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Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Presents

Workshops Begin Saturday June, 21
REGISTER TODAY!

Drs. Marti Glenn and Wendy Anne McCarty invite you to learn with leading experts in our dynamic 6-course summer series and earn CE credit.

Optimizing Pregnancy, Birth, Baby's First Year...and Beyond.
A Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Summer Workshop Series.

With Leading Experts
Jean Weitensteiner, Bobbi Jo Lyman, Wendy Anne McCarty, Gloria Arenson, Marti Glenn, Ray Castellino,
Mary Jackson

A community series of one-day workshops for professionals and parents to explore best practices for raising healthy, resilient children, supporting loving relationships, and healing at any age. We now understand that our earliest experiences set in motion our core life patterns. In this series, learn and experience key principles and skills to heal stress patterns and to optimize potential. 

Sponsored by SBGI, Natural Family Living, & Wondrous Beginnings

Saturday, June 21:
Six Keys to Support Optimal Development and
Secure relationships in Baby's First Year
with Jeanne Weitensteiner, OTR

Saturday, July 26:
Discover and Work With Early Imprints in Adults:
Specific Tools for Healing Yourself
with Bobbi Jo Lyman, PhD

Friday, August 1:
Film Night with Expert Panel: "Try it on Everything"
with Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD, RN, D.CEP
and Gloria Arensen, MFT, D.CEP

Saturday, August 2:
Optimize, De-Stress & Heal During Pregnancy
with Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD, RN, D.CEP

Sunday, August 3:
Parenting and Partnering:
Deepening Love Through Baby's First Year
with Marti Glenn, PhD

Saturday, August 9:
Heal from Your Difficult Birth:
A Workshop for Moms, Dads, and Partners
with Ray Castellinom, DC, RPP, RCST
and Mary Jackson, LM, RN, RCST

All events held at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
Pre-registration required.
6 CE credits per workshop: MFT, LCSW, RN (must attend 6 hours)

Click here for the Summer Series Brochure

Tuition: $145 per workshop,
$500 for the entire series.

Select scholarships available. Email SBGI at info@sbgi.edu to register or call 805.963.6896 x.107

Announcing SBGI Graduation, Saturday, July 12
With Commencement Speaker Ron Kurtz


Please join SBGI for a Day of Presentations and Graduation Ceremonies with commencement speaker Ron Kurtz.

Ron Kurtz is the originator of the Hakomi Method, a preeminent influence in progressive psychotherapy, and an adjunct faculty member at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.

Day of Presentations:
Saturday, July 12
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Faulkner Galleries
at Santa Barbara Public Library, Downtown

Graduate Ceremony:
Saturday, July 12
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Santa Barbara
Unity Church
 227 E. Arrellaga Street

Please Join Us!

RSVP not required.
For more information please
call us at 805.963.6896

 

Conferences, Workshops & Ongoing Trainings


SBGI Special Conference Feature: Last Month to Register for the USABP upcoming Conference

Did you know??
SBGI students are eligible to receive the student discount rate at the USABP Conference!!!

United States Association for Body Psychotherapy 5th National Conference:  Getting to the Heart of the Matter, In Depth Explorations of Body Psychotherapy.

Featured Presenter:
Judyth O. Weaver, PhD, Master Presenter

Thursday, July 24, 2008 – Morning Workshop
Sensory Awareness -

The Heart of Somatic Psychotherapy

CLICK HERE for a FREE article from USABP Presenter and Founding Chair of the Somatic Psychology Department at SBGI
Judyth O. Weaver PhD

Judyth O. Weaver is a multifaceted teacher and counselor, incorporating extensive training in diverse areas. She holds a Ph.D. in Reichian Psychology. She is the Creator and Founding Chair of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Ph.D. Program in Somatic Psychology and teaches there and in the Somatics Masters Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco, CA) and throughout the world.

She is certified in Reichian Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, massage, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Pre- and Perinatal Therapy and as a teacher of T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Rosen Method and Sensory Awareness.

Judyth has been professor of Somatic Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and in the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute's Somatic Psychology program (the first in the world to offer a Ph.D. in Somatic Psychology and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Somatics).

USABP 5th National Conference:
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
July 23 - 26, 2008 in Philadelphia

To register for the conference please visit www.usabp.org

More USABP Presenters:
Ron Kurtz, Robert Hilton, Virginia Wink Hilton, Susan Aposhyan, Judyth O. Weaver, Christine Caldwell, John W. Davis, Lucinda Gray, Joe Weldon, Noel Wight, Marti Glenn, Greg Johanson, Rae Johnson and many more.

The Human Dimension of Psychotherapy
July 18 - 20, 2008 in Toronto, Canada

The traditions of humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, transpersonal and somatic psychology have a long history affirming the complex holism of the human experience.
These 'alternatives' to manualized, outcome oriented therapies have a substantial academic and professional history, integrating all dimensions of being human.  How do we bring each individual into full presence? How do we integrate this clinical knowledge into 21st century psychotherapy?

The Embodied Psychotherapist: How We Teach Must Embody What We Teach

Rae Johnson, PhD, RSW, RSMT
Chair, Somatic Psychology Department, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute; former Director, Body Psychotherapy Program, Naropa University

Other Presenters:
David Lukoff, PhD, Co-President, Association for Transpersonal Psychology; APA fellow; faculty, ITP
Transpersonal Psychotherapy and the Integration of Spirituality

Dan Merkur, PhD, Author, Mystical Moments and Unitive Thinking, Unconscious Wisdom, Crucified With Christ
From Eros to Mystical Experience: The Scope of Psychic Integration in Psychoanalysis

Linda Page, PhD, Chair, Alliance of Psychotherapy Training Institutions; President, Adler School of Professional Studies How Psychotherapy Develops: Ontario in an International Context

Kirk Schneider, PhD, Past President (and current VP), Existential-Humanistic Institute; editor, Journal of Humanistic Psychology; faculty, Saybrook Graduate School
Existential-Integrative Therapy:  An Emerging Cross-disciplinary Paradigm

For More Information and To Registration: 416-515-0404 or visit www.livinginstitute.org

The Wisdom of Family Constellations

The Hellinger Constellation Institute of California is pleased to announce open learning weekends in the systemic approach of Bert Hellinger, in Santa Barbara, California.

