELDMAN CONTINUED
#3 SCHER AND SOMMER CONTINUED
#14-A Master Class…Offering Participants the
Each day we will present a live demonstration
showing how we work with individuals within the context of a group. This will be followed by a didactic
discussion focused on the therapeutic stance of each therapist, within the
container of the group. (Limit 50) 6
CE credits
Jack Kehoe, M.D., practiced as a
physician for several years before his training as a psychiatrist in the
psychoanalytic and community psychiatry tradition in the sixties. Dr. Kehoe spent many years working with the
late Sheldon Kopp, Ph.D., which led to his spending the majority of his
professional life working in long-term experiential psychotherapy blended with
the biological approach. He has worked
in many clinics and hospitals, public, private and military, and has held
numerous consultantships. In addition to
presenting workshops and countless groups, he has been in the private practice
of psychiatry for over twenty years.
Much of his understanding of the nature of psychotherapy has come
through his long association with AAP.
Jack Mulgrew, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is
a professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Appalachian State
University. He has been conducting
experiential training workshops for psychotherapists for the past 30 years.
Barry S. Sternfeld, Ph.D.,
has been training and supervising psychotherapists for nearly 30 years. He is
in private practice in
J. Alfred Prufrock knew the score.
There is a risk in going for more.
Yet we, like him, need never lack
The perverse satisfaction of holding back.
Participants in this 2-day experience will be
encouraged to investigate their resistance to approaching the resources of the
group. (Limit 12 moderately experienced
to experienced therapists) 6 CE credits
David Hawkins, M.D., CGP,
is a Board Certified Psychiatrist in private practice in
#16-Alive
in the Underground: the Fear and
Fascination of Intimacy---A Process Group
To be intimate we must risk surfacing things about
ourselves that we’d prefer not to see (and have seen). Yet to live only in the surface litter makes
real connection impossible. This is a
6-hour process group for people who are fascinated with the possibility of
intimacy, and not dissuaded by their fear.
(Limit 12) 6 CE credits
Barry Wepman, Ph.D., is
a psychologist in
#17-The Transformation of Shame: A Barrier to Intimacy
Participants will have an opportunity to explore
issues related to shame, including how shame obstructs intimacy. Through the group process, participants may
transcend some of shame’s immobilizing aspects.
Our hope is to facilitate participants’ liberation from the “House of
Shame”. Reading selections will be
assigned prior to the Summer Workshop.
(Limit 15) 6 CE credits
Stephanie Ezust, Ph.D., earned
her degree in Clinical Psychology from
Jennifer Savitz, Ph.D., has
her Ph.D. in Counseling, and also practices as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in
One of our most intimate connections is with our
own faces. Through them we connect
powerfully and intimately with others.
Changing one’s face through elective cosmetic surgery raises both
intra-psychic and interpersonal issues in our personal and professional lives. This workshop is for those who are
contemplating or who have undertaken such surgery and wish to explore the fear,
fascination and clinical practice issues associated with this change. (Limit 14) 3 CE credits
Rhona Engels, A.C.S.W.,
has practiced in
Marcia Warrant, LICSW,
has been in private practice in
As in all stages of our life’s journey, the
transitions, rites of passage, etc., retirement is a process. The passage to full retirement courses through interesting
fearful and dynamic challenges that we meet on the way. We come together to share our journey and in
this coming together, we hope to experience the intimacy that comes from
exchanging our revelations and discoveries.
(Limit 15) 3 CE credits
Estelle Charles, MSW,
worked as a legal paraprofessional when she began wondering about the “whys” of
behavior, including her own. This eventually led to her own psychotherapy where
she became fascinated with the process of psychoanalyzing her own
behavior. That led to her MSW and then
to the Metropolitan Institute of Psychoanalysis, in order to learn how to
practice psychotherapy, in which she has been engaged for about 30 years. Still fascinated, Estelle is not retired, and
works 2 days per week.
Dick Robertson, Ph.D.,
used his GI bill to attend the University of Chicago, where a buddy dragged him
to a course given by Carl Rodgers. He
gravitated to Human Development, which contained some pre-med and anthropology
instead of “rat” psychology. Later he
practiced Client Centered therapy in Chicago, and began teaching psychology for
Northeastern Illinois University. He is
now retired from teaching, and is gradually diminishing his private practice.
