67th Annual Conference

Saturday, February 27

Afternoon Workshops

1:30 - 4:00 P.M.

Workshop 94

Body-Speech-Mind: An Experiential Group Approach to Clinical Supervision

Chairs:                

Lauren Marie Casalino, M.A., Associate Professor, Department Chair, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado

Karen Kissel Wegela, Ph.D., Professor, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado

Body-Speech-Mind groups invite their members to mindfully track their own experience as one member presents a client using a descriptive format developed in Naropa University's Contemplative Psychotherapy program. The clinical relationship is "brought into the room" through this method and is illuminated by the group's own process and interaction in the here-and-now.

experiential-sharing of work experiences-didactic-demonstration

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Explain key concepts in contemplative psychotherapy:  brilliant sanity, the arising of confusion, egolessness and "exchange."

2. Describe the principle of exchange and recognize it in his or her experience.

3. Identify and use the categories of body, speech, and mind in clinical presentations.

4. Identify the steps for creating a body-speech-mind supervision or consultation group.

Course References:

Rabin, B. and Walker, R. (1987). A contemplative approach to clinical supervision. Journal of Contemplative Psychotherapy, 4, 135-149.

Trungpa, C.(2005). The meeting of Buddhist and  western psychology. In C. Gimian (Ed.), The sanity we are born with: A Buddhist approach to  psychology. Boston: Shambhala, pp. 3-12.

Wegela, K.K. (2008). Listening beyond the words: Working with exchange. In F.J.Kaklauskas, S. Nimanheminda, L. Hoffman, and M. Jack (Eds.), Brilliant sanity: Buddhist approaches to psychotherapy. Colorado Springs, CO: University of the Rockies Press.