Upcoming Events

Embodied Gestalt

Starting October 11, 2017, from 10:00am — 12:30pm

Gestalt Institute presents a multi-day workshop Embodied Gestalt in Toronto.

Dates: Twelve Wednesday mornings, October 11, 25, November 8, 22, 2017; January 10, 24, February 7, 21, March 7, 21, April 11, 25, 2018

Support for the therapist who seeks to work in an embodied way

“The body is the vessel in which the transformation process takes place.” – James Hillman

This workshop is intended to support supervised therapists and licensed professionals in the application of embodied awareness to their practice. The background context is developmental trauma — leaders will introduce a new vocabulary to understand how the symptom carries the trauma. Participants can expect to do therapy sessions within the class in which their own personal experiences are used as material for learning.

Program Goals

• Building safety at a body level beginning with practitioners’ own relationship with the body
• Building intuition of body resonance
• Gaining body awareness of the dance between client and therapist — breaking down the “dance steps” of the therapy encounter
• Learning to track body sensations from impulse to movement
• Practicing skills in body resonance with another person

Location

417 Parliament Street, Toronto,  ON M5A 3A1

Open to: Inquire with Gestalt Institute

For more information, or to register, click here

Creativity and Perversion

October 11, 2017, from 7:30pm — 9:30pm

The Toronto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute presents a scientific meeting Creativity and Perversion: Waiting for the Muse.

Location

Toronto, ON

For more information, or to register, click here

Training for Psychotherapy Supervisors

October 17, 2017, at 10:00am — October 19, 2017, at 1:00pm

The Living Institute presents a three day seminar Training for Psychotherapy Supervisors.

DATES: October 17, 18 & 19 2017
TIME: 10AM-1PM
FEE $300 for 3-day seminar or $125 per day
LOCATION: The Living Institute at 208 Carlton St. Toronto, ON

What is the core of our understanding of Supervision? There are many elements synthesised in it, yet we place the process of therapeutic work at the heart of supervision.

This seminar will teach a variety of ways to tune into and understand process in supervision and enable your supervisees to enhance their client’s therapy and enable change.

We will explore ‘process’ as a many-sided term, facilitated through a gradually deepening experience of stances, behaviours, feelings, and intentional tendencies in the supervision session. Together these reveal subtle patterns, which relate to personal histories, self-realisation, potentials and aspirations.

Because process is reflexive, and embodies cultural as well as psychological determinants, it requires a phenomenological approach as well as a relational one. Process is a form of enactment.

This seminar is a shortened version of a course at Scarborough Counselling and Psychotherapy Training Institute, UK http://www.scpti.co.uk/supervision-diploma.html

This seminar fulfils 9 hours of training in supervision required by CRPO for 2018:

“the supervisor must have completed 30 hours of directed learning in providing clinical supervision. Directed learning can include course work, supervised practice as a clinical supervisor, individual/peer/group learning, and independent study that includes structured readings”.

Dr. Heward Wilkinson, D. Psych., BA, MA, MSc Psychotherapy, RN(M), CertEd, UKCP Fellow, UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist, was Chair, UKCP Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College for three periods, the original commissioning Senior Editor of the International Journal of Psychotherapy, 1996-2004, is on the current Ed. Bd., and is the European Editor, Canadian Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling, published by the Canadian Humanistic and Transpersonal Association. He is a Full Teacher Scarborough Psychotherapy Training Inst. (Gestalt, Integrative, Relational psychotherapies). He is active in UK/European psychotherapy regulation scene.

For more information or to register contact Lora Rempel at tli.studentclinic@gmail.com or 416-515-0404

 

Location

Toronto, ON

Open to: Inquire with The Living Institute

For more information, or to register, click here

Transcending Trauma Through the Arts

October 14, 2017, from 10:00am — 4:00pm

Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis presents Transcending Trauma Through the Arts.

MORNING: The Pathologizing Tilt in Holocaust Trauma Theorizing Presented by Sophia Richman, Ph.D.

