67th
Annual Conference
Saturday, February
27
Afternoon Workshops
1:30 - 4:00 P.M.
Workshop
96
Mindfulness Practice
as Model for Group Therapy: Group Therapy as Mindfulness Practice
for the Therapist
Chair:
Steven Alper, M.S.W., LCSW,
Private
Practice, La Mesa, California
This highly experiential workshop
explores how the group leader's personal mindfulness practice can
serve as both training and model for doing group therapy as a
mindfulness practice. We will explore implications for
understanding both the group leader role and the group as relational
field.
didactic-sharing of work experiences-demonstration-experiential
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Describe how the therapist's
mindfulness practice:
a. Cultivates the "common," or "non-specific" factors of
therapist effectiveness.
b. Enhances group effectiveness by strengthening the
"curative factors" of the group (Yalom, 2005, 5th ed.), through the
therapist's incorporation of mindfulness practice-based
skills inner
capacities, attitudes and perspectives that create a "safe
container" for group process and promote a healthy group "culture."
2. Choose to commit to and sustain a daily discipline of meditation
practice; (for novice meditators). 0r:
3. Refine and deepen personal mindfulness practice, and strengthen
motivation, discipline and commitment. (for more experienced
meditators)
4. Explain and apply the "IMPP" (Incorporating Mindfulness Pyramids
in Psychotherapy) model of mindfulness in clinical practice,
particularly as it relates to group therapy.
5. Explain what it means to do group therapy as a mindfulness
practice.
6. Describe mindfulness as a method of inquiry/investigation and a
mode of knowing.
7. Incorporate mindful awareness into the group leader role.
8. State the two basic questions and the two mind states that drive
mindful inquiry and investigation.
Course
References:
Baer, R. A. (Ed.). (2006).
Mindfulness-based treatment approaches: A clinician's guide to
evidence base and applications. Burlington, MA: Academic Press.
Germer, C. K., Siegel, R. D., & Fulton, P. R. (Eds.). (2005).
Mindfulness and psychotherapy. New York: Guilford Press.
Hick, S. H., & Bien, T. (Eds.). (2008).
Mindfulness and the
therapeutic relationship. New York: Guilford Press. |
