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Buddhist Psychology Lecture
Series offered by The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy October 2009 - June 2010, Monday Evenings, 7:45 PM - 9:45 PM The Arlington Center
Returning for a fifth year, this monthly CE program is intended for psychotherapists who are interested in Buddhist psychology, meditation, or mindfulness. Each lecture will address theoretical and clinical issues at the interface of mindfulness and psychotherapy. Topics will include: (1) working effectively and mindfully through times of personal crisis, (2) Buddhist meditation practices to help both the clinician and the client, 3) the challenge relational-cultural therapy presents to the notion of the separate self, and 4) mindfulness techniques to facilitate recovery from trauma. These evenings offer an opportunity to gather with colleagues in an informal setting to discuss and explore the leading edges of Buddhist psychology and modern psychotherapy. Most lecturers are long-term meditation practitioners with specific areas of clinical expertise. Didactic presentations will be followed by Q & A and discussion, moderated by Tom Pedulla, LICSW. 2 CE’s are offered each evening to psychologists, social workers, nurses, LMFTs and LMHCs.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS October 5, 2009 Therapist, Heal Thyself Clients often expect us to be paragons of mental and physical health, free from the problems that bring them to therapy. Yet most of us have struggled with marriages in danger, depression, even life-threatening illnesses. How can we take care of ourselves in difficult times and remain effective with clients? How much do we tell them? This is a rare opportunity to discuss the value of mindfulness practice when our own lives are in crisis, to explore the issues that arise in our work, and to learn some valuable self-care skills – all with a veteran therapist who recently had a serious illness. Participants will be able to: 1) practice their clinical work skillfully despite their own personal crises, and 2) take home a variety of self-care tools.
November 9, 2009 Overcoming Destructive Emotions and Cultivating Positive
Emotions Through Meditation According to the Sakya Tradition of
Tibetan Buddhism Lama Migmar will discuss the benefits of Blue Flower Shine meditation according to the Sakya Tradition. He will give instructions on five modes of experience to overcome the destructive emotions. He will also discuss the benefits of cultivating five powers to realize wisdom. As a result, the caregiver will realize both the tranquility to cultivate focus and the insightful wisdom to cultivate more clarity in the mind to help oneself and others. Participants will be able to 1) practice Blue Flower Shine meditation 2) apply the technique to overcome the causes and conditions of mental illness and pain.
December 14, 2009 Primordial Sanity: Meditations to Discover Innate Wisdom
Within Personal Stories, Emotions and Memories Mahamudra meditation is a technique from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition that helps us embrace all psychophysical experience as an opportunity to discover our “primordial sanity,” the basic ground out of which our less “sane” states arise. Discovering this stable ground within ourselves gives us a place of deep replenishment as caregivers, increases our ability to maintain authentic empathy without burning out, and naturally awakens our ability to recognize and access primordial sanity in others. Participants will be able to: 1) learn a practice that facilitates the discovery of primordial sanity, and 2) reflect on how that discovery may unveil fresh approaches to our own and clients’ stories, memories and emotions.
January 11, 2010 Mindfulness and Extreme States In this presentation we will explore how mindfulness practice can facilitate work with extreme states of consciousness. This includes the voluntary use of mind-altering substances for healing in shamanic cultures as well as involuntary psychosis due to psychiatric disorders. In particular we will discuss the work of Windhorse Associates, a mental health agency specializing in the use of mindfulness approaches to treat severe psychiatric conditions including psychosis. Participants will be able to: 1) understand the ways in which extreme states of consciousness relate to psychological healing, and 2) identify a variety of ways mindfulness can assist with extreme states of mind.
February 8, 2010 Compassion and Connection: The Basis for Healing Presence Most Western psychological theories emphasize movement toward separation and autonomy. Traditional psychotherapies underscore the importance of neutrality and objectivity in the therapy relationship. Relational-cultural theory, combined with a practice of mindfulness, challenges this understanding. Questioning the “delusion of separation,” as Einstein referred to it, we begin to see how believing in a “separate self” can interfere with healing and well-being on both the individual and societal levels. Participants will be able to: 1) understand how mutual empathy contributes to psychotherapy, and 2) look at the ways in which an emphasis on “relational being” can alter our understanding of well-being.
March 8, 2010 Becoming Safely Embodied: Meditation Practices in Working
with Trauma and Dissociation For most clients with a trauma history, especially those grappling with dissociation, living inside their own skin is challenging. The Becoming Safely Embodied program, which was developed by tonight’s presenter, provides a series of step-by-step skills that support clients to be in the here and now, develop mindfulness and concentration skills, and apply the principles of a spiritual practice to their healing journey. Participants will be able to: 1) describe some of the difficulties trauma survivors have being fully present in their bodies, and 2) learn some mindfulness-related skills that support trauma survivors’ recovery.
April 12, 2010 The Use of Internal Energy Arts to Treat Survivors of Torture
and Refugee Trauma: My 20-Year Journey Caring for Tibetan Monks Survivors of torture and refugee trauma often suffer from culturally bound syndromes of distress. In Western psychology, these clients are often diagnosed with depression, PTSD, DES NOS, dissociation and brief psychotic disorder as well as psychosomatic complaints. This talk will feature the presenter’s experience caring for Tibetan monks (and 500 other survivors of torture from 45 countries) and explore the limits of the Western model. We will discuss the use of Internal Energy Arts, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, TCM, acupuncture, meditation and grounding techniques as an integrative model. Participants will be able to 1) describe an integrative approach to the care of survivors of torture and refugee trauma with a focus on the use of Internal Energy Arts, and 2) recognize the meditation problems and approaches to traumatized Tibetan monks.
