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ICFLA Teleclass (Replay) | P.E.T Class (Starts Nov 20, 2011) | CL Class (Dec 4, 2011)

Download the Replay and Companion PDF Now! ~~~~~ Do you want a tool you can use right away that powerfully, effectively, and safely facilitates the depth of self-awareness? Do you want to simply, consistently, and easily access deep-seated metaphors? Do you want a completely non-directive tool that is free of assumptions? Do you want to facilitate organic transformation while connecting naturally at a heart level? In this presentation, you will learn and be able to use 4 Clean Language questions that: Focus attention solely on your client’s internal perceptual relationships and metaphoric patterns of thinking. Deepen understanding and open the doorway to mindful awareness without having to explore emotional issues. Facilitate recognition of how language influences imagery and frames the inner world. Transforms awareness so it naturally and organically designs action. From my professional perspective, as a practicing clinical psychologist and coach since 1973, Clean Language and its derivative tools are unsurpassed in their power. Clean Language creates an immediate deepening of self-awareness with amazing practical applications. The idea behind Clean Language, developed by David Grove (1950-2008), is to remove the therapist/coach’s influence and biases as much as possible from the process. This is the basis of the term “clean.” It refers to a way of working that uses the client/patient/coachee’s own words as the basis for further questioning. Why is Clean Language so effective? With none of your metaphors, assumptions, or points-of-view infused into the conversation, Clean Language gives your clients full freedom to use their own words as the basis of healing and change. This means that rather than working with your interpretations of their metaphors, your clients only relate to and utilize their own perceptions. After all, it is only the client’s metaphors that count. One of my clients said, “This was, by far, the best therapeutic experience I’ve ever had. What would normally have taken two-years of digging around in my subconscious in traditional therapy, we accomplished in just 15-minutes! It cuts through the B.S. very quickly.” Clean Language improves the quality and clarity of communication and understanding in a respectful and insightful way without the risk of judgments or interpretations. Clean Language is a tool that anyone can safely use. Objectives: You will be able to identify four powerful Clean Language questions. You will learn how and when to use Clean Language to deepen your client’s understanding. You will be able to apply Clean Language to focus your client’s goals and identify what your client wants to have happen in their session. You will understand and be able to identify the difference between Clean Language and non-Clean Language. Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D. (License: Psy5297), clinical psychologist and coach in private practice since 1974, received her doctorate from the University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development. As lifelong learner, Eleanor’s curiosity keeps her on the cutting edge of the most effective tools for facilitating healthy transformations. Eleanor uses Clean Communication and Emergent Knowledge extensively in her practice along with specialized multidimensional and interdisciplinary tools that she developed through Noble Sciences. Eleanor integrates Clean Language as a way to deepen self and interpersonal awareness. She is a certified Clean Coach through the Institute Of Leadership & Management, is current President of the Southern California Society for Clinical Hypnosis, is an Approved Consultant of the American Society Of Clinical Hypnosis, and is a Member of the Relationship Coaching Institute. Download the Replay and Companion PDF Now!   Follow the ICF-LA © ICF-LA. All rights reserved

Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)

Ever Wish They Came With An Instruction Manual?

They Do!

Whether you’re the parent of a toddler or a teenager, you know that parenting can be challenging, even overwhelming at times. And, being a parent doesn’t always mean that you automatically or instinctively know what to do.

Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) offers proven communication skills that really work. When parents use the skills they are amazed at the dramatic improvements in their families and in all of their relationships.

You, too, can learn these powerful, proven skills – everyone can improve communication skills using P.E.T.

What Will You Learn?

• “Identifying Problem Ownership” so you know how to understand and manage problems.
• “Active Listening” so your can facilitate your children and others to solve their own problems.
• “ I-Messages” so you know how to confront other’s unacceptable behavior resulting in the other changing his or her behavior.
• “Gear Shifting” to overcome resistance to change.
• Method III” to resolve conflicts with your children and others so both are satisfied with the solution.
• “Values Collision Skills” to resolve values collisions with your children and others.

About P.E.T.

P.E.T. is a communication skill that helps you improve relationships with your children and other important people in your life.

Dr. Thomas Gordon developed P.E.T. in 1962. Since then over a million people have completed P.E.T. training. Revised and updated in 2006, P.E.T. is now being used in 45 countries, across a wide spectrum of cultural, religious and non-religious populations.

Gordon Training International certifies all P.E.T. instructors. The classes consist of brief lectures, demonstrations, workbook exercises, role-playing, some homework (especially practicing with your children and spouses), and small group discussions 

It provides you with ways to communicate and share your own particular beliefs and values more effectively with your children.

About Dr. Eleanor Haspel-Portner and P.E.T.

Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist (License: Psy5297), received her doctorate from the University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development, the same department and program of P.E.T. founder Dr. Thomas Gordon. Dr. Haspel-Portner studied directly with Dr. Gordon in 1973. She has been teaching and using P.E.T. in her private practice since then. Eleanor believes that it is the best communication program to date because it is easily learned and its results are immediate. P.E.T. has effectively changed the lives of thousands of people throughout the world.

REGISTER NOW Email ehp@consciouslifechoices.com
OR Call: (310) 230-7787.

When: Nov. 20 & Dec. 11, 2011, Jan. 15 & Feb. 12, 2012

Time: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM with a working Lunch (Being your own)

Price: $360.00 per family includes workbook for one family member. Each additional workbook, $35.00.

More Information:
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Professional Workshop for Licensed Professionals and Coaches

Conversational Hypnosis: Clean Language to Induce and Deepen Mindfulness in Self and Interpersonal Communications.

Taught by: Eleanor Haspel-Portner, Ph.D.

When: December 4, 2011:

Hours: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm (lunch is a working lunch; registration is at 9:30-9:45, adjourn 5:15-5:30)

Clean Language (CL) is a conversational hypnotic tool that utilizes the client’s own language and metaphors to bring about and deepen a trance state. CL draws extensively on the work of David Grove and Milton Erickson. Inner work is most effective when the client is facilitated in creatively developing and utilizing their own imagery for transformation (Erickson, Hypnotic Realities). Bypassing conscious resistance, using the client’s own words, facilitates access to the internal unconscious metaphors with which the client can then interact. Using CL, clients identify their inner resources and desired outcomes transforming them as they work. This deepening inner awareness facilitates inner change, changing the client’s inner landscape and how it manifests in the world. CL emphasizes the fundamental intelligence and purposive nature of internal imagery and functioning and engages the client in a mindful inner goal-directed process from which new meanings and imagery emerge.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify the three primary CL questions to deepen metaphor and induce trance.  
2. Participants will be able to identify how to use CL questions to facilitate their client’s focus from a problem, to a remedy, to a solution while in trance.
3. Participants will be able to apply CL in assessing their client’s goals and identifying what the client wants to have happen in their session.
4. Participants will understand and be able to identify the difference between CL and non-CL.

Location: Private Residence in Pacific Palisades, CA (Address provided upon Registration)

Fee: $200.00 (10% Off Early registration discount)

7 CEU’s available for Psychologists and MFTs

More Information:
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