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| Thu, Jun 8 - Sun, Jun 11. | Inner Quest Women's* Retreat, 720-507-6247 Join a small group of women for an inspiring and illuminating 4-day, 3-night wilderness retreat in the mountains near Boulder, Colorado. Connect with the land, your inner wisdom, current life circumstances, and future intentions within an intentionally held and supportive environment. Led by guides Katie Asmus and Lisa Kennemur, you will have the opportunity to honor the journey of your life, including what you are currently letting go of, stepping into, calling forth, or celebrating. Learn More... |
| Sat, Jun 10 - Sat, Jun 10. | Creating Calm From Chaos Parenting Workshop, 7204466175 For today’s ever-changing family schedules and lifestyles, Na will guide participants in this workshop to: Learn Principles in Creating Calm with Children Practice Proven Strategies to Calm the Chaos Customize Daily Visuals For Use In Your Home Prepare for a Summer Full of Fun & Connections! Learn More... |
| Wed, Jun 14 - Sun, Jun 18. | Collaborations with the Natural World, 720-507-6247 Collaborations with the Natural World is an experiential immersion into therapeutic relationship with nature. This training will inspire, deepen, and transform your relationship to yourself, your work, and ultimately to the natural world! Through a combination of your own explorations in nature, along with didactic presentation, discussion, and the weaving of practical application, you will leave with practical tools, exercises, and interventions that you can immediately put to use with clients. Learn More... |
| Fri, Jun 23 - Sun, Jun 25. | Complete Remote EMDR Training Course - June 23, 2023 to June 25, 2023 - Part 2: October 6, 2023 to October 8, 2023 - 10 Hours of Group Consultation Included - Central Time Zone (Kansas Time), 8006743637 Learn Remote EMDR Therapy to Help Heal PTSD and Trauma ----- Complete Remote EMDR Training Course - Part 1: June 23-25, 2023 - Part 2: October 6-8, 2023 - 10 Hours of Group Consultation Included - Central Time Zone (Kansas Time) - APA and NBCC CE Credit Hours Available ----- EMDR Therapy is an integrative, evidence-based, client-centric, psychotherapeutic modality for working with PTSD and trauma. This live "virtual EMDR basic training" course will prepare therapists to use EMDR Therapy effectively with their clients. This complete training package will include real-time lectures, live demonstrations, practica, virtual breakout groups, and other EMDR Training tools and resources. This Remote EMDR Training course will be taught by Dr. Susan Dutcher, a Maiberger Institute Certified EMDR Trainer for the Maiberger Institute's Remote EMDR Training course, and Remote EMDR Refresher course. Dr. Dutcher specializes in working with trauma from a somatic approach and brings this wisdom to her teaching and consulting in EMDR therapy. This Remote EMDR Training course was created by Barb Maiberger, MA, LPC -- the author of "Remote Together: A Therapist's Guide to Cultivating a Sustainable Practice," "EMDR Essentials: A Guide for Clients and Therapists" and co-author of "EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment." ----- VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE... Learn More... |
| Sat, Jun 24 - Sat, Jun 24. | Existential Dialogue: "Sexuality" Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Dr Niki D, +44 (0) 207 289 Existential Dialogues: The therapist in the mirror. Ten live dialogues between Prof Ernesto Spinelli and International Existential Therapists based on case studies that illustrate key existential topics. 24 June “Sexuality" with Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Dr Niki D Sexuality. “Sexuality can awaken us to our interrelated being. A way of knowing ourselves through someone else” (Smith-Pickard) “Our unique or ontic expressions of ‘being sexual’ reveal aspects of ourselves and the way in which we respond to the ontological givens of relatedness, embodiment and uncertainty. The term existential sexuality describes sexuality from an embodied, relational experience, where the intersubjective nature of sexuality is emphasised, rather than reducing sexuality to drives, physiology or cultural norms. OPEN & POLYAMOROUS RELATIONSHIPS “We judge what we don’t understand” (unknown source) The co-creation of a unique, open relationship can be a wonderfully empowering and uniting experience for couples who have been a closed dyad. It can also be intense, exhausting, confusing and distressing. In this discussion, I want to hone in on the specific factors and challenges that may present when one partner is requesting a move to an open or polyamorous relationship and the other is reluctant. Examining different views and assumptions about relationship styles can feel like walking a tightrope, especially when a client’s unreflected mononormative bias is in the room. Learn More... |
