The Heart of the Matter
Exploring the Core Conditions for Healing
In the Internal Family Systems Model
Presenter: Bill Nagahiro, PhD
Program Assistant: Ray Howard
Dates: February 27, April 17, June 5, and September 11, 2010.
Time: 9am - 4pm (4 Saturdays)
Location: The Center for Integrative Health, 45 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755
Costs: $425 in advance for the four Saturday course. Please contact Ray Howard if you have questions or wish to request a registration form. Call 603-313-1856 or email him at rayhoward723@myfairpoint.net.
Description:
Learn, develop, and enhance core understandings and skills essential to the efficacy of the Internal Family Systems Model. In addition to learning about the application of the Model, participants will engage in a self-inquiry and discover what it might mean to rely on, gain confidence in, and have certainty about the power, wisdom, and clarity of the Self.
Through group processes and support, demonstrations, didactic presentations we will deepen and fine-tune our understanding of the IFS model and ourselves. I plan to take the same journey with you and see what we can learn together. I see this as a wonderful opportunity learn, hang out, get to know each other, and support each other in our personal growth and the sacred work we do as therapists.
The following are some questions I hope to explore:
What is healing? How do we provide conditions for it?
What is the Self? Can I truly rely on it in my work? And my life?
Is my life Self-led or part-led? What are the obstacles to a Self-led life?
What would a Self-led life look like?
How much time, energy and focus do parts, that may have contempt, resentment, or dislike for people, situations, and things, run my life?
Is it possible to relate to all people with an open compassionate heart? What stops us?
What can the many spiritual traditions teach us about suffering and healing in relation to the Internal Family Systems model and everyday life experiences.
Bill Nagahiro, PhD, is a New Hampshire licensed psychologist and has been in private practice for 26 years. He has provided evaluation, consultation, and therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and couples, families, schools, and businesses in the Mt Washington Valley Community. Internal Family Systems Model has been an integral part of his practice 2003. He is an Assistant Trainer for the Center for Selfleadership providing training to therapists in Boston and Seattle. In addition he provides consultation and workshops in Nonviolent Communication to parents, couples, educators, and health care providers. He is a senior Zen student of Nancy Mujo Baker of the No Traces Zendo in New York City. He leads and is the founder of the Conway Community Sangha in New Hampshire which started in 1992 from his work with Thich Nhat Hanh and The Community of Mindful Living.
Ray Howard, LICSW, has worked as a psychotherapist since 1997. He has provided clinical services on inpatient units in Boston at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Mt Auburn Hospital and in the Massachusetts state prison system. He has completed advanced trainings in group psychotherapy (Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy), the Advanced Diagnosis and Treatment of the Addictions (Boston University School for Social Work), Internal Family Systems level 1&2. He has spent the last five years providing DBT and IFS to clients through the community mental health systems in New Hampshire and Vermont. He currently has private practices in Keene and Hanover where his primary treatment modality is IFS, which he applies to individual, couples, and group therapy. He currently runs an IFS group for patients with dissociative identity disorder and DID NOS. He is serving as a program assistant for the Center for Self Leadership in the level one training for IFS therapy currently underway in Boston. He is licensed in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont.