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Hi Benjamin,

SPI invites you to join Dr. Pat Ogden, creator of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, for an online workshop, The Relational Nature of Shame: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspective. 

Exploring and resolving shame, especially pre-verbal, implicit and chronic shame, has always been challenging even for the most effective therapist-client dyads. Shame is a painful interpersonal emotion that develops in relationship with caregivers, significant other people, society at large, and is impacted by historical and racialized trauma.

This online workshop explores the early roots of shame, its impact on the body and nervous system, and on patterns of emotions, thoughts, and beliefs.

Offered online LIVE over two days, July 16 & 17, 2020 (visit registration page to see times by city)

• Learn from formal presentation, engaging question and answer periods, plus experiential exercises.
• You’ll come away with practical intervention techniques and tools you can apply immediately.
• This program is pending approval for 6 CEs. Full details on registration webpage.

What should you do next?

1. Register for the workshop. We’ll be live, online on July 16 & 17. Space is limited, so reserve your spot today!
2. We’ll send you a confirmation (and a few reminders so you don’t forget)
3. Following the webcast, you will receive recordings to re-watch at your convenience, plus a handout of slides and transcripts to keep for notes and reference.

Register for the Workshop Here

We want to make this workshop accessible to as many people as possible, so we're offering "Choose What You Pay Pricing." This flexible pricing is only available if you register for the live workshop, so don't miss out on this special offer.

We look forward to having many of you join us!

Warmly,
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute with Pat Ogden, PhD

P.S.  Even if you can’t join us live, register now and you’ll get the best pricing on access to all the materials, including recordings, for a full year.
 

Pat Ogden, Ph.D. is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches, and has over 45 years of experience working with individuals and groups. She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, past faculty of Naropa University (1985-2005), a clinician, consultant, and sought after international lecturer. Dr. Ogden is the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment"(2015) both published in the Interpersonal Neurobiology Series of W. W. Norton. Her third book in this series, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Essays and Articles, will be published in 2020, and she is working on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Groups with Dr. Bonnie Goldstein. Her current interests include groups, couples, children, adolescents, and families; complex trauma; Embedded Relational Mindfulness; implicit bias, intersectionality and culture; the relational nature of shame; presence, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Hi Benjamin,

Last Thursday, SPI founder and creator of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Dr. Pat Ogden conducted a FREE 15-minute introduction to The Relational Nature of Shame: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspective. If you missed it, you can watch the replay on Facebook or YouTube. 

Dr. Ogden's video is a lead-in to the robust online workshop occurring July 16 & 17 in which we will explore the roots of shame including early relationships, privilege/oppression dynamics and historical trauma. We will elucidate the impact shame has on the body and nervous system, on patterns of emotions, thoughts and beliefs, and on relationships. Gain practical tools you can begin implementing immediately in your own practice! 

The Relational Nature of Shame: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspective 

• This will be a LIVE presentation on July 16 & 17, 2020 (see times by city on registration page)
• Two half-days of engaging learning and discussion (approved for 6 CEs)
• Even if you can’t join us live, register now and you’ll get access to all the materials, including recordings, for a full year!

Space is filling up, so register today to save your seat!

Warmly,
 
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute 
Pat Ogden, PhD

P.S. We're offering "Choose What You Pay Pricing" to support continued learning and development for all mental health professionals. This flexible pricing is only available if you register for live workshop, so act quickly!

Pat Ogden, Ph.D. is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches, and has over 45 years of experience working with individuals and groups. She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, past faculty of Naropa University (1985-2005), a clinician, consultant, and sought after international lecturer. Dr. Ogden is the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment"(2015) both published in the Interpersonal Neurobiology Series of W. W. Norton. Her third book in this series, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Essays and Articles, will be published in 2020, and she is working on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Groups with Dr. Bonnie Goldstein. Her current interests include groups, couples, children, adolescents, and families; complex trauma; Embedded Relational Mindfulness; implicit bias, intersectionality and culture; the relational nature of shame; presence, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Hi Benjamin,

The impact of mainstream values and white supremacist and heteropatriarchal ideologies on psychology remains relatively under-examined both clinically and theoretically. In an important webinar this month, we will introduce the impact of Western perspectives on psychotherapy, and bring awareness to the influence of culture, racism, and biases toward those we perceive to be unlike ourselves.

