Process Oriented Psychology (POP) With A Trauma Lens: Working with Childhood Dreams and Early Memories

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Lizzie Spencer, Masters Social Ecology/Education, Diploma Wholistic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Bachelor Education, Certificate Steiner Education, Family Constellations. Related seminars and products

Elizabeth Spencer

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Lizzie Spencer is a highly experienced psychotherapist, coach and academic teacher, based in the Bowral, South of Sydney, Australia.  

She taught in Steiner Schools for many years and is also a Social Ecologist, looking to nature for helpful and supportive life systems, and brings active hope to the world.

She is a founding member of the Community of Calm whose aim is to train practitioners in Trauma Awareness and to create a Trauma Resource Centre.

Family Constellations and Process Oriented Psychology are at the heart of her understanding and trauma-informed practice.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lizzie Spencer maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with the Australian College of Applied Psychology and the University of New England. receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lizzie Spencer is the co-founder of Community of Calm and Arts for Wellness and is accredited by the Australian Counseling Association.

Objectives

Learning objectives of this training:

1. Foundations of POP, background, history and guiding principles
2. practice ‘role switching’ and ‘crossing edges’ with inner critics
3. enhance your ability to flow in several ‘channels’ e.g. drawing, movement, dreamy, wide awake
4. discover your life myth and work with it’s polarity e.g. innocent and scary
5. discover the polarity of your essential nature: e.g. it’s innocent glory and wild super power.
6. learn and experience a guided mediation method to access a greater wisdom on the whole day
7. position this technique within the trauma lense

“Working with childhood dreams gives us access to our life myth, and to our natural ability to deal with life’s struggles. It’s inspiring, refreshing and invigorating." Elizabeth (Lizzie) Spencer

How will you benefit from attending this training?

• Have a wonderful new way to work with inner critics, childhood dreams and memories
• Discover your Life Myth, and ways of working with it’s polarities
• Experience it, embody it, and bring it to your own clients

Outline

Morning Session (includes a short break)

• Welcome Intentions and Overview
• Foundational Process Oriented Psychology techniques; edges, channels, role switching. Give an overview of the day. Explain the technique, an overview and why/how early dreams and memories hold and show us our essential nature. Explain
  • *Practice role switching and crossing an edge with the Inner Critic. I will explain and then demonstrate with someone in the room
  • *Put people in pairs to practice role switching and crossing an edge.
  • *Debrief Q and A
  • Finding your Life Myth; working with childhood dreams and early memories
  • *Explain the technique, an overview and why/how early dreams and memories reveal a polarity which begins to reveal our life myth
  • * Ask a few people to briefly share their early childhood dream
  • * Journal re how your life is now, what dilemmas or problems are there, joys etc..
  • * Remember and journal the dream
  • Demonstrate the technique with a dream, and again with a memory (with willing participants) See technique below
  • *Identify 2 aspects… the innocent self and the scary part of the dream
  • *Start with the innocent part… describe, draw, move, let it give a message to you. How does this energy show up in your life?
  • *Do this with the scary, part the X energy,…. describe, draw, move, let it give a message to you. How does this energy show up in your life?
  • *Deep relaxation…guided relax, go to beautiful place, become the essence of the place, look back on the drawings, give messages
  • *Merge the 2 energies, innocent and X energy, let them work on each other
  • *Debrief learnings so far
  • *Reflective questions to see Life Myth, essence, X factor, how you use one to work on the other
  • *What is the client seeing? How might these insights be useful in life

Afternoon Session (includes a short break)

• Q and A for learnings so far
• People in pairs or triads to practice the technique, take turns as therapist, client and observer. Half an hour each.
  • *Debrief exercise, sharing
  • *Reflective questions re applying this to clients
  • *Q and A re process and application
  • Go back to Arny Mindell’s 4 phases of conflict, apply what we have done so far to it, and do an exercise re the 4th phase. It’s a guided meditation and will be a wonderful way to integrate all the new learnings. Debrief in pairs.
  • Journal … catch the key learnings. How might they shed light on the writing you did at the beginning of the day, on your current dilemmas

​Evaluation and quiz - your payment includes a quiz which when completed with a minimum of 80% correct answers, will enable you to download your Attendance Certificate.

To complete the quiz, please log into your account at pdp-catalogue.com.au and click the orange "Certificate" button under the program's title.

For live webcasts, post-tests must be completed within one month of viewing the program.

Target Audience

This seminar has been designed to extend the clinical knowledge and applied skill of Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Coaches, Psychologists, Social Workers, Mental Health Nurses and Psychiatrists.

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