Being present at a birth can almost always be
arranged and is experienced as a continuing miracle. To be at someone’s bedside when the final
breath goes out of him or her is like catching a falling star out of the corner
of your eye. Most of us would not choose
this experience. For some of us who have
had it, our lives have been changed forever.
It is an extremely intimate experience to be connected to someone in
their dying. Yet often guilt and fear
drive us to shun the experience. Using
Ernest Becker’s “Denial of Death” as a backdrop, we will explore these fears and
aim to tolerate the intimacies that witnessing death affords; thus making us
more open to life. (Limit 12) 3 CE
credits
Lenore Pomerance, MSW, LICSW,
is a clinical social worker in private practice in the District of
Columbia. She has led groups for people
with cancer and HIV/AIDS, and other chronic illness such as asthma and multiple
sclerosis. She is a Certified Menopause
Educator and counsels individuals and couples around midlife issues of aging
and menopause. She has co-led workshops
at AGPA and AAP.
What is it about the creative process that enhances
intimacy? This question will be explored
in this workshop, in which one therapeutic modality, stone carving, will be
used as a vehicle to explore the healing potential of the creative
process. Through their own stone carving
process, participants will experience the intimate relationship between the
creative process and healing. (Limit 15)
6 CE credits Note: This 2 session workshop will occur on one full day,
morning and afternoon. A $35 materials
fee is payable to the leader at the workshop.
Arthur S. Weinfeld, Ed.D.
is a clinical psychologist who has had many years of experience integrating one
artistic modality, stone carving, into psychotherapeutic process. He has presented many workshops on this topic
including Omega Institute, Esalen, and The Haven. He maintains a private practice in
Lincolnshire and Arlington Heights, Illinois.
The learning experience will be facilitated
by: a brief informational lecture with
emphasis on the Gestalt Therapy approach; video presentation; live
demonstration; opportunity for participants to work with each others’
dreams. (Limit 16) 3 CE credits
Sol Rosenberg, Ph.D.,
Past President of AAP and of the Illinois Psychological Association, has been
engaged in the practice and teaching of psychotherapy for the past 53
years. Originally trained
psychoanalytically, he practices a more humanistic-existential version of the
art in Sarasota, Florida.
#23-Men and Intimacy (and Women Too)
In this workshop we will explore the dynamics
involved in achieving and sustaining intimacy, and the special problems that
arise as gender issues. What makes
intimacy seem so problematic and even dangerous a times? Is it really more difficult for men than for
women, and if so, why? How do the gender
expectations of our patriarchal culture get in the way? What are the special issues and challenges
involved when we work with men in therapy, individually and in couples? (Limit 30) 3 CE credits
Stephen Howard, M.D.,
is an experiential psychotherapist, family therapist and teacher. He has practiced and written in the field of psychotherapy
for more than thirty years, with special interest in the dynamics of marriage
and other intimate relationships. He
anticipates the publication of his book, The Practice of Loving, and is
working on another entitled Intimate Couples. He has presented many times for the AAP.
‘You are old Father Williams,’ the young man said,
‘And your
hair has turned perfectly white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head --
Do you
think at your age that is right?’
‘In my youth,’ Father Williams replied to his son,
‘ I feared
it might injure the brain;
But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.’
Lewis
Carroll
In this workshop we will be considering old age as
it impacts us both emotionally and physiologically. Can we find meaning and purpose in our life
as we prepare for retirement? We will be
dealing with the positive and negative sides of aging; what we have garnered
over the years and what we have left to offer.
(Limit 15 therapists at least 60 years old) 3 CE credits
Mildred Kagan, LCSW,
is in her mid-80’s. She received her MSW
from Columbia University in 1946. Her
private practice, which includes individual, couple and group therapy, began in
1966 and continues to date. She has
written on the subject of aging for Voices entitled “Old Age the Third
Act: Finding Meaning and Passion”. She is currently “semi retired”.
