AGI EVENTS 2012
The one day workshops listed
below will be held at The Bresler Center in West Los Angeles at 10780
Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 290, Los Angeles, CA 90025.
There are several reasonably priced hotels and motels
nearby for those participants from outside the Los
Angeles area who wish to attend both Friday and Saturday
sessions.
The four day Preceptorships will be held at the
Doubletree Hilton Suites
in Santa Monica,
CA. Call (310) 395-3332 for reservations. Please be
aware that there are also many less expensive hotels in
the immediate area.
All pre-requisite AGI courses must have been satisfactorily
completed before registration will be approved. No matter
how well trained and experienced you are in using guided
imagery, these courses "level the playing field" and insure
that all participants are readily familiar with the unique
concepts, applications, precautions, and contraindications
involved when using Interactive Guided Imagerysm
techniques. Pre-requisite courses are available on a home
study basis, and if you haven't yet completed them, you can
get more information and enroll by clicking here.
Imagery for Stress Management
Workshop ID: ATS/5A
Instructor: David Bresler, PhD, LAc
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I
This workshop begins with a comprehensive discussion regarding the nature of stress and its consequences, with an emphasis on the distinction between stress triggers and stress tolerance. Following a demonstration, participants will practice several IGIsm-based techniques that induce rapid relaxation, help identify stress triggers, and reframe beliefs and attitudes in order to enhance stress tolerance.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Imagery for Anxiety Disorders
Workshop ID: ATS/5B
Instructor: David Bresler, PhD, LAc
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I
This workshop begins with a review of the most common anxiety disorders, including performance anxieties, social anxieties, panic attacks, phobias, OCD, and hypochondiasis, among others. Participants will learn how to help their clients distinguish fear from anxiety, and how IGIsm can help to relieve both. Following a demonstration, participants will practice several IGIsm-based techniques that can break habitual patterns of thinking, prevent anxiety from "snow-balling," desensitize anxiety triggers, and reduce worrying through positive imagery rehearsal.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Imagery for Pain Control
Workshop ID: ATS/6A
Instructor: David Bresler, PhD, LAc
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I
This workshop begins with a comprehensive discussion regarding the nature of acute and chronic pain, with an emphasis on the distinction between pain sensitivity and pain tolerance. Following a demonstration, participants will practice several IGIsm-based techniques that can dramatically reduce the intensity, frequency, and duration of painful symptoms, increase pain tolerance, and explore the true meaning of pain and how it can facilitate rather than impede the healing process.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Imagery for Depression Relief
Workshop ID: ATS/6B
Instructor: David Bresler, PhD, LAc
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I
This workshop begins with a review of the most common depressive disorders, their etiologies (if known), and their consequences, with an emphasis on viewing depression as a type of emotional and/or spiritual pain. Following a demonstration, participants will practice several IGIsm-based techniques that can be used to affect mood, including evocative imagery, positive imagery rehearsal, modulated regression techniques, and the affect bridge.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Imagery for Smoking Cessation
Workshop ID: ATS/7A
Instructor: David Bresler, PhD, LAc
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I
This workshop begins with a discussion about the nature of addiction, with an emphasis on smoking as one of the most difficult, yet important habits to break. When properly researched over a one year period, most of the major smoking cessation programs are successful in less than 10% of the subjects who follow them diligently.
The 28-day imagery-based program developed by AGI and The Bresler Center was tested in a pilot study at Harvard Medical School which found that nearly 50% of their subjects were nicotine-free one year after completing our program. Since then, our program has been greatly enhanced so that over 90% of our subjects have successfully quit.
Following a demonstration, participants in this workshop will practice several of the IGIsm-based techniques used in our newest smoking cessation program.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Imagery for Weight Control
Workshop ID: ATS/7B
Instructor: David Bresler, PhD, LAc
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I
This workshop begins with a overview of the most common eating disorders with an emphasis on the uses of imagery to help clients lose weight and maintain their weight loss.
Like smoking cessation, controlling what we eat and how much we eat can prevent some of the most catastrophic health problems, including heart disease, strokes, and kidney failure. In short, there are no old fat people.
Following a demonstration, participants will practice several IGIsm-based techniques that can be used to enhance and maintain motivation, dissolve appetitive urges and cravings, reconcile inner conflicts, and explore the etiology of counter-intentional eating behaviors.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Imagery for Acute Trauma
Workshop ID: ATS/8A
Instructor: David Bresler, PhD, LAc
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I
This workshop begins with a discussion regarding the nature of trauma and its consequences, with an emphasis on preparing for known trauma (such as medical procedures) and on processing emotional reactions to unexpected trauma as quickly as possible to prevent a disabling adjustment disorder or PTSD.
