Effectively Working with Process  

This live, 4 day online interactive training will engage you in ways to notice and work with aspects of your client’s process that are generally not explicit.

June 10 & 11

June 24 & 25

8:00 - 4:15 Pacific time each day

26 CE Credits  (See FAQ) on website.

Training is limited to 28 participants.

Effectively Working with Process  

A process is a series or set of activities that interact to produce a result.  It may only occur once, or be recurrent or periodic.

“Process” in therapy refers to the ongoing responses to sensations that impact us emotionally, cognitively, and on nervous system and somatic levels.

It’s hard for anyone to see their own process, which further impacts their ability to be totally present.  The dynamics that occur affect their abilities to sustain awareness, build resilience, and stay engaged with their “drive for completion.”  Well practiced coping strategies, with limited effectiveness, get reused without awareness, and people feel desperate about their own potential.

We all learn patterns that “disconnect” us from ourselves when overwhelmed. They often cause ongoing problems that result in the whole range of diagnoses.

When therapists don’t track process well, they often end up poorly positioned in the therapy. The work then becomes frustrating for both the therapist and the client.

The better you attend to emerging “process” in sessions, the closer you and your client can pace the work efficiently.  This can lead to an increase in resilience, an emergence of resolution of past debilitating dynamics and more freedom for full engagement in the present.

You can’t treat a diagnosis.  You can work effectively with underlying dynamics that result in the diagnosed symptoms.

Good therapy takes clients into challenging moments.  Great therapy requires the therapist to stay engaged in the process in those challenging moments.

Topics include:

•  How tracking process can make me a better therapist, and help me navigate those tough moments in sessions where I'm not sure what to do.

• Clarifying process from presenting narratives and somatic responses makes underlying dynamics more accessible and workable 

• Identifying signs of activation and disconnection so we can target those dynamics directly

• Somatic details as doorways to seeing process and “non-presenting problems”

• Turning complaints into a focus

• Signs in session that you may have missed disconnecting dynamics

• How disconnections show up in the Cycle of Experience, and implications for pacing

• Working with how disconnecting dynamics are maintained over time despite consequences

• Working more fluidly and confidently from the place of "Not knowing"

• Consequences of inabilities to self-reflect well, of not being able to question one’s own beliefs

• Assessing ways you can get caught in impossible tasks, and how to get back into a workable process.  Your process matters, too.

•  Tracking collaborative alliances and agreements as an ongoing process.  Closely pacing signs of “caution”

• Finding leverage and traction where clients may say “nothing is happening."  Working with subtle protest to access desire and gain traction. 

• Working with shame dynamics from a process-orientation, using somatic manifestations to guide the way. Assessing client’s process of “lack of questioning” to gain traction into shame.

• Further experience with what it feels like to truly "trust the process."

Join us for live presentation, experiential exercises, demonstrations/videos, role plays, and practicums.