AAP - 2015 Summer Workshop: Vulnerability: Embracing Intimacy & Risking Injury

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 1:45PM - 5:00PM

Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 9:00AM - 12:15PM

Friday, June 12, 2015 - 9:00AM - 12:15PM

Saturday, June 13, 2015 - 9:00AM - 12:15PM

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Please rate the speaker(s) as a group. You will have the opportunity to elaborate on an individual speaker in the following question.

Please rate the following:

The program was relevant to my work.

Content matched stated objectives.

Usefulness of handouts/AV.

Quality of facilities.

How well did the educational sessions give a balanced view of therapeutic options, including the use of generic names?

If you rated any of the above questions with 'fair,' 'poor,' 'disagree,' or 'strongly disagree' please explain in detail (e.g. session title, speaker name, situtation):

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

If you have additional comments regarding the session or individual speaker(s) - e.g. teaching ability, expertise, organization of materials, etc. - please use the space below:

Objective 2: Provide practitioners opportunities to re-experience their own vulnerability

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 3: Develop a broader multidisciplinary perspective on vulnerability by including among its components: social, cultural, neurobiological, cognitive and somato-emotional dimensions

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Explain theory and research supporting Energy Psychology (EP) interventions

State 2 ethical issues related to EP

Name 2 EP InterventionsÂ

Demonstrate meridian treatments for trauma, anxiety, pain, depression, addictive urges, and negative feeling states such as shame

Explain how to assess and correct system-wide energy interferences that block treatment

State how to assess and clear common blocks to treatment that increase resistance and decrease motivation for change

Describe the basic beliefs and practices of shamanism

State how these beliefs and practices may already be present in their work as a psychotherapist, albeit unconsciously

Evaluate how their practice of psychotherapy might be enhanced by the inclusion of these beliefs and practices

List their fears of spontaneity

Compare their needs for safety in relationship vs. their desires for spontaneity

Describe how they inhibit themselves with each other

Describe beginning spontaneity with each other

Discuss the role of vulnerability in psychotherapy

Demonstrate several methods for identifying and eliciting risk and intimacy with clients

Predict the course of intimacy development in a therapy session

Describe multiple kinds of vulnerability and the group dynamics that encourage or inhibit their effective expression in a process or therapy group

Describe various effects of members' vulnerability on group dynamics

Specify the circumstances that facilitate their own personal movement to vulnerability

Describe the role that group leadership can play in facilitating and managing vulnerability in the group

Define how personal motivation for adopting a child impacts personal satisfaction and disappointment

Express and be more comfortable with the emotions facing someone who parents a child who is wired so differently

Evaluate how expectations for ones child impact the experience of being an adoptive parent

Identify personal issues that affect our ability to do effective therapy with end-of-life issues in our therapy room

Discuss and identify ethical considerations relating to maintaining boundaries while including families in the scope of the care

Evaluate the novel challenges to client confidentiality, including after death issues

Choose and effectively use paradoxical intention as a positive, strength-building tool for themselves and their patients

Utilize reframing as a tool for softening defensiveness in themselves and their patients

Demonstrate simple meditation skills as grounding mechanisms for themselves and their patients

Explain Kirtan/chanting as an exercise to facilitate and expand emotional expression for themselves and their patients

Define breath as a simple tool for self-examination

Differentiate between their Fears of Abandonment and Fears of Engulfment

Identify their areas of vulnerability when working with patients

Explain how to appraise their own sense of power

Demonstrate simple self-defense techniques

Differentiate between fears of inflicting and experiencing damage vs. surviving and experiencing the pleasure of the wear and tear of inevitable conflict

Describe the pleasures and costs of spontaneously revealing forbidden aspects of themselves

Evaluate the emotional benefits and the costs of spontaneity

Develop and define various working definitions of vulnerability and power, aspects of every relationship

Identify and describe the tensions between those two aspects of our humanness, theoretically and intra-personally

List the three kinds of power and the benefits and consequences of using them in relationships

Demonstrate awareness, theoretically and inter-personally in the group, of how to be vulnerable in relationships while still taking care of oneself

Define sui generis blocks to intimacy for each workshop participant

Discover the origins of these blocks

Outline and list the reasons why changes within the couple take time

Develop specific practices to overcome family of origin imprinted conflicts

Describe the impediments to intimate sharing in psychotherapy

Evaluate individual issues where emotional risk taking is concerned

Compare the level of openness at the start of the workshop and at the end of it

Define and locate awareness of body-based tensions/blocks utilizing somatic scanning techniques

Name cognitive and emotional events that correspond to body-based tensions

Demonstrate the use of deep relaxation breathing and movement exercises that facilitates somatic release of tensions along the autonomic - parasympathetic CNS axis

List 3 advantages of therapeutic group vs. individual therapy participation

Name 3 areas of personal vulnerability or fear related to being a leader

Summarize personal trauma history as it relates to assuming a leadership/ authority position

Articulate the difference between undue influence and therapeutic influence in a group

Examine, understand and articulate their own subjective experience of group influence

Explain how they will incorporate their understanding into their own practices of individual and/or group psychotherapy

Create ritual for transformation and empowerment

Demonstrate the power of ritual and how to use it to facilitate change

Utilize experiential tools to change one's state of consciousness and create a sense of safety, calm and sacred space

Explain how to work effectively with the family members of LGBT individuals in individual and/or family therapy

Identify and discuss participantsâ€™ own issues regarding LGBT family members

Explain the difference between the fast and slow threat assessment systems

Identify signs of threat within themselves and clients

Move clients toward increasing ability to reduce inappropriate threat perception

Explain the relationship between shame, being vulnerable and taking risks in sports and other physical activities and verbally expressing feelings experienced in this workshop

Demonstrate increased participation in sports and physical activities

List methods of using risk taking,( acting with vulnerability) and thus exposing shame which is explained by Brene Brown as the important ingredient of successful connection in relationships

Discuss activities which could be used with patients in order to more fully elicit risk, vulnerability and alleviate problems with repressed shame

List 3 personal strengths related to leadership abilities

Compare the advantages of being a leader with being a participant of a therapeutic or work group

List 3 personal goals and aspirations around leadership role

articulate the healing power of vulnerability in the therapeutic process

facilitate risk and self disclosure for their clients

Identify and explain the stages of experiential group processÂ

List ways to support group movement through the stages of its development

List personal challenge to being vulnerable stemming from their cultural interpretations

Describe how the â€œI and Thouâ€ experience can inform their clinical work

List different modalities that could support the experience of vulnerability in their own practice

Describe their specific connection to loss in their lives

Discuss how the use of music can be a therapeutic tool

Choose therapeutic approaches which support a client's experience of loss

Summarize the relationship of shame to compensatory striving

Explain the relationship of compensatory striving to compulsive consumption

List the role of self-care in shame reduction

Provide several counter-transference pitfalls that are predictable when working with shame- based clients

List 3 ethical principles that are relevant to therapistsâ€™ self-disclosure

Identify 3 variables that lead to therapistsâ€™ self-disclosures enhancing intimacy and being therapeutic for the client

Describe 3 factors that define whether therapistsâ€™ self-disclosures are ethical violations

Identify character and attachment styles which arise when facing emotional challenges including: risk taking, vulnerability and intimacy

Demystify (discuss the history and evolution of) family groups in the academy

Differentiate between primitive reactions and opportunities for emotionally mature choices.Â â€“thus understanding how the family group phenomenon may best fit with ones own character, developmental needs and attachment style

Identify vulnerable responses to others

Describe the process by which deeper intimacy is achieved

Explain the value and strengths of vulnerability

Explain the difference between relating to others on a horizontal level or a hierarchal one

Describe the dynamics that are involved in friendships in which sexual orientation may be operative

Summarize the obstacles that interfere with your ability to create and maintain connection

Demonstrate your values in action

Objective 4: State discernment of the variables that comprise vulnerability in our clients on all these levels

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

Objective 5: Identify therapeutic stances and specific interventions which assist clients in being able to tolerate their vulnerability and enhance affective regulation, processing etc.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

Please answer the following:

Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?

Was the educational content scientifically sound?

If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uses of a product, was that information disclosed to you?

Was the mode of education effective to learning?

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Did you perceive any product/service/company/commercial bias in any educational session you attended or materials you received?

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Were you solicited by sales personnel in an educational room (other areas do not matter) while you attended this educational activity?

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How much did you learn as a result of this education program?

What specifically did you learn during this activity that you intend to integrate into your practice?

What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?

What patient/client problems or patient/client challenges do you feel you are not able to address appropriately or to your satisfaction?

What problems are your patients/clients communicating to you that need attention or follow up?

Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?

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What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient/client outcomes?

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