SCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Main Conference
Friday October 24 through Sunday October 26, 2008

Through ACEP Continuing Education credits is applied for nurses, professional counselors, MFTs, social workers, and drug and alcohol counselors, for all breakout sessions unless otherwise noted.

Inspirational Keynote Speakers
(1.5 CE credits each)

Friday morning, October 24
Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D.
The Energy Healing Experiments

Are we all energy healers?  In his latest book, The Energy Healing Experiments, Dr. Gary Schwartz reviews a decade of research conducted in his laboratory at the University of Arizona exploring mechanisms and applications of energy and spiritual healing.  In this presentation, Dr. Schwartz shares his personal journey about how he came to conclusion that energy healing is real. He presents new research: (1) measuring magnetic fields from the hands of healers when they are “running energy,” (2) documenting how Reiki can decrease stress-induced microvascular leakage in the guts of rats, (3) obtaining evidence of extraordinary energy self-healing using spiritual intention techniques, and (4) discovering “auras” and energy communication through biophoton emissions in plants and humans. Dr. Schwartz discusses applications of these findings for energy diagnoses and treatment and spiritual healing.

Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology, Surgery, Medicine, Neurology, and Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science, and Director of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona.  He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1971 and was an Assistant Professor at Harvard. He was a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Yale University, Director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and Co-Director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, from 1976-1988.  He has edited 11 academic books, published more than 400 scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science, and has written The Living Energy Universe (1999) and The Afterlife Experiments (2002). His work has been featured on television including Good Morning America, The O'Reily Factor, Nightline, A and E, Discovery, MSNBC, and HBO. His research integrates mind-body medicine, energy medicine, and spiritual medicine.  http://lach.web.arizona.edu

Objectives:

1. Participants will be exposed to new research in humans, animals, and plants, documenting the role of energy in healing.
2. Participants will consider the applications of this knowledge to evolving energy diagnostic system, energy treatment methods, and spiritual healing.

Saturday am, October 25
Joyce Hawkes, Ph.D.
Cell-Level Healing: Where Mind Touches Body
We know that we are composed of close to 100 trillion hard working, brilliant units of life: our cells. We also know that we affect their function by our life- style, thoughts, and interaction with our world. Dr. Hawkes, biophysicist and healer, will show us amazingly beautiful images of cells, and relate how to reach them for optimal function in repair, renewal, and healing

A passionate and productive scientist, student, mystic, teacher, and healer, Dr. Joyce Hawkes is internationally recognized for her work as a research scientist (PhD from The Pennsylvania State University in Biophysics) and her more recent work as a teacher of Cell-Level Healing.   Following a near-death experience she changed careers in 1984 and embarked on an extensive exploration of spiritual and healing traditions.  Joyce combines her rigorous background as a scientist and her compassion as a healer in her presentations and writing. Her book: Cell-Level Healing: The Bridge from Soul to Cell demonstrates effective ways to harmonize spirituality and Western science. http://www.celllevelhealing.com/

Objectives
On completion of this session participants will:

1. Demonstrate cellular components responsible for health
2. Identify ways to incorporate cell-level healing in the practice of psychotherapy

Sunday morning October 26
Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
The Quantum Doctor and Energy Medicine

Is the concept of vital or subtle energy that energy medicine introduces in its healing strategy scientific?  In this talk, Dr. Goswami will show how an approach based on quantum physics and the primacy of consciousness gives a solid scientific foundation to all aspects of energy medicine and integrates it with conventional medicine as well as mind-body medicine.

Amit Goswami, Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the physics department of the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR where he has served since 1968.  He is a pioneer of the new paradigm of science called “science within consciousness” an idea he explicated in his seminal book, The Self-Aware Universe where he also solved the quantum measurement problem elucidating the famous observer effect, as well as six other popular books based on his research on quantum physics and consciousness.  In his private life, Dr. Goswami is a practitioner of spirituality and transformation.  He calls himself a quantum activist.  He appeared in the film "What the Bleep Do We Know?” and the documentary “Dalai Lama Renaissance.”

Objectives:
On completion of this session participants will:

1. Learn about downward causation and how it expresses itself in quantum measurement, biological evolution, and spontaneous healing.
2. Learn the basics of yoga Psychology
3. Experientially learn how to set intentions. 
4. Learn the basics of how to transform negative emotions.

Closing Session

Open Forum Discussion
led by Dr. Dawson Church

The 3 Most Dangerous Questions in Energy Psychology

Can EP change the world?
In which areas of your life are you NOT using EP in, and why not?
Can EP boost IQ?

