Inspire, Motivate, and Empower Your Clients to Thrive in the Most Difficult Times
Human beings have an innate desire to make order and sense out of chaos but are often unable to do this effectively. The Heroic Journey is a template for describing the process of moving through challenging life events and coming through those events stronger, wiser, healthier, and more resilient. This framework is often portrayed in movies and literature where the primary character, the "initiate," is being tested with challenges beyond what he/she thinks can be overcome. The information in this seminar can be utilized with widely diverse populations. Therapists need techniques and tools to help empower clients to overcome adversity, embrace change, and thrive. The Heroic Journey is utilized worldwide to promote resilience and drive individuals to thrive. Clinicians and other professionals can use these timeless concepts to help patients, clients, and students manage the normal passages of life as well as overcome painful and traumatic experiences, including loss, grief, family and life transitions, crises, financial devastation, recovery from addiction, and more.
Participants in this one-day seminar will examine the four steps universally found in great literature, spiritual texts, and popular culture—known as the Heroic Journey*mdash;and learn how to utilize these concepts in a variety of client situations to help motivate and inspire. Attendees will identify the eight micro-stages and focus on the developmental needs and the treatment modalities to effectively move through the stages. In addition, attendees will learn how to utilize and adapt a multi-modal approach, including Cognitive-Behavioral, Solution-Focused, Jungian, expressive, experiential, somatic, internal resource development, and narrative therapies, for most types of clients. Participants will also be given an opportunity to reflect experientially, privately or with others, on some of the applications of this seminar and may wish to bring a journal for reflective writing. You will leave with a new set of tools to put to work immediately to enhance your therapeutic repertoire!
Course Content
Building the Foundation of Change—Resilience, Transformation, and the Heroic Journey
u Theories of transformation—Jung, Campbell, Pearson, Seligman, Pearsall, Brock, and more
u Archetypes of transformation, assessments, and change—identify, educate, and support
u Four primary stages of the Heroic Journey—recurring themes in traditional stories, literature, spiritual texts, and myths which demonstrate resilience
- separation from the known—the call to change, grow, or heal
- into the unknown—beginning the journey toward change
- the "initiation"—the road of trials and lessons of life challenges
- the "return"—transformation and continued learning
u How the framework of the Heroic Journey has been used in different cultures throughout history to promote courage and facilitate change
u The innate desire for heroes—identifying and developing healthy role models
u How to utilize the natural attraction to elements of popular culture which model resilience—stories, movies, video games, music, art, etc.
u How sacred and secular rituals in a community can promote resilience during change
Stage 1: Separation from the Known—the Call to Change or Heal
u The transformative crisis—identifying, understanding, and answering "the call"
u Dealing with resistance and refusal to change and the cognitive beliefs which sabotage resilience in individuals and family or business systems
u Cognitive therapy—looking at the beliefs that keep us stuck
u Identifying the mentor voices within
u The emotional stages of all change—voluntary vs. involuntary change
u Dealing with the discomfort of change—somatic and emotional processing
u What's in the backpack—identifying "tools" for the journey
Stage 2: Into the Unknown—Beginning the Journey toward Change
u The "sonic boom"—breaking through the barriers that keep us from the transformation
u Appropriate resources to use during the second stage—for clinicians and educators
- movies and inspirational stories
- journaling and narrative work
- identifying life successes and the lessons that come from them
- mindfulness, meditation, prayer, centering, and other grounding practices
- music and the arts
u The success of "failure"
u The honeymoon period of change
u Identifying and building support—mentors, teachers, clinicians, and more
Stage 3: The Initiation—the Road of Trials and Lessons of Life Challenges
u Moving through "the dark night of the soul"
u Identifying and using the gifts and lessons of initiation
u Making transpersonal meaning out of life's pain
u Keeping the courage and momentum
u Performance enhancement techniques that empower individuals to thrive
u Identifying who you are becoming
u What Finding Nemo has to teach us about initiation and transformation
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The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.
This educational offering consists of 6.0 clock hour(s) of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this offering and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This program is approved for 6 continuing education credit(s).
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is an approved sponsor with the South Carolina Board of Examiners for LPC, AC and MFTs (Provider #104). This program is offered for 6 continuing education hour(s).
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MELISSA (MISSY) BRADLEY-BALL, MS, NCC, BCETS, FAAETS, is a nationally recognized clinical educator, corporate consultant, and author with over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist, providing individual, group, and family therapy. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Music Education and Master of Counseling Psychology from the University of Tennessee. Her extensive EMDR training (Level I, II, and specialized protocols) helped her become a trailblazer in the field of sexual trauma through a Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth model and she often trains personnel at medical/mental health agencies, universities, school systems, and other facilities. An in-demand Child Sexual Abuse Investigator and expert court witness, Mrs. Bradley-Ball has conducted seminars for more than 100,000 medical, behavioral health, law enforcement, educators, clergy, and military personnel, as well as members of the public throughout the U.S. and Canada. She was a primary speaker for the first National Conference on Post-Traumatic Growth in 2011.
Her frequent keynote addresses at regional and national conferences—as well as television and radio news broadcasts—have won her the Scripps Howard Award for Broadcasting Excellence, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and numerous other accolades. She is currently working on a PBS special about the heroic journey of children healing from divorce.
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