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Santa Barbara BABY! Film Festival

May 23 - 24, 2008at the Marjorie Luke Theatre
Tickets On Sale April 1, 2008 at www.babyff.com

As recently featured in the 2008 MOTHERING MAGAZINE, the Baby! Film Festival brings together a diverse array of powerful films, leading experts, and dynamic panel-participants to explore pregnancy, birth and bonding, breastfeeding, and empowered choices regarding these issues. Be informed, be touched, and come away with new possibilities!

Are you interested in becoming a Santa Barbara BABY! Film Festival Networking Partner for FREE?  If so, please email Tanis Marble at tmarble@sbgi.edu for details.

Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Presents

Optimizing Pregnancy, Birth, Baby's First Year...and Beyond.
A Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Summer Workshop Series.

With Leading Experts
Jean Weitensteiner, Bobbi Jo Lyman, Wendy Anne McCarty, Gloria Arenson, Marti Glenn, Ray Castellino,
Mary Jackson

A community series of one-day workshops for professionals and parents to explore best practices for raising healthy, resilient children, supporting loving relationships, and healing at any age. We now understand that our earliest experiences set in motion our core life patterns. In this series, learn and experience key principles and skills to heal stress patterns and to optimize potential. 

Sponsored by SBGI, Natural Family Living, & Wondrous Beginnings

Saturday, June 21:
Six Keys to Support Optimal Development and
Secure relationships in Baby's First Year
with Jeanne Weitensteiner, OTR

Saturday, July 26:
Discover and Work With Early Imprints in Adults:
Specific Tools for Healing Yourself
with Bobbi Jo Lyman, PhD

Friday, August 1:
Film Night with Expert Panel: "Try it on Everything"
with Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD, RN, D.CEP
and Gloria Arensen, MFT, D.CEP

Saturday, August 2:
Optimize, De-Stress & Heal During Pregnancy
with Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD, RN, D.CEP

Sunday, August 3:
Parenting and Partnering:
Deepening Love Through Baby's First Year
with Marti Glenn, PhD

Saturday, August 9:
Heal from Your Difficult Birth:
A Workshop for Moms, Dads, and Partners
with Ray Castellinom, DC, RPP, RCST
and Mary Jackson, LM, RN, RCST

All events held at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
Pre-registration required.
6 CE credits per workshop: MFT, LCSW, RN (must attend 6 hours)

Tuition:
$115 per workshop if registered by May 31
$145 per workshop after May 31
$500 for the entire series

Select scholarships available. Email SBGI at info@sbgi.edu for more information on how to register.

Conferences, Workshops & Ongoing Trainings

10th Annual Energy Psychology Conference: Soaring to New Heights

May 15 - 18, 2008 in Albuquerque, NM

For conference information and brochure please visit Energy Psychology at www.energypsych.org  

ATTENTION STUDENTS: Special discounts offered for full time college or graduate students with official identification and one year free ACEP membership included with conference registation.

Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD, RN, D.CEP, will present the following topic to the ACEP:Mending Primary Wounds of the Heart: TAT for Mothers and Children at Every Age to Heal Birth Experience
http://www.wondrousbeginnings.com/

Other speakers include EFT's originator, Gary Craig, Dr. Fred Gallo, author of six texts in EP, and Chopra Center Medical Director Dr. David Simon.

The Wisdom of Family Constellations

The Hellinger Constellation Institute of California is pleased to announce open learning weekends in the systemic approach of Bert Hellinger, in Santa Barbara, California.

Hellinger Constellation Institute of California
Facilitated by Dr. Dyrian Benz-Chartrand, & JoAnna Chartrand-Benz

Dates for 2008: May 23 - 25, Aug 1 - 3, Sept  4 - 6 and Oct 10 - 12

Location: Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, 525 E Micheltorena, 3rd Floor Santa Barbara, CA

2 Ways To Experience The Healing Constellations Workshop:
Either as a Learning Program member or a Workshop Member.

    * Learning Program members experience, study, practice and receive supervision in constellations and are present for up to 2 hours more each day.

    * Workshop members experience & participate in constellations

For information and registration please contact JoAnna
E-mail: dyrian@sbceo.org Phone: 805-563-0558

For more information please go to our website: www.essentialsolutions.info

Mindful Body / Embodied Mind: The body is a world of its own - One crosses the threshold of this world respectfully as if entering a sanctuary

8 FRIDAY MORNINGS MARCH 28 - MAY 23, 2008 in Encino, California

With ALINE LAPIERRE, PsyD and assisted by LAURA MELTON, CMT
16 CE credits (MFT, LCSW)

If you are interested in deepening and expanding your direct internal experience of the mind/brain/body relationship, Mindful Body / Embodied Mind invites you to actively witness and consciously participate in the subtle, nonverbal dynamics of embodied experience.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER
Email Dr. Aline LaPierre at aline@cellularbalance.com or call 310.390.5401.

