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Digital Seminar

Getting Creative with Parts

Expressive Techniques to Access Inner Critics and Strengthen Self-Compassion

Speaker:
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA
Duration:
4 Hours 10 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN, ES, DE, IT, and FR, handouts in EN, ES, DE, IT, and FR
Copyright:
21 Mar, 2024
Product Code:
NOS096348
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

It’s important to honor all our clients’ inner parts in therapy. Accessing, understanding, and reframing even frightening and confusing Inner Critics as protective—and exploring why they show up as they do—is especially important to fully engage in healing work. But how can we—creatively, safely, and effectively—help clients access and interact with these parts and move toward wholeness. In this workshop, we’ll consider key concepts from Internal Family Systems and inner-child work, and explore expressive modalities that help clients access internal parts that hold judgment and shame, while also bringing the curiosity, creativity, and kindness that comes from Self- clients’ wisest, most compassionate part. You’ll explore: 

  • Creative techniques for accessing and reducing inner criticism 
  • Cognitive reframes and writing exercises to bring both life-enhancing and shaming parts into fuller awareness  
  • Somatic resourcing techniques, such as Focusing, figure-eight rock, and physical embodiment, to help deepen connections and communication with internal parts 
  • Creative strategies to soften critical parts and heighten internal safety, including safe place art and breath work 

Credit


Self-Study Credit

This self-study program consists of 4.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary by country and local regulatory bodies. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your local regulatory organization to determine specific eligibility and requirements. 



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Speaker

Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA's Profile

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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 40 years. She has been an adjunct faculty member at several universities, and is the founder of The Ferentz Institute, now in its seventeenth year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating several thousand clinicians from her two certificate programs in advanced trauma treatment. In 2009 she was voted the “Social Worker of the Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. She is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, now in its second edition, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the founder and president of the Ferentz Institute. She receives royalties as a published author and is a consultant for Northwest Hospital. Lisa Ferentz receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychotherapy Association.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


Objectives

  1. Utilize specific expressive modalities to enhance internal safety as well as inner communication to improve client outcomes. 
  2. Recommend creative techniques for improving client functioning, including reducing inner criticism, and increasing self-compassion. 
  3. Apply cognitive reframes that honor the protective nature of Inner critics while reducing the fear and judgment that causes clients to resist creative work in a clinical setting. 
  4. Articulate somatic resourcing techniques help clients deepen the connection and communication of internal parts. 
  5. Analyze the efficacy of creative strategies to soothe traumatized parts and heighten internal safety in clients. 

Outline

  • Articulating the potential risks and limitations of the work 
  • Exploring the concept of parts: From Buddhism to IFS 
  • Understanding clients’ Inner Critics 
  • Incorporating art into treatment  
  • IFS and the concept of Self 
  • How to use focusing and somatic awareness to access Self 
  • Using somatic resourcing and art to externalize Self 
  • Strengthening communication between parts 
  • Creating inner safety and comfort for parts 
  • Analyzing the efficacy of interventions 

Target Audience

  • Psychologist
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers

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