Join SPI founder, Dr. Pat Ogden, faculty and colleagues on Tuesday, November 10, at 10:00 a.m. (Mountain Time – Denver, CO; see time zone converter) for a Facebook Live broadcast to get a FREE preview.

• Introduction to the upcoming online workshop Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context: Sociocultural Perspectives
• View the Facebook Event and add it to your calendar!
• If you can't attend live and/or you don't have a Facebook account, you can later find the recording in the videos tab of SPI Facebook or on YouTube.

Then, on November 18, we invite you to participate in the full workshop on this topic. 

The 3-hour online workshop will help clinicians build awareness, expand perspective, and learn strategies that can support socioculturally sensitive interventions. Get full details and register here >

We hope you can join us for these upcoming events! 

Warmly, 
   
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute  
 

P.S. Dr. Ogden is also involved this month in an Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma offered through our friends at NICABM.

Hi Benjamin,

The pandemic and its impacts are taking a toll on most all of us in one way or another. Individuals with histories of abandonment, abuse, rejection, neglect, and failed attachment face an additional challenge: COVID-related isolation inevitably evokes childhood emotions and memories of the past, increasing the sense of painful aloneness. Without adequate social supports, the client can only look to the therapist for connection. But the therapist feels equally helpless to help clients overcome the sense of being unwanted and unwelcome.

This Thursday, join Dr. Janina Fisher, for an important and timely webinar: Working with Isolation and Loneliness: the Unintended Consequences of COVID

Dr. Fisher will elucidate practical tools you can integrate into your work to help clients, focusing on:

• Differentiating situational responses from emotional memory
• Resources for helping clients tolerate fear and loneliness
• Tips for making virtual psychotherapy feel personal and connected 
• Interactive neurobiological regulation: using our nervous systems to regulate the client’s nervous system 

WEBINAR: Working with Isolation and Loneliness: the Unintended Consequences of COVID

• This will be a LIVE presentation on October 22, 2020 (see times by city on registration page)
  • Registration includes admittance to the live event, access to the replay recording, plus a PDF of slides and a transcript that you can download to keep in your personal reference library
• Even if you can’t join us live, register now for the best pricing
  • Enjoy access to the recording for a full year and downloads of all the materials
• The program is approved for 3 CEs for several professions in the USA.

We're offering "Choose What You Pay Pricing" to make this program accessible to more mental health professionals. The option to choose your price is only available if you register for live workshop, so act quickly!

We look forward to having many of you join us!

Warmly,
 
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute 
Janina Fisher, PhD

Janina Fisher, PhD is a licensed Clinical Psychologist (MA; LCP 6468) with 38 years in practice, as well as assistant educational director at SPI and a former instructor at the Trauma Center, an outpatient clinic and research center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known for her expertise on the treatment of trauma and dissociation, she is also an EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Consultant and former Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher has been an invited speaker at the Cape Cod Institute, Harvard Medical School Conference Series, Psychotherapy Networker, Annual Conference of the EMDR International Association, and many other conferences. She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015),the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches internationally on the integration of research and treatment and how to introduce newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic approaches.

Hi Benjamin,

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy theory and practice, like the majority of contemporary psychotherapeutic methodologies, implicitly contains the values and bias of white culture. It’s imperative that we explore the impact of Western perspectives on psychotherapy, and bring awareness to the influence of culture, racism, and biases toward those we perceive to be unlike ourselves.

This Wednesday, join us for an important webinar led by SP creator and SPI founder Pat Ogden, PhD with SPI faculty Mary Choi MSW, LICSW, LCSW-C, Laia Jorba LPC, PhD, and Raymond Rodriguez LCSW-R, Rev., plus special guest Sherri Taylor, Psy.D.

We will elucidate practical strategies to support your work with clients from diverse sociocultural backgrounds, focusing on:

• therapeutic attitudes that support sociocultural attunement when working with clients
• how sociocultural influences impact body movement and posture
• implicit and explicit bias and microaggressions, and their impact in the psychotherapeutic process

WEBINAR: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context: Sociocultural Perspectives

This will be a LIVE presentation on November 18, 2020 (see times by city on registration page)

• Registration includes admittance to the live event, access to the replay recording, plus a PDF of slides and a transcript that you can download to keep in your personal reference library
• Even if you can’t join us live, register now to enjoy access to the recording for a full year and downloads of all the materials
• The program is approved for 3 CEs

We're offering "Choose What You Pay Pricing" to make this program accessible to more mental health professionals – starting at $25! The option to choose your price is only available if you register for live workshop, so act quickly!

