From MindFlight to MindSight: Overcoming the Phobia of Inner Experience
Presenter: Kathy Steele, MN, CS
Dates: April 14 - 15, 2011
Times: 9:30 A.M.-4:30 P.M.
Location: The Holiday Inn, 1200 Beacon St, Brookline, MA
Cost: $370.00 Full, $350.00 Early Bird, $333.00 Group/Student, $315.00 Group/Student Early Bird. Please note the deadline for Early Bird is March 31, 2011.
Description:
The essential capacity to empathically reflect on one’s own experience and that of others is called MindSight (Siegel, 1999, 2010). However, many clients, particularly those who have been traumatized in childhood and have complex developmental trauma disorders, are terrified, ashamed, disgusted, or baffled about many of their inner experiences (emotions, needs, thoughts, fantasies, desires, bodily feelings, etc.). They develop MindFlight (Steele, 2009), a phobia of inner experience. Too often, therapists fail to recognize this central phobia of inner experience in survivors and are at a loss when standard therapeutic interventions fail time after time. This entrenched phobia of both mental actions and physical behaviors is maintained by chronic avoidance and escape strategies, such as dissociation, denial, projection, busyness, substance abuse, workaholism, and results in a diminished capacity for reflective functioning. Paced acceptance, understanding, and integration of inner experiences are thus primary interventions. Elements of mindflight, and the maladaptive mental and physical actions that maintain it will be discussed. Paced therapeutic approaches, including somatic interventions, will be described to cultivate the capacity for reflective functioning, perspective, pacing, and integration.
Prerequisites:
This workshop is geared toward licensed mental health professionals at a range of levels.
Workshop Training Objectives:
- 1. Participants will be able to identify symptoms of mindflight, including difficulties mentalizing and somatic correlates of inner-directed phobias.
- 2. Participants will be able to describe therapeutic interventions to oercome the phobia of inner experience.
- 3. Participants will be able to delineate paced skills building for reflective functioning and the development of mindsight.
About the Presenter:
Kathy Steele, MN, CS, is Clinical Director of Metropolitan Counseling Services, a non-profit, low cost psychotherapy and training center, and in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a Fellow and Past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Kathy has received several awards for her work in the field of trauma and dissociation. She is a frequent international presenter and has authored or co-authored numerous publications. She is a co-author of the new book, Coping with Trauma-related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Their Therapists, Norton, 2010, and of the award winning book, The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation of the Personality and Treatment of Chronic Traumatization, Norton, 2006.
Please be sure to submit both the Registration form as well as payment, using one of the links below.
Full Cost $370.00, click below
Early Bird $350.00, click below. March 31 deadline.
Group/Student, $333.00
Group/Student, Early Bird, $315.00. March 31 deadline.
Note: Registration at Group/Student rate requires proof of current student status at a degree-granting program, or 3+ registrants from the same institution at the same time.
