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MCCA is a
State chapter of the
American
Mental Health Counselors Association
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Friday October 21, 2011
Fireside Inn, Portland
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Terry Fralich, LCPC
Mindfulness to Miracles: A Liberating Growth Path for Counselor and Client
Practical Application of a Mindfulness-Based Growth Path in Working with Clients: Terry Fralich, LCPC
Introduction to Internal Family Systems: Jonathan Purinton, LCPC
Working with the Body in Psychotherapy: Douglas Smith, LCPC
$100 Members - $125 Non Members - $75 Students 6 - CEU’s
*Registrations after October 1st: $120 Members - $145 Non Members
Refreshments provided – Lunch on your own
Keynote Description
Experiencing more miracles in our lives is an ambitious aspiration, but diverse traditions from the transpersonal psychology movement to Eastern meditative traditions to the latest wave of Western neuroscience encourage us to believe that it is possible. If we are to move in this direction, it is useful to have a path, skills and a practice. There are, of course, many ways to conceptualize growth. In his keynote presentation in the conference's morning session, Terry Fralich will share with us a skill-based mindfulness path that will bring clarity to the ambitious aspiration of experiencing the miracles available in daily life. He will explore a model for growth that includes both transforming the negative states we so often see in both our personal and professional lives and cultivating positive states that reflect the preciousness of being alive. The presentation will include insights from the latest advances in neuroscience, attachment theory, mindfulness practice and from great teachings about the fundamental question of our basic nature.
The session will include both discussion and experiential exercises.
About the Presenter
Terry Fralich is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with a private practice in Southern Maine. He has studied extensively with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, other leading Tibetan teachers and with some of the American pioneers of mindfulness work. Terry is a Co-Founder of the Mindfulness Center of Southern Maine. He has taught more that 250 seminars throughout the country on topics including, among others, mindfulness, the latest advances in neuroscience and therapeutic presence.
Additionally, he taught mindfulness, meditation, stress reduction and behavioral change for six years at Maine Medical Center's cardiac rehabilitation program and at the Cancer Community Center. His book, Cultivating Lasting Happiness: A 7-Step Guide to Mindfulness, presents a practical, accessible approach to nurturing growth and well-being through the path of mindfulness. Terry has pursued his own meditation and mindfulness practice for more than 33 years.
Practical Application of A Mindfulness-Based Growth Path in Working with Clients
Terry Fralich, LCPC
We will continue the exploration of a skill-based mindfulness path. The emphasis will be on:
There will be both discussion and experiential exercises.
Introduction to Internal Family Systems
Jonathan Purinton, LCPC
IFS therapy is designed to release the compassion, curiosity and creativity that lie beneath the protective parts of our clients so as to bring open-hearted healing to themselves and their relationships with family members. It is a simple yet sophisticated integration of intra-psychic and family theory and technique, and of psychology and spirituality. It is particularly effective in healing trauma safely, without backlash or overwhelm.
Working With the Body in Psychotherapy
Douglas Smith, LCPC
This workshop will demonstrate a basic process of cultivating presence in the body. Presence in the body is helpful to begin to reconnect the experience of the body with experience of the mind. By attending to the body there is a tendency for the body, as well as the mind, to calm and reorganize. Non-conscious, habitual patterns, including those resulting from stress or trauma, can be worked with in this way.
