Monthly Archives: April 2017

INTEGRATING YOGA INTO MENTAL HEALTH CARE National Conference.

INTEGRATING YOGA INTO MENTAL HEALTH CARE
June 30 – July 2, 2017
Misericordia University, Dallas, PA. Sponsored by the Misericordia University Social Work Program and the Wellfleet Collective.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This groundbreaking event features the first major conference in the U.S. focusing on the topic of yoga and mental health care. It is designed for mental health and rehabilitative health professionals as well as yoga teachers and therapists.

PROFESSIONAL CEUs for psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, occupational therapists, and nurses are pending. Please contact Susan McDonald at 570-674-6212 or email smcdonal@misericordia.edu for additional information.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Amy Weintraub
Amy Weintraub is the author of Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management.

Pre-Conference Workshops: “Identifying Subtle Breathing Pattern Dysregulations and Healing Them.”; “Bringing Nervous-System Informed, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga into Mental Health Care”; and “Addressing Anxiety Through the Yoga Tradition.”

JULY 1 Workshops: “When Mind-Body Practices Go Wrong”; “Yoga Therapy with Clients in a Dissociative State”; “The Use of Yoga in Treatment Planning for Substance Use Disorders”; “Chakra Healing Through Somatic Therapy and Yoga”; “Addressing Anxiety Through the Yoga Tradition”; and “Bringing Nervous-System Informed, Trauma-Sensitive Chair Yoga and Breathing Practices into Mental Health Care.”

Other Highlights: Laughter Yoga with Live Music; Discussion groups by topic; Panel discussion with workshop presenters.

CEUs pending for psychologists; social workers, alcohol and drug therapists, marriage and family therapists, occupational therapists, and nurses.

FEES: $100 for pre-conference workshop; $150 for conference, before May 1; $180 afterwards. $99. room and partial board package.

To register, go to: www.misericordia.edu/yogareg

For complete conference information, visit: www.misericordia.edu/yoga

For additional questions, contact:

Misericordia University Center for Adult and Continuing EducationPhone 570-674-6161Fax 570-674-6232

Email: muconf@misericordia.edu

BP/SP Case Studies – Submission Guidelines

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Dear Colleagues, dear Friends,

In 2014, the EABP Science & Research Committee (SRC) established a set of simple ‘Guidelines’ for BP/SP Case Studies.

We are now engaged in collecting a number of possible contributions for a soon-to-be published book on “Body Psychotherapy Case Studies” (at end 2017 / early 2018)
– this is part of the SRC remit to help to try and establish a reasonably good ‘scientific’ basis for Body Psychotherapy;
– and to increase awareness of different types of valid research – case studies being one of these;
– and to increase awareness of different ways of working in the field of Body Psychotherapy / Somatic Psychology;
– and we are intending to use some of the ‘project’ money in our SRC budget for this purpose.

So – we would like to invite you to help us in this project.
We have sent this e-mail out to about 60 senior / experienced BP/SP colleagues: we hope that a reasonable percentage of you will respond.

In the ‘Scientific Symposium’ at the EABP Congress in Athens last year, there were three BP case studies presented.
These are now being written up for this new publication.
We have also had some other submissions, and some promises from some people for more written-up BP Case Studies.

We are also very interested in anyone who has already ‘written up’ a BP Case Study, or who is thinking of writing up one, which might form a suitable contribution.
Please extend this invitation to any suitable colleagues, associates or students.

All contributions need to ‘follow’ the EABP SRC Guidelines (see here and see attached). These are the ‘guidelines’ that we hope will give us a common standard.
Older written-up case studies may need to be adapted slightly in order to fit the Guidelines.
All contributions are subject to some possible editing, or possible some editorial ‘advice’ from SRC members.
We would like any possible contributions to be submitted by July 1st 2017:
please send them to either Frank Röhricht and/or Courtenay Young

Here are some of the ‘goals’ around this ‘project’.
In essence, we would like to achieve three things:
1 Have a representative range of case studies from different BP schools / modalities,
but in a reasonably standardised format … as an example of good practice for all BP / SP practitioners
2 Have a wider representation and recognition of BP practice to be available for dissemination into the academic world
3 Have a stronger platform for the development of qualitative process research in BP

The products / outcomes that we have in mind are the following:
– To produce (at least) one new book of collected BP/SP case studies,
and to edit and publish this in the series of BP books from Body Psychotherapy Publications (see here).
– To work up some of the other submitted case studies – with the help of experienced academics (if necessary) –
with a view to supporting BP authors / colleagues / students to submit these for later publication in suitable peer-reviewed journals.

Thank you for your attention.

We hope that you can help us to support this project.

Courtenay Young, Frank Röhricht
Members of EABP SRC

SRC Written Case Study Guidelines Final

2017-18 Training Dates at Seattle School of Body-Psychotherapy

Spring Workshops Seattle and Salt Lake City

YOGA AND BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY MAY SERIES

May 3, 2017 7:00 PM EST
Beth Haessig, Psy.D. (President USABP)
“Coming into Alignment with Life and Love”

BIO: Beth Haessig, Psy.D. is President of our Association. She is a licensed psychologist, certified Core Energetic practitioner, and a certified yoga therapist. She specializes in PTSD, anxiety, and eating issues, and has a private practice in Denville NJ. She also works in an urban hospital serving people who suffer from obesity. For more information, see www.BethHaessig.com.

