Daniel J. Benor, Wholistic Psychotherapist (Canada), MD, ABHM (US)

COURSE SUMMARY

This diploma course will provide a thorough introduction to concepts of wholistic approaches in psychotherapy that address the whole person: body, emotions, mind, relationships (with other people and the environment) and spirit. The course will include experiential components and participants are expected to be ready to learn and practice these for themselves as part of the course process. There will be reading and paper assignments, and monthly quizzes on the  previous month’s class work. Some assignments will include small group on-line peer discussions and critiques, as preparation for peer supervision in followup to this course.

This intensive, modular 240 hour course will be offered on 10 weekends from January, 2008 through December 2008. Classroom time will be 12 hours each weekend (Saturday & Sunday 9:30-4:30 and another 12 hours of study will be assigned between monthly meetings) Limited to 12 people. Acceptance to the course includes an interview with the instructor. Preference will be given to experienced psychotherapists and therapists already familiar with some aspect of wholistic care.

A Certificate for the entire Wholistic Psychotherapy Course will be issues on successful completion of the ten monthly sessions.

A Level 1 WHEE. Certificate will also be issued for demonstrated clinical competence in the methodologies taught in the first module. The course or any module may also be taken without examination or certificate.

COURSE DETAILS

240 hours: includes class time, homework, case studies, exams, practical exams

Each lecture will include experiential components. Participants in this course are expected to be willing to examine and work on their own psychological issues, using the wholistic psychotherapy methods taught in this course. This course assumes that therapist work on ‘clearing the vessel through which healing flows’ is essential to good therapy.

There will be regular reading assignments and written examinations. There will be internet assignments, so access to the internet will be essential to class participation. Students will post some assignments on a website and small groups from the class will critique each others’ work.

The class will be encouraged to work as a group on learning assignments. Group process will be a topic of discussion as part of the experiential learning, not as therapy but as awareness of process.

A written case study will be expected towards the end of the course.

This course may be taken for self improvement alone, for which a certificate of attendance will be given upon successful completion of the course.

This course may also be taken in connection with supervised clinical practice, in which case the student’s clinical skills will be evaluated in addition to the academic portion of the course. Clinicians will be expected to choose two new (to them) therapeutic modalities during the term for use in their clinical work.

Daniel Benor, course instructor, will be available for course consultations by email and phone between class meetings.

COURSE SESSIONS – will begin on September, 2008

#1 Sat & Sun September 13-14   9:30-4:30
The first session is, simultaneously, a     
WHEE: Level 1 Certificate Course
Wholistic Healing: Addressing Spirit, Relationships (with other people and the environment), mind, emotions and body. Every session after this will relate back to this, so it is a course requirement that participants attend this class meeting.
WHEE – Wholistic Hybrid derived from Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing –
   (EMDR) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
   AKA Whole Health – Easily and Effectively
Benor WHEE Workbook
Intuition and muscle testing – Benor articles

Certificated unit – Level 1 WHEE. Certificates will be issued for demonstrated clinical competence in the methodologies taught. This course may also be taken without examination or certificate.
 

#2 Sat & Sun October 18-19   9:30-4:30       
Centering and staying centered
    Relaxation
    Meditation
    Intuition
    Imagery
    Energetic grounding and protection
    Being present: The person who is the therapist; the vessel through which healing flows
    *Knowing basic facts – psychiatric/psychological diagnoses
    Wholistic Healing ethics – http://www.councilforhealing.org/ website

                             Meditation                                                              Relaxation

#3 Sat & Sun 8-9    9:30-4:30       
Personality development
Characteristics at age 1 month that persist through life - Chess and Thomas
      Classical stages of childhood development - Sigmund Freud
      Broader stages of development - Erik Erikson
      Masculinity and femininity – John Gray
      Copy vs contrast parents
      Family of origin and family of choice
      Spiritual influences, including reincarnation memories and group karma
      Dying and death
            Near-death, pre-death, deathbed experiences
            Bereavement 

#4 Sat & Sun   December 6-7   9:30-4:30       
Habits and changes – understanding, assessing and addressing
    Psychological defense mechanisms – Anna Freud
    Resistances to change
    Meta-issues that lock us into self-defeating patterns and how to deal with
         them, e.g. WHEE
    Identifying issues: talk, relationships, dreams
    Vicious circles and sweetening spirals, *reframing
    Suggestion, Hypnosis and Placebo reactions
    Prevention
    Mental Judo – Jay Haley
    Research methodologies – WholisticHealingResearch.com website

#5 Sat & Sun  January 17-18     9:30-4:30       
The inner child that persists, and other sub-personalities, pain
    Inner child
    Pain
    Gestalt therapy/ 2-chair work – Fritz Perls
    Transactional Analysis – Stewart and Joines
    WHEE work with the inner child
    The Pain Body - Eckhart Tolle
    Pain - WHEE

#6 Sat & Sun   February 7-8     9:30-4:30           
Body-Mind and Mind-Body interactions, more on pain
Mechanisms and pathways
   Body metaphors – Benor V2
   Pain
   Ways to dialogue with the body and shift body symptoms
   Psychoneuroimmunology
   The energy body
   The body as vehicle for Soul 

#7 Sat & Sun March 7-8    9:30-4:30       
Relationships
    The family unit as crucible for development – Salvador Minuchin
    Roles – Satir
    Relationships – Transactional Analysis
    Bereavement – Kubler-Ross
    Past life issues -
    WHEE
    Corrective relationships - The therapist as a person; the vessel
         through which healing flows
    Relationships with environment

Life is a nested hierarchy of relationships

#8 Sat & Sun   April  4-5      9:30-4:30        
Biofeedback principles, biofeedback devices in wholistic healing,
and life as biofeedback to Soul
    Biofeedback
Research in biofeedback
    Technology devices
      (co-taught with Rob Tomilson and Silvana Fazzolari)
    Life lessons

	Life is biofeedback to spirit/ soul/ Infinite Source

 
#9 Fri & Sat   May 8-9   9:30-4:30  (Sun. is Mother's Day)   
Contrasts that define each other
    Masculine – feminine
    Thinking – feeling
    Intuitive – sensation
    Light – darkness
    Good – evil
    Therapist – client/ patient/ respant (Bernie Siegel - responsible participant)
    Co-dependency
    Life - death
 

Contrasts that define each other

#10 Sat & Sun June 13-14   9:30-4:30        
Spiritual issues in wholistic psychotherapy
    Religions
    Personal spirituality
    Drawing strength from the spiritual
    Connecting with Higher Self, Spirit, helpers of various sorts,
        and the Infinite Source

45 minutes from Toronto
35 minutes from Toronto's Pearson International Airport 'YYZ'

FOR REGISTRATION OR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Daniel J Benor
Canada 519 265 0698    US 609 714 1885
DB@WholisticHealingResearch.com  

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT DANIEL BENOR SEE:

About Dr. Benor

International Journal of Healing and Caring - On line
   www.ijhc.org

Spiritual awareness and healing resources
   www.WholisticHealingResearch.com

Monthly E-Zines and frequent Nnewsletters of the IJHC and the WHR sites
  SUBSCRIBE http://www.ijhc.org/site.php/spgs/read/newsletter
  RECENT CurrentIssue.html

Council for Healing
   www.CouncilForHealing.org

WHEE - potent method of self-healing
  WHEE (Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT) telephone seminar 
   wheearticles.html

Healing responses to 9-11
   www.Heal911.com