May 10, 2010 What Makes a "Difficult Patient" Difficult? None of us can treat all of us. But the notion of a difficult patient is highly relative. One who is intolerable to you brings tears to my eyes. Your rewarding encounter is my misery. Difficult patients – described through readings and recollections – fill us with palpable, reversed feelings, all pointed toward ourselves. “The great difficulty of understanding and communication lies in the fact that we who are asked this question and those who ask it do not really inhabit the same universe.” – Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye. Participants will be able to 1) identify the relativism of the difficult patient, and (2) consider that therapeutic skill is not the capacity to speak all languages equally well, but one or two fluently.
June 14, 2010 Working with Clients from the Foundation of the Eightfold Path For those of us who are committed to the practice of meditation, the practice of the Eightfold Path is a way of life. Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration are all elements of our everyday awareness and effort. We will discuss ways of bringing these qualities into the therapeutic relationship and investigate how we embody them through our actions, our speech and our interactions with our clients. Participants will be able to 1) clarify their understanding of the Eightfold Path, and 2) explore ways of bringing these elements into their relationships with their clients.
CONTINUING EDUCATION Psychologists: The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. IMP maintains responsibility for the program and its content. This course offers 2 hours of credit per session. Social Workers: Application submitted to the Board of Registration of Social Workers and Collaborative of NASW for 2 Category 1 credits. Nurses: This course meets the specifications of the Board of Registration in Nursing (244 CMR) for 2 Contact Hours per session. Licensed Mental Health Counselors: IMP is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors. We adhere to NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines. Each session is approved for 2 contact hours, Provider #6048, and is applicable for Commonwealth of Massachusetts Counseling/Allied Mental Health and PDP accreditation. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: Application submitted to the Mass. Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for 2 contact hours.
FACULTY Elissa Ely, MD is a psychiatrist at The Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston, a writer for The Boston Globe and, occasionally, The New York Times. She has also been a commentator on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Deirdre Fay, LICSW is in private practice in Watertown, MA, and has practiced various forms of meditation since the late 1970’s. The author of Becoming Safely Embodied, she teaches, supervises and consults with therapists and clients internationally on entering the body safely. Michael Grodin, MD is Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights at the BU School of Public Health and Professor of Socio-Medical Sciences, Community Medicine, and Psychiatry at the BU School of Medicine. Dr. Grodin has delivered over 300 national and international addresses, written more than 200 scholarly papers, and edited or co-edited five books. He is currently writing a new book, Mad, Bad or Evil: Physician Involvement in Human Rights Abuses from Nazi Germany to Abu Ghraib. Judith V. Jordan, PhD is Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She has practiced insight meditation for 35 years and, along with her colleagues at JBMTI, has developed relational-cultural theory for the past 30 years. Dr. Jordan is the co-author of Women’s Growth in Connection, editor of Women’s Growth in Diversity and The Complexity of Connection and author of the forthcoming book Relational-Cultural Therapy. Nick Luchetti, MS works as a senior clinician at Windhorse Associates specializing in the application of mindfulness to the process of recovery from psychosis. Nick trained in the therapeutic potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness with Dr. Stanislav Grof and has participated in numerous indigenous entheogenic ceremonies. He has also served on the faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy’s Certificate Program. Willa Miller, MA is an authorized lama in the Tibetan tradition and teaches meditation, philosophy and practice through Natural Dharma Fellowship, a non-profit organization devoted to integrating Buddhist practice into everyday life. She is working towards a PhD in Buddhist Studies at Harvard University and is author of Everyday Dharma: Seven Weeks to Finding the Buddha in You. Tom Pedulla, LICSW is a faculty and board member at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and is in private practice in Arlington, MA. Tom also serves on the board at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center. David Treadway, PhD is director of the Treadway Training Institute in Weston, MA. His new book, written in collaboration with his wife and sons, is Home Before Dark: A Family’s Year with Cancer, and is due out in 2010. He is also the author of Intimacy, Change, and Other Therapeutic Mysteries; Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts His Own Grief; and Before It’s Too Late: Working with Substance Abuse in the Family. Acharya Lama Migmar Tseten is the Buddhist Chaplain at Harvard University and the founder of the Sakya Institute in Cambridge, MA. He leads retreats and workshops throughout North America. Ferris Buck Urbanowski, MA has taught mindfulness meditation since 1980. From 1992 to 2001, she was a senior teacher at The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the UMass Memorial Medical Center. She currently teaches, lectures and gives workshops in a variety of settings, nationally and internationally, including teaching workshops in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy.
REGISTRATION This course will be taught at a level appropriate for post-graduate training of doctoral-level psychologists and is limited to 50 clinicians. Register in advance by contacting The Arlington Center, or at the door. Fee: The fee is $25 per session, or $175 for the full program. Sorry, fees for missed sessions will not be refunded. The fee is $10 for mental health students with ID. Location: The lectures will be held at The Arlington Center, 369 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, which is a short 5-minute walk east from Arlington Center on the Mass. Ave. bus line. Please refrain from using scented products during the program. Special Needs: Please inform us before the program if you have special needs, so we can make the necessary accommodations.
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