May 10, 2017 – 7:00 PM EST
Chris Walling, Psy.D (President-Elect USABP)
“The Role of Yogic Meditation in Restoring Brain Function”

Maintaining a sharp brain with age throughout the lifecycle is one of the number one fears of baby boomers (Sharp, 2015). As we age, we aim for healthy longevity, high quality of life and peace of mind, but staggering statistics indicate women’s lifetime risk for Alzheimer’s Disease is 1 in 6 now, and 1 in 11 for men. Join us for this experiential presentation where Dr. Chris Walling, Outreach Chairman of the Alzheimers Research Prevention Foundation & Presdient-Elect of USABP will outline an evidenced based yogic meditation protocol recently published in the Journal of Alzheimers Disease.

BIO: Chris Walling, PsyD, MBA, C-IAYT has been an active leader in healthcare for nearly two decades. His work integrates the developmental, biological, and somatic aspects of the lifespan. His work in academic medicine has included the administration of multidisciplinary leadership teams in hematology-oncology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and geriatric psychiatry. Dr. Walling’s service in geriatric psychiatry began as the Executive Administrator for the UCLA Longevity Center and Division of Geriatric Psychiatry in 2010. It was there through his work with world class physician researchers he began to explore the applications of yoga therapy in mental health. He currently serves as Chairman of the Education Advisory Committee for the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation. He is a certified yoga therapist through the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and a Certified Yoga and Meditation instructor through Yoga Alliance.

Dr. Walling is the new President-Elect of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapy. His clinical focus in the behavioral sciences has examined the intersections of neuropsychotherapy, affect regulation, and body psychology. His research on Proprioception and Interoception in Somatic Experiencing Praxis received the 2016 President’s Award for Research Excellence at California Southern University. Dr. Walling is the Clinical Director of Soma Psychological Services in Los Angeles, California where he specializes in stress related disorders, trauma, couples work, and addiction recovery. He teaches internationally on topics such as resilience, mindfulness, and psychological wellbeing. He is also on the faculty for the Prema Yoga Institute based in New York, NY.

May 24, 2017 – 7:00 PM EST
Dr. Barnaby Barratt, Ph.D
“Breath, Subtle Energy and Awareness”

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7678982993427560193

Although yoga has become popular in North America, the public generally associates it with specialized sequences of physical positions and movements. Yet the ancient texts of yogic philosophy, the best known of which are the Yoga Sutras written by Patañjali, emphasize the purpose of these practices as a route toward spiritual awareness. In this webinar, the significance of the way in which our breath connects us with subtle energy systems that flow within us and all around us will be discussed, as well as the conditions of awareness as a process qualitatively different from intellectual knowledge. Given the congruence of yogic practices and body psychotherapy, the role of awareness in healing will be explored.

What attendees can expect to learn:

The history and philosophy of yogic practices in relation to the aims of contemporary body psychotherapy.
The range of traditional and current ideas about subtle energy systems and their connection to our day-to-day patterns of breathing.
The notion of awareness and its central role in healing processes.

BIO: Barnaby B. Barratt, PhD, DHS, ABPP

Dr. Barnaby B Barratt is currently Director of Studies at the newly established Parkmore Institute (www.ParkmoreInstitute.org), which is enrolling its first doctoral students this Summer! Trained as a clinical and developmental psychologist, Barnaby is internationally known as a radical psychoanalyst, a sexuality consultant, somatic psychologist and teacher of tantric meditational practices. He currently practices in Johannesburg, South Africa, and also serves as Senior Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand.

Barnaby received his first doctorate from Harvard University in Psychology and Social Relations, his second PhD from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. He has studied and practices in a variety of body psychotherapy modalities, is a certified teacher of yoga and a certified practitioner of the sen-sib system of bodywork.

For a significant portion of his career, Barnaby held the position of Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Wayne State University Medical School in Detroit. He served as Chair of Somatic and Clinical Psychology at the now defunct Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and as Chair of Counseling and Somatic Psychology at Prescott College. In addition to these appointments, he has lectured and held professorial appointments at universities all over the world.

Barnaby is the author of twelve books including most notably (for those interested in this webinar): The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and Liberating Eros (Random House/Xlibris, 2009).

A full clinical member of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy and the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, Barnaby is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the American Academy for Psychoanalysis in Psychology. He also is a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology.

Barnaby invites you to contact him at BBBarratt@Earthlink.net … you can read more about him at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_B._Barratt

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April Shame Series: Shame: Spirituality, Transformation and Healing

“Can Shame Be Helpful? Transforming Toxic Shame Into Healthy Shame”

7:00 PM EST – April 4

Bret Lyon, PhD, SEP & Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT

Shame Resolution & Spirituality: 2 Part Advanced Practitioner Webinar Series

7:00 PM EST – April 10th & 11th

Caryn Scotto d’ Luzia, MA, SEP, Author of Alchemy of Shame Transformation® and Developer of AST Model of Holistic Shame Resolution® Post Advanced Instructor for Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute

Part 1 of Caryn’s Webinar:

Part 2 of Caryn’s Webinar:

“Healing Shame in Couples”

7:00 PM EST – April 27

A Webinar for Therapists and other Helping Professionals