Hellinger Constellation Institute of California
Facilitated by Dr. Dyrian Benz-Chartrand, & JoAnna Chartrand-Benz

Dates for 2008: May 23 - 25, Aug 1 - 3, Sept  4 - 6 and Oct 10 - 12

Location: Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, 525 E Micheltorena, 3rd Floor, Santa Barbara, CA

2 Ways To Experience The Healing Constellations Workshop:
Either as a Learning Program member or a Workshop Member.

    * Learning Program members experience, study, practice and receive supervision in constellations and are present for up to 2 hours more each day.

    * Workshop members experience & participate in constellations

For information and registration please contact JoAnna
E-mail: dyrian@sbceo.org Phone: 805-563-0558

For more information please go to our website: www.essentialsolutions.info

The Human Dimension of Psychotherapy
July 18 – 20, 2008 in Toronto, Canada

The traditions of humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, transpersonal and somatic psychology have a long history affirming the complex holism of the human experience.
These ‘alternatives’ to manualized, outcome oriented therapies have a substantial academic and professional history, integrating all dimensions of being human.  How do we bring each individual into full presence? How do we integrate this clinical knowledge into 21st century psychotherapy?

Rae Johnson, PhD, RSW, RSMT, Chair, Somatic Psychology Department, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute; former Director, Body Psychotherapy Program, Naropa University
The Embodied Psychotherapist: How We Teach Must Embody What We Teach

David Lukoff, PhD, Co-President, Association for Transpersonal Psychology; APA fellow; faculty, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Transpersonal Psychotherapy and the Integration of Spirituality

Dan Merkur, PhD, Author, Mystical Moments and Unitive Thinking, Unconscious Wisdom, Crucified With Christ
From Eros to Mystical Experience: The Scope of Psychic Integration in Psychoanalysis

Linda Page, PhD, Chair, Alliance of Psychotherapy Training Institutions; President, Adler School of Professional Studies
How Psychotherapy Develops: Ontario in an International Context

Kirk Schneider, PhD, Past President (and current VP), Existential-Humanistic Institute; editor, Journal of Humanistic Psychology; faculty, Saybrook Graduate School
Existential-Integrative Therapy:  An Emerging Cross-disciplinary Paradigm

For More Information and To Registration: www.livinginstitute.org   416-515-0404

Experiential Somatic Relational Process Group
For Somatic Psychology students, PPN students, Interns & Therapists

Experience Somatic Relational Process in small group format.
Focus on your personal process & Experience individual sessions being done in the group.

· Increase internal awareness.
· Cultivate presence & mindfulness.
· Use the mind/body interface to dialogue with the unconscious.
· Experience the body as a living source of intelligence, information and change.
· Heal the separation between body, personality and being.
· Use the body as a starting point to contact deep psychological information.
· Explore beyond the verbal content: voice, breath, body posture and language.
· Learn to live more fully and joyfully in your body,
· Access the unconscious psychological information in the body,
· Become more embodied, present and effective in personal and professional life.
· Acquire new resources to live a more fulfilled life,
· Increase your range of resiliency for dealing with traumatic issues in life,
· Increase your window of tolerance.
· Learn about self-regulation.
· Become more embodied.

The local group will meet bi-monthly:
Wednesday Evenings 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Out of town residents will meet once a month:
May, June & July

For information and registration please contact JoAnna
E-mail: dyrian@sbceo.org Phone: 805-563-0558

The Dreaming Body: Authentic Movement as a Pathway to the Self.

A Five Day Retreat for Women and Men. Affiliated with the Marion Woodman Foundation.
With Tina Stromstead, Ph.D., ADTR, assisted by Margareta Neuberger, MA.

Tuscany, Italy, June 25-July 1, 2008 38 CE credits available for MFT's and LCSW's.

Registration: Enrollment is by application only. Deadline is April 30, 2008.
Please contact Tina Stromsted at email: TStromsted@aol.com, or
Tel.: (415) 668-7857 USA www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com


SBGI Sponsored Resources

Website sponsored by SBGI: www.healingresources.info View FREE video, FREE full-text articles and much more.

This is a professionally reviewed, non-commercial website for those who live with or work with psychological or emotional trauma as well as trauma rooted in early life and relationship issues. This site offers information on the prevention and treatment of disabling experiences caused by shocking incidents that lead to PTSD symptoms. It also pertains to disabling experiences caused by emotional abuse or emotional neglect that lead to relationship problems, psychological problems, learning problems and physical problems.

SBGI co-sponsors production and distribution of NEW video: Trauma, Brain and Relationship: Helping Children Heal.

SBGI President, Dr. Marti Glenn is very proud to present “Trauma, Brain and Relationship: Helping Children Heal”. This remarkable video is based on research presented at the Neurons to Neighborhoods conferences. It introduces new awarenesses about the many causes of trauma in children based on groundbreaking advances in brain research. It also highlights relationship as the most powerful way of healing trauma in young children and emphasizes the exceptional opportunity to heal young children. This documentary is highly recommended as an overview for those committed to recognizing, preventing and facilitating healing of psychological trauma. View it FREE online.


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