We look forward to having many of you join us for this important learning event!

Warmly,
 
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

P.S. You can watch a 20-minute introduction to this webinar for free; meet each presenter and learn more about what they will share.

Hi Benjamin, 

As you have likely experienced, exploring and resolving shame is challenging even for the most effective therapist-client dyads. Because shame inherently pertains to parts of the self that we wish to disguise or conceal, clients often do not readily talk about their shame for fear (implicit or explicit) of further humiliation or rejection. Therapists, sometimes because of their own shame, also might avoid bringing shame to the fore in the therapy hour. The avoidance on the part of both parties obfuscates shame itself and can render its treatment inconceivable.

Join Dr. Pat Ogden on Thursday, July 9, at 9:00 a.m. (Pacific Time, see time zone converter) for a FREE Facebook Live broadcast on shame.

• Dr. Ogden will provide an introduction to her upcoming workshop The Relational Nature of Shame: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspective.
• View the Facebook Event and add it to your calendar!
• If you can't attend live and/or you don't have a Facebook account, you can later find the recording in the videos tab of SPI Facebook or on YouTube.

Then, on July 16 & 17,  take part in Dr. Ogden's full workshop! We'll explore the roots of shame including early relationships, privilege/oppression dynamics and historical trauma. Dr. Ogden will elucidate the impact of shame on the body and nervous system, on patterns of emotions, thoughts, and beliefs, and on relationships. Get the details on what you will learn here >

We hope you can join us for these upcoming events! 

Warmly, 
? 
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute? 
with Pat Ogden, PhD 

Pat Ogden, Ph.D. is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches, and has over 45 years of experience working with individuals and groups. She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, past faculty of Naropa University (1985-2005), a clinician, consultant, and sought after international lecturer. Dr. Ogden is the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment"(2015) both published in the Interpersonal Neurobiology Series of W. W. Norton. Her third book in this series, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Essays and Articles, will be published in 2020, and she is working on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Groups with Dr. Bonnie Goldstein. Her current interests include groups, couples, children, adolescents, and families; complex trauma; Embedded Relational Mindfulness; implicit bias, intersectionality and culture; the relational nature of shame; presence, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Hi Benjamin,

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute is offering you an opportunity to join a monthly online consultation group with faculty member and renowned child, adolescent, and family trauma and attachment expert, Dr. Bonnie Goldstein.

• Don't miss your chance to be part of a series of four monthly online consultation meetings.
• In this series with Dr. Goldstein, the focus will be on working with clients to foster and heal relationships through the lens of attachment theory, somatic and mindful awareness, interpersonal neurobiology, and the dynamic interaction of group psychotherapy.
• Dr. Goldstein will present treatment techniques that participants can use to help clients navigate through life’s complexities by addressing developmental issues, family systems, grief and loss counseling for children, adolescents, and teens transitioning to adulthood.

In each 1.5-hour meeting, there will be time for participants to present cases or clinical questions while still allowing time for discussion as a group. Plus! Dr. Goldstein will share never before seen video segments of client sessions illustrating SP in action. Each meeting in the series will be recorded so that the material can be reviewed if you missed something or want to hear it again.

We have under 10 seats remaining, so enroll today to claim yours! 

GET FULL DETAILS & ENROLL HERE >

We hope you take advantage of this special opportunity to connect through the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy community.
 
Warmly,
 
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute 
with Bonnie Goldstein, PhD

P.S. If you missed the recent webcast, Understanding and Addressing Hopelessness and Helplessness through the lens of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, led by Dr. Goldstein with Dr. Pat Ogden as a discussant, it is now available for purchase as a recorded digital seminar >

Bonnie Goldstein, LCSW, Ed.M, Ph.D. is the founder and director of Lifespan Psychological Services in Los Angeles.  She leads a team dedicated helping clients navigate life’s complexities by addressing developmental issues, family systems, trauma, grief and loss counseling for children and adults, and transitions-to-adulthood.  Using a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach to working with children, adolescents, and families, she joins Dr. Pat Ogden and the curriculum team at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute in creating and adapting Sensorimotor Psychotherapy treatment modalities and interventions to treat child, adolescent, family and group populations. She is co-editor of Understanding, Diagnosing and Treating Attention Deficit Disorder/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents; The Handbook of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy; A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, Volumes I & II; A Text for Children and Their Families; I Will Know What to Do: A Guide to Dealing with Trauma”

Hi Benjamin,

In a climate of fear and isolation that equally affects us all, therapists are now being asked to help clients deal with the practical challenges of self-isolation in a time of danger and heightened anxiety.  Just when human beings need support and belonging more than ever, social distancing and self-quarantining cut us off from others.

