Center For Personal Growth

Why should a company invest in Personal Growth?

The School of Personal Growth was an offering by Google to help its employees “grow as people," offering courses such as "The Neuroscience of Empathy" and "Search Inside Yourself." The main goal of this school was to promote happiness among the employees and allow them to understand themselves in a deeper way in order to foster creativity and cooperation.

Big Think had the opportunity to speak with Monika Broecker, who co-founded the school and who has gone on to found her own Personal Growth Program. 

Read this interview with Monika Broecker in Big Think. 

 

Somatic Healing with Horses

Read the feature story about our event this weekend in the Half Moon Bay Review:

 

 

Characteranalysis & Somatic Interventions

The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California

Expand your psychodynamic orientation with potent, out-of-the-box interventions that track the client moment-by-moment and illuminate their defensive styles  - styles that prohibit deeper access and meaningful insight.  By interrupting life-long chronic patterns, the client realizes both the historical and present consequences of their patterns. We teach specific ways the therapist can move the client
out of repetitive, reinforcing “story telling”, intellectualization, and other defenses that slow down effective change. 

Our central approach is Reichian characteranalysis. Learn an elegant typology of character types so you can differentiate between clients and learn interventions designed for their specific character type.  Our courses also address the corresponding somatic armoring related to each character as well as the physical symptoms associated with each. Using biophysical methods, we help the client release muscular blockage and tension that limits their free biophysical and emotional expression.

Contact us for CE information.  Class sizes are limited to 12 students.

Topical Mentoring 

Our Topical Mentoring classes are 4-hour intensives that cover specific topics such as Differential Diagnosis, Biophysical Techniques and Dream Analysis.  We gather as a group of peers and through case presentations, client demonstrations and role-playing, look at how to put theory into action.

Biophysical Demonstration Day 

Our Biophysical Demonstration classes are immensely popular classes that focus on both differentiating and treating character types using bodywork interventions.  We typically schedule 4 live client sessions during the class. Dr. Frisch actively demonstrates verbal character-work for 20 minutes and then the client moves to the couch to experience the biophysical techniques, if appropriate.  Dr. Frisch guides those in attendance and trained in biophysical work to use hands-on methods to help clients release held-in tensions, make contact with their physical sensations and expression, and access emotional content.

Learn more about these and other classes here.

Free MP3 Sampler and Video Class Samples are available on OINC’s website.

Free Master-Level Bodywork: Experience free therapy sessions including biophysical somatic interventions under the supervision of Dr. Frisch during training demonstration days. Email assist@orgonomictherapy.com.

 

Patricia R. Frisch, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and MFT, orgonomic bio-psychotherapist, family therapist, and group leader. She has been a practicing Orgonomic Therapist in the San Francisco Bay area since 1976 and is expert in the application of characteranalytic techniques in group therapy. Her specialty is characteranalytic bodywork – the interface between defensive patterns, life-long conflicts, physical armoring, and stress related symptomatology.   To learn more about Dr. Frisch's Training Courses or to inquire about therapy with her, visit our website here or call 415-388-0622.

Upcoming Workshops in April and May

Pure Presence: Sensory Communication, Healing and Embodiment With Horses - with Kerri Lake

Clarity, Communication, Leadership, Presence - May 4th and 5th

Come and play for one day, or come for both days! 

All communication is vibration. Healing is vibration! The truth is a vibration our body can sense. This event in the presence of the horses will invoke your awareness of your unique vibration and leadership Presence. The animals help us explore how vibrational and sensory communication functions, and you will feel it happening in your own body.

The horses are always in this place of presence, and they facilitate our integration as we expand in consciousness and embody our unique expression of confidence, leadership and wellness.

To attend for 1 day, Saturday, May 4 OR Sunday, May 5: $175 per person.

To attend BOTH days: $325 per person.

Register for Pure Presence

Play and Dream: Winnicott, Culture and the Body

In this two day workshop, we will explore the dream as a form of somatic play. Winnicott, in Playing and Reality, stated that psychotherapy is about two people playing together.

June 28-29, 2013 10am-6pm in Berkeley, CA
Register before May 31st: $300 regular, $250 students
Register from June 1st to 15th: $350 regular, $300 students
Register after June 15th: $375 regular, $350 students
At the door: $400 regular, $375 students

Register Now!

Jung, Dreams and the Body with John Conger, PhD

This two-day course offers an opportunity to study one’s dreams dramatically, reflectively, symbolically and somatically. We will narrate, walk through and play out dreams in a dramatic setting, a process supported by fundamental Jungian and somatic concepts.

Cost:
Register before October 1st: $300 regular, $250 students
Register from October 1st to 15th: $350 regular, $300 students
Register after October 15th: $375 regular, $350 students
At the door: $400 regular, $375 students

Register Now!

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Introduction Into Somatic Psychotherapy

Monika Broecker offers two new programs as introductions into Somatic Psychotherapy:

Working with the Emotional Body is a program consisting of 6 individual introductory sessions into Analytic Somatic Therapy as developed by Dr. John Conger. The second program called The Emotional Body in Community is similar but the 6 individual sessions are complemented by 3 group sessions as a start to building a community of practice. Please check out these programs. 

Workshops with John Conger and Bradford Keeney

The Center for Personal Growth is proud to offer three upcoming workshops with somatic psychologist John Conger and traditional healer, creative therapist and spiritual teacher Bradford Keeney (with Hillary Keeney).

Play and Dream: Winnicott, Culture and the Body

In this two day workshop, we will explore the dream as a form of somatic play. Winnicott, in Playing and Reality, stated that psychotherapy is about two people playing together. 

June 28-29, 2013 10am-6pm in Berkeley, CA
Register before May 31st: $300 regular, $250 students 
Register from June 1st to 15th: $350 regular, $300 students
Register after June 15th: $375 regular, $350 students 
At the door: $400 regular, $375 students

Register Now!

 

Jung, Dreams and the Body with John Conger, PhD

This two-day course offers an opportunity to study one’s dreams dramatically, reflectively, symbolically and somatically. We will narrate, walk through and play out dreams in a dramatic setting, a process supported by fundamental Jungian and somatic concepts.

Cost:
Register before October 1st: $300 regular, $250 students
Register from October 1st to 15th: $350 regular, $300 students
Register after October 15th: $375 regular, $350 students
At the door: $400 regular, $375 students

Register Now!

Introduction to Seiki Jutsu: The Art of the Non-Subtle Life Force with Brad and Hillary Keeney

Internationally renowned healers and spiritual teachers Bradford Keeney and Hillary Keeney introduce seiki jutsu, the Japanese art of working with the non-subtle vital life force