Scott Kellogg Workshop

As part of the National Drugs Conference 2010 “The Irish Needle Exchange Forum is pleased to announce that Scott Kellogg, PhD, will lead a Transformational Chairwork Training from 6pm – 9pm Wednesday 3rd November 2010 at The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Golden Lane Dublin 8.

Dr. Kellogg, is a Clinical Psychologist and a Gestalt-trained Schema Therapist who works as a psychotherapist and supervisor at the Schema Therapy Institute in New York City.  Currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at New York University, he is the Past President of the Division on Addictions of the New York State Psychological Association and a co-director of the Harm Reduction and Mental Health Project at New York University.”

Chairwork is a psychotherapeutic technique that takes two basic forms. To start, two chairs are placed several feet apart – each facing the other. In the “Empty Chair” version, the patient sits in one chair and tries to imagine an important person or figure in their life – past, present, or future. They then talk to this person as if he or she were actually there. For example, a patient who has been grieving over a loss can “speak” to the person who is no longer in their life and express their love, anger, and grief.

Transformational Chairwork Training is designed to introduce therapists to the art and science of chairwork, or psychotherapeutic dialogues, in an active, creative, and clinically-useful manner.

Using didactic presentations, scripted and unscripted role-plays, and live demonstrations, participants will learn how to effectively use the “Empty Chair” and “Two-Chair” techniques in three basic ways:

Inner Dialogues

(a) Chairwork can be used to clarify and resolve the conflicting energies and values that are often at work when patients are “stuck” or unable to make a decision.

(b) It can also be used to help patients address the internal pain that is connected to Inner Critic voices and/or negative schemas — internal sources of anguish that are frequently found in depression, anxiety, addictions, and borderline personality disorder.

External Dialogues

(a) Experiential encounters provide an opportunity for patients to work through conflicts, express blocked emotions, and say goodbye to people who are no longer present in their lives.

(b) Chairwork can also play a significant role in empowering traumatized and abused patients to tell the story, psychodramatically confront their abusers, and reclaim their lives.

Addictive Disorders and Behaviors

(a) To help facilitate the process of recovery, it is important that addicted individuals have some form of encounter between the part of them that wants to continue to use the substance or engage in the behavior and the part that wants to change or stop; chairwork is a powerful vehicle for enabling this to happen.

Transformational Chairwork draws on the clinical wisdom and practice of a wide range of Gestalt and integrative psychotherapists.  The training is designed to introduce therapists to the art and science of chairwork or psychotherapeutic dialogues in an active, creative, and clinically-useful manner

Using didactic presentations, scripted and unscripted role-plays, and live demonstrations, participants will learn how to use this technique with addictive disorders and when treating problems related to loss and grief.

A participant fee of €40.00 will apply each participant will be provided with a training manual that covers not only the basic principles of this technique, but also scripts for role-play and practice.”

Closing date for booking is 22nd October Maximum capacity is 40

Please contact Tim Bingham tim@inef.ie if you have any questions

Certificate of attendance will be issued

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Certificate of attendance will be issued
More information http://transformationalchairwork.com