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Charitable registration #: 759450661 RR 0001
Date: April 5th, 2024
Length: 3 hours
Location: Zoom
Facilitated by Adam Terpstra, Ontario Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO), Ontario Registered Social Worker (OCSWSSW), Ontario, B.C., and Yukon registered teacher
Learning Objectives:
As session 1 of 6, attendees will:
- Be given a brief introduction and engagement with resistance and permission granting (i.e., affirming and re-affirming consent);
- Gain an introductory understanding of Internal Family Systems;
- Establish awareness of and mindful engagement with the concept of Self;
- Learn about Parts (i.e., managers, firefighters, and exiles); and
- Practice connecting with their Parts.
Date: April 6th, 2024
Length: 2.5 hours
Location: Zoom
Facilitated by Adam Terpstra, Ontario Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO), Ontario Registered Social Worker (OCSWSSW), Ontario, B.C., and Yukon registered teacher
Learning Objectives:
As session 2 of 6, attendees will:
- Be given a brief introduction and engagement with resistance and permission granting (i.e., affirming and re-affirming consent);
- Gain an introductory understanding of the four attachment styles (i.e., Secure; Anxious-Preoccupied; Avoidance-Dismissing; Disorganized-Unresolved);
- Establish awareness of common characteristics of each attachment style;
- Learn about techniques and opportunities for engaging with attachment style characteristics; and
- Practice techniques and opportunities for engaging attachment style characteristics with yourself.
Date: April 12th, 2024
Length: 2 hours
Location: Zoom
Facilitated by Adam Terpstra, Ontario Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO), Ontario Registered Social Worker (OCSWSSW), Ontario, B.C., and Yukon registered teacher
Learning Objectives:
As session 3 of 6, attendees will:
- Be given a brief introduction and engagement with resistance and permission granting (i.e., affirming and re-affirming consent);
- Be provided a summary overview of the four attachment styles (i.e., Secure; Anxious-Preoccupied; Avoidance-Dismissing; Disorganized-Unresolved);
- Identify and gain a working definition of dysfunctional and functional communication patterns followed by a self-assessment of one’s communication dynamic;
- Learn about the four conflict styles (i.e., Avoidance; Competitive; Compromising; Accommodative);
- Identify which conflict style pairs with which attachment pattern; and
- Practice techniques for self-identification and self-leadership with respect to one’s own conflict style(s).
Date: April 13th, 2024
Length: 2.5 hours
Location: Zoom
Facilitated by Adam Terpstra, Ontario Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO), Ontario Registered Social Worker (OCSWSSW), Ontario, B.C., and Yukon registered teacher
Learning Objectives:
As session 4 of 6, attendees will:
- Brief introduction and engagement with resistance and permission granting (i.e., affirming and re-affirming consent);
- Summary introduction of the Gottman Method then identify and gain a working definition of bids for communication and options for responding, including the 5:1 ratio;
- Self-evaluate your efficacy with bids for connection and identify your common response tendencies (i.e., Turning away; Turning against; Turning away);
- Identify which attachment pattern connects with which response tendency; and
- Establish new techniques and interventions in support of practicing mindfulness with respect to how you respond to bids for connection.
Date: April 19th, 2024
Length: 1.75 hours
Location: Zoom
Facilitated by Adam Terpstra, Ontario Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO), Ontario Registered Social Worker (OCSWSSW), Ontario, B.C., and Yukon registered teacher
Learning Objectives:
As session 5 of 6, attendees will:
- Be given a brief introduction and practice engagement with resistance and permission granting (i.e., affirming and re-affirming consent);
- Be given an introduction to concepts of self-connection, self-directed safety, self-abandonment, and fight / flight / freeze / fawn reactions;
- Be provided with a framework for establishing self-connection through intention self-directed safety; and
- Develop a working definition of counter-dependence, interdependence, and co-dependence in application to oneself and others.
Date: April 20th, 2024
Length: 8.25 hours
Location: Zoom
Facilitated by Adam Terpstra, Ontario Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO), Ontario Registered Social Worker (OCSWSSW), Ontario, B.C., and Yukon registered teacher
Learning Objectives:
As session 6 of 6, attendees will:
- Be given a brief introduction and practice engagement with resistance and permission granting (i.e., affirming and re-affirming consent);
- Gain awareness and understanding of feminine / masculine dynamics;
- Develop awareness of attachment injuries, ruptures, and disorders;
- Gain awareness of Brown’s concept of “Clarity is Kindness” and Earnshaw’s working definition of boundaries;
- Develop awareness of Dweck’s concepts of results vs. process-oriented learning and the relationship with dopamine and serotonin;
- Develop a novel understanding of addiction, as per Bruce Alexander’s “Rat Park City” work and how this relates to ambiverts, extroverts, and introverts and respective resiliency;
- Establish a working definition and understanding of emotional deprivation (3 types), self-abandonment, and self-sacrifice tendencies;
- Gain an introductory over-view of the psychodynamic concept of separation individuation and how it applies to an infant’s personality development;
- Develop a working understanding of behavioural needs, emotional needs, and feelings concurrent to the delineation of compassion vs. empathy;
- Establish an applied understanding of attachment injuries, ruptures, and disorders with respect to feminine and masculine dynamics concurrent to a working definition of “Good Enough Parenting” as it pertains to attachment theory;
- Develop an understanding of how individuals develop attachment disorders in relation to the mother / father (feminine / masculine) wounds;
- Establish an understanding of the intersectionality of exiles (Internal Family Systems) and attachment disorders;
- Develop an introductory understanding of Robert Firestone’s Fantasy Bonds and how this relates to self-abandonment / erodes self-connection;
- Establish an introductory understanding of Sue Johnson’s Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy conflict styles (i.e., Find the Bad Guy; Polka Protest; Freeze and Flee);
- Develop awareness of the role for anger and resentment in the process of healing parent wounds;
- Understand a working definition of selfishness vs. selflessness based on Michael Bader’s work; and
- Establish a basic framework for reparenting one’s own parent wounds.
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