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A Therapist Reflects on the Use and Abuse of Power, Part 2
CE Credit: 2 Hours (0.2 CEUs)

Course Abstract:
Participants will read and answer questions about a series of twelve articles by Judith, to help deeper explore their own relationships with power – on a personal and professional level – and that of clients. Topics covered in this course include the roots of feelings about the holidays; how childhood wounds affect our view and experience of love; the roots of misogyny; the roots of our feelings about tax day, and more. Through examples from current events explored in the articles, participants will recognize how their childhood experience affects their emotions and behaviors and those of their clients. They will also begin to comprehend the impact that the individual’s relationship with power has on our world, and how healing one’s own individual relationship with power can help to heal the misuse and abuse of power globally. 

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A Therapist Reflects on the Use and Abuse of Power, Part 1
CE Credit: 2 Hours (0.2 CEUs)  

Course Abstract:
Participants will read and answer questions about a series of twelve articles by Judith Barr to help explore more deeply their own relationship with power – on a personal and professional level – and that of clients. Topics covered in this course include the roots of feelings of powerlessness; how childhood wounds affect our parenting; the roots of corporate power abuse, both from the perspective of the abused and the perspective of the abuser; the roots of our relationships with sexuality, and more. Through examples from current life events explored in the articles, participants will come to recognize how their childhood experience affects their emotions and behaviors and those of their clients. They will also begin to comprehend the impact that the individual’s relationship with power has on our world, and how healing one’s own individual relationship with power can help to heal the abuse and misuse of power globally.

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A Recession Regression -- Finding the Root of Our Relationships with Money
CE Credit: 1 Hours (0.1 CEUs)  

Course Abstract:
Participants will read and answer questions about the inner root of people’s relationships with money, as described in the course A Recession Regression: Finding the Root of Our Relationships with Money by Judith Barr, depth psychotherapist and author of Power Abused, Power Healed. This course will help professionals learn to assist their clients in these challenging economic times. Through examples from current life events explored in the course, participants will recognize how their clients’ childhood experiences affect their emotions and behaviors related to money and to the recession. They will also begin to comprehend the impact that the individual’s relationship with money has on our world, and how healing one’s own individual relationship with money can help to heal the global relationship with money.

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Are You A Powerful Therapist?:
CE Credit: 2 Hours (0.2 CEUs)

Course Abstract:
Participants will read and answer questions about a series of ten articles by Judith Barr, depth psychotherapist and author of Power Abused, Power Healed, to help explore their own relationships with power – on a personal and professional level – and that of clients. Participants will learn about a variety of ways in which power is abused in public and private life, and how current events can be utilized as a mirror of one’s self to heal one’s own relationship with power. Through examples from current life events explored in the articles, participants will recognize how their childhood experience affects their emotions and behaviors and those of their clients. They will also begin to comprehend the impact that the individual’s relationship with power has on our world, and how healing one’s own individual relationship with power can help to heal the misuse and abuse of power globally.

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Power Abused, Power Healed:
CE Credit: 4 Hours (0.4 CEUs)

Course Abstract:
Utilizing the medium of both educational and soul-touching stories, the text for this course explores a variety of potential abuses of power in therapeutic and healing arts contexts, and in public and private life, as well. With an emphasis on the concept that healing childhood wounds to the root heals the misuse of power on an individual and global scale, the text reveals the roots of the temptation to abuse our authority as professionals, the impact that abuse can have on our clients, and the healing that is possible. Chapters are divided into three sections: the first exposing the initial childhood trauma, the second exploring the consequences and healing of that trauma, and the third, entitled “Here And Now,” which contains questions designed to inspire the reader to search within for the roots of his/her own relationship with power.

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