A panel of EP visionaries involves the entire audience in a discussion of some of the most difficult and daring questions that confront the field.  Provocative, lively, and timely, this event will stir your imagination and spirit. We conclude with a blessing ceremony in which we send the energy of EP outwards to touch the entire web of life.

Dawson Church, Ph.D., has edited or authored over 200 books.  He has worked with many best-selling authors, including Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Deepak Chopra, John Gray (Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus), Wally "Famous" Amos, and others. He founded Soul Medicine Institute to research and teach emerging psychological and medical techniques that can yield fast and radical cures. His new book, The Genie in Your Genes, pioneers the field of Epigenetics, (control of genes from outside the cell), and has been hailed as a brilliant breakthrough by leading scientists.

Early Morning Energizers - 7:15-8:00am

Morning Breathing Exercises, Meditations and Gentle Yoga Stretching
with Lesley Hannell

Come and enjoy 45 minutes of an eclectic mixture of gentle yoga warm up exercises, Shamanic Fire Breathing, Energy Balancing and relaxing meditations.

Lesley Hannell, M. A. (Psychology) is a certified Energy Practitioner and Psychotherapist. She has been practicing and teaching Tai Chi, Yoga and Meditation for the past 25 years and incorporates them into her private practice in Dundas, Ontario.  Lesley can be reached at lesley@hannellcorvino.com

Breakout sessions: 
Friday October 24 through Sunday October 26

All breakout sessions are eligible for continuing education for Nurses, Professional Counselors, MFTs, Social Workers, and Drug and Alcohol Counselors unless otherwise noted. 2 CE Credits

Transforming Trauma with Essential Oils and Energy Psychology (B-I-A)
Presenter: Arlene Anisman, B.A. M.Ed. CCA

In this workshop you will learn the age-old application of essential oils combined with the EP and how this combination will enhance healing and the transformation of trauma.  This workshop will present a brief explanation of what therapeutic-grade essential oils are and how they actually work to address various psychological aspects of healing.  Essential oils quickly reach the subconscious by triggering the emotions and memories stored in the limbic system of the brain and act synergistically with EP to provide powerful tools for psychotherapy and healing.  The presenter will demonstrate specific techniques, and diagnosing for which oils to use, and how to add the oil in treating individual psychological problems and challenges. 

Arlene Anisman, B.A., M.Ed.,(Counseling Psychology and Adult Education), CCA (Certified Clinical Aromatherapist), Clinical Member, OSP (Ontario Society of Psychotherapists), Certified Level 2 practitioner and trainer of EDxTM (Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods), 30+ years private psychotherapy practice, 500+ hours training in the use of essential oils, Level 4 training in Touch for Health (TFH) as well as training in advanced EFT, Clinical Hypnosis, and TFT.  416-766-8261 day and evening,  arlene@web.net  http://arlenesessentialoils.younglivingworld.com  ACEP member.

Objectives
On completion of this 2-hour session participants will:

1. Understand the basic principles of essential oils
2. Learn how essential oils and EP synergistically enhance each other in addressing the psychological aspects  of healing traumas
3. Be able to use specific EP techniques and essential oils as a means of reducing distress, releasing trauma and focusing clearly on challenges.

Six Steps to Freedom From Negative Behaviors Using Energy Psychology  (B-I)
Presenter: Gloria Arenson, M.S., MFT  

Overcome self-defeating behaviors like procrastination, perfectionism, compulsive eating, spending, and other bad habits permanently and effortlessly. Learn how the roots of negative behavior lie in the neurobiology of the brain. Change occurs in six stages. Learn to use Energy Psychology techniques to create a climate for change to happen, maintain motivation, turn setbacks into successes, and make new habits permanent.

Gloria Arenson, MS, MFT, specializes in using EFT to treat stress, anxiety, panic, depression, phobias, and compulsions. Her extensive knowledge of eating disorders and compulsive behaviors led her to write How To Stop Playing The Weighting Game, A Substance Called Food and Born To Spend (the new edition includes Meridian Therapy techniques). Her latest award-winning book about EFT is Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing. She is Past President of ACEP.
http://www.GloriaArenson.com | http://www.meridiantherapy.net

Objectives
On completion of this two hour session the participant will be able to:

1. List the 6 stages of change.
2. Understand the neurobiology of fear
3. Know how to apply energy psychology techniques to eliminate underlying fears that undermine successful change

Expand Consciousness & Relieve Trauma Using the Wisdom of Your Body: Awareness-Acceptance and Letting-go (AAT) (B-I-A)
Presenter: Maria Becker, MD 

AAT© elegant intervention, focusing on spiritual development. Safely awakens awareness of unconscious fears/beliefs/ feelings. Gently walks client through acceptance, transformation forgiveness, and gratitude, healing Body/Mind/Spirit. It integrates concepts from Conventional and Energy Psychology. Protocol allows use with clients, and research. Psychology. Protocol allows use with clients, and research.