This presentation challenges sweeping generalizations about survivors and identifies theoretical assumptions which have led to the pathologizing tilt in our trauma literature. It offers a more balanced view of Holocaust survivors which includes resilience and coping mechanisms like “healthy” dissociation and doubling as well as the use of artistic self-expression to work through traumatic experience. Case examples from literature and art illustrate the mending potential inherent in the creative process.

AFTERNOON: The Creative Pulse and the Great Wound Presented by Spyros D. Orfanos, Ph.D.

The narrative of creativity and imagination throughout the history of psychoanalysis has involved acts of engagement and renunciation. The celebration of the uniquely creative individual is a modern phenomenon emerging in the eighteenth century. This has yielded to contemporary claims for the genius in us all. Drawing on the today’s relational views and deep contextualism , this multimedia presentation will examine two artists (the composer Mikis Theodorakis and the vocalist Lina Orfanos) whose lives have been marked by trauma. The focus will be on how they have fashioned their own vitality in uplifting service to artistic and activist pursuits.

Learning Objectives

• To recognize prevailing pathologizing generalizations about survivors of massive psychic trauma and the faulty assumptions they are based on.
• To develop a more balanced view of survivors by identifying coping strategies and healing potential in the aftermath of catastrophic trauma.
• To understand how artistic self-expression can facilitate mourning, witnessing, and healing.
• To identify creativity as an area of study in psychoanalysis and the history of ideas.
• To compare and contrast psychoanalytic theories about creativity including contemporary relational ideas.
• To demonstrate the concepts of dissociation and witnessing as experienced by two artists who have been subjected to trauma.

Location

Toronto, ON

Open to: Inquire with Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

For more information, or to register, click here

EFT Core Skills Training

October 20, 2017, at 12:00pm — October 21, 2017, at 3:30pm

The Greater Toronto EFT Community presents EFT Core Skills Training.

DATES:
October 20 & 21, 2017
December 1 & 2, 2017
January 19 & 20, 2018
March 9 & 10, 2018

The Core Skills, 4 Weekend Training Program is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills in EFT. The program is delivered in 4 segments over a 6 month period. This training (limited to 16 participants), is designed to review the steps of EFT in detail, practice your interventions, present a case for supervision and learn from other participants. The weekends include practical instruction, experiential exercises, video examples and case consultation.

PREREQUISITE The Core Skills training is open to all therapists who have taken an EFT Externship. Participants are required to present a short 15-20 min video or tape for case consultation in order for the training to apply to EFT certification.

TRAINING DESCRIPTION Weekend 1 Steps 1-2, assessment, building alliance, identifying negative interactional cycle. Weekend2 Steps 3 & 4 formulating cycle, accessing primary emotion and associated skills. Weekend 3 Withdrawer re-engagement. Weekend 4 Blamer softening and steps 8 & 9, consolidation.

Location

Toronto, ON

Open to: Inquire with The Greater Toronto EFT Community

For more information, or to register, click here

More Safety At Last

October 21, 2017, from 10:00am — 3:00pm

The Greater Toronto EFT Community presents More Safety At Last: Healing a Traumatized Family.

This training will offer consultation to clinicians bringing assorted clinical questions but we will also take a good portion of the training to present a specific case. With clips to demonstrate, you will journey with a couple in EFT therapy. In the middle of the treatment, the couple discover a dissociated trauma in the pursuer’s history (Rachael) that was dysregulating the marriage and family. Rachael’s uncontrollable rage destabilized the withdrawer (Richard) and rippled down to the three home schooled children. With this discovery, finally, some of the puzzle was solved.

In a clip of the discussion filmed after a live session, you will see this couple not only discuss their road to recovery as a couple but share their work to heal their children using the principles of attachment and EFFT. How the trauma between the husband and wife made insecurity for the children is explored. Finally we get to watch a DVD of family work where their eldest teenage son works a repair with his father and we witness how the insecure attachment between son and dad restructures toward more security and healing.

