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.

Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, MFT's, Licensed Professional Counselors, Social Workers, Registered Clinical Counselors and Pastoral Counselors.

Name four of the Seven Channels of Experience.

Describe the importance of finding ways to identify internal states other than by emotion alone.

Express how awareness of the energetic channel offers a way to be more attuned to yourself and to your clients.

Give examples of how increased dorsal vagal response affects the capacity to be present and responsive to relational cues.

Illustrate how awareness of subtle emotion in couple members is helpful in facilitating couple or group therapy.

Name one way that being able to track one’s own sensations of increasing or decreasing tension can improve the capacity to transfer this awareness to couple members in treatment.

Describe how your being adept in both present-tense awareness and language assists when you are conducting healing portrayals in sessions.

Contrast the effects of relying on projection and judgment alone to being more aware of body cues from moment-to-moment in facilitating treatment

Illustrate how, as a therapist, you can notice your own reactivity early and regulate yourself more effectively.

Describe the one channel of experience you are most keenly aware as your “North Star” in conducting sessions in an attuned way.

Name one channel of experience that is most vague or blocked in you.

Give examples of how you can access your internal awareness by conducting a body scan.

 Summarize the value of being able to use the visual channel in couples therapy in order to anticipate the early warnings of rising tension between couple members.

Give examples of auditory channel attunement that you value in your expressing yourself to regulate a client in individual therapy sessions.

Describe how you track movement and gesture as a way to “read the room” in individual, couple or family therapy sessions.

Illustrate how the application of the imaginal channel can help your clients to identify what they long for in their relationship life.

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:

4:00-4:20pm: Orientation and opening five-minute Channels of Experience meditation

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. Learning will be by gained through group discussion, lecture and live demonstrations.

Participants must have paid tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates available after satisfactory course completion at credits.education

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: Many states accept CAMFT approved courses for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs.  Check with your state board.