The Boulder Psychotherapy Institute

Workshops

Workshops in individual, group or couples therapy may be taken separately or as part of our 300-hour program leading to Advanced Certification in Applied Existential Psychotherapy (AEP) or Advanced Certification in Gestalt Therapy and Related Approaches. Each workshop offers a Certificate of Completion for that class. Some distinguished guest workshops are open to the general public as well as to mental health professionals and graduate students.

Fri, Oct 8 - Fri, May 20 2011. Applied Existential Psychotherapy Training (AEP) - Gestalt and Beyond, Betty Cannon, BPI - 303 494 0393
AEP is an experiential therapy that interlaces the insights of contemporary existential and psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approaches with techniques inspired by Gestalt therapy and other experiential approaches. Many psychoanalytic approaches ignore the body, while many experiential approaches fail to take into account defenses, transference and countertransference issues. AEP takes into account the full spectrum of human experience - body, meaning, emotion, the impact of the past, and the choices that need to be made to create a different future. Learn More. Sign Up.

Tue, Oct 12 - Tue, May 17 2011. Group Therapy Training, Betty Cannon, BPI - 303 494 0393
Working with groups is both an art and a science. This workshop combines techniques drawn from Gestalt, existential, psychodynamic, body-oriented and systems approaches to group. Group members observe and experience groups and practice leading the group in a safe learning environment. Learn More. Sign Up.

Sun, Oct 24. Presentation Skills for Therapists - A One Day Workshop, Lee Potts, BPI - 303 494 0393
Effective presentation can help you recruit and retain clients. Communication behaviors such as body language, vocal tone, and style send significant messages about you and affect all of your professional interactions. Learn More. Sign Up.

Fri, Jan 14 2011 - Fri, Dec 9 2011. Imago and Gestalt Relational Therapy Training, Jaylynne Chase-Jacobsen, BPI - 303 494 0393
Imago Therapy is a technique developed by Harville Hendrix to work with couples in a dialogical context that allows the couple to face and help heal their own and each other’s childhood wounds. It can also be used by singles to enhance their capacity to create healthy relationships. Gestalt Therapy has long been recognized as a lively and effective technique for integrating body, mind and spirit in an interpersonal context of increasing awareness and contact. Integrating the two provides powerful and effective tools for helping couples confront their interpersonal issues and enhance their relationship. Learn More. Sign Up.

TBA. Affect Regulation, Attachment and Trauma, Pat Ogden, BPI - 303 494 0393
In recent years, psychotherapy has begun to shift its emphasis from models of cognitive development to the significance of “affect” in an inter-subjective context. Learn More.

TBA. Applied Existential Psychotherapy (AEP) Training - 5-day modules, Betty Cannon, BPI - 303 494 0393
AEP is an experiential psychodynamic therapy that interlaces the insights of contemporary existential and psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approaches with techniques inspired by Gestalt therapy and other experiential approaches. Learn More.

TBA. Body Oriented Psychotherapy, Trauma Work and Gestalt, Jaylynne Chase-Jacobsen and Betty Cannon, BPI - 303 494 0393
This workshop looks at the ways in which several specifically body oriented psychotherapy techniques may enhance traditional Gestalt work. Reichean/bioenergetic work provides techniques for recognizing and working with stuck emotional patterns in the body musculature (character structure), while several different approaches to trauma provide ways of understanding and working with stuck patterns in the autonomic nervous system. We will pay particular attention to choosing appropriate levels of intervention (body, emotion, meaning) in working with clients with different character structures. We will also consider the question of when cathartic work is appropriate and when it is not - a question that students studying Gestalt and truma approaches frequently ask. Learn More.

TBA. Broken Bonds: From Stabilization to Transformation, Pat Ogden, BPI - 303 494 0393
Traumatic experience leaves behind not only a legacy of posttraumatic symptoms but also a burden of fear and mistrust that affects all future relationships, including the therapeutic one. Learn More.

TBA. Character Structure, Developmental Issues and Shock Trauma, Laurence Heller, BPI - 303 494 0393
We are pleased to have Larry Heller return for the second part of this Distinguished Guest Workshop. He has agreed to do a review of the material in the first workshop for those who were unable to attend (and previous participants who would like a review). The workshop presents a unifying approach to psychotherapy and trauma work. It adds significant new elements to the character structure work that Dr. Heller has been teaching for twenty-five years. Participants in the first part of the workshop found it both eye-opening and ground breaking. They are enthusiastic about the second part. Please register early as space is limited. Learn More.

TBA. Creativity and the Veil of Addiction, Linda Schierse Leonard, BPI - 303 494 0393
Probably no one is better suited to help us explore the edge of creativity and addiction than Linda Leonard, world-renowned author, lecturer and workshop presenter, recovering alcoholic and Jungian analyst. This workshop looks at addiction from a Jungian perspective. We live an age of addiction to power, control, speed, money, codependency, food, alcohol, drugs, romance, sex and even the Internet. Underneath all these particular addictions lie archetypal patterns. Facing addiction takes us deep into the realm of the shadow, into the heart of darkness. Yet, paradoxically, it is in these shadows that we can find the light that brightens the path to healing and recovery. Discussing the parallel between the twelve steps of recovery and the creative process, Linda will describe the archetypal characters within us – characters whose energy can be turned either toward creativity or destruction. Learn More.

TBA. Existentialism, Psychoanalysis and Gestalt, Betty Cannon and Susan Nimmanheminda, BPI - 303 494 0393
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TBA. Film and the Unconscious, Linda Schierse Leonard, BPI - 303 494 0393
Like dreams, myths and fairy tales, film is an expressive medium that reveals the deep archetypal patterns of the unconscious. Learn More.

TBA. Gestalt Dream Training, Deborah Bowman, BPI - 303 494 0393
This training provides practitioners with hands-on experience working with their own dreams and facilitating others. The workshop leader demonstrates dream work and reviews the facilitation process as well as coaches participants in facilitation with one another. Professional issues in dream facilitation are discussed alongside the personal and transpersonal scope of the dream. Learn More.

TBA. Gestalt Therapy and the Child Within, Deborah Bowman, BPI - 303 494 0393
Gestalt practice naturally leads to the spontaneous, loving and creative child within all of us. This workshop focuses on methods that heal childhood wounds blocking the full potential of our birthright. Learn how to integrate Gestalt with diverse approaches to inspire imagination and lasting change. Learn More.

TBA. Satir and Jung: Ways of Working and Understanding, Laura Dodson, BPI - 303 494 0393
Laura Dodson: "I studied with and co-worked with Virginia Satir for many years - and later became a Jungian analyst. A big part of my personal and professional journey has been to understand the similarities and differences of these two profound people - and to integrate their philosophies and ways of working into my practice and my life." Learn More.

TBA. The Art of Aging, Linda Schierse Leonard, BPI - 303 494 0393
Approaching middle age and beyond, we begin to face questions regarding aging. Of course, we are all aging - and the question of what it means to age well is important to all of us. Learn More.

TBA. The Call To Create, Linda Schierse Leonard, BPI - 303 494 0393
The workshop celebrates the recent publication of the paperback edition of Linda's book, *The Call to Create*. It combines lecture and discussion with experiential exercises. It should benefit mental health professionals and psychology graduate students as well as artists, writers, and others interested in the creative process. Learn More.

TBA. The Dream as an Existential Message - A Weekend Workshop, Betty Cannon, BPI - 303 494 0393
Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt therapy, was fond of saying, “The dream is an existential message.” What he meant was that the dream presents me with a picture of my existence - and hence is a way of understanding my way of being in the world. It also challenges me to live more fully and creatively in the present. Participants are invited to bring a dream or several dreams to the workshop. Learn More.

Ongoing. Practice Groups.

Ongoing. Process Groups.

Ongoing. Supervision/Consultation Groups.

Boulder Psychotherapy Institute

Advanced Training in Applied Existential Psychotherapy (AEP)

An Experiential Psychodynamic Gestalt Approach • Boulder, Colorado

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