seven channels process TRAINING group
deepening embodied relational experience
The Seven Channels Process Group series focuses on giving and receiving the transformative gifts of the kind of secure base that we aspire to create as therapists. Our focus will be integrating and deepening the self of the therapist. We will work to offer alternative pathways to the counter-transference reactivity that can show up in us with certain clients.
We will practice whole-body moment to moment somatic tracking and speak in explicit I-statements about our internal experience. This produces an atmosphere of subtle discernment and evokes surprises of emergent self-reflection and bottom-up expression. This is not a therapy group, but instead accesses self-at-best skill development based on heart-to-heart loving compassion, inner reflection and acknowledgment of self and other. We will be learning about affective neuroscience and transforming attachment patterns via both teaching moments and the experience of the group sessions.
NEW TUESDAY SERIES OPEN NOW: STARTS MARCH 5TH, 2024
THURSDAY SERIES BEGINS january 25, 2024 (FULL)
Contact Dr. Mars using the form below to schedule a 20-minute conversation on Zoom about the newly opened Tuesday group.
Tuesdays 9am-11am PST Six participant maximum$100 per two-hour session paid monthly Total cost $800session calendar
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March 5
April 2
May 7
June 4
Summer Break
September 3
October 1
November 5
December 3
Thursdays 8am to 10am PSTSix participant maximum$100 per two-hour session paid monthly Total cost $800-
January 25
February 22
March 21
April 18
May 16
June 13
Summer Break
September 26
October 24
Additional Information
This course is designed for intermediate to advanced learners.
Our target audience is Psychologists, MFTs, Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychiatrists, Licensed Social Workers and Pastoral Counselors.
Cancellation policy: You may end your enrollment at any time and receive a refund for the remaining sessions of the course. Questions or concerns may be communicated to David Mars, PhD by email at davidmarsphd@gmail.com or by phone at 415-234-3821.
David Mars, PhD, the presenter for this course, holds a PhD in Psychology, is licensed as an MFT, and has taught Transformative Couples Therapy® (TCT) to psychotherapists since 2009. He is the developer of the TCT method and taught the method as a senior faculty member of the AEDP Institute for eleven years. He is the director of the Center for Transformative Therapy has been treating couples in private practice for over forty years. For a more complete bio, see https://cfttsite.com/david-mars-phd-mft
There are no conflicts of interest or external commercial support related to this course or any course offered by the Center for Transformative Therapy.
Meeting schedule - All times PT
10:00-10:20am: Orientation and opening eight-minute Channels of Experience meditation
10:20-10:45am: Check-in and discussion of each participant’s response to the meditation and any breakthroughs of awareness that they want to share
10:45 to 11:45: Discussion in the context of demonstrating grounded alternatives of moment-to-moment tracking of the seven channels of experience to judgment and reflexive reactivity, while practicing selective perception, reception and expression using process language
11:45-12:00pm: Metaprocessing and closing