In this workshop therapists will learn how to expand their
healing repertoires by being introduced to self-healing methods that can aid
patients' physical and mental health. Participants will be introduced to an
integration of Qigong and psychotherapy that Dr. Mayer developed from thirty
years of training with some of the most respected TaiChi/Qigong masters, and
which he applied in an multidisciplinary medical clinic which he co-founded.
Qigong (of which Tai Chi is the best known system) is a many thousand-year-old
method of cultivating the energy of life through synchronizing movement, breath
and imagery. Dr Mayer shows how to integrate the essences of these practices
into psychotherapy without using a Qigong movement, and without mentioning a word
about Qigong. Some of the integrative methods include: Eastern stress reduction
and breathing methods which simultaneously relax and energize; acu-point
self-touch; hypnotherapeutic methods (Rossi, 1986);the transcending and transmuting dimensions of the
imagery/somatic dialectic (Mayer 2007, 2009), and anchoring the bodily
movements expressed by patients at a moment of "felt shift" (Gendlin,1978).
Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy presents an integral (Walsh & Shapiro,
2006).paradigm for bodymind healing which is accessible for clinicians to
integrate into brief or depth psychotherapy. Theory, case illustrations, and
practices will be combined to show how this bodymind healing approach can help
alleviate anxiety, hypertension, chronic pain, insomnia, etc.
Course Outline:
9:30-9:45 AM-
General Introduction-.
Presenter's background integrating Qigong, psychotherapy
and behavioral medicine in an integrative medical clinic .
Brief case example of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
9:45-11:30AM
Towards an Integral Psychotherapy: Mind-body interventions
Psychotherapy and Qigong - Theoretical framework of
Bodymind Healing approaches in psychotherapy illustrated with a case example of
anxiety treatment.
Break 11:30- 11:45
11:45-12:05 AM-
Introduction to Qigong movements as a complementary
treatment for: relaxation, energizing, limbering joints, hypertension Johnson,
2000)., balance and prevention of falls in the elderly (Province, 1995), etc. (
(Research including peer-reviewed research is summarized in Pelletier, 2000;
Mayer, 2004, 2007).
12:05-12:20 AM What Qigong gives psychotherapy
12:20-12:50 PM
Integrating psychotherapy, behavioral healthcare with
Qigong: Applications for other Psychological and Psycho-physiological disorders
Case examples: Chronic pain (Hilgard 1983, Mayer 1996. Wu 1999), hypertension
(Johnson 2000, Pellitier 2000,Mayer 1999, 2003, peer reviewed), insomnia (Irwin, 2008); trauma (van
der Kolk 1995), {Practices from Dr. Mayer's Bodymind Healing Qigong DVD are
used in trauma trainings by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Medical Director, the
Trauma Center, Boston University School of Medicine.}
12:50-1:15- PM
What creates change in Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy as Changing your Life Stance
Transmuting internalizations (Stolorow, 1987) with
body-based psychotherapy.
Case Examples: Social phobia, sexual trauma.
Incorporating Qigong into Psychotherapy without using a
word about Qigong and without using a Qigong movement: Relaxation and breathing
methods; self-touch using acu-points to aid self-soothing; the imaginal/somatic
dialectic; Knowledge of Qigong/ Tai Chi stances enhances awareness of somatic
changes at moments of "felt shift" (Gendlin,1978) in psychotherapy, and
enhances anchoring (Bandler & Grinder, 1975, 1979) of these new life
stances.
1:15 1:25 PM
Research and Ethics . Research and Ethics (Andrade &
Feinstein 2003;Nerem, R. 1980;
Becker, 1985; Kuang 1991;Wu 1999, Mayer M. 2004;Pellitier2004): APA Ethics Code;Zur
O., 2005).
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