| Sat, Jul 8 - Sat, Jul 8. | Existential Dialogue: "Play" Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Dr Betty Cannon, +44 (0) 207 289 Existential Dialogues: The therapist in the mirror. Ten live dialogues between Prof Ernesto Spinelli and International Existential Therapists based on case studies illustrating key existential topics. 8 July “Play" with Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Dr Betty Cannon “Play and an attitude toward life that I call the ‘spirit of play’ lie at the heart of my approach to therapy, which is deeply and specifically grounded in the philosophy of Sartre. As Sartre describes it, play is the ‘least possessive attitude’ — an activity that ‘strips the real of its reality and thereby allows us to take ourselves less seriously. It is deeply and intimately connected with our freedom. My favourite psychoanalyst, D. W. Winnicott, who was also a paediatrician, described the process of psychotherapy itself as ‘two people playing together’ — or, where one of them is unable to play, learning to play together. I agree. I view psychotherapy as a very particular form of play that invites the client (and perhaps also the therapist) to move away from what Sartre calls the ‘spirit of seriousness’ in the direction of the ‘spirit of play’. As I see it, it would be great if the whole field of psychotherapy could become more ‘playful’ and less ‘serious’ than it sometimes appears to be. In the vignette I will be discussing with Ernesto, my client is a very ‘serious’ but nice fellow who has forgotten how to play. As we eventually discovered, he had very good reasons for forgetting, going back to his earliest child Learn More... |
| Fri, Jul 21 - Sun, Jul 23. | Complete Remote EMDR Training Course - Part 1: July 21, 2023 to July 23, 2023 - Part 2: November 3, 2023 to November 5, 2023 - 10 Hours of Group Consultation Included - Central Time Zone (Kansas Time), 8006743637 Learn Remote EMDR Therapy to Help Heal PTSD and Trauma ----- Complete Remote EMDR Training Course - art 1: July 21-23, 2023 - Part 2: November 3-5, 2023 - 10 Hours of Group Consultation Included - Central Time Zone (Kansas Time) - APA and NBCC CE Credit Hours Available ----- EMDR Therapy is an integrative, evidence-based, client-centric, psychotherapeutic modality for working with PTSD and trauma. This live "virtual EMDR basic training" course will prepare therapists to use EMDR Therapy effectively with their clients. This complete training package will include real-time lectures, live demonstrations, practica, virtual breakout groups, and other EMDR Training tools and resources. This Remote EMDR Training course will be taught by Dr. Susan Dutcher, a Maiberger Institute Certified EMDR Trainer for the Maiberger Institute's Remote EMDR Training course, and Remote EMDR Refresher course. Dr. Dutcher specializes in working with trauma from a somatic approach and brings this wisdom to her teaching and consulting in EMDR therapy. This Remote EMDR Training course was created by Barb Maiberger, MA, LPC -- the author of "Remote Together: A Therapist's Guide to Cultivating a Sustainable Practice," "EMDR Essentials: A Guide for Clients and Therapists" and co-author of "EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment." ----- VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE... Learn More... |
| Sat, Jul 22 - Wed, Jul 26. | Uncovering Genius, 720-507-6247 Uncovering Genius: Harnessing Your Inner Wisdom Through Nature-Based Parts Work A 5-day experiential training for therapists and helping professionals Join us for this 5-day, highly experiential, deep dive into Parts Work theory and practice within the setting and support of the natural world. This training is influenced by psychological models and modalities that acknowledge the complexity of our humanness and the brilliance of our inner capacity for wholeness and healing. You will leave with a solid understanding of the function of our inner parts, a roadmap to uncover and work with clients from this paradigm, and a deep awe of the way in which doing this work in the natural world can greatly enhance your work with clients. Learn More... |
