The Event Horizon - Acupressure Classes

Counseling Skills Jin Shin DoŽ Instructors

Instructor
Web Site
City
Tolling Jennings Shen Journey Lasqueti_Island
Vancouver
Ron Pankratz The Centre for Jin Shin DoŽ Vancouver
Arnold Porter Windsong School of Healing Campbell River
Noel Taylor Shen Journey Lasqueti_Island
Victoria
Alexander Townend Jin Shin DoŽ Bodymind AcupressureTM; Guelph, Ont.

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Part 4 BODYMIND PROCESSING SKILLS 25 hours minimum

This class may be taught by an authorized JSD teacher, if qualified, or a psychotherapist. Its purpose is to increase comfort with feelings and images which may arise during sessions.

Objectives: participants learn to:
  • Demonstrate basic counseling skills like active listening and body focusing techniques.

  • Describe conscious and unconscious levels of communication and the appropriate use of suggestions.
Content:
Empathy: Active listening. Body Focusing techniques. Conscious and unconscious levels of communication, and the power of words.

Communication skills: including, congruence; avoiding labels; replacing "should-shouldn't" with "I messages" and use of the suggestive form.

Accepting: encouraging and following the release process.

Understanding the therapeutic relationship: transference and counter-transference (projection).

Implications of touch.

Ethics: emphasizing confidentiality and refraining from sex with clients.

Required Class Materials: The Joy of Feeling: Bodymind Acupressure, Š 1987 by Iona Marsaa Teeguarden (Japan Publications).

Evaluation Method: Attendance; demonstrate skills.


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