Dr. Becker, MD FRCP(C), youth and adult Psychiatrist, is current ACEP’s Ethics and Professional Affairs Director. She loves teaching especially EP. In psychotherapy, her preferred mode of intervention is group psychotherapy using her AAT model and a variety of EP interventions.

Objective
On completion of this 2 hours session the participant will be able to:

1. Elicit 3 elements that maintain symptoms, distress, and trauma.
2. Name the 3 essential steps involved in AAT©.
3. List 3 elements that contribute to the best outcome.

Why Energy Therapies Work Fast: The Neural, Endocrine, Genetic, Musculoskeletal, and Electromagnetic Mechanisms of Healing (I-A)
Presenter: Dawson Church, Ph.D.

We are seeing an explosion of exciting new research on brain plasticity, neural signaling, gene expression, electromagnetic cellular signaling, and the semiconductive properties of connective tissue. But how are they tied together? In this fast-paced and entertaining presentation, renowned researcher Dawson Church, PhD, summarizes the research to explain how energy therapies use them all to effect system-wide and immediate change. He shows how, far from being unscientific, energy psychology techniques are among the first therapies to integrate these intriguing and recently-discovered biological mechanisms into powerful therapeutic protocols.

Dawson Church, Ph.D., has edited or authored over 200 books.  He has worked with many best-selling authors, including Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad), Deepak Chopra, John Gray (Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus), Wally "Famous" Amos, and others. He founded Soul Medicine Institute to research and teach emerging psychological and medical techniques that can yield fast and radical cures. His new book, The Genie in Your Genes, pioneers the field of Epigenetics, (control of genes from outside the cell), and has been hailed as a brilliant breakthrough by leading scientists.

Objectives
On completion of this two hour session participants will be able to:

1. Identify what physiological systems are engaged in energy psychology treatments
2. Know what new scientific developments explain how Energy Psychology works to achieve success in psychological and medical applications.
3. Know how do these multiple systems tie together during an Energy Psychology clinical session

Using Heart Assisted Therapy (HAT) as an adjunct Treatment with Sport and Performance Issues (I-A)
Presenter:  John H. Diepold, Jr., Ph.D.

This presentation introduces and demonstrates the use of Heart Assisted Therapy (HAT) as an adjunct treatment with sport and performance issues.  The HAT approach merges the use of thought fields, muscle testing, and heart energy to facilitate desired change in emotions, beliefs, behavior, and physical performance. HAT is a gentle, user and practitioner-friendly approach that is easy to engage, and incorporates the influence of breath, body polarity and blocking beliefs. Several HAT procedures will be presented in conjunction with three traditional and complimentary components when addressing sport and performance enhancement.

Dr. Diepold developed (2006) an Energy Psychology approach that uses heart energy to facilitate changes (without direct meridian involvement), which is called Heart Assisted Therapy (HAT).  HAT merges the use of thought fields, muscle checking, and heart energy and incorporates the influence of touch, breath, body polarity, and blocking beliefs to facilitate change in emotions, behaviors, beliefs, and physical comfort.
Dr. Diepold has worked with high school and college athletes at the individual and team levels as a psychological consultant and “team psychologist” since 1981.

Objectives:
Upon completion of this session the participant will be able to:

1. Identify and use two ways to assess body polarity using muscle testing and two methods for correction.
2. Describe four areas of concentration when addressing sport and performance enhancement.
3. Integrate appropriate HAT methods, and other EP techniques, when working with sport and performance enhancement.

The discovery of neuroplasticity—that the brain has the ability to change its structure and function to better adapt to the task at hand—is the most important change in our understanding of the brain since we first sketched out its basic anatomy. The talk will explain the science behind the discovery that our thoughts actually can turn on our genes, and lead to changes in brain structure and function. The author spent several years traveling North America visiting the brilliant scientists—Merzenich, Taub, Gage, Pascual-Leone, Grafman, Bach-y-Rita and others working at the cutting edge of plasticity research— and the people whose lives they transformed, and has synthesized the meaning of this research.

Dr. Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, essayist, poet, and New York Times best selling author. He is on the Research Faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry.  He is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Doidge was head of the Psychotherapy Center and the Assessment Clinic at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and has presented his own research at the White House. He has won four National Magazine Gold Awards. His book, The Brain That Changes Itself has been a #1 bestseller in Canada, is being translated into 13 languages, made into a film, and was chosen one of the top science books of 2007 by amazon.com, and one of the top books of the year by amazon.ca, Slate Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and the National Post. The U.S. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has recently chosen  The Brain That Changes Itself to receive the 2008 Ken Book Award,  "for an outstanding literary contribution toward a better understanding of mental illness."