| Mon, Aug 7 - Sun, Aug 13. | SoulFire Wilderness Quest, 720-507-6247 SoulFire Wilderness Quest: Step away from your routine to connect more deeply with your inner compass Join a small group of women for a soul-expanding 7-day wilderness quest on private land in the foothills near Boulder, CO. Facilitators Katie Asmus and Sommerville Johnston will guide you as you take a pause from life to listen deeply to your inner voice and to the wisdom and guidance of the natural world. This quest includes a 3-day/3-night solo time on the land, followed by an opportunity to harvest insights from your solo time with the support of community. *We acknowledge the complex history of identity expressions, reclamation, and inclusion through language. Our intention is to create a container that recognizes the broad scope of womanhood. We welcome women (cis and trans), femmes and genderqueer people. As facilitators, we are actively invested in our own learning and skill development around gender diversity and trans inclusion, and welcome any questions or requests from interested applicants. Learn More... |
| Fri, Aug 18 - Sun, Aug 20. | Complete Remote EMDR Training Course - Part 1: August 18, 2023 to August 20, 2023 - Part 2: December 8, 2023 to December 10, 2023 - 10 Hours of Group Consultation Included, 8006743637 Learn Remote EMDR Therapy to Help Heal PTSD and Trauma ----- Complete Remote EMDR Training Course - Part 1: August 18, 2023 to August 20, 2023 - Part 2: December 8, 2023 to December 10, 2023 - 10 Hours of Group Consultation Included - APA and NBCC CE Credit Hours Available ----- EMDR Therapy is an integrative, evidence-based, client-centric, psychotherapeutic modality for working with PTSD and trauma. This live "virtual EMDR basic training" course will prepare therapists to use EMDR Therapy effectively with their clients. This complete training package will include real-time lectures, live demonstrations, practica, virtual breakout groups, and other EMDR Training tools and resources. This Remote EMDR Training course was created by Barb Maiberger, MA, LPC -- the author of "Remote Together: A Therapist's Guide to Cultivating a Sustainable Practice," "EMDR Essentials: A Guide for Clients and Therapists" and co-author of "EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment." Barb Maiberger is an EMDR Trainer and Consultant that has PERSONALLY conducted over a hundred live EMDR training courses and PERSONALLY trained thousands of mental health clinicians in the practice of EMDR therapy. ----- VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE... Learn More... |
| Sat, Aug 19 - Wed, Aug 23. | Connecting with Ground, 720-507-6247 Connecting with Ground:Nature-Based Interventions for Trauma and Regulation A 5-day experiential training for therapists, coaches, educators, and healers In this nature-based experiential intensive we will focus on the basic theoretical underpinnings of trauma, attachment, and nervous system regulation, as well as explore a wide range of mindfulness-based nature interventions for managing stress and trauma symptoms that may arise within counseling and educational programming. Learn More... |
| Fri, Sep 15 - Sun, Sep 17. | Complete Remote EMDR Training Course - Part 1: September 15, 2023 to September 17, 2023 - Part 2: January 19, 2024 to January 21, 2024 - 10 Hours of Group Consultation Included, 8006743637 Learn Remote EMDR Therapy to Help Heal PTSD and Trauma ----- Complete Remote EMDR Training Course - Part 1: September 15, 2023 to September 17, 2023 - Part 2: January 19, 2024 to January 21, 2024 - 10 Hours of Group Consultation Included - APA and NBCC CE Credit Hours Available ----- EMDR Therapy is an integrative, evidence-based, client-centric, psychotherapeutic modality for working with PTSD and trauma. This live "virtual EMDR basic training" course will prepare therapists to use EMDR Therapy effectively with their clients. This complete training package will include real-time lectures, live demonstrations, practica, virtual breakout groups, and other EMDR Training tools and resources. This Remote EMDR Training course was created by Barb Maiberger, MA, LPC -- the author of "Remote Together: A Therapist's Guide to Cultivating a Sustainable Practice," "EMDR Essentials: A Guide for Clients and Therapists" and co-author of "EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology: Interventions to Enhance Embodiment in Trauma Treatment." Barb Maiberger is an EMDR Trainer and Consultant that has PERSONALLY conducted over a hundred live EMDR training courses and PERSONALLY trained thousands of mental health clinicians in the practice of EMDR therapy. ----- VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE... Learn More... |