Following a demonstration, participants will practice several IGIsm-based techniques that can be used to rapidly induce relaxation, relieve symptoms, extend or contract time, dissociate mind from body, and rehearse positive outcomes.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Imagery for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD)
Workshop ID: ATS/8B
Instructor: David Bresler, PhD, LAc
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I
This workshop begins with a comprehensive discussion regarding the nature of PTSD and its consequences, with an emphasis on the relationship between shock, hypnosis and hypnotic recall, PTSD, and flashbacks. Under intense stress, most higher organisms respond by fight, flight, or freeze, all of which can lead to PTSD.
This is a major unrecognized problem, and it's getting worse. We lost around 58,000 soldiers during the Vietnam War, and then lost over 150,000 after it ended because of suicide related to PTSD. Currently, over 60,000 Vietnam vets are in prison, most with PTSD. What happens as the millions of soldiers and contractors who fought in Iraq and Afganistan return home?
Following a demonstration, participants will practice several IGIsm-based techniques that can be used to safely reduce hyper-vigilance and hyper-reactivity, reframe prior traumatic experiences, build inner support systems, and greatly accelerate emotional processing and completion of prior trauma.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Imagery for Enhancing Creativity
Workshop ID: ATS/9A
Instructor: David Bresler, PhD, LAc
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I
This workshop begins with an overview of the creative process, with an emphasis on Nobel prize winner Albert St. Gyorgi's notion that "discovery is seeing what everyone has seen, yet thinking what know one has thought."
Following a demonstration, participants will practice several of the IGIsm-based techniques that Dr. Bresler created during the five years he worked as a consultant to the Imagineers at Walt Disney Imagineering. These techniques can be used to help reduce resistance, overcome procrastination, enhance mental discipline, and inspire "out-of-the-box thinking."
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Imagery for Taming the Inner Critic
Workshop ID: ATS/9B
Instructor: David Bresler, PhD, LAc
CE Credit: 6.5 hours
Pre-Requisite: Level I
This workshop begins with a discussion regarding the etiology and early development of the Inner Critic, with an emphasis on its relationship to early parenting skills (or the lack of them).
Like parents, the intention of the Inner Critic is to improve your situation, but the critical, demeaning way it does so can be horribly ego deflating. In the Talmud, humiliation is a major personal offense, for it's considered "murder of the soul" and the "killer of one's spirit."
Following a demonstration, participants will practice several IGIsm-based techniques that can be used to set stricter boundaries with the Inner Critic, and to teach it to communicate the information it wants to convey in a more acceptable, less critical manner.
Thursday, June 21 thru Sunday, June 24. 2012
Preceptorship I
Workshop ID: PREC1
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD, LAc,
Daru Maer, Judy Westerfield, MFT
CE Credit: 26 hours
Pre-Requisite: ATS/1B
Academy Preceptorships have been called “The Heart of the Certification Training Program,” for over the course of four days, you work closely with small groups of Certification candidates under the skilled tutelage of Academy faculty members.
At Preceptorships, you will have the opportunity to see unique and individual guiding approaches, share personal experiences using Interactive Guided Imagerysm, and gain a working understanding of the techniques and principles taught in our Advanced Workshops.
Each morning, the Preceptorship begins with an in-depth discussion and demonstration of a core Interactive Guided Imagerysm technique, followed by smaller group sessions, each led by an experienced Academy faculty member. In these smaller groups, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills as an Imagery Guide. You will also benefit from experiencing the unique perspectives of the client and the observer, and the feedback from debriefing each imagery experience.
Satisfactory completion of the FIGI program, ATS/1A, and ATS/1B are required pre-requisites for enrolling in Preceptorship I. Techniques taught during Pre I include Advanced Work with the Inner Advisor, Dialoguing With Symptoms, Evocative Imagery, and Grounding: Moving From Insight To Action. Upon satisfactory completion, you are then Level I Certified, which makes you eligible to be included in AGI’s Online Referral Directory of Imagery Practitioners.
Thursday, September 20 thru Sunday, September 23, 2012
Preceptorship II
Workshop ID: PREC2
Instructors: David Bresler, PhD, LAc,
Daru Maer, Judy Westerfield, MFT
CE Credit: 26 hours
Pre-Requisite: ATS/2B
Although Preceptorship II follows the same format as Preceptorship I, it provides detailed instruction and supervision in utilizing some of the most advanced and powerful IGIsm tools yet created.
To be properly prepared, we recommend that you practice and thoroughly develop the basic skills you learned in Preceptorship I for a few months before enrolling in Preceptorship II, where they will be both needed and more closely evaluated.
Satisfactory completion of the ATS/2A and ATS/2B programs are required pre-requisites for enrolling in Pre II.
Techniques taught during Pre II include Regression With The Inner Advisor, Parts Work & Conflict Resolution, Inner Child & The Essential Self, and The Search For Purpose.
Upon satisfactory completion, you are Level II Certified in Interactive Guided Imagerysm.
To register for this workshop, begin by selecting "No CEs" or "w/ CEs" in the box above, click the red "Add to Cart" button, then the green "View Cart" button in order to pay tuition, and check out. Next, complete the online Workshop Registration Form by clicking here.