MORNING
(9 AM TO NOON)
#14 MULGREW, KEHOE, STERNFELD CONTINUED
#15 HAWKINS CONTINUED
#16 WEPMAN CONTINUED
#17 EZUST AND SAVITZ CONTINUED
In this didactic and experiential workshop we will
explore how we conceptualize and experience our relationship with that which is
usually called “God”, including the conceptualization that God does not
exist. We will then examine how this
relationship interacts with our relationships with all other humans, including
our patients, and especially those in the workshop. (Limit 15) 3 CE credits
John Rhead, Ph.D.,
received his B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Dartmouth, and his Ph.D. in Psychology
from Stanford. Dr. Rhead has a private
practice in Columbia, Maryland, which focuses on psychotherapy and consultation.
He is has been on the faculty of the School of Medicine of the University of
Maryland, for approximately 25 years, first in the Department of Psychiatry and
now in the Department of Medicine.
Projective identification is a powerful dynamic in
psychotherapy. Thorough understanding of
this process enables the therapist to better navigate the patient’s internal
experience, and minimize the worst-case scenario of being colonized by the
patient’s psyche. Through didactic
presentation, case presentation, and discussion, participants will learn about
this concept and its’ use in the psychotherapeutic setting. (Limit 16) 3 CE credits
Barbara L. Nama, LCSW,
is a clinical social worker, who has been in practice for over 27 years. She received her M.S.W. from the University
of Michigan and worked in a variety of mental health clinic settings before
moving to Atlanta, where she has been in full-time private practice since 1987.
Specializing in long-term psychotherapy, her primary interest is in working
with attachment disorders and disorders of the self.
We will explore the parallel processes that exist
between our clients’ presenting problems, the issues we present in supervision,
the issues we ourselves struggle with and the issues of our supervisors. Complicated stuff; awe inspiring; difficult
to unravel; fearsome to examine, yet fascinating to explore! Participants are to send a one page case
summary to the presenter six weeks prior to the workshop. We will mine our “clinical nuggets” into pure
therapeutic gold. (Limit 8) 3 CE
credits
Manny Silverman, Ph.D., was
a university faculty member for 35 years.
During that time he continually struggled with the fear of intimacy in
teaching, therapy, supervision and life in general. Mentors and friends in AAP continually
reminded him of how fascinating his struggles appeared to them. Through their genuine investment, his
familiar fear and trepidation were regularly attacked, leading to increases in
his ability to experience intimacy. This
workshop will allow him to return the favor.
#28-Our
Field of Dreams: A Container for the
Intimate Sharing and Learning from our Dream Worlds
We have always been fascinated and frightened by
our dreams. Participants are asked to bring a recent or recurring dream to
share in a structured small group setting.
The process of dream sharing can enhance intimate connections to our
inner worlds and to each other. (Limit
20 experienced therapists divided into groups of 4) 3 CE credits
Ann Spadone Jacobson, Ph.D.,
is a licensed Psychologist in private practice in Hermosa Beach, California for
twenty-five years. She has also taught
and supervised the clinical work of students.
Ann has participated in a monthly “Dream Group” for several years.
An essential characteristic of the Academy’s early
members was a willingness to show vulnerability in intimate contact with
patients and each other. In this
workshop we will explore, in their own words, how this took place. Using our rich AAP Tape Library, we will
reacquaint ourselves with those who inspire us to this day. Our process, arising from the experience of
listening to these tapes, may deepen our ability to struggle with being in
intimate contact in our work. (Limit
Open) 3 CE credits
Vivian Guze, B.A., has
been in the practice of psychotherapy for many years, starting out as a
hospital psychologist for 16 years. Her
ongoing interest is in the realm of somatic psychotherapy, and how to harness
the brains of the body to make behavior change.
She has served on the Executive Council of AAP, the International
Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, and the New York State Psychological
Association. Her special training
relevant to this presentation: Longevity
in AAP.
The word, “ethics” has at its’ origins the Greek
word, “ethos”, meaning, “to do the right thing”. With the purity of Greek philosophy
supporting their thinking at the time, the system of law was established to
provide a framework for the upholding of ethics. In this way, law and ethics have held hands,
theoretically, through the ages. In the
current climate, we psychotherapists often find our ethical beliefs contrary to
laws and rules to which we are held accountable. How do we, as therapists, resolve the
conflicts encountered when professional ethics and law or governing boards are
in conflict? This workshop meets
criteria for Ethics CE. (Limit 12) 3
CE credits
Pat Webster, Ph.D. R.N., C.S.,
received her undergraduate degree in nursing, her master’s in psychiatric
nursing, and her doctorate in clinical psychology. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and
psychiatric nurse specialist in North Carolina, where she has been in private
practice for twenty-four years. She is
chair of the Ethics Committee for the American Academy of Psychotherapists.