Objectives

1. Learn about the brain plasticity revolution, including why we are discovering this now
2. Learn why we overlooked brain plasticity for centuries despite it being a basic property of the brain
3. Learn the key laws of plastic change, as they apply from cradle to grave
4. Learn the key experiments that revealed brain plasticity and their implications
5. Discuss how brain plasticity and energy psychology may be related

Become a Great Client-Energy Method Matchmaker! Diagnosis and Treatment Beyond Muscle Testing and Tapping
Presenter: David Gruder, Ph.D., D.CEP

Did you know that Energy Psychology treatments can be done without muscle testing or tapping? ACEP’s Founding President acquaints newbies and veterans with four varieties of energy disturbances, five more conventional diagnostic methods than muscle testing, and seven more subtle energy treatment styles than tapping.
David Gruder, Ph.D., D.CEP, was ACEP’s Founding President. A licensed psychologist, David is one of the architects of ACEP’s certification program as well as a senior trainer and certification consultant. His primary career focus is as a personal, relationship and leadership integrity development specialist. For 30+ years, he has provided cutting-edge mentoring, consulting, speaking and training in personal, relationship, leadership and integrity development for the public, leaders and helping professionals worldwide. His latest books include The New IQ: How Integrity Intelligence Serves You, Your Relationships and Our World and The New IQ Integrity Makeover Workbook. He is also the founder of IntegrityPledge.org. The secret behind David’s international acclaim is his blend of training design expertise, ability to convert complex concepts into practical tools, extensive clinical experience and disarmingly self-revealing anecdotes. info@willingness.com, www.TheNewIQ.com, www.IntegrityPledge.org, www.willingness.com. +1-858-755-1988.

Objectives - Upon completion of this two-hour program the participant will be able to:

1. Name five EP diagnostic methods other than muscle testing
2. List four energy disturbance categories
3. Describe seven energy treatment alternatives to tapping

Using Consciousness to Heal: The Need for Phenomenology as Science (B-I-A)
Presenter: Sue Guttenstein, Ph.D.

Reincorporating a phenomenological approach to research is important for assessing Consciousness guided healing. After a demonstration of Guided Self Healing, a psycho-spiritual, mind-body, energetic framework for healing and transformation, there will be a discussion of how science can best engage with this kind of process.

Questions of how we can "know" have interested Dr. Guttenstein since her early academic training. For 10 years she did social program evaluation and for the last 15 years has been a psychotherapist. Her psychotherapy emphasizes healing by working through body held memories and includes the use of Guided Self Healing, a powerful psycho-spiritual mind/body method.  Dr. Guttenstein is currently exploring how engaging intention and the guidance of Source level Consciousness heal and how such healing can be evaluated.

Objectives
Upon completion of this 2 hour workshop the participants will be able to:

1. Explain how phenomenological research differs from more traditional research.
2. Name two strengths and two weaknesses.
3. Specify at least three challenges of doing traditional research to evaluate Consciousness guided healing.

Creating Peace in the World: Collective Healing with Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine  (B-I-A)
Presenter: Mary Hammond, MA LPC D. CEP  ACEP Consultant

The power of our oneness is demonstrated as participants explore collective healing with Mary. Energy Psychology has the power to, in a very short time, transform group energy from dissonance to harmony, from scattered to purposeful, from competitive to collaborative, from angry to peaceful. 

Mary Hammond enthusiastically and compassionately practices Energy Psychology using Dynamic Energetic Healing® and other EP methods with adult and child clients. She has a special interest in supporting people to achieve their dreams, heal their depression and addictions and positively shift group energy. She is published in Fred Gallo's, Energy Psychotherapy in Energy Psychology. She is guided in work and in life by the presence of Divine Mother. She is on the Board of Directors of ACEP. She recently published Living Your Soul’s Purpose: Wellness and Passion with Energy Psychology. www.onedynamicenergetichealing.org

Objectives

1. Participant will describe in discussion the meaning of “energetic collective and why shifts happen simultaneously  
   for a group.
2. Participants will identify two advantages to combining energy psychology strategies with collective intention  and meditation.
3. Participants will describe the research on collective subtle energies.

Creative Longevity©: dynamic techniques for full-energy living at any age (B-I-A)
Presenter: Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D, CNS, D.CEP

This fun-loving workshop is designed to help participants activate their Inner Artist and to recapture youthful adventuresomesness while maturing into full-energy living at any age. Learning activities will include examining beliefs about personal creativity, accessing intuition, exploring effective energetic interventions, and transforming energy blockages through a visual art form.

