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TRAINING IN Primal INTEGRATION

Led by Esta Powell and Bob Holmes

April 7-11, 2008

The training is designed for Primal Integration facilitators, those who want to enhance their skills as a “buddy,” therapists interested in trauma treatment, or anyone who wishes to expand their experience in feeling-focused, regressive psychotherapies, the training includes:

	45 training hours with certificate.
	Demonstration/therapy sessions with Esta and Bob.
	Daily co-therapy sessions in safe, supervised dyads.
	Post-session discussion with supportive, constructive feedback.
	Structured discussion on important aspects of Primal Therapy, such as, safety and containment; client-oriented approach; working with shock; specifics of healing first-line trauma; transference issues; incorporating techniques from other modalities, such as Gestalt, Psychodrama, Inner Child Work, etc.
	Attention will be paid to group dynamics.

Full five-day group will run from Monday, 9 am to Friday, 6 pm. Arrival on Sunday and departure on Saturday. Group size limited to 8 participants. Some experience in Primal or other experiential modalities is desirable. However, anyone interested is welcome to apply. The $980 cost includes meals and dorm style accommodations; $920 if paid in full by March 1, 2008. $200 non-refundable fee is required upon registration.

This is the first in a series of training modules that are currently being developed.

For more information click here.

To download the brochure click here.

To register please or if you have any questions contact Esta: primalesta@yahoo.com (614-893-3527) or Bob: link.2.holmes@sympatico.ca (1-877-258-9315).

About Bob Holmes

Bob’s history with deep-feeling, regressive psychotherapy spans 33 years. He began a personal primal process in 1975, worked in the bereavement sector as a funeral director for eleven years, and has been facilitating primal and regression therapy since 1992. He has received specialized training in Primal Integration (Barbara Bryan, Sam Turton), Hypnosis (Georgina Cannon) and Regression Therapy (Marion Boon), and conducted workshops in Canada and the United States. Bob is the director of the Regression Therapy Centre of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada, and is on staff for weekend intensives at the Primal Integration Center of Michigan. He holds memberships in the Canadian Association for Psychodynamic Therapy, the International Association for Regression Research and Therapies and the International Primal Association, of which he is currently President. For more information visit: http://www3.sympatico.ca/link.2.holmes/

FINDING YOUR INNER POWER

March 28-30, 2008

Workshop is designed for adult adoptees, persons who experienced parental loss/separation at a young age, or anyone interested in the issues related to adoption. International and transracial adoptees are warmly welcome.

We will explore the overall adoption experience, encompassing Identity, Belonging, Feeling Loved, Feeling Welcomed, Grounding and other issues that stand in the way of your life’s work, love and joy. Through structured exercises and feeling-release in a safe and confidentialgroup environment we will work on:

	unlocking grief and shame,
	getting in touch with your inner truth,
	knowing fear of rejection,
	leading instead of waiting to be welcomed,
	finding the source of love within instead of love addiction,
	creating your own ideal parent inside, and finally,
	accessing your un-sabotaged inner power living from your expansive self.

Group will run Friday 6 pm to Sunday 3 pm. Group size limited to 12 participants. Cost is

$290, 2 breakfasts and 2 lunches included. Dorm style accommodations are available for

extra $25 per night. To apply or for more details please contact

Esta: primalesta@yahoo.com or

Christopher: AdoptedLife@yahoo.com (http://www.adoptedlife.org)

About Christopher

Christopher has been through every stage of adoption, including finding his birthparents, developing a relationship with his birth mother, and fairly working-out adoption themes with his adoptive parents. His Ph.D. is in chemical engineering and he is currently seeking investors for a new invention aimed at creating a sustainable and environmentally respectful world. He is the co-illustrator of a new book on adoption, entitled Adopted: The Ultimate Teen Guide (It Happened to Me); the book covers different topics than this article. His cartoons and paintings have appeared in numerous publications, on-line and in art exhibitions. Click here to read Christopher's article Adoption and Beyond.

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