Join Dr. Janina Fisher on Wednesday, October 14 for a FREE Facebook Live broadcast on isolation and loneliness (9:30 a.m. Mountain Time – Denver, CO; see time zone converter >)

• Dr. Fisher will introduce her upcoming workshop Working with Isolation and Loneliness: the Unintended Consequences of COVID.
• View the Facebook Event and add it to your calendar!
• If you can't attend live and/or you don't have a Facebook account, you can later find the recording in the videos tab of SPI Facebook or on YouTube.

Then, on Thursday, October 22, take part in Dr. Fisher's in-depth workshop on this topic.

The full workshop will address how to help clients struggling with the isolation imposed by COVID to take in the support they do have, to understand the painful loneliness as feeling and body memories, and to transform the felt sense of being ‘outside looking in.’ Get full details and register here >

We hope you can join us for these upcoming events! 

Warmly, 
   
 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute  
 with Janina Fisher, PhD

Janina Fisher, PhD is a licensed Clinical Psychologist (MA; LCP 6468) with 38 years in practice, as well as assistant educational director at SPI and a former instructor at the Trauma Center, an outpatient clinic and research center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known for her expertise on the treatment of trauma and dissociation, she is also an EMDRIA-Approved EMDR Consultant and former Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher has been an invited speaker at the Cape Cod Institute, Harvard Medical School Conference Series, Psychotherapy Networker, Annual Conference of the EMDR International Association, and many other conferences. She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015),the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches internationally on the integration of research and treatment and how to introduce newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic approaches.

Hi Benjamin,

Earlier today, SPI founder and creator of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Dr. Pat Ogden conducted a free 20-minute livestream on resilience - a topic that is so important and relevant to many of us and our clients at this time. If you missed it, you can view it here >

Dr. Ogden's video is a lead-in to her complete online workshop occurring August 27 in which she will elucidate ways clinicians can work with clients to explore and build resilience by drawing upon the body. Through lecture, cases examples, and experiential exercises that can also be used with clients, participants will walk away with a set of body-oriented skills to support resilience and growth on mental, emotional, physical and spiritual realms, even in the face of ongoing adversity. Get full details and register here >

Resilience and Beyond: How to Draw upon the Body to Cope, Adapt and Thrive in Challenging Times

• This will be a LIVE presentation on August 27, 2020 (see times by city on registration page)
  • Registration includes admittance to the live event, access to the replay recording, plus a PDF of slides and a transcript that you can download to keep in your personal reference library.
• All participants also will also have access to downloads of the following:
  • Paper: “The role of the body in fostering resilience: a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy perspective,” by SPI trainers Tony Buckley, BA, Marko Punkanen, PhD, and Pat Ogden, PhD.
  • Worksheets: a set of worksheets relevant to developing resilience, adapted from the book Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment by Pat Ogden, PhD and Janina Fisher, PhD.
• Even if you can’t join us live, register now for the best pricing and enjoy access to the recording for a full year and downloads of all the materials.
• The program is pending approval for 3 CEs

We look forward to having many of you join us!

Warmly,
 
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute 
Pat Ogden, PhD

P.S. We're offering "Choose What You Pay Pricing" at rates of $48, $68, and $108 to support continued learning and development for all mental health professionals. The option to choose your price is only available if you register for live workshop, so act quickly!

Pat Ogden, Ph.D. is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches, and has over 45 years of experience working with individuals and groups. She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, past faculty of Naropa University (1985-2005), a clinician, consultant, and sought after international lecturer. Dr. Ogden is the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment"(2015) both published in the Interpersonal Neurobiology Series of W. W. Norton. Her third book in this series, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Essays and Articles, will be published in 2020, and she is working on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Groups with Dr. Bonnie Goldstein. Her current interests include groups, couples, children, adolescents, and families; complex trauma; Embedded Relational Mindfulness; implicit bias, intersectionality and culture; the relational nature of shame; presence, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.