Dorothea Hover-Kramer, co-founder and past president of ACEP, has authored 5 textbooks about energy therapies. She helped to pioneer ACEP’s certification program and is an international instructor. In addition, her creativity manifests in many art forms, music, and a new book by the workshop title.

Objectives
On completion of this learning module, participants will be able to--

1. Identify known thoughts about personal creativity as part of positive psychology
2. Address one known energetic blockage with a selected EP intervention
3. Develop new ways of accessing intuition
4. Establish 3 ways that simple art making enhances personal and professional inventiveness
5. Establish 3 ways that enhanced generativity can help resolve client issues.

Alchemy “The All Chemistry of God”: Manifesting the Divine Blueprint through Your Unique Soul Blueprint   (B-I-A)
Presenter: Dana How, Ed.S, LPC 
This workshop offers a unique and innovative Alchemy Process which will enable participants to discover their own distorted or incoherent beliefs that cloak the expression of their unique Soul Blueprint, and ultimately the experience of Perfection in their life, and how to return these vibrational patterns into their coherency.

Dana How, Ed.S., LPC, is a licensed counseling psychologist who maintains a private practice in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  Dana is a member of ACEP, NASP, VCA, and a very active member in the Association of Research and Enlightenment (ARE).  Dana has extensive training in Vibrational Medicine, Energy Studies, and Alternative Therapies such as Reiki, Attunement, Breath Work, Past Life Regression, and Meridian Therapy.  Dana has spent years combining spirituality, science, psychology, and her intuitive abilities to develop a unique transformation or Alchemy Process which she teaches and utilizes in her practice.  She has conducted numerous seminars and workshops and has developed experiential workbooks.  Dana moonlights as a very happily married woman with two young sons. www.pathwaystolight.net

Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants will:

1. Understand the flow of energy through the bioenergetic system.  
2. Understand the functioning of the soul blueprint, core attributes, and the subconscious mind in the creation of experiences.
3. Be able to use the Alchemy Process when working with self or a client.

Energy Psychology and Chronic Illness:Deep Healing with Open Hearts (I-A)
Presenter: Dr Robin Kelly FRNZCGP

Dr Robin Kelly draws on his 25 years of experience in combining Eastern and Western medicine to explore the energetic roots of chronic illness, and helps devise simple plans that fully involve patients/clients, opening their hearts to their own deep healing. An interactive, optimistic and entertaining educational experience.

Dr Robin Kelly FRNZCGP, integrates Western, Eastern and modern mind/body concepts within his medical practice. He is a past president of the Medical Acupuncture Society (NZ), lectures internationally, and is the author of two books: Healing Ways (2000) and The Human Antenna (2007), a foundation text for Energy Psychology Press (US). www.robinkelly.co.nz

Objectives
On completion of this workshop the participant will be able to:

1. Take a personal history asking the questions relevant to an Energy Psychology approach to chronic illness.
2. Perform gentle interactive ‘heart opening’ energy techniques.
3. Devise Energy Psychology exercises relevant to individuals with chronic illnesses.

Attracting Success and Abundance with EFT (B-I-A)
Presenter: Carol Look, C.S.W., D.C.H. EFT Master

Experience the power of EFT, a comprehensive healing tool, to help you restore emotional balance and physical vitality to your life. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, addictions, or abundance issues, EFT is a tool that will help you realign your energy system, release those stubborn conflicts, and restore balance to your life. Learn how to apply EFT to physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual blocks so you can attract the abundance and success you desire. Release yourself from the trap of emotions and pains that block your success and learn how to live a prosperous life full of love, passion, joy and gratitude.

Carol Look’s passion is helping people reach their personal and professional goals while enjoying their lives.  With a Masters Degree in Social Work and a Doctorate in Clinical hypnotherapy, Dr. Look worked for 8 years as an addictions clinician at Freedom Institute, a substance abuse facility in New York City. Dr. Look teaches EFT classes around the world, hosts her own internet radio show, and is the author of several energy psychology books, e-books, and several Audio CD series. She can be reached at (212) 477-8645 or by visiting www.CarolLook.com.

Objectives

1. On completion of this two hour program, participants will be able to identify 3 typical limiting beliefs that block personal/professional success.
2. On completion of this course, participants will be able to devise effective setup statements for relieving mild to severe anxiety.
3. On completion of this course, participants will be able to identify and describe 3 specific goal-enhancing techniques other than Energy Psychology.