| Tue, Sep 26 - Wed, Sep 27. | Remote EMDR Grief Protocol Course - September 26, 2023 to September 27, 2023 - APA and NBCC CE Credit Hours Available - Mountain Time Zone (Colorado Time), 8006743637 Remote EMDR Grief Protocol Course - September 26, 2023 to September 27, 2023 - APA and NBCC CE Credit Hours Available - Mountain Time Zone (Colorado Time) ----- One of the questions that often comes up in EMDR consultation is how to work with grief. Some EMDR therapists avoid working with grief because they fear it might interrupt the natural grieving process, some therapists do not recognize how trauma is related to the grief, and some therapists are missing the intersectional context that keeps clients stuck in pain over generations. As EMDR therapists learn how to approach grief from a trauma-informed, evidenced-based, somatic approach, they can begin to let go of this fear and embrace helping their clients move “with” and “through” their stuck pain. In this two-day course, EMDR therapists will learn how to honor grief and loss through a client-centered and intersectional approach. Therapists will gain skills in recognizing and working with stuck grief, how to resource clients in building resiliency, develop effective treatment plans, and learn effective interweaves for stuck processing. Therapists will also explore their own experiences with grief and how to take care of themselves before, during, and after EMDR sessions ----- VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE... Learn More... |
| Fri, Sep 29 - Sat, Nov 4. | Somatosensory & Experiential Movement-Based Sex Therapy Training, (720) 443-1491 Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Training for Counseling Students and Professionals Generally, learning about sex/ual/ity and its integral importance in intimate relationship is not a part of counseling or couples therapy curriculum. This course offers an integrated, socially-just, and trauma-informed method to support you in conceptualizing a whole-body sex/ual/ity as you counsel your clients about their intimate relationships. With the foundation of Sex Therapy with Somatic Psychotherapy and Dance/Movement Therapy, this method engages the many layers of the social self to uncover the shame and misinformation that creates wounds and stalls mind-body integration so that you can support them in total body connectivity and a securely attached relationship with their sex/ual/ity. Participants will learn to evaluate the relationship between the somatic self and social arenas that influence how we inhabit and express ourselves. This body-based learning experience will show you how to integrate the exciting and easeful aspects of sexuality with the unconscious and fractured aspects, allowing for an integrative exploration and discovery of a whole-bodied erotic self. Module #1 Somatic-Concentric Sex Therapy Foundations + Assessment & Interventions Module #2 Ethical considerations, therapist somatic self-knowing, and supervised practice Virtual Training Module #1: September 29th & 30th Module #2: November 3rd & 4th $1,175 9:30 am - 4 pm 20 CE Credit Hours AASECT Credits Learn More... |
| Wed, Oct 4 - Sun, Jun 30 2024. | Somatic Soul-Based Trauma Training, 720-507-6247 Somatic Soul-Based Trauma Training: 9-Month Training for Therapists & Helping Professionals Led by Katie Asmus, our 9-month long live, online training will powerfully impact your healing practice and your clients. This embodied training will provide you with personalized support in deepening your understanding of the neurophysiology of trauma, and give you effective somatic and soul-based therapy tools and interventions for working with trauma, attachment, and nervous system regulation. Learn More... |
| Wed, Oct 18 - Sun, Oct 22. | Honoring Change, 720-507-6247 Honoring Change:Ceremony, Ritual, and Rites of Passage as Tools for Transformation A 5-day training for therapists and helping professionals Come gather on the land in community to explore your own relationship with Ceremony, Ritual and Rites of Passage as a starting point for facilitating others in these practices. Whether or not a particular change is chosen or thrust upon us, transition affords opportunities to reevaluate our beliefs and values, to let go of old ways of being, to discover our strengths and capacities, and to step more consciously into our lives. Learn More... |
| Sat, Oct 28 - Sat, Oct 28. | Existential Dialogue: "Identity" Prof E. Spinelli and Dr Yaqui Martinez, +44 (0) 207 289 Existential Dialogues: The therapist in the mirror. Ten live dialogues between Prof Ernesto Spinelli and International Existential Therapists based on case studies illustrating key existential topics. 28 October “Identity" with Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Dr Yaqui Martinez “Our culture has built an idol: personal identity. From an early age we are taught (in subtle ways) to build a sense of ourselves that is stable, that shows continuity with the past, and that ensures permanence in the future. However, existence is a changing and mobile flux that constantly challenges us and demands to renew our sense of identity. What or who are we really? Can we find a way to define ourselves that can remain stable in the face of the constant changes of existence? What elements do we have to define ourselves? What does it mean to be identical with ourselves? Perhaps we need to rethink Sartre’s comment: “They say we are made of clay and mud; but rather we are made of wind” Dr Yaqui Martinez Learn More... |
