Esalen Workshop 2012
What is Esalen Institute?
Esalen is a non-profit organization that has been devoted to the exploration of human potential since the 1960′s. Historical luminaries like Aldous Huxley, Joseph Campbell, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Joan Baez, and countless others have gathered here to develop revolutionary ideas, transformative practices, and innovative art forms. Today Esalen is a retreat center where people live and work in a communal setting. Residents and guests participate in an incredible variety of alternative education and personal growth programs in subjects ranging from meditation to massage, yoga, psychology, ecology, spirituality, art, music, and much more.
Esalen Institute, renowned for its healing natural hot springs, has long been recognized as a world leader in alternative and experiential education. Dramatically situated on the Big Sur cliffs over the Pacific Ocean, the sacred beauty of the land—clear air, pulsing sea, garden path and waterfall, steaming mineral water bubbling up from deep within the earth—is itself transformative. Now in its fifth decade, Esalen offers more than 500 public workshops and seminars a year, accenting personal growth and social change, in areas traditionally neglected by mainstream institutions. A non-profit educational foundation, Esalen is also known for its research initiatives, invitational conferences, residential work-study programs, and long-term internships. Part pioneering lab and college for alternative practices, magical restorative retreat, and creative think-tank for the emerging world culture, Esalen is dedicated to exploring work in the humanities and sciences that furthers the full realization of the human potential.
Esalen is a major catalyst in the transformation of human kind, working with individuals and institutions to integrate body, mind, heart, spirit, and community in a nurturing relationship with the environment. Esalen is the leading center for exploring and realizing human potential through experience, education, and research. Esalen works towards the realization of a more humane and all embracing world, seeing answers to questions unlikely to be explored by traditional religions and universities.
The Esalen Institute is based around the idea that human possibilities vastly exceed our imagination, and that the realization of the human potential transcends both religious and scientific dogma. Esalen reasearch is aimed at inextricable link between the mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and social dimensions of our being. Transformation of consciousness is the basis for transformation of the world, individually, collectively, and in social systems. Esalen explores these possibilities, and encourages individuals in sharing the potential to love, learn, feel, and create.
Esalen is a provider of continuing education credits for nurses, psychologists, MFCCs, LCSWs, and other health professionals.
January 20-22nd 2012
Dr. Lisa Firestone presents: “Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice”
Hosted at the Eslaen Institute
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Are you living the life you were destined to live or are you living someone else’s? Are your actions based on what you truly feel and believe, or on negative programming from your past?
Lisa Firestone and Joyce Catlett, co-authors of Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice, are ready to challenge your customary ways of thinking about yourself, your relationships, and your career. The goal? To expand your boundaries and help you achieve more fulfillment in life. Based on theories and methods developed by clinical psychologist Robert W. Firestone, this workshop can help you counter negative thinking and live free from imagined limitations. Through videos, interactive discussions, and various exercises, the presenters will illustrate a number of important topics vital to an emotionally healthy existence:
• How do guilt and shame affect us in our everyday lives? How do negative thoughts about ourselves keep shame and guilt alive?
• How do destructive thoughts and attitudes undermine our efforts to achieve our full potential in our work lives?
• How does the inner voice interfere with intimacy and closeness in our relationships?
• Why does sex seem to become unexciting or routine for many couples after marriage?
• How can people challenge the destructive thoughts or voices that influence addictive behavior and break free of these patterns?
• How can we deal effectively with negative thinking that leads to a destructive spiral of depression and hopelessness?
Dr. Lisa Firestone, PhD, is the Director of Research and Education for The Glendon Association. Since 1987, she has been involved in clinical training and applied research in suicide and violence. In collaboration with Dr. Robert Firestone, her studies resulted in the development of the Firestone Assessment of Self-Destructive Thoughts (FAST) and the Firestone Assessment of Violent Thoughts (FAVT). Dr. Firestone has published numerous professional articles, and most recently was the co-author of the books: Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships (APA Books, 2006),Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice(New Harbinger, 2002), and Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion: The Wisdom of Psychotherapy (APA Books, 2003).
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