October 26, 2011
9:00 AM – 12:15 PM
3 CEU/clock hours
Location: 115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
REGISTER: (fees vary and can be found under "FEES" on the registration)
The Brahmavihara, the four divine states or four immeasurables, which stem from Buddhist teachings. They are: metta (loving kindness), karuna (compassion), Mudita (sympathetic joy) and upekkha (equanimity). They are interrelated and support each other towards a state of being.The Four Agreements were written by Don Miguel Ruiz. Don Miguel has written several books on the topics of compassionate living and finding happiness. The Four Agreements are as follows:
1. Be Impeccable With Your Word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t assume things.
4. Always do your best.
These concepts in combination with moving the body via yoga postures are offered to the counseling practitioner as additional tools to utilize in working with all clients, but especially with clients who struggle with depression, compassion for themselves and others, and need a constant tangible guide they can apply to any situation.
You will learn at the completion of this training:
1. To cultivate strategies and techniques to assist clients to find the truth in their experiences and commit to changing the beliefs they cling to that no longer serve them.
2. To embrace a positive, healthy, present-focused mindset to approaching clients and helping them into a place that abandons the role of victim.
3. To learn to utilize some ideals that encourage self-awareness and joy to reach goals and take responsibility in the actions, beliefs, and words we relay to another.
Presenter, Lara Falberg, LISW, received her BSSW and MSW from The Ohio State University. Ms. Falberg has extensive experience working in the fields of child advocacy and with victims of domestic violence. She was the victim advocate with the Dekalb County District Attorney's Office for eight years and continued after she left as a consultant advising attorneys about a child's statements and their emotional abilities to withstand testimony in court. She also continued to play an active role as an expert witness in domestic violence cases, and cases involving the validity of a child's testimony. To manage the stress of this demanding work, she began yoga which would lead her to her yoga teaching certification in February of 2006. She went on to teach yoga and see clients in private practice. It was then she developed her style of utilizing and weaving the yoga philosophies and principles into the therapy sessions. She began to incorporate simple asana, or postures, and yoga breath work into her therapy practice to assist clients with calming techniques and to help draw them into their inner truth and to find contentment when discontent was all around. The growing Yoga Therapy movement is gaining such momentum specifically because the results are actively offering us successful experiences with clients who were not before motivated or inclined towards change. Ms. Falberg teaches yoga classes at The Ohio State University and has produced her own DVD, Yoga Dose, yogadose.com.
