Six Monday mornings, 10am – 12:00pm 
January 30, February 13, February 27, March 12, March 26, April 9
with Rachel Zamore, MA, LMFT
Integrating recent advances in neurobiology and body-mind healing together with the wisdom of Buddhist psychology, a new paradigm has been emerging in recent years in the field of psychotherapy. This seminar will provide a theoretical foundation for non-pathologizing, mindfulness-based psychotherapy, with the primary emphasis being on the development of practical skills to facilitate a process of mindful therapy, as we shift from rehashing clients’ old stories to dropping into the present-moment as a way of exploring and transforming old patterns and present challenges. In this way, we can help clients work with the issues of their lives and psyches with awareness, presence and curiosity – to help facilitate transformation from the inside out.
Participants will learn – or strengthen – specific skills such as how to:
- Facilitate shifts of consciousness (eg, into mindfulness from ordinary consciousness)
- Use therapist’s mindful awareness to help track and work with verbal and non-verbal information
- Stay in “contact” with clients and help them develop present-moment awareness
- Engage clients in mindful, curious, empowered therapy
- Use psychoeducation about the brain to help “intellectual” clients access emotions & present experience
- Drop into “deeper” material and choose when and how to engage with clients’ stories
- Work in “dual awareness” with clients so that the thinking mind and direct experience can integrate
- Work more effectively with reactivity and affect regulation
- Integrate body and mind using mindfulness of direct, in-the-moment experience
After completion of the seminar, participants should be able to:
- Explain what mindful therapy is and what it is not
- Facilitate a 4-step process for deepening therapy and shifting clients into a state of mindful awareness
- Articulate the relationship between mindfulness and affect regulation/ impulse control.
Influences for this series include Buddhist psychological inquiry and mindfulness practices, as well as Hakomi Experiential Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. No prior experience with mindfulness is necessary. 12 CEUs available for NBCC; VT Boards of Psychology & Allied Mental Health pending. Fee: $390 for the series of 6 sessions (includes CEUs). Discounts available for community mental health practitioners and students. For more information, please contact rachel@innerwell.org or call 802-258-7014.