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Our summer workshop offering is through Xavier University's counseling school: http://www.xavier.edu/registrar/class/summer/workshop_description2008.pdf Presence
Practice: Deep Therapy EDWS 504-W1 (54) When working in therapeutic alliance do you notice your shifts: here to somewhere else, engaged to distracted, present...absent and back? Presence is a key component of fulfilling, alive and vital relationship with self, others and the world. Presence is a capacity for being awake and aware within one's experience, and is essential in all effective service activities. It delivers and activates the power of all approaches to counseling and education. This course will deeply examine styles of presence, styles of therapeutic relationship, especially the classic and demanding notions of empathy and congruence as ways of attaining more powerful connection with oneself and clients or students. The work of Martha Stark that examines three therapeutic models: offering insight, providing corrective experience, being an authentic subject will also be explored. Guest therapist Mark Davis will provide resources from his years of working to understand meditative practice and its application to life work. Participants will be invited into exercises in stillness, in action, and in relationship that are immediately applicable to clinical work. Diverse learning processes will support personal and professional learning. Limit: 15 participants. Noncredit fee: $195 EDWS 504-N1R (52582). Suggested registration deadline: July 11 |