The Adler Graduate School
Spring 2012 Friday Workshop Series
Board Approved CEUs

The Adler Graduate School announces its spring 2012 Friday workshop series to provide training for area professionals.  These workshops are aimed at counselors, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, consultants, and teachers.  These are excellent workshops at an excellent price!

Highly experienced area professionals teach these workshops.  Cost is $99.00 per workshop ($65.00 for Adler alumni and students).  Workshops run Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

The Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy (LPC and LPCC) and Minnesota Board of Marriage and Family Therapy (LMFT) preapprove each workshop for 6.0 CEUs.

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February 24

Presenter:  Louise Ferry, PhD, LP, LMFT

Title:  Using Anxiety for Change

Anxiety is a part of our everyday lives.  How we respond to that anxiety can be very different for all individuals.  We can not only learn to change our anxiety reactions but also use anxiety in a very transformative way by changing our cognitive pathways and looking even further into our mistaken beliefs or cognitive distortions.

This workshop provides a general overview of anxiety disorders and looks more closely into the various theories behind the origin of these disorders.  It also looks more closely into the ways that one might use anxiety as a mechanism for change in one’s life, focusing more closely on the cognitive behavioral methods and also a tie to the Adlerian ideas of change.

March 23

Presenters:  Elizabeth Nash, MA, LMFT, AT-R, and John Nash, PhD, LP

Title:  Using Biofeedback in Clinical Counseling: Help with Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Adding biofeedback to your clinical practice increases the range and intensity of problems you address. Biofeedback of various types produces very strong responses in most people. Most clients experience a new sense of themselves and their symptoms when using biofeedback. For example, instead of the mysterious headache, the person getting muscle tension biofeedback recognizes that their head aches because they habitually clench their jaw, lift their eyebrows, or frown. This tension is made visible and concrete on the computer screen.

There is often a powerful effect on parents of children with anxiety, ASD, and other disorders of childhood when for the first time they really see the emotional reactivity their child has, made manifest and concrete with biofeedback. Biofeedback becomes part of what we do to help people turn toward useful thinking about their situation.

This workshop gives you the basic skills to be able to use electromyographic (muscle tension), thermal (skin temperature), galvanic skin response (skin sweatiness), and heart rate variability biofeedback. You see demonstrations of each of these biofeedback modalities and volunteers can try them out. You are also introduced to the methods, concepts and instrumentation needed to use electroencephalographic biofeedback (neurofeedback) safely and effectively.

April 20

Title:  Jere Truer, MA, LICSW

Title:  Incorporating Complementary Spiritual Healing Techniques into Psychotherapy

In this daylong workshop, various energy systems and healing techniques from ancient cultures are discussed and demonstrated.  Many clients now seeking help have accessed these techniques and have often used them as an alternative to psychotherapy.  Meanwhile, many therapists are not aware of the techniques or do not know how to use them or incorporate them into their work with clients.

This workshop bridges the gap so that clients may be better served by therapists who are more equipped to serve a more sophisticated population.  Systems, philosophies, and techniques explored include the ayurvedic chakra system from India, tai chi and qi gong from China, Buddhist psychology from central Asia, and various grounding techniques used by energy healing practitioners in America.  Please wear comfortable, loose clothing to accommodate demonstrations and experiential exercises on the floor.  All of the exercises will be gentle and painless.

May 18

Presenter:  Lisa Venable, MA

Title:  Spiritual Self-Talk: What Would Love Say?

In order for clients to truly heal and make significant shifts in their reality, they need to discover an inner voice that feels good. A voice that speaks from the spirit rather than ego; a voice of love and possibilities instead of fear and limitation. The simple question, “What would love say?” redirects the mind towards beliefs that nurture and empower. By growing the voice of Love, clients can actually cultivate new feelings of worthiness, trust, and self-acceptance.

This workshop provides imagery/meditations for actual healing of fearful, painful thoughts and life experiences, explores spiritual self talk that embodies love and creates joy, helps clients move out of SHOULDS and the immobilizing fear of not being good enough or worthy, presents methods for creating new, positive emotions through meditation, and teaches meditation practices that help clients live with greater awareness about what they tell themselves.

Workshop Logistics:

To give you an idea of location, the Adler Graduate School is located just north of 494 about 2 miles west of the Mall of America (very easy to find).

Registration confirmation and directions are e-mailed to participants three (3) days prior to the workshop.

Workshops start at 9:00 a.m. and run until 4:00 p.m.  Lunch (on your own) is 12:00-1:00.  All workshop materials are provided.

At the end of the workshop day, participants receive a certificate of attendance confirming 6.0 board-approved CEUs.

Checks and credit card charges are processed on the day of the workshop.

Please mail registration and payment to:

Dr. Roger Ballou
Director of Clinical Licensing Programs
Adler Graduate School
1550 East 78th Street
Richfield, MN  55423

Questions?  Call 612-861-7554 (extension 109)

We look forward to having you join us!