Opening to our Depths: Self-Relations Supervision

with Selene Vega & Dvorah Simon

In this supervision group we create an intensive community that encourages breakthroughs at both personal and professional levels. Using the techniques of Stephen Gilligan's Self-Relations Psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, movement, poetry, and other modes of connecting to ourselves and each other, this workshop is designed to nurture and awaken your soul into action. For those needing California therapy license CEUs, these groups are an inspiring way to do one's personal work while meeting that requirement.

We will generate together a safe ritual space in which we can explore both the technical and personal aspects of doing Self-Relations and hypnotic work. Selene and Dvorah will teach Self-relations psychotherapy through lecture, demonstration, small-group exercises and therapy work in the center of the group. Participants may invite clients for a consultation session; or do personal work; or set up a role-playing experience. We focus on entering the "living" relational field that allows therapists and clients to work together in a parallel process linked by experiential-somatic-cognitive conversations for change.

Expect poetry and music and dancing. Bring your drum or other musical instruments if you have them (no prior experience or previously discovered musical talent required). We will all share some cooking and clean-up duties, but these should be fairly light and non-intrusive, and provide a good opportunity to get to know each other. We will also try to respond to special dietary needs.