This workshop will help participants understand:
- How eating disorders develop and their far reaching affects
- How eating disorder symptoms impact couple relationships
- How to provide guidance in handling comments/questions about food and exercise behaviors; confronting denial; challenges to intimacy and sex
- How to work with historic factors of shame and abuse
- How to help couples explore and manage these issues and their impact on their children
When: Saturday, October 18, 2008
Where: Council for Relationships, Philadelphia, PA
For more information: councilforrelationships.org
Many of us live in constant "self-talk" with a harsh inner critic. The critic's voice thwarts our spontaneity, limits our freedom of expression, creates guilt for what we have said and done, and keeps us feeling fearful and not good enough. It can negatively influence our relationships, work success and health.
While the inner critic may be strong, it can be calmed. We can counter it with the voice of a powerful inner coach that knows how to detoxify the negative self-talk and open us to life affirming experiences we never thought possible.
This workshop will help you to:
- Discover how your inner critic developed as an attempt to protect and motivate you but now may work against you
- Identify the voice and messages of your inner critic as the first step towards transforming its force
- Learn effective strategies for more constructive "self-talk", see them demonstrated, and have the safe space to practice them
- Learn what neuroscientists have discovered about the power you have to change your brain from patterns of self-sabotage to patterns of self-support
- Leave this workshop with next steps for successfully moving beyond your inner critic
Through guided meditations, experiential exercises, and interactive demonstrations, you will reach into the depth of your soul, open your heart, and discover a non-judgmental, compassionate inner voice that will transform your relationship with yourself.
When: Friday—Sunday, October 24—26, 2008
Where: Kripalu Center, Lenox, MA
Fee: $225
For more information: 800-741-7353, kripalu.org
Anyone struggling with an eating disorder lives with a harsh inner critic. The criticís voice thwarts freedom of expression, creates guilt and fear, feeds self-destructive behavior and diminishes self-esteem. While the inner critic may be strong, it can be calmed.
This workshop will present a model for understanding the protective function of the inner critic and how to help clients move from patterns of self-sabotage to patterns of self-support. This process will involve developing a powerful inner coach that detoxifies negative self-talk and opens clients to self-affirming experiences. Participants will learn what neuroscientists have discovered about brain patterns and how to change them.
This workshop will also explore the critic within the self of the therapist and the challenges for managing the therapistís negative self-talk. The presenters will draw upon case examples and lead experiential exercises toward strengthening therapeutic skills for working with these issues.
When: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Where: The Renfrew Center Annual Conference, Philadelphia Airport Marriot, Philadelphia, PA
For more information: renfrewcenter.com
DON'T BLAME ME!
RESOLVING ANGER IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS
Don't Blame Me! is a workshop designed for therapists and interested others who want to deepen their understanding of the many faces of anger, shame and blame. Based on Gestalt principles and grounded in Attachment theory, the workshop will examine ways to help couples resolve anger by accessing feelings of compassion and love. Participants will leave with specific skills that promote self-valuing and self-respect thereby undoing the blame/shame cycle.
This workshop is produced by Relationship Theater, a unique educational project that uses drama from the theater and movies to enhance insight, growth and development. It is facilitated and performed by a talented troupe of therapists who are also actors, script writers and musicians that bring years of study in the office and on the stage to enrich and entertain you.
The workshop is sponsored by the Gestalt Institute of Philadelphia and provides 6 Social Work and Psychology CEUís. (Imago therapy clinicians also receive 6 CEU's)
When: Friday, December, 5 2008, 9:00am—4:30pm
Where: Bryn Mawr, PA
Fee: $160 ($150 for members of Gestalt Institute of Philadelphia)
Register/For more information:
Jackie Cohen 610-664-5805 or jackiec102@comcast.net
Sunny Shulkin 610-667-7645 or sunny@sunnyshulkin.com
A workshop frequently presented at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
By Dr. Jane Shure and Dr. Beth Weinstock
Many of us turn to food as a source of comfort and then to dieting as a way to feel "in control." Patterns of disordered eating, and the inevitable guilt and shame that follow, lead to challenges with body image and feed a harsh inner critic who tells us all the ways in which we are "not good enough."
Once in the grip of the critic's negative self-talk, it is hard to break self-destructive behavior patterns; but it can be done. We can learn to quiet the critic, disprove its beliefs, and find self-affirming ways to coach ourselves into a more positive relationship with our bodies and our selves.
This workshop will:
- Present a model explaining how body-criticism and disordered food patterns become misguided attempts to cope with overwhelming stressors
- Explore the connection between current body-shame and childhood wounds
- Teach strategies that build compassion and maintain self-support for this difficult struggle
Through guided meditations, experiential exercises, writing, and interactive demonstrations you will open your heart to deep healing, greater aliveness, and a new way of relating to Your Body/ Your Self.
This workshop is for anyone who lives with shame related to body image and food behaviors and for professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of these issues.
When: Friday, January 23, 2009
Where: Transformations, Voorhees, NJ
Register/For more information: Transformations Website
