Relational Psychotherapy and the Erotic Field
with Adam Kincel
Friday, March 22nd & Saturday, March 23rd, 9-5
Erotic energy is associated with vitality, growth and creativity. It holds relational patterns of engagement with others and can relate to trauma and difficulty. Attending to the erotic field, therapists need to consider these traumas but also societal concerns and prejudices that become embedded in our bodies.
Some questions we may ask when working with clients and the erotic field include: how do we even start a discussion on erotic energy in the therapeutic context? What is appropriate? What kind of language should we use? Can we be authentic and what does it mean to be authentic when acknowledging erotic energy? These and similar questions are grounded in clinical considerations as well as embodied prejudices.
We are born into genderism, homophobia and cultural and religious repression of sexuality, and these shape our lives. The societal pressures to fix gender and sexual orientation have had a direct impact on how we are embodied. Relatedly, ideas about what healthy sexuality means have created fixed ways of understanding and discussing eroticism in psychotherapy.
Transference in a relational approach includes the therapist as an agent in the creation of all feelings in the room that includes erotic feelings. Thus, eroticism in the therapy room challenges the therapists to explore their sexuality beyond fixed sexual choices and preferences.
Through the use of spatial experiments, therapeutic work, case studies and presentations, we will jointly consider the question: How do we explore the intimacy of co-created erotic field with our clients in a prejudiced society?
All presented research outcomes are based on the doctoral thesis examining the relationship between Gestalt therapy, sexuality and masculinity through autoethnographic methodology. The theoretical component of the workshop will be based on Adam Kincel’s autoethnographic research.
When: Friday, March 22nd & Saturday, March 23rd, 9-5
Where: Portland Mental Health & Wellness, 3050 SE Division St., Ste 225, Portland, OR 97202
Cost: $240.00 – 10% Discount for All 3
Student Rate: $185
12 CE Credit Hours – A certificate will be awarded upon completion of this workshop.
Radically Staying with What is: A Paradoxical Approach to Change with our Patients/Clients
with Marie Cacao and Brad Larsen Sanchez
Friday, May 3rd & Saturday, May 4th, 9-5
We continue the exploration of the self as enough ideology, with an emphasis on experiential and embodied learning. We can make useful meaning of the impulse to pursue change. We will experiment with how the Paradoxical Nature of Change can support us to be with what is for our patients/clients rather than pursue clinical change. The paradox lies in the experiential sense of change that unfolds when we stay with what is. This workshop will shift focus from clinician being enough to being in relationship with our clients/patients in a manner that allows for both to be moved, energized, and grow.
When: Friday, May 3rd & Saturday, May 4th, 9-5
Where: Portland Mental Health & Wellness, 3050 SE Division St., Ste 225, Portland, OR 97202
Cost: $240.00
10% Discount for All 3
Student Rate: $185
12 CE Credit Hours – A certificate will be awarded upon completion of this workshop.