The Great Cosmic Chuckle: Humor, Healing, Psychotherapy and Enlightenment  (B-I-A)
Presenter: Sam Menahem, Ph.D. 

The presenter will show how humor is the missing link in psychotherapeutic healing. Healing will be seen as a process, involving ultimately, enlightenment. Enlightenment means lightening up. Participants will be presented with theory, case examples and practical experience, showing how humor can aid in the psychotherapeutic healing process.. sitcoms, jokes, props, one liners and many other useful humor techniques will be explored and demonstrated. Participants must be prepared to laugh and learn to have fun doing therapy.

Sam Menahem Ph.D. is a spiritual psychologist from Fort Lee, NJ. He is an adjunct Professor of Psychology at Teachers college, Columbia University and the author of two books, When Therapy Isn't Enough and All Your Prayers Are Answered. His doctoral dissertation was entitled, “Stimulating the Creation of Humor.”It is the only doctoral dissertation in history dedicated to a cat. He is past president of the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy (ASP) in New York City

Objectives

1. Participants will be able to identify three humor strategies to intervene with in psychotherapy.
2. Participants will name three symptoms that can be relieved through humor.
3. Participants will be able to repeat three examples of therapeutic use of humor in psychotherapy.

AA is Not Enough: Energetic Variants in the Treatment of Addictions (B-I-A)
Presenter: Pamela Meredith, BSc, OT

This session will offer powerful and effective approaches to healing energetic variants evident in alcohol, drug and sex addictions through the treatment of the chakra system and the human bioenergy field to reduce return to addictive behaviors and enhance integration of mind, body and spirit.

Pam Meredith is a licensed Occupational Therapist, member of The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology and owner of Beyond Therapy, LLC. In addition, she has completed an extensive 2 year training at the Institute for Healing Arts and Sciences in CT.  She combines a solid background in anatomy, physiology, psychology and human rehabilitation with complementary and alternative practices. 

Objectives:
On completion of this session the participant will be able to:

1. State three energetic variations and three energetic therapies for the treatment of alcohol addiction.
2. State three energetic variations and three energetic therapies for the treatment of drug    addictions.
3. State three energetic variations and three energetic therapies for the treatment of sex addiction.

Become a Prosperous EP Leader Through Speaking and Events (B-I-A)
Presenter:  Betsy B. Muller, MBA, C.EHP, CEC   

Professional speaking is an incredible way to market your practice, generate income and boost credibility.  Learn proven methods to put your passion out front, set up profitable talks, develop topics and convert your audience into clients.  PLUS:  Energy coaching demonstrations to clear resistance to speaking.

Betsy Muller is a holistic coach, Certified Energy Health Practitioner, Certified Energy Coach, and speaker based in northeast Ohio.  Her company offers life and business coaching, group training programs and networking events.  Ms. Muller holds a BA in Chemistry and a MBA in Systems Management. www.TheIndigoConnection.com

Objectives
On completion of this workshop participants should be able to:

1. Identify 5 methods to cost effectively market talks and events.
2. Describe 3 factors to consider when setting the price for a lecture or event.
3. Name 4 ways to convert audience members into private clients.

The Miraculous Heart (B-I-A)
Presenter: Christine Page, MD   

Come and experience what poets and mystics have always known. That the heart’s expression of love and joy are intimately linked to its physiological and energetic functions, leading ultimately to personal development and spiritual transformation.

Christine Page MD has over 30 years experience in the health professions both as physician and homeopath. She is an international speaker and author of 6 books, her latest bring 2102 and the Galactic Center.  President of ISSSEEM from 2005-7, she is now President of Holos University.  www.christinepage.com

Objectives

1. Participants will list 3 unique physiological qualities of the heart
2. Participants will describe the link between intuition and the rhythm of the heart
3. Participants will describe the strengths behind a healthy relationship as defined by the features of the heart.

Using the Ancient Science of Haragei to Eliminate Stress, Establish Emotional Balance and Improve Energy Flow  (B-I-A)
Presenter: Symeon Rodger, MDiv., Ph.D.

The Samurai experienced complete calm in the most adverse conditions imaginable, thanks to a much older Taoist approach.  You can use this same approach to eliminate psychological stress and its physical symptoms, achieve emotional balance and boost immunity using a centuries-old 3-step process.

