Training Workshops

Uncomfortable Spaces in Therapy: Navigating Tension and Uncertainty

Developing and nurturing space for clients to explore, express, play and enact change is fundamental to a successful therapeutic experience. In this workshop, participants will learn the concept of Transitional Space, and how this perspective models, facilitates and sometimes challenges relationship and change – both in the client and between client and therapist.  This will be a hands-on, experiential exploration of how to work with tension and discomfort in the therapy session.  Self awareness and self-monitoring techniques will be taught, especially in regard to the topic of counter-transference.  We will also explore how to tolerate uncertainty and ambiguity in order to better venture into the unknown and face the uncomfortable with our clients.  We will use lecture, inquiry and counseling exercises. CEUs are available.

Wrestling with the therapist’s shadow - The wisdom and challenge of Guggenbuhl-Craig’s “Power in the helping professions”

Informative, insightful, thought-provoking and at times even unsettling, “Power in the Helping Professions,” by Adolph Guggenbuhl-Craig challenges those in the helping professions to explore the consequence of their role in the dynamics of client-helper relationships. This six-week long process and reading group will focus on (roughly) a chapter a week. With time devoted to both the written material and interpersonal processing, we will challenge ourselves to look at our strengths and weaknesses as clinicians and helpers. CEU’s are available.