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Gestalt Institue / Eating Disorders

  • 05 Mar 2015
  • 6:00 PM
  • 06 Mar 2015
  • 6:00 PM
  • Cleveland OH

Embodiment, Eating Disorders and the Brain:

New Discoveries, Best Approaches

 

         

 March 5-6, 2015


 

Thursday, 6:00pm-9:00pm

Friday, 9:00am-6:00pm

(break on Friday between 1:00pm-2:30pm)

 

 

Eating disorders are the most deadly psychiatric illness, and our new neurobiological understandings point to ways to help this struggling population.  At the same time, we continue to seek answers to several questions: How can we best help our clients who are struggling with an eating disorder?  How do we hold our own history and relationship to food, our body, and embodiment in the context of the therapeutic relationship?  How can increasing sensation and awareness of our own embodiment support our clients' healing and recovery?

 

Increasingly, we know that recovery includes building and maintaining relationships in a supportive field that encourages, models and facilitates the exploration and experience of embodied presence. Gestalt therapists have multiple skills that can inform these aspects of eating disorder treatment. This workshop will support therapists to increase their own sense of embodiment, best hold the phenomenological experience of their client's eating disorder in a validating way, and also offer guidelines for knowing when to refer, when to treat, and how to help clients heal and grow as they seek true recovery.

 

Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to:

  • Identify when it is safe to work with a client with an eating disorder.
  • Identify when it is necessary to refer a client for more support or a higher level of care.
  • Demonstrate increased competency in working with clients struggling with/healing from an eating disorder.
  • Articulate advances in neurobiology and how this relates to eating disorder treatment.
  • Describe the role of the Insula in the development of Anorexia.
  • Demonstrate familiarity with an embodied relational approach to working with clients who have struggled with an eating disorder.
  • Discuss how increased familiarity with their own embodiment can impact and support the therapeutic process in eating disorder treatment.

Continuing Education: 9.75 instructional hours

 

Hurry, Don't miss the Early Bird Special 

(Register before Feb. 12, 2015)!

Ellen Ressler Hoffman, MA, LPCC

Mark Warren, MD, MPH, FAED

-Workshop Facilitators


Buckeye Art Therapy Association

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