Location

Richmond Hill, ON

Open to: Inquire with The Greater Toronto EFT Community

For more information, or to register, click here

Sound Dialogue

October 23, 2017, from 10:00am — 4:00pm

Gestalt Institute presents Sound Dialogue.

A one-day process oriented exploration of music-centered psychotherapy, and its application to Gestalt therapy

Experience the here and now of connection through the language of music. This experiential workshop explores instruments, sounds, and our own voices to find musical conversation together. We will discover our music and experience the process of clinical improvisation as a valuable tool for psychotherapy. Through improvisation, participants will discover new ways of making contact with others and experience group process at a whole new non-verbal and wonderfully creative level. No musical experience or proficiency with instruments is required — only a willingness to explore.

Location

Toronto, ON

Open to: Inquire at Gestalt Institute

For more information, or to register, click here

Awakening Joy for Therapists

October 27, 2017, at 9:00am — October 29, 2017, at 4:40pm

Leading Edge Seminars presents a 3 day seminar Awakening Joy for Therapists: The Path to Well-being for Your Clients and Yourself.

A tremendously warm and wise teacher, James Baraz comes to Toronto for the first time to present his interactive and insightful three-day program, which is sure to be personally and professionally helpful.

True happiness is not about acquiring anything but rather about opening to the natural joy and aliveness right inside you. Today, as we are bombarded with messages that heighten our fears and sadness about the world, cultivating joy as a central aspect of our lives has become more important than ever. We need to remember how to stay connected to that place inside that makes life worth living. Our own sense of well-being and joy can become our gift to a troubled world.

This workshop is based on James Baraz’s popular five-month “Awakening Joy” course, which thousands have taken since 2003. You will learn basic principles and supportive practices to develop your natural capacity for well-being and happiness. You will also learn practical tools that you can share with your clients to incline the mind toward joy through silent meditation, as well as interactive experiential activities.

You will learn —

• How to practise inclining the mind towards the possibility of more joy when working with clients
• Two keys to gratitude applicable to clinical practice
• How to prescribe a gratitude practice to clients to support their well-being
• How to help your clients process emotions mindfully by using RAIN (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Non-identify/Not take things personally)
• How to explain to clients that attachment can lead to suffering
• Specific “letting go” practices for clients to reduce stress
• How to integrate the practices of forgiveness, acceptance, and self-compassion for your clients
• Techniques to support clients in counteracting the tendency toward self-judgement and feelings of unworthiness
• How compassion affects the neuro-system

Location

Toronto, ON

Open to: Inquire with Leading Edge Seminars

For more information, or to register, click here

Gender through the Looking Glass

October 28, 2017, from 9:00am — 4:00pm

The Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis presents a symposium Gender through the Looking Glass: Whose perspective? Gender Fluidity in Culture, Literature, and Psychoanalysis – Contemporary Viewpoints.

Location

Toronto, ON

Open to: Inquire with the The Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

For more information, or to register, click here

Jung’s Word Association Experiment

October 29, 2017, from 10:00am — 12:30pm

C.G. Jung Foundation of Ontario presents a seminar Jung’s Word Association Experiment.

Jung became interested in developing and testing his Word Association Experiment (WAE) early in his career while he was working at the Burgholzli hospital in Zurich. In fact, this work provided much of the impetus towards the first meeting between Freud and Jung who felt that it showed proof of the existence of complexes. Since then, the WAE has been found to be a useful tool that helps identify and measure our complexes or ‘hot spots’ via spontaneous, timed responses to 100 trigger words. It actually forms the basis of today’s lie detector test. The WAE lifts a veil to your complexes that you can’t necessarily approach directly. It yields hidden clues by making its way around a person’s defenses. It can be thought of as the mirror that Perseus used to cut off the head of the rageful Medusa without ever having to look directly at her.

Location

Toronto, ON

Open to: Inquire with C.G. Jung Foundation of Ontario

For more information, or to register, click here