DISRUPT YOUR PRACTICE
8 Week Online Training with Gareth Holman PhD
UPDATE: The course is now full! Please email me if you’re interested in future runnings.
As clinicians we work to follow the threads of each client’s evolution. In that way we may be connected to the evolution of bigger parts (families, groups, cultures, civilization) as well as to our personal evolution. Yet you may feel disconnected or stuck or ‘too small’ in that work and in those connections.
This 8-week training is a forum to work deliberately on open-mind-heart-guts evolution of your self and your practice — how you work with clients, how you are growing, how you present yourself to the world, what you are connected to, what you create, how you disrupt.
We will work with fingers-in-the-dirt reality. Not in a sanitized, intellectual way. We’ll look for where we are afraid to find where we can grow next. We’ll bring all the clarity, compassion, and wholeness we can carry.
Though we’ll work with a functional-contextual lens — focused on specific behaviors/contexts/functions — this is not a course for learning theory. It’s a course in practicing disruption.
Questions we’ll rumble with:
What rules/norms/learnings oppress you?
What professional traumas do you carry?
How do you relate to your community?
How do you relate to professional power and hierarchy?
How are you putting yourself out there?
What would you say if you weren’t holding back?
What do you stand for at this time?
Who are you really as a therapist/coach/clinician?
What do you want to become?
What do you need?
What do you avoid with clients/colleagues/life?
What is in your shadow?
What do you think is bullshit?
How do you hold back?
Each week I’ll provide a prompt (e.g. short talk or model) for disruptive inquiry and inspiration. We’ll then do experiential work — real-plays/role-plays, explorations, discussions, creation (i.e. we’ll make stuff). You’ll have resonant homework to complete as you are inspired between sessions.
I will bring all the honesty and love I have. I ask you to do the same.
We’ll meet weekly for 8 weeks. 2 hours per week. Fridays noon-2pm PST. Starting May 8th 2020.
(If that timing doesn’t work for you but you are seriously interested in the course, let me know.)
Cost is $500.*
(*If you need a partial or full scholarship, please explain in your application email.)
About the Leader: Read more about me (Gareth Holman) here.
To apply to join the group:
Email garethholman@gmail.com and answer these three questions:
What do you do in your work?
Why do you want to join this group?
What scares or challenges you most about joining this group?
Infrequently asked questions that might come up for you:
1) Will this be one of those lovey-dovey trainings where everyone plays nice?
No. The priority is on being real and growing.
2) Is the stuff I’m working on ‘enough’ for me to join this course? Am I enough?
Yes. If you are a clinician/coach of some kind and you care about growing, you are enough.
3) Is this science based? Or is this a woo woo course?
Yes, it is all based on empirically supported principles. No, it is only as woo as you make it.
4) What are the technical requirements?
The course meets online using Zoom. You must have a solid internet connection, a headset, and a private place to connect.