PRESENCE--Deepening
The Therapeutic Alliance for Health & Wellness Professionals
Presence describes our capacity for being awake and aware within our experience, whatever that experience may be. To be present is to be connected to and inseparable from our internal experience, relationship with others and the world. Being effective in relationship can be a function of the degree of one's capacity to stay present, especially so for those working in therapeutic alliance.
Presence workshops explore the theory and practice of staying connected and aware in therapeutic relationship. The workshop environment is conversational and experiential as we explore:
- techniques from both contemplative spiritual and contemporary psychotherapeutic traditions that build one's capacity for remaining focused and mindful
- particular obstacles that arise for those in therapeutic roles
- exercises that help integrate these approaches into daily work with clients and patients
Presence workshops can help health and wellness professionals:
- be more effective as therapists
- experience more fulfilling work with clients
- maintain healthy and appropriate boundaries
- improve self care and self management
- reduce caretaking fatigue and burnout
PRESENCE--Deepening Relationship with Self, Others and the Sacred
We also offer workshops open to all who are interested in this practice of exploring what it means to be present. The format is similar to our workshops with healing arts professionals, but the scope ranges further into exploring presence in all relationships and in engaging a life of the spirit. We explore approaches to contemplation and meditation from a variety of spiritual traditions and look at how to incorporate these practices into enriching all relationships.
Our hope is that you will take away from the workshop a framework for engaging your experience of daily life that will enable greater awareness, intimacy, balance and harmony.
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