Louisiana Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
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THE CREATIVE THERAPIST
The Art of Awakening a Clinical Session
Featured Presenter: Bradford Keeney, Ph. D.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Schedule:
Part 1: 9:00 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch: 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Part 2: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Workshop Description
Professor Keeney teaches with clinical cases. He demonstrates how to utilize what comes forth in a session to actively construct an alternative transformational reality. This is a departure from any focus on problems, solutions, or interpretative narratives. It is a radical re-contextualization of therapy as a performing art of creative transformation.
The art of clinical work is discussed in terms of successfully passing through a beginning, middle, and end, so that each session is well formed and resolved. This unique version of single-session whole therapy reframes clinical work as an opportunity to bring forth uncommon experiences that provide transformative rather than stuck ways of being in the everyday.
Keeney’s teaching draws upon an extensive background in the therapeutic arts including systemic family therapy, brief therapy, social cybernetics, the performing arts, postmodern play, and a two decade long tutelage with diverse cultural healing traditions. His teaching mission is to help liberate clinicians from over-reliance upon schooled approaches to therapy and to help them become more creatively responsive to the unique characteristics of each session.
Learning Objectives:
Proficient observation of the resources clients and therapists bring to a session.
A means of detailing and describing the therapeutic movement of a session in terms of a progression of communication frames.
Skills in utilizing presenting communications in a way that is transformative.
Demonstrate creative ways of inventing unique therapeutic strategies.
Continuing Eduction:
CEUs: NBCC Approved Provider #4100. This program was approved by the Louisiana Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for 6 contact hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs.
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