This Seven Channels Process Training Group™ series focuses on giving and receiving the transformative gifts of the kind of secure base that we aspire to create as therapists. Our focus will be integrating and deepening the self of the therapist. We will work to offer alternative pathways to the counter-transference reactivity that can show up in us with certain psychotherapy clients and especially in working with couples.

We will practice whole-body moment-to-moment somatic tracking and speak in explicit I-statements about our internal experience. This produces an atmosphere of subtle discernment and evokes surprises of emergent selective perception, bottom-up awareness, selective reception as well as mindful expression.   This small group series accesses and builds upon self-at-best skill development of heart-to-heart compassion, inner reflection and balanced acknowledgment of self and other. We will be learning first hand about affective neuroscience and transforming attachment patterns via teaching moments integrated with the experience of the group sessions.

Target Audience: Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Therapists, MFTs and Social Workers

1. Describe dorsal vagal response.
2. Identify two ways to establish a secure base.
3. Describe two ways to regulate emotional reactivity. 
4. Name the Seven Channels of Experience. 
5. Demonstrate moment-to-moment tracking through the seven Channels of Experience 
6. Transform affect through slowing down the process and generate an experience of safety and connection. 
7. Show the safe base generated through deepening the therapeutic bonds within the coaching context of the group sessions.
8. Recognize openings to create successful relational engagement.
9. Show how dissociation can be identified and reduced through engaging the caregiving system.
10. Explain how being in an active, relationally attuned meditative state in sessions helps to prevent therapist burnout and improve treatment outcomes.
11. Define the value of the core affect of surprise.  (*Frederickson, 2013)
12. Integrate core affect through slowing down. (*Iwakabe, S., Edlin, J., Fosha, D., Gretton, H., Joseph, A. J., Nunnink, S. E., Nakamura, K., & Thoma, N. C., 2020)

Morning Sessions:

9:30-9:50am: Orientation and opening five-minute Channels of Experience meditation

9:50-10:15am: Check-in and discussion of each participant’s response to the meditation and any breakthroughs of awareness that they want to share are invited. Questions about the Seven Channels of Experience™ and about mindful and selective perception, selective reception and selective expression are all part of the process.

?10:15 to 11:15am: Facilitated interaction that demonstrates a growing grounded skillfulness in affective regulation and moment-to-moment tracking. Practice in the use of I-language, I-Thou (Buber) consciousness and a deepening capacity to access Channels of Experience that are “crimped” by defensive exclusion and are therefore less accessible.

?11:15-11:30am: Metaprocessing the experience of the group and closing

 

Evening Sessions:

4:20-4:45pm: Check-in and discussion of each participant’s response to the meditation and any breakthroughs of awareness that they want to share are invited. Questions about the Seven Channels of Experience™ and about mindful and selective perception, selective reception and selective expression are all part of the process.

?4:45 to 5:45: Facilitated interaction that demonstrates a growing grounded skillfulness in affective regulation and moment-to-moment tracking. Practice in the use of I-language, I-Thou (Buber) consciousness and a deepening capacity to access Channels of Experience that are “crimped” by defensive exclusion and are therefore less accessible.

?5:45-6:00pm: Metaprocessing the experience of the group and closing

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The cost for 16 Continuing Education (CE) credits will be $40. An email from Credits Education will be sent to all participants who complete the course.

This course is a hyrbrid of live sessions in Charlottesville, Va and live on zoom. 

Credits.Education, #1032827, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Credits.Education maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.  Course meets the qualifications for 16 hours of continuing education credits for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

 

All Other States: Most other states accept CAMFT approved courses for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.  Check with your state board.