Dr. Symeon Rodger is one of the world’s top authorities on the ancient world’s systems of spiritual training, health maintenance and martial arts, fields he has researched both academically and experientially for over 35 years.
He is internationally known for his books and courses that synthesize these ancient traditions and translate them into concepts and methods readily understandable to people today.  In addition to his business qualifications, he is a university professor, a martial arts expert, a priest and spiritual guide in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and he used to run Top Secret intelligence operations for the Canadian Government. www.WarriorCoachingInternational.com

Objectives
On completion of this session the participant will be able to:

1. Explain and demonstrate the differences between Normal Abdominal Breathing and Reverse Abdominal Breathing, as well as one or more applications of each.
2. Adjust his or her own posture, as well as that of a client.
3. Explain the concept of Hara (lower dantien in Chinese medicine) and demonstrate how to use Hara when moving.

The Energy of Belief: Identifying and Releasing the Blocking Beliefs of the Practitioner (B-I-A)
Presenter: Mary T. Sise, LCSW, TFTdx

This workshop will discuss the role of blocking beliefs and un-integrated parts, and how they can energetically sabotage the therapist’s best intentions.  We will discuss the level of healing and integration that a therapist must attain, and how to discern and treat what is blocking you. 

Mary T. Sise, LCSW, D.CEP, is a Licensed Social Worker and a Diplomate in Comprehensive Energy Psychology.  She has presented at conferences nationally and internationally on energy psychology and trauma.  Past-President of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology she is co-author with Sheila Bender, Ph.d. of The Energy of Belief. www.integrativepsy.com

Objectives
At the conclusion of this workshop participants will be able to:

1. State one statement a therapist can use to determine a blocking belief
2. Name four categories of blocking beliefs that impact a therapist
3. Name seven components of touch and breathe method of EP

EmoTrance®: The simplicity of quantum communication (B-I-A)
Presenter: Franklin Sluijters, MD

Emotrance® is Silvia Hartmann’s concept of the interaction between the energy body - the seat of our emotions-  and the physical body as the seat of our body sensations.  Emotrance (emotional transformation ) stands for a simple, yet very efficient Energy Psychology procedure . By intentionally accessing the clients living vibrational matrix the practitioner is working at the level of quantum coherence and instantaneously bypassing (the concept of) linear time . Emotrance is an energy procedure which brings immediate lasting emotional transformation and is brilliant in its simplicity and can be practiced in combination with all preferred psychotherapeutic interventions.

Dr. Franklin Sluijters is a medical doctor from the Netherlands who was in private practice as a family doctor for 30 years and with 25 years of experience in the CAM field. Dr. Sluijters is a board certified Hypnotherapist, Master Practitioner NFNLP and an advance emotrance practitioner.  He is a member of the International Association of Resonance Healing and is currently practicing and teaching energy psychology and hypnotherapy .  

Objectives
On completion of this session participants will be able to

1. ask The right question to the client
2. to recognize movements in their energy system through the related  body sensations.
3. to work with energy blockages that manifest themselves as energy  “shields”.

Getting to the Heart of Energy Psychology: Advanced Training for Beginners (B-I-A)
Presenter: Larry Stoler, Ph.D. 

Energy psychology offers an enticing combination of holistic, integrative, humanistic, spiritual—and scientific components! But what is energy psychology treatment about really? In this workshop, we’ll use our “beginner’s mind” to take a close look at what energy psychology is, and maybe is not.

Larry S. Stoler, MSSA, PhD, DCEP is the current president of ACEP. He is a key contributor to the field of energy psychology.  He is a developer of ACEP’s certification program in EP. He enjoys helping people see the Big Picture of EP work.

Objectives

1. Participants will be able to name at least one key problem with the current way that energy psychology approaches are understood.
2. Participants will be able to give one advantage and one disadvantage for defining “energy” as including “energy, consciousness and intention”.
3. Participants will be able to identify at least one practice that can help them increase their sensitivity and deepen their energy psychology work.

Clearing Past Life Debris (I-A)
Presenter: Barbara Stone, Ph.D., LISW, D.CEP

When a person dies in a state of emotional turmoil, that suffering gets locked into the soul’s emotional configuration in future incarnations. Quantum physics teaches us that all time is really NOW, and clearing this emotional “debris” from past lives liberates us in the present!

Barbara Stone is a workshop presenter, public speaker, and bilingual psychotherapist in private practice. Her first book, Cancer As Initiation: Surviving the Fire (1994, Open Court Publishing Company), is the autobiographical account of her holistic approach to recovery from a diagnosis of breast cancer in 1991. Her latest book, Invisible Roots: How Healing Past Life Trauma Can Liberate Your Present (2008, Energy Psychology Press: Elite Books) traces the root cause of disorders, including two areas under served in psychotherapeutic literature: past life trauma and working with earthbound spirit attachments.Also a musician, potter, gardener, and grandmother, she holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Email: Stonepower@embarqmail.com Voicemail: 330-674-1540.

