Psychological Traditions: Strength-Based Approaches for Today’s Clinician, Hawaiian Perspectives and the Wisdom of Jung, Workshop in Hawaii, May 2009

NEXT CLASS: COMING IN MAY 2009
For advanced information contact bretkjohn@aol.com

Course Description:

Clinicians will have ample opportunity through teachings, group-discussion, practical, and in-depth experiential exercises to understand, apply and blend a variety of Jungian, Hawaiian, and positive psychological approaches and skills, all while “living” on the Big Island of Hawaii. The uniqueness as well as the intersection of these concepts will be integrated into the context of improving self, relationship, and community enhancement for self, as clinician, and for clients.

This workshop goes beyond negative, trouble-based approaches to psychotherapy, instead emphasizing positive life skills of contentment, joy, compassion, curiosity, and evolving consciousness. Clinically relevant, practical skills and traditional rituals will be focused on throughout the course. Within the context and research from Positive and related Strength-Based Psychologies, as well as Jungian insight and Hawaiian traditions, we will explore what it means to encourage our own and client’s self-growth, and healthy relationships via the: “The Pleasant Life, The Meaningful Life, and Engaged Life.”

This workshop will be structured to maximize learning and rejuvenation via four to six hours of learning time each day, integrated into specific handouts and discussion of didactic material on positive and strength-based psychologies; exercises in the local environs (sandplay experiences on private beach, amplification searches and walking meditations), but will also offer ample time to retreat, rest and regenerate in a beautiful island setting, with introspection and contact with the Hawaiian landscape.

Join us for time to reflect, share, and remember that we can take others only as far as we can take ourselves. Please join us on this interior pilgrimage to rediscover ourselves and put our wisdoms into action long after we journey home.

Continuing Education

JFKU Continuing Education Credit This course is intended for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Marriage Family Therapists, Registered Nurses, and Psychologists. You need not be a licensed clinician to take this course; we welcome interns and graduate students in training. This workshop is being offered in co-sponsorship with John F Kennedy University, Office of Continuing Education.

This course provides 25 Continuing Education Credits for Psychologists and Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Marriage Family Therapists, and Nurses. This is an intermediate level course for clinicians.

JFKU-CE is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists, by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) to provide continuing education for MFTs & LCSWs and by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN) to provide continuing education for RNs. JFKU-CE maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Hawaiian healing traditions, workshop in Hawaii, May 2009

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to identify, discuss, and apply the essentials of Strength-based Psychologies (e.g., Mind-Thought-Consciousness; The Pleasant Life, The Meaningful Life, and Engaged Life);

Participants will learn and discuss Hawaiian (as noted above) and Jungian principals (e.g., shadow, animus/anima, collective unconscious, tension of opposites, transcendent function) and specific strategies (e.g., amplification, active imagination, sandplay) useful to their practice with clients;

Participates will be able to integrate their understanding of self and as clinician into everyday work with their clients regarding the contexts of the individual, relationships, and community;

Clinician’s will learn ways to apply and encourage clients in better self-care processes as experienced in this workshop (e.g., meditation, soothing rituals, mindfulness);

Participants will be able to identify, discuss, and apply the essentials of Strength-based Psychologies (e.g., Mind-Thought-Consciousness [Health Realization Prinicpals]; The Pleasant Life, The Meaningful Life, and Engaged Life [Postive Psychology])

For more information regarding the May 2009 workshop, Email: bretkjohn@aol.com

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