| Sat, Nov 11 - Sat, Nov 11. | Existential Dialogue: "Dreams" Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Prof Robert Romanyshyn, +44 (0) 207 289 Existential Dialogues: The therapist in the mirror. Ten live dialogues between Prof Ernesto Spinelli and International Existential Therapists based on case studies illustrating key existential topics. 11 November “Dreams" with Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Dr Robert Romanyshyn “My approach to dreams is an imaginal one, which draws not only on the traditions of existential phenomenology and depth psychology but also on my work over the years with theatre folk. In these contexts, I regard the dream as a play performed in the night theatre of soul, staged in the far county of a different world. As such, I begin not with interpretations of what a dream might mean. Instead, I begin with the dream as a display of the possibility of possibility, and, as such, emphasise that the mood of the dream is not indicative but subjunctive, which is the sense that Freud had in describing a dream in terms of the wish, but which his method of interpretation ignored. Then, through a series of procedures developed over the years, I invite the dreamer to rehearse or try on the different characters presented in the dream by embodying and enacting them within its setting. Who does one become and how does one act in a different country? Using this approach as the first step in which the dream is making sense of the dreamer, the second step of making sense of the dream via interpretations can be taken.” Prof Robert Romanyshyn Learn More... |
| Sat, Dec 2 - Sat, Dec 2. | Existential Dialogue: "Spirituality" Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Bárbara Godoy, +44 (0) 207 289 Existential Dialogues: The therapist in the mirror. Ten live dialogues between Prof Ernesto Spinelli and International Existential Therapists based on case studies illustrating key existential topics. 2 December “Dreams" with Prof Ernesto Spinelli and Barbara Godoy “What is spirituality? Nietzsche says that with the emergence of monotheism, our imagination about opening our possibilities of being is inhibited. I had a funny conversation with a colleague from one of the CPD groups, who was upset about a certain client challenging binary gender identification. Perhaps the current emphasis on diversity is an opportunity to mobilise a different relation to spirituality. In this dialogue, I will share my reflections about the encounter with this colleague to explore my own assumptions about the tyranny of monotheism and my own perceptions about the importance of the ‘Panthe’ and the ‘Poly’ dimensions of Being. Can Spinoza’s god be a point of reference on the issue of spirituality for existential therapists? Should we consider studies of pre-monotheist traditions a valid subject or a possible foundation in existential training?” Barbara Godoy Learn More... |
| Sat, Mar 8 2025 - Sat, Dec 6 2025 | Coaching in a New Key: An Applied Existential ApproachSat, Mar 8 2025 - Sat, Dec 6 2025 Betty Cannon and Robyn Chauvin, BPI - 303 494 0393
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This class offers a thorough 60-hour certification training in Applied Existential Coaching. At the request of students who took our first class in 2022, we have added much more experiential work and breakout practice so that you leave with a thorough grounding in basic principles and interventions.
If you have found that you like working online and would like to add coaching to your repertoire, this may be the class for you. Unlike therapy, which is limited by state laws, coaching can be done across state lines or actually anywhere in the world. But it is important to know the difference and to have training in coaching if you are going to do this legally and ethically. The training we are offering is an in-depth approach to existential coaching. We will talk about principles and techniques, demonstrate them, show examples from videotapes, introduce experiential exercises, and ask you to practice the approach with other students. The workshop offers a thorough grounding in theory and fundamental interventions along with a taste of what existential relational and group coaching look like. Both coaches and therapists are welcome. Participants completing the training will receive a 60-hour Certificate of Study in Applied Existential Coaching.