Objectives

1. Be able to identify symptoms of unresolved past life trauma.
2. Observe a complete treatment session with the “Soul Detective” Past Life Protocol.
3. Experience a group past life trauma release session.

Profound Healing for the Disadvantaged and for Those Who Heal Them (B-I-A)
Presenter:  Rémi Thivierge, MSW RSW RMFT

This workshop will focus on how to do profound healing with disadvantaged clients, particularly First Nations and homeless people.  Participants will learn how to use these healing exercises, which come from India and Tibet, to help clear vicarious trauma - negative energy that we pick up from our clients.

Rémi Thivierge MSW RSW RMFT is a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor with the American and Canadian Associations for Marriage and Family Therapy, the accrediting body in this field. He has been in the helping field for 31 years. He has extensive experience working with the disadvantaged.  He has also taught meditation and healing visualizations from India and Tibet. He incorporates some of those practices into his work with clients for very rapid healing. Along with these healing visualizations, he also uses methods from energy psychology such as EFT and the Butterfly Hug (a combination of EFT and EMDR).

Objectives
On completion of this session, the participant will be able to:

1. Have a clearer perspective on First Nations and homeless clients
2. Practice using healing methods that work with these clients as well as with the homeless
3. Use some of these methods in their own practice and with themselves

Breaking the code of the Subconscious Mind: Bridging the G.A.P. (Gratitude Action Potential) (B-I-A)
Presenter: Darren R. Weissman, D.C.  

Participants in this workshop will learn how to “break the code” of the subconscious mind and bridge the gap between that subconscious and conscious mind. Taught by Dr. Darren R. Weissman, author of the internationally-released book, The Power of Infinite Love & Gratitude,and contributing author to The Healing Power of Water with Dr. Masaru Emoto, participants will learn how to release the subconscious holding patterns or attractor fields keeping your clients rooted in a cycle of pain, fear, challenge, or addiction, and help them lead happy and healthy lives.

Dr. Darren R. Weissman is the developer of The LifeLine Technique™, an advanced holistic system that discovers, releases, and interprets the root cause of physical symptoms and stress—emotions trapped within the subconscious mind. He has expanded upon the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, Dr. Candace Pert, Dr. Bruce Lipton, and many other renowned modern day scientists with ancient traditions of natural medicine. His mission is world peace through inner peace. Darren is an internationally renowned lecturer and has helped thousands of people awaken to their infinite potential. He is the author of the Hay House, Inc., internationally released book, The Power of Infinite Love & Gratitude, which outlines his work with The LifeLine Technique™, and a contributing author to The Healing Power of Water with Dr. Emoto.  Website: www.infiniteloveandgratitude.com

Objectives

1. Learn the science behind the “code” of the conscious and subconscious mind The Triune Brain Theory—and its application for understanding how the body expresses itself.
2. Learn how to decipher the language of the body, also known as symptoms or stress.
3. Learn how to bridge the G.A.P. using use a kineseological muscle test as a diagnostic.
4. Observe demonstration of The LifeLine Technique™ and understand its implications for psychotherapy and counseling.
5. Learn the Five Basics of Optimal Health and why they are an integral component of healing

Creating a Toolbox of Energy Techniques for Children (B-I-A)
Presenter: Jan Yordy, M.Ed. M.S.W. Certified Play Therapist

Are you wondering how to effectively engage children in energy work?  This innovative workshop will present effective energy exercises and techniques which will build a toolbox of skills and resources for working successfully with children.

Jan Yordy, MEd., MSW and Play Psychotherapist is a passionate supporter of children and their families.  Working as both an elementary teacher and as a gifted child therapist she has effectively combined her knowledge and expertise to create unique resources for utilizing with children to facilitate their healing and wholeness.  Her most recent project is her children’s book called Be the Boss of Your Feelings, EFT for Children.  In addition to working in private practice, Jan has also helped to set up the Integrated Centre for Optimal Learning in Waterloo, Ontario.  This unique learning centre helps children and teens to be successful by growing their neural connections.   Jan is a leader in the field of working with Indigo and Crystal children and presents many workshops internationally on a variety of topics.  To find out more about Jan Yordy you are welcome to visit her web site at www.energyconnectiontherapies.com, phone her at 519-664-3568 or
e-mail yordy@energyconnectiontherapies.com .

Objectives
On completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. List 3 types of energy disruptions which can be problematic for children
2. Name 4 important energy exercises for balancing a child’s overall energy.
3. Name 2 effective techniques to use with children which helps them to clear negative emotions by releasing the negative energy from their body.
4. Describe 3 effective techniques for calming and releasing over-energy in a child

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