Talks and Seminar Presentations
Coping
Strategies
This presentation explores
self-support approaches and tools for enhancing well being
and managing stress and flashbacks. The focus will be on reviewing
personal coping strategies and creating and using four types
of coping lists.
The materials covered are intended
to be an adjunct to ongoing therapy and to assist individuals
with self-help in everyday life.
Trauma
Drawing/Healing Drawings
This presentation explores the use of drawings and writing
as tools for identifying, releasing and repatterning painful
feelings and memories. A drawing process that Dr. Irving has
pioneered over a 20 year period
will illustrate concrete approaches to externalize trauma
internalize new ways of feeling and interpreting ones world.
The processes that are presented
can be valuable as an adjunct to ongoing therapy and to assist
with self-help outside of the therapy session.
The
Serpent/Dragon Myth
as an Expression of Natalism
In this slide show, the serpent/dragon
is reviewed as a psychological ritual and myth of birth and
the prenatal experience. Through the multitude of images surrounding
the serpent/dragon in works of art and myth we can see the
trauma of birth as a fundamental element influencing creative
expression.
Natalistic* Therapy
Early life experience is pre-verbal,
therefore non-verbal artistic expression can often access
the preverbal realms of consciousness. In this lecture/slide
show presentation natalistic therapy is discussed as a psychodynamic
approach incorporating art, music, creative writing, visualization,
regressive catharsis and group process for uncovering and
resolving the impact of birth and prenatal experience on personality.
*Natalism is the symbolic
manifestation of Pre and Perinatal experience in art and myth.
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