Objectives
To quote T. Byram Karasu, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine:
“What really matters is not schools of therapy, but the psychotherapists (healers) themselves…The healer is someone who identifies past and present conflicts and deficits, not in order to resolve, but to transcend them. He accepts the person with all his limitations, at the same time as he does not settle for that as an end in itself. …The healer believes in a model of health , which is normative and transcends diagnoses… He doesn’t follow standardized procedures in operational manuals that homogenize all treatment. Rather, the approach used is highly improvisational, and fully accepts, if not promotes, heterogeneity.”
* To pass on the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual elements of the Growth and Transition workshops to another generation of facilitators, stressing the incorporation of the living, ever growing nature of this type of process.
* To underscore the professional caregiver’s obligation to continue his/her own growth work as a necessary means to helping others, and to provide a safe, non-judgmental space in order for that to happen.
* To teach the various elements of the gestalt technique we have called “externalization”, and to discuss how aspects of this process can be used in various settings.
* To teach the rudiments of the interpretation of spontaneous drawings, as originally explored by Gregg M. Furth.
* To discuss elements of transference and counter transference in the group/workshop setting, as well as other aspects of Irving Yalom and Corey and Corey’s theories of group dynamics.
* To review the teachings, and their philosophical underpinnings, taught at the workshop, and give all trainees an opportunity to teach a short segment relevant to the workshop process.
* To understand the roles of externalization and the weekend process itself in combating addictions.
* Build a referral list of therapists around the country who support process oriented work.
To quote C.G. Jung: “There is no light without shadow. There is no psychic wholeness without imperfection.”
Please contact Anne Taylor Lincoln at 520-591-9177 to request an application for the 2013 Training Program. References will be required. A minimum of 8, and a maximum of 20, trainees will be accepted. Tucson Medical Center sponsors the Training Program with 27ceus available per weekend for individuals who qualify. The cost per weekend is $800 (for a total of $2400 for the 3 weekends), includes a non-refundable deposit of $300, due at registration before each weekend.