Name
W03 - Contemplative Psychotherapy Essentials: Enriching Your Practice with Buddhist Psychology (3 CE)
Date & Time
Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 1:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Speakers
Description
Karen Kissel Wegela, PhD, has been studying, practicing, and teaching the integration of Buddhist principles and psychotherapy for more than 35 years at Naropa University, where she is a professor in the graduate Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology department. She is the author of three books and is a psychologist in private practice in Boulder, Colo.
Upon completion of this session, attendees will be able to:
- Practice mindfulness-awareness meditation.
- Recognize the hallmarks of “Brilliant Sanity.”
- Apply the “touch and go” technique in meditation and in clinical work.
- Practice the “Four Immeasurables” to cultivate an engaged sense of being fully present in the therapeutic encounter. Utilize Clients’ “mindlessness practices” to help them develop mindfulness and use the “Empty Mirror” exercise as a way of working with one’s own difficulties with challenging clients.
NOTE: There will be a break from 3:00 pm- 3: 15 pm
Workshop Curriculum:
The workshop will include experiential exercises as well as opportunities to have discussion with other participants and with the presenter.
First hour:
- “Brilliant sanity”
- Losing touch with brilliant sanity
- Reconnecting with our own brilliant sanity through mindfulness/awareness practices
- Mindful wandering practice
- The “touch and go” technique
- Sitting mindfulness/awareness practice
Second hour:
- Loving-kindness and Metta practice
- Compassion and Tonglen practice
- Sympathetic joy and recognizing our common ground
- Equanimity and Appreciating Diversity
Third hour:
- Using clients’ mindlessness practices to cultivate mindfulness
- Exchange: Connection beyond concept
- Empty mirror practice
- Wrap up