1-day Workshop in Chicago: Mike Gass
WORKSHOP:
Mike Gass at OMNI Youth Services, Chicago, IL, April 27, 2012
101 experiential techniques for counselors and therapists
Target audiences:
DESCRIPTION:
Good therapists are always looking for additional therapeutic techniques to improve their effectiveness in delivering treatment and creating positive client change. Often times therapists are not looking for additional information, but rather more effective methods for delivery of therapeutic messages and techniques. Often times traditional therapeutic approaches don't work for clients because of different learning styles, increased levels of resistance, lack of input from clients, and the ability to reach appropriate levels of psychological depth and change.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide informative methods of enriching therapeutic technique through the use of experiential methodology. Rather than just “talking the talk” part of therapy, this workshop will provide methods of “walking the talk” to enrich therapeutic techniques and assist clients in reaching their therapeutic objectives more effectively. Examples of therapeutic techniques enriched through experiential methods include: alliances, alignment, amplification, asset building, conflict, escalation, diffusing, conflictingworldviews, coalitions, boundaries, change processes, investment, collusion, hierarchy, double binds, emotional cutoff, enactment, equafinality, homeostasis, joining, power, perspective building, reframing, rules, scapegoating, transfer, triangulation, symmetry, etc. Along with the experiential learning and reflection on these methods will be the theoretical background, rationale, models, case studies, and contraindications for suchtechniques. Participants will leave the workshop with techniques they can use in their next client session.
Presenter:
Michael A. Gass (Ph.D., LMFT) is a Full Professor and Coordinator of the world renown Outdoor Education Program in the School of Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire. He also is the Research Director for both the Outdoor Behavioral Health Care Research Consortium (OBHRC) (obhrc.org) and the National Association for Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) (natsap.org). His latest book, Adventure therapy: Theory, Practice, and Research, is published by Routledge Mental Health Press.
Mike Gass at OMNI Youth Services, Chicago, IL, April 27, 2012
101 experiential techniques for counselors and therapists
Target audiences:
- Counselors/Therapists operating in traditional settings
- Therapists working in non-traditional settings
- Teachers of therapeutic techniques to potential therapists
DESCRIPTION:
Good therapists are always looking for additional therapeutic techniques to improve their effectiveness in delivering treatment and creating positive client change. Often times therapists are not looking for additional information, but rather more effective methods for delivery of therapeutic messages and techniques. Often times traditional therapeutic approaches don't work for clients because of different learning styles, increased levels of resistance, lack of input from clients, and the ability to reach appropriate levels of psychological depth and change.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide informative methods of enriching therapeutic technique through the use of experiential methodology. Rather than just “talking the talk” part of therapy, this workshop will provide methods of “walking the talk” to enrich therapeutic techniques and assist clients in reaching their therapeutic objectives more effectively. Examples of therapeutic techniques enriched through experiential methods include: alliances, alignment, amplification, asset building, conflict, escalation, diffusing, conflictingworldviews, coalitions, boundaries, change processes, investment, collusion, hierarchy, double binds, emotional cutoff, enactment, equafinality, homeostasis, joining, power, perspective building, reframing, rules, scapegoating, transfer, triangulation, symmetry, etc. Along with the experiential learning and reflection on these methods will be the theoretical background, rationale, models, case studies, and contraindications for suchtechniques. Participants will leave the workshop with techniques they can use in their next client session.
Presenter:
Michael A. Gass (Ph.D., LMFT) is a Full Professor and Coordinator of the world renown Outdoor Education Program in the School of Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire. He also is the Research Director for both the Outdoor Behavioral Health Care Research Consortium (OBHRC) (obhrc.org) and the National Association for Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) (natsap.org). His latest book, Adventure therapy: Theory, Practice, and Research, is published by Routledge Mental Health Press.
- Times: 9 am – 4:30 pm, Friday, April 27, 2012
- Lunch: 12:30 - 1:30 pm on your own (bring back lunch) Coffee/tea included in fee
- Cost: $119 Professionals*, $99 AEE Members, $49 Students (ID Number Required)
- Location: OMNI Youth Services, 1111 W. Lake Cook Rd., Buffalo Grove, IL 60089 847-353-1500
- CEUs: 6.5 NASW Cat. 1 CEUs (Pending Approval - please contact us for info on authorization status)
For questions please contact Matt Hayes, mattymhayes@gmail.com. All proceeds of the workshop will be donated directly to the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) (aee.org)
