Tentative Schedule (May be adjusted based on the needs of the group that forms).
Spring
Mondays 12:10-1:40
It’s Okay Not to Know – Working with the Unknown Intentionally in Therapy – February – 12th and 26th, 2024
Not only is it okay, it might actually be the most important place to be if you or your clients want to experience something new necessary for change. If you know, it’s not new. It’s only when we risk going into the unknown that change can happen.
Life as an Initiation – Working with Client Issues as a Rite of Passage – March – 11th and 25th, 2024
Rather than seeing our suffering as something to endure and overcome, what if we work from a frame of “what is this challenge teaching me and preparing me for in my next chapter?”
Collaborating with Nature in the Therapeutic Process – April – 8th and 22nd, 2024
As our world starts to thaw from winter, deep in the midst of our bi-polar spring time, we’ll explore some interventions and more importantly, the mindset that can help us and our clients relate more deeply to our natural world.
Blinded by the Light – Working with the Grandiosity of Clients, Ourselves, “The System,” and Other Healers – May 6th and 20th, 2024
In summer, everything is big, bright, fast pace. It’s difficult to see the shadows as everything is bathed in an abundance of light. We’ll explore the concepts of inflation, grandiosity, narcissism and explore healthy and unhealthy facets of these dynamics in an attempt to stay balanced and humble.
Other potential topics will be woven into the discussion and potentially focused on if the group wants to change a monthly theme such as:
Who is depth psychotherapy for and who it is not for. Preparing someone for depth work and what skills tools and resources are needed to do this work safely.
Working with Transpersonal and Spiritual Dimensions in Therapy
Nature Based Therapy
All the different flavors of Mindfulness-Based interventions
Somatic Psychotherapy
Dreamwork
Working in the Here and now
Initiation and Rites of Passage
Systems theory and moving between individual and systemic conceptualization
Self-Generated and Collaborative Ritual for Healing
Working with Transferance/Counter-transferance
Archetypal Psychology
Utilizing Mythology, Poetry, Song, Music, Movies and More
Working Symbolically
Parts Work/Ego State Work
Experiential Psychotherapy/Psychodrama
Psychedelic Integration/Collaboration/Referrals
Moving beyond manualized treatment, but staying accountable to state ethics, guidelines, and evidence-based practices.
This program is open to all licensed and pre-licensed helpers (counselors, social workers, psychologists, MFTs). There will be 8 sessions per semester. A commitment must be made for 8 sessions for group cohesiveness. $50 per session or $350 if paid in advance. The deadline for the prepaid discount for spring is January 19, 2024.
Space is limited to 9 participants. Contact us today to reserve your spot. To register, contact [email protected] or call 970-829-0478. A brief screening call and a $100 non-refundable deposit will hold your spot in the group.
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About the facilitator: Chuck Hancock, M.Ed, LPC is passionate about depth work and group work group work being an important part of our growth and healing journey. With over a 14 years of experience teaching and guiding individual and group processes in council, dreamwork, interpersonal process groups, psychodrama, meditation, Hakomi somatic psychotherapy, ego state (parts) work, Jungian psychology, movement, music, and nature based practices. In addition to mainstream trainings in EMDR, ACT, DBT, etc, he also has training in MDMA assisted therapy with MAPS having worked on the Phase 3 clinical trial for MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD, trained in Ketamine Assisted therapy, he is a trained Rites of Passage guide with School of Lost Borders, has trained with West African Elder Malidoma Some and various Lakota elders in nature-based ritual, and has been training in Jungian psychoanalysis over the past 4 years and has no plans to stop his own personal therapy and training and depth psychology as a current student in the JPA Analyst training program. He weaves all of these practices together to help clients locate themselves in the world co-creating new experiences of authenticity, depth, meaning, insight, and inspiration.
Past Fall Class Descriptions
Community Forming – Beginning a New Cycle – September – 11th and 25th, 2023
Our Clients Need to Grow and Evolve – So Do We
Who are We? Who are “our people?” Where have we been? Where do we want to go?
No Matter What You Do, Don’t Do What you Always Do
Balancing standing in your education and experience while remaining open to learning and growing.
No Bad Intervention, Only Poor Timing – October – 9th and 23rd, 2023
Changing our thinking about Theories and Interventions. Exploring our beliefs and biases to discern when we are choosing the best intervention based on the situation and what interventions we avoid due to our biases. The best intervention right now could be a worksheet, CBT, DBT, Formal Assessment, Parts Work, Somatic Work, Medicine, Attachment Focused, EMDR, Nature Based Work, Increasing or Decreasing Therapy, referral out, etc. We’ll teach each other what is great about our go-to tools for inspiration for more learning as well as explore how our beliefs about the interventions we avoid came to be.
The Therapeutic Relationship – Creating Healthy Containment for Depth Process – November – 6th and 20th, 2023
Research is clear that there are a lot of modalities that work, but the number one predictor of a good outcome is a good therapeutic relationship. We’ll explore factors that strengthen and weaken the therapeutic relationship. How to use the relationship as an indicator. And also start to explore the longer-term depth-oriented approach. What is Depth Psychology? Who is appropriate for it and not? Similarities and differences in intervention and short-term outcome based treatment.
Systemic, Archetypal, and Symbolic Orientation to the Therapeutic Process – December – 4th and 18th, 2023
As we enter the dark holiday and winter season, many people struggle. We’ll use this as a time to examine how we can world collaboratively with the season and the symbols of the season rather than simply try to survive it. We’ll examine how our relationships with our extended social systems, families, nature, and the seasons impact us at this potent time.