Trainings
Since 2002, I have been training therapists in agencies and organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The following are some trainings I have recently offered:
• Experiential Family Therapy--Developing Skills in Critical Moment Attunement, Resourcing, and Regulation
• Understanding Adolescent Development
• Working with Dreams
• The Internal Organization of the Therapist: Applying Mindfulness to How We Sit with Clients
I am also a Certified Hakomi Teacher with the Hakomi Institute of California. Through the institute I will be leading the following trainings:
• Somatic
Resourcing: Teaching Our Clients to Self-Regulate with the
Hakomi Method
November 5th, 2011, Davis, CA 9:30am-5:00pm
• The Stories
We Tell, The Life We Live:An Introduction to the Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy
December 3rd, 2012, San Rafael, CA 9:30am-5:00pm
• Trusting
What We Know to Be True: An Introduction to the Hakomi Method
February 4th, 2012, San Rafael, CA 9:30am-5:00pm
The Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy is
an elegant, comprehensive and highly effective approach
to human change. Hakomi combines mindfulness,
the body, and present experience to access and transform
deeply held, life-limiting core beliefs. For over
30 years Hakomi has pioneered the integrated
use of mindfulness in the therapeutic process.
It is backed by thousands of hours of clinical application
and research into the neurological underpinnings
of mindfulness.
Hakomi can be successfully applied throughout a wide
range of therapeutic applications (such as individual,
couples and family therapy, group work) as well
as in educational settings to facilitate self-exploration
and personal growth. Clinicians
will leave with immediately applicable tools.
What Previous Participants Have Said:
About Shai's Trainings on Working with Adolescents:
"Shai's presentation is excellent. He brings a profoundly important perspective to the intensity and energy of adolescence--expressed and primarily feared or misunderstood in our culture. He enlightens us as to how to value, affirm, and channel teens' shadow energies while creating spaces internally and relationally for connection." --Beth Hossfeld, MFT
"A very powerful experience...It was a chance to directly experience the intensity of the inner life of adolescents... Powerfully valuable for sitting with presence for the intensity of 'shadow' for clients of any age. One of the two best trainings I've ever done... spell-binding, brilliant, wonderful."
-- anonymous
"I couldn't stop thinking and talking about this workshop. If you want to understand what is going on in the psyche of today's adolescents and what they are trying to tell us, this workshop is a must." --Patricia Ravitz, MFT
"A must-do seminar for not only professionals working with adolescents in this day and age, but indeed for anyone who is a parent of a teenager in today's world. Powerful, stimulating, and important to expose oneself... in order to be fully present for the teens in your life and/or practice."
--Deborah Brennner-Liss, Ph.D.
"Thank you for the training... I gained more
out of those 2 days than I have in some entire semester long classes!
I have used what you shared in my school and clinical work, as well as
in my personal life.
For a case presentation in my practicum class recently I
facilitated an Attunement exercise for my colleagues in which everyone
was highly impressed with what a deeper understanding they gained of my
client as a result. I also use strategies of Internal Resourcing and Regulating regularly with clients that I see at Tam. I would love to
receive more training from you in the future." --Natalie Harvey
About Shai's Trainings on Experiential Family Therapy:
"Fantastic, very informative. Did a great job of covering complex material with practical, simple tools." --participant at April 2010 lecture sponsored by California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Marin Chapter
"Excellent presentation!" --participant at April 2010 lecture sponsored by California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Marin Chapter
"Amazing, extremely relevant and useful." --participant at April 2010 lecture sponsored by California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Marin Chapter
"Great-- new, interesting, informative, thought-provoking." --participant at April 2010 lecture sponsored by California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Marin Chapter
"I
liked the explicit in-the-room experiencing of the material. Very
relevant for our clinical population. Practical, results-oriented.
Not only improves family functioning but also therapist functioning.
Oriented to affect/process rather than content." --Joan Roane, MFT
"I very much appreciated this approach working with
attachment issues in relationships, especially the focus on regulating
emotions and attunement and how the limbic system influences our
interactions." --Beverly Leftwich
"I'm
inspired to learn more about this process in working with families. I
greatly appreciated how Shai explained the neurobiological component of group process." --Lisa Lukianoff
"The training was made to feel relevant. The in-the-moment examples were brought alive in the training. I heard and felt what was discussed. The pacing was just right. I feel I am walking away with something relevant to my cases." --participant
"You had clear examples and allowed us to experience some of what you were explaining in the room. Your calm and control is inspiring!" --Catharina Forsythe
"I liked most the clear explanation of how
mindfulness can promote neurophysiological change. The examples from
cases--including specific language--was especially useful in this
regard." --Bradley Rowe