The Light & Dark Sides of Childbirth: Healing Adults, Parents & Childbirth Professionals

April 24, 2008 in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Presented by: William Emerson, PhD

Dr. Emerson will describe five major causes of birth trauma and the potential for trauma in giving birth, in being born, and in assisting or attending birth. He shows treatment segments with babies and children, and describes a new childbirth paradigm, one that meets the medical and psychological needs of mothers and babies, makes appropriate use of the maternity care system, empowers parents, promotes informed choices, prevents trauma, and supports birth as a spiritual as well as a physical journey.
Location: To Be Announced
Contact: info@tenmoonsrising.org

To register for this event please visit www.tenmoonsrising.org

EMBODIED PROCESS TRAINING: Integrating Attachment Neuroscience and Sexual Health in Embodied Individual, Couple & Sex Therapy

FRIDAY, MAY 16 - SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2008 in Beverly Hills, California

Presented by: STELLA RESNICK, PH.D.
12 CE credits (APA, MCEP, MFT, AASECT)

This training synthesizes the latest research from the neuroscience of attachment and sexual science to offera therapeutic model and embodied approach to personal growth that focuses on intimate relationship and sexual self-discovery.

We discuss the pertinent neurological, psychological, andsexological research and their clinical implications and explore methods for becoming more attuned to the subtle cues of the body and present experience. Utilizing breath work, Gestalt processing and experiential exercises, we examine effective ways for working with clients and ourselves on issues of intimacy and sexual enhancement.

*Student Discounts

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER
Email Stella Resnik, PhD at StellaRes@aol.com or call 310.855.7565.

The Human Dimension of Psychotherapy

July 18 – 20, 2008 in Toronto, Canada

The traditions of humanistic, existential, psychodynamic, transpersonal and somatic psychology have a long history affirming the complex holism of the human experience.
These ‘alternatives’ to manualized, outcome oriented therapies have a substantial academic and professional history, integrating all dimensions of being human.  How do we bring each individual into full presence? How do we integrate this clinical knowledge into 21st century psychotherapy?

Rae Johnson, PhD, RSW, RSMT, Chair, Somatic Psychology Department, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute; former Director, Body Psychotherapy Program, Naropa University
The Embodied Psychotherapist: How We Teach Must Embody What We Teach

David Lukoff, PhD, Co-President, Association for Transpersonal Psychology; APA fellow; faculty, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Transpersonal Psychotherapy and the Integration of Spirituality

Dan Merkur, PhD, Author, Mystical Moments and Unitive Thinking, Unconscious Wisdom, Crucified With Christ
From Eros to Mystical Experience: The Scope of Psychic Integration in Psychoanalysis

Linda Page, PhD, Chair, Alliance of Psychotherapy Training Institutions; President, Adler School of Professional Studies
How Psychotherapy Develops: Ontario in an International Context

Kirk Schneider, PhD, Past President (and current VP), Existential-Humanistic Institute; editor, Journal of Humanistic Psychology; faculty, Saybrook Graduate School
Existential-Integrative Therapy:  An Emerging Cross-disciplinary Paradigm

For More Information and To Registration: www.livinginstitute.org   416-515-0404

Experiential Somatic Relational Process Group
For Somatic Psychology students, PPN students, Interns & Therapists

Experience Somatic Relational Process in small group format.
Focus on your personal process & Experience individual sessions being done in the group.

· Increase internal awareness.
· Cultivate presence & mindfulness.
· Use the mind/body interface to dialogue with the unconscious.
· Experience the body as a living source of intelligence, information and change.
· Heal the separation between body, personality and being.
· Use the body as a starting point to contact deep psychological information.
· Explore beyond the verbal content: voice, breath, body posture and language.
· Learn to live more fully and joyfully in your body,
· Access the unconscious psychological information in the body,
· Become more embodied, present and effective in personal and professional life.
· Acquire new resources to live a more fulfilled life,
· Increase your range of resiliency for dealing with traumatic issues in life,
· Increase your window of tolerance.
· Learn about self-regulation.
· Become more embodied.

The local group will meet bi-monthly:
Wednesday Evenings 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Out of town residents will meet once a month:
May, June & July

For information and registration please contact JoAnna
E-mail: dyrian@sbceo.org Phone: 805-563-0558

The Dreaming Body: Authentic Movement as a Pathway to the Self.

A Five Day Retreat for Women and Men. Affiliated with the Marion Woodman Foundation.
With Tina Stromstead, Ph.D., ADTR, assisted by Margareta Neuberger, MA.

Tuscany, Italy, June 25-July 1, 2008 38 CE credits available for MFT's and LCSW's.

Registration: Enrollment is by application only. Deadline is April 30, 2008.
Please contact Tina Stromsted at email: TStromsted@aol.com, or
Tel.: (415) 668-7857 USA www.AuthenticMovement-BodySoul.com


SBGI Sponsored Resources

Website sponsored by SBGI: www.healingresources.info View FREE video, FREE full-text articles and much more.

This is a professionally reviewed, non-commercial website for those who live with or work with psychological or emotional trauma as well as trauma rooted in early life and relationship issues. This site offers information on the prevention and treatment of disabling experiences caused by shocking incidents that lead to PTSD symptoms. It also pertains to disabling experiences caused by emotional abuse or emotional neglect that lead to relationship problems, psychological problems, learning problems and physical problems.

SBGI co-sponsors production and distribution of NEW video: Trauma, Brain and Relationship: Helping Children Heal.

SBGI President, Dr. Marti Glenn is very proud to present “Trauma, Brain and Relationship: Helping Children Heal”. This remarkable video is based on research presented at the Neurons to Neighborhoods conferences. It introduces new awarenesses about the many causes of trauma in children based on groundbreaking advances in brain research. It also highlights relationship as the most powerful way of healing trauma in young children and emphasizes the exceptional opportunity to heal young children. This documentary is highly recommended as an overview for those committed to recognizing, preventing and facilitating healing of psychological trauma. View it FREE online.

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