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TREATING COUPLES CONFERENCE 2010

EXPERIENTIAL MINDFULNESS-BASED PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH COUPLES

October 22-23, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Rob Fisher, MFT
ACE Conference Center
Lafayette Hill, PA


Workshop Description
Working experientially and mindfully with couples adds significant depth, impact and aliveness for therapist and client alike. In this workshop you will learn the principles, techniques and practical interventions that use present time experience 1) as a gentle access route to unconscious characterological organization, and 2) as an opportunity to explore and change core interactional patterns in couples relationships.

Topics covered will include: intrapsychic and systemic couples assessment; how to use mindfulness in psychodynamic psychotherapy; how to notice non-verbal communications from the unconscious; working with present time experience as a powerful route to deeply held material; how to explore defenses by supporting them; working with boundaries; working with proprioceptive signals, gestures, posture and tensions; couples sculptures; the use of touch in couples therapy; converting blame into self - observation; detrancing the transference through the body; and using physical metaphors for interactional sequences.

This workshop is designed to provide you with immediately applicable skills and therapeutic strategies you can use in both assessment and intervention with couples.

For more information about the conference, please contact Mackenzie Koch, at 215-382-6680 ext. 3124.

Keynote Speaker
Rob Fisher is an MFT in private practice in Mill Valley where he specializes in training other therapists in working with the present moment. He is the author of numerous articles and the book Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples (Zeig/Tucker 2002). He teaches at JFK University and CIIS. He is a Hakomi Trainer who teaches trainings internationally for the Hakomi Institute. He appears at national conferences such as the Psychotherapy Networker Conference, the USABP Conference, and as a master presenter at annual CAMFT Conferences. More information about him is available through contactone@aol.com, or www.hakomicalifornia.org.

The Use of Mindfulness in Couple's Psychotherapy Rob Fisher, MFT The single most effective tool in couple's psychotherapy is the use of mindfulness. Mindfulness involves turning one's attention inside to notice, from a nonjudgmental point of view, the flow of one's internal experience. Click here to read more.

 

 

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