Inner Relationship Focusing Training for Healing Professionals

Cape Cod Institute, Eastham, MA
July 5-9, 2010

Helping your clients find Focusing starts with you, with your own ability to connect with that deep place of inner knowing, and your own ability to be Self-in-Presence. When you are able to be with your clients in Presence and in touch with your bodily felt sense, both of you can contact the here-and-now implicit dimension of change. You can more easily build rapport with your clients, increasing safety and connection. And you can bring in any other method you know in an integrated way.

This experiential workshop includes presentation, demonstration, and paired practice each day. Participants will learn and practice the IR Focusing process with each other, and come away with a solid ability to accompany felt senses.

This five-morning training is the equivalent of our Level One training plus additional material especially for therapists and other healing professionals wanting to bring Focusing into your client sessions.

The Cape Cod Institute -- now in its 31st year -- is a summer-long series of timely, lively week-long courses for mental health and management professionals, offered by master teachers. All sessions are held in the National Seashore at the Nauset School on Cable Road, Eastham, Massachusetts. Eastham is a 2-hour drive from Boston or Providence (expect traffic delays on Saturday). There are frequent scheduled flights from Boston and Providence to Hyannis, which is a 40-minute drive to Eastham.

CE credits are offered for psychologists ( APA ), counselors (NBCC), social workers (ASWB), MFTs and MFCCs, physicians, nurses, and educators. More information on CE credit.

Monday
How “Presence language” facilitates a shift from being identified with emotional states to being able to accompany one’s own felt senses. The state of Self-in-Presence for both client and therapist is deepened by an open, accepting body awareness. How to help a client bring a self-accepting Presence to difficult emotions.

Tuesday
“Describing” vs. “labeling” one’s felt experience, and how describing a felt sense facilitates movement and change. How to help a client shift from story-telling into engaged contact with the immediate body process.

Wednesday
How contact and presence with a felt sense allows an opening of implicit meaning, and repetitive or stuck emotional states can begin to shift. How to help a client stay with the body-felt process with patience and empathy.

Thursday
How to facilitate the experience of safety, openness, and acceptance, both for the client and within the client, and why this is crucial for change to happen.

Friday
How to facilitate the process when self-acceptance is difficult, or when body awareness is difficult.

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