Workshop: Consistently Excellent Counseling
By Tim Westfeldt
Cost: Option 1: $600 up front,
Option 2: $300 up front and $40 per class. Some discounts, limited scholarship or trade opportunities available.
Presentation Description:
For: counselors, teachers, coaches, spiritual or religious professionals, nurses, massage therapists, and those working in any other kind of helping professions.
Includes: seven 3-hour sessions of education, practice and coaching with a weekend, 2-day practice intensive to finish up.
Students will be introduced to:
1. Principles of
Emotional Reframing, including what emotions really are, and how to use them.
2. The work of Ron Kurtz, originator of
Hakomi Therapy, including principles of Loving 3. Presence, Staying in the Present Moment, and Focusing on Unconscious Experience
4. Full spectrum, active, unconditional observation skills, including the work of Paul Ekman, author of
Emotions Revealed and
Telling Lies, on definitively recognizing emotions in facial expressions.
5. 7 practices that create a consistently excellent counseling experience every time.
The training will provide:
1. Concrete, learnable skills.
2. Exposure to a strength-based and self-contained therapeutic model.
3. Plenty of practice with fellow students and clients.
5. 4. Lots of high-quality coaching with caring, expert instructors.
6. Many safe, nurturing opportunities for self-development and personal healing.
Presenter's Biography:
Tim began his counseling career in the mid-1990's when he began training as an instructor in an old, dying Chinese art called Gohn Dagow Kung Fu. Not a typical "martial art" form, Gohn Dagow encompasses mental, physical, and spiritual self development and has quietly been around in some form in the Orient for four millennia. He was learning counseling and "teaching" from a traditional Chinese perspective , with involves greater individual responsibility for students and long apprentice-style training to be qualified. It was here that Tim learned the applied mentorship style that he uses to teach counseling skills.
He received a Bachelor's Degree in Geography from Southern Oregon University (SOU) in 1990, and Master's Degree in Applied Science in Mental Health Counseling from SOU in 2004. Tim studied for two years after graduate school with Ron Kurtz, the renowned originator of Hakomi Therapy, a body-centered psychotherapy emphasizing mindfulness, loving presence, and an emphasis on unconscious experience. He has been an active counselor, seeing thousands of clients in the fifteen years he has been doing such work.
Tim has had a wide variety of career pursuits over the years including stints as a firefighter, cartographer, commercial fisherman, merchant sailor, watercolor artist, network engineer, writer/editor, grant writer, and executive manager. He has been a lifelong amateur naturalist with a strong passion for understanding and honoring the natural world. Tim has lived all over the United States, moving around dozens of times with his family up until his late teens, at which point he settled into Southern Oregon where he has lived for over thirty years. He currently has a private therapy practice, teaches counseling skills and is writing a book called "Emotional Hygiene."
Demonstration: Tim will provide a free presentation and a demonstration of Consistently Excellent Counseling skills open to the public on Sunday, October 18 at 5:00 p.m. in the Gresham Room in the Ashland Public Library.
To register or receive more information call or e-mail: 541-621-6591, [email protected]
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