Being there with Self is a precursor to intimacy
with others. Participants will have the
opportunity to explore various techniques to access their own sense of spirituality,
find their own center, speak their own truth and process their own reality:
fears and fascinations. We will
experience the quiet mind and viability of using these tools in psychotherapy.: Mantra and Zen Meditation, Movement (yoga,
Qigong, breathing) and Sound (chanting and Tibetan Bowls) will be used. (Limit
20) 3 CE credits
Angela Gould, Ph.D., a
26-year clinical psychologist, has utilized various methods and techniques to
integrate body, mind, and spirit in her psychotherapy practice and hospice
groups in Boulder, Colorado.
This workshop combines self-reflection, guided
imagery, group process and didactic components to explore the relationship
women have with money, and in particular the ways that money intertwines with
sexual power, control, and intimacy.
Areas of exploration will include:
shame about power and money; unconscious cultural expectations;
interrelationship of dependency/power/submission/ control in the realms of sex
and money. (Limit 20 women) 3 CE
credits
Pamela Finnerty, Ph.D.,
has been in the field of counseling and psychotherapy for over 30 years. Throughout her graduate training at the
University of Florida and Florida State University, she was interested in
sexuality, ranging from male involvement among college students in the area of
birth control, to sexuality and aging in her gerontology training. She was an
Associate Professor of Education and Associate Research Professor of Psychiatry
at George Washington University, and has had a private practice in Washington,
DC and Virginia for twenty years.
Ecstatic body postures can be seen in the artwork
of indigenous people around the world.
These non-ordinary postures, when used in conjunction with rattling or
drumming, alter the body’s functioning and allow us to perceive and experience
non-ordinary reality; the spirit counterpart of the world we know through the
five senses. Through slide, lecture, and
experiential components, participants in this workshop will expand their
understanding of posturally induced trance and the value of such an experience
to the process of change in the clinical setting. Drums and rattles are welcome. (Limit 15) 3 CE credits
Judy Lazarus, LCSW-C, is
a clinical social worker in the Counseling Center at St. Johns College in
Annapolis, and has maintained a private practice in Davidsonville, Maryland for
over 25 years. She has taught ritual
posture workshops in Maryland and New Mexico and serves on the Board of
Directors for the Cuyamungue Institute, a center for research and education
about ritual body postures
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at this workshop addresses subject matter described in the brochure printed for
this workshop, and that material being presented in this workshop is considered
to be within the parameters of standard professional practice, ethical
guidelines, and good patient care, and consistent with the mandates of their
respective professional affiliations and disciplines.
PRE-WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES
We
suggest these local activities to enrich your experience at Deer Creek. Frank Nosek will offer a tennis clinic from 5
to 6 PM on Wednesday, June 9th.
Francis Compton is organizing the golf tournament, time TBA. We will have several capable massage
therapists available to us on site throughout the conference. If there is sufficient demand, we can arrange
for pre-conference onsite massages on Wednesday June 9th. There are wonderful Native American
archeological sites in the area; the
closest is Hopewell Cultural Natural Historical Park (707-774-1126), thirty
minutes south of Deer Creek. Ft. Ancient
in Lebanon is also interesting. Paint
Creek Stables (740-437-7325) is 10 minutes away, offering hour and a half trail
rides for $20. Deer Creek Marina (740-869-4543) is just around the corner,
offering a wide variety of watercraft from canoes to powerboats. Deer Creek State Park (740-869-3124) is
nearby and offers woods and beach trails for the nature lover. Inveterate shoppers note: Jeffersonville
Prime Outlets has 110 stores and is just 20 minutes away. Burt Grenell will be happy make efforts to coordinate transportation
and reservations for those who want to make use of these activities- contact
him at 202-337-2999 and let him know when and what you would like to do and whether
you can help with transportation for others.
Summer Workshop 2004
June 9-13, 2004 Deer Creek, OH
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