65th Annual Conference

Saturday, February 23

Afternoon Workshops

2:30-5:30 P.M.

Workshop 94

Beyond Mindfulness: The Clinical Usefulness of Becoming Aware of Awareness in the Group Psychotherapy Context

Chair:

Rudolph Bauer Ph.D., ABPP, Co-Director, Washington Center for Consciousness Studies, Washington DC

Through the experiential methods of western phenomenology and the praxis of Dzogchen Buddhism, we will construct the group psychotherapy event as a felt field within which members can discover their mind is not their awareness and their awareness is not their mind. Discovering the field characteristics of awareness leads to the therapeutic power of being in the field together.
didactic-experiential-demonstration-sharing of work experiences
 

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Locate themselves in the felt field of awareness through a method of phenomenology.
2. Find that their mind is not there awareness and awareness is not their mind using a Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhist Method.
3. Find that their awareness is actually a field vast and multidimensional.
4. Utilize the phenomenological skills of extension and resonance to deepen the Field both within oneself and with the an other and with the group as a whole.
5  Utilize the above described discoveries in group psychotherapy.
 

Course References:

1. The Field: by Lynne McTaggart Harper Collins, 2002.

2. Prelogical Experience, Edward Tauber and Maurice Green, analytic press, New York, 2006.

3. The View from Within, edited by Francisco Varela and Jonathan Shear, Imprint Academic, Bowling Green, Ohio. 2000.