Attendees can expect an experience where they feel emotionally safe, understand the elements and concepts that create safety, and be able to experience, learn and grow experientially. Participants will be invited to see, learn and lead using experiential techniques.
This training experience is designed to provide education, practice, and knowledge for facilitating experiential therapy with individuals, couples, families, and groups. Participants will be part of a group, and there will be an emphasis on creating emotional safety as we work with examples and/or concepts of trauma. The examples can be out of the participants lives or examples from their work experience. We will focus on case conceptualization with a systemic perspective, how an event impacts one person in the system, it impacts everyone in the system. The systemic view will include generational influences, addiction, and mental illness. There will also be a focus on feeling and finding safety in the body (bottom-up regulation).
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of the workshop, participants should be able to:
- Learn how to create safety in each stage of group counseling and gain clients’ permission to work experientially
- Utilize enactments that range in skill and difficulty in relation to the health and safety of the group, using more simple or less revealing enactments for a newer group, and using more revealing enactments for a group that is more emotionally bonded
- Facilitate joining activities designed to reduce anxiety and increase connection
- Implement effective enactments related to the what the client is presenting with, using a contract
- Demonstrate and facilitate group feedback and sharing
What concepts/models are taught?
Experiential therapy is often referred to as action therapy or metaphor therapy. It draws from many disciplines and is eclectic, depending on how the client or situation presents. Some of those disciplines include; Gestalt, Psychodrama, Motivational Interviewing, Somatic Experiencing, EMDR and Narrative Therapy and Inner Child Work to name a few.
How can they utilize this knowledge with clients?
There will be an opportunity to practice and lead pieces of work depending on each participants willingness and comfort level.
Instructors:
Kristine Jackson
Kristine Jackson, LCSW, CEDS, CETII, CP, PAT, as Clinical Director, Training at Onsite provides oversight and leadership to our full-time and contract therapists. With a Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania, Kristine went to UCLA for a certification in co-occurring disorders. She remained in California for the next two decades working as Clinical Director of mental health, addictions and eating disorder programs. As a life-long learner, Kristine is certified in several modalities including Play Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Eating Disorders (CEDS), Daring Way (DWCF-C) and Experiential Therapy (CET I).
Kristine served as a contract therapist for Onsite for several years leading groups and intensives. She kept coming back to witness the authentic depth of healing and wholeness that happens at Onsite and decided to join the Onsite team fulltime.
Sheila Maitland
Sheila Maitland, LCMHCS, CSAT, has been working with individuals, couples, groups and families for more than 20 years. She owns a group practice in Matthews, North Carolina, that relies heavily of family systems theory and experiential therapy. This means that a client won’t be asked to do anything that she and her staff haven’t done themselves.
Sheila also works with professionals providing training, continuing education, and clinical supervision in North Carolina. She obtained her “S” in 2013 and enjoys teaching, facilitating and guiding therapists in developing into their full potential, and full licensure. She provides both individual and group supervision for LCMHCAs which typically takes 2-3 years. She trains professionals, provisionally licensed and fully licensed therapists in treating trauma.
Sheila has been a consulting therapist and supervisor with Onsite and has enjoyed being a part of their organization throughout her career. She is also a Certified Facilitator of Brene Brown’s Daring Way and leads groups dealing with shame, resilience, and worthiness.
Sheila enjoys a rich marriage and family life with her husband, son and Golden Retriever. For more information on Sheila visit: Relationshipenrichmentcenter.com
Onsite is approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5567. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Onsite is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Clock Hours: 28