Target Audience: appropriate for all people interested in relationship, whether romantic, interpersonal, professional, parental, or educational. The session is oriented towards personal growth and will address professional applications as well.
Presented by Ilene Val-Essen, PhD, a LMFT in private practice since 1975. Dr. Val-Essen has authored two books on parenting, Bring Out the Best in Your Child and Yourself and Parenting with Wisdom and Compassion and has created the Quality Parenting programs, which have been translated into Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. She is also a contributing author in a psychosynthesis book about relationships to be published in 2020 and has taught at UCLA, Education Extension. The principles, mindsets, and practical skills she applies in various relationships have proven to be applicable in diverse communities.
In this interactive webinar, we’ll engage with two sets of foundational principles, which invite us to enter a new paradigm of relationship that can dramatically improve how we relate to the people in our lives. As doors open that were previously closed, we become free to interact with others with a wiser and more compassionate heart—even during extraordinary stress when buttons are pushed and fears take center stage.
We’ll experience a bridge exercise to the higher and become acquainted with a higher-self character, which I’ve named Faithful. Faithful helps us recognize the transformational opportunities in relationship when we value connection more than personal upset. As we work with foundational principles, a bridge exercise to the higher self, and Faithful, a powerful higher-self character, we’ll gain support in being in relationship with greater wisdom and compassion.
Learning Objectives – by the end of the session, you will:
- Compare the attitudes we bring to two relationships: one viewed as positive and the other viewed as challenging to raise awareness as a foundation for growth and healing.
- Engage in applying a set of basic principles in order to strengthen, heal, or improve relationships.
- Explore the concept of extraordinary stress to help understand why we find it extremely difficult to stay centered in certain situations.
- Practice applying the advanced set of principles to help deal more effectively with extraordinary stress.
- Integrate the mindset of Faithful, a higher-self character, as a guide to approaching challenging relationships with wisdom and compassion.
Dr. Val-Essen has enjoyed working with parents, families, children and teens, as well as couples and individuals during thirty years as a psychotherapist in private practice. She believes that people of all ages want to grow and enjoy a full and meaningful life. She creates a safe environment to encourage the process of growth. Drawing upon many approaches from Western psychology as well as Eastern traditions, Dr. Val-Essen’s goal is to help people discover and bring out their best.
Dr. Val-Essen is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. http://www.counselingcalifornia.com/IleneVal-Essen90230
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