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Calendar last updated on 3/10/2010

Date	Location	Registration
Schema Workshop
No dates currently available. Please contact your local trainer for schedule and availability

Date	Location	Registration
Biomonitoring Workshop
No dates currently available. Please contact your local trainer for schedule and availability

The Schema Workshop

Prerequisite: The TIR Workshop or the Fundamentals and Techniques of Life Stress Reduction Workshop Time: (Standard) 2 - 3 Days

Schema work is essentially life planning. It is done in what we call consultation mode, a form of coaching ,which unlike other Applied Metapsychology programs, involves some practitioner analysis, while still remaining as person centered as possible.

Schema coaching is a method for use when a viewer's needs motivation, has difficulty choosing a direction in life, is unsure of his/her goals, or has difficulty in reaching goals. Schema work also meets the needs of viewers whose lives are too chaotic to allow them to benefit from regular Applied Metapsychology sessions.

This course teaches a systematic approach to examining and streamlining the path to achieving our goals in life. It also provides effective tools for overcoming emotional charge accumulated after past failures and tools for formulating new goals.

Objectives:

As demonstrated through examination and supervised activities, the student will be able to:

• Analyze the life domains (self, intimates, groups, etc.)
• Demonstrate communication skills necessary to help a client to clarify core values
• Apply the Schema Program to assist a client to formulate workable plans to fulfill his or her goals

Also learn to:

• Apply Schema work to the client's life as a whole or to a specific aspect of it
• Differentiate between a client's stated aims and what s/he is actually doing in life
• Use additional techniques to help clients clarify goals, past and present

Outline:

1. Theory of Schemas
   1. The six domains
   2. The structure of a Schema
   3. Theory of having
      • Having as a subjective state
      • Problems as having
2. Rules of Consultation
3. The Schema Program
   1. Goals and ideals
   2. Modus operandi and policies
   3. Action programs
   4. Exchange

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Biomonitoring Workshop

Prerequisite: The TIR Workshop or the Fundamentals and Techniques of Life Stress Reduction Workshop Time: 2 - 3 Days

The biomonitor (also called a galvanic skin response meter) traces its roots all the way back to C.S. Féré, a French physician in 1888. Since then, it has been used extensively in psychotherapy. Carl G. Jung, for instance, used it in connection with word-association tests. It has also been used as one of the measurements taken in a polygraph ("lie-detector") recording.

The biomonitor when utilized in the subject of Applied Metapsychology provides additional physical indicators that reflect what is going on in the viewer's mental environment. Because all Applied Metapsychology techniques are done within a person centered context a facilitator follows the viewer's stated interest in deciding what to address in a session, even when the biomonitor indicates more charge in another area. We consider the viewer to be the authority on his/her mental environment. At the same time, the facilitator makes note of the biomonitor's indications of charge, as sometimes it is registering on things not yet available in the viewer's conscious awareness. In doing so, the facilitator gains insight into what is moving up to the client's awareness threshold.

Objectives:

As demonstrated through examination and supervised activities, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate competence in use of the biomonitor to find charged areas to address
• Understand various responses shown on the biomonitor
• Monitor progress during a session

Also learn to:

• Use the biomonitor without distracting a client's attention during a session
• Explain the biomonitor's use to a client
• To spot the beginning of an end point for a technique or session

Outline:

1. Orientation to the use of the biomonitor
   1. Theory
   2. Distinguishing different biomonitor responses
   3. Use of the biomonitor in a session
   4. Use of the biomonitor in assessing
   5. Use of the biomonitor in locating end points
   6. Client interest vs. biomonitor response in assessing
2. Practical Skills - biomonitor exercises
   1. Setting up the biomonitor for use in a session
   2. Biomonitor familiarization exercises
   3. Learning to asses by using responses of the biomonitor
   4. Identifying false response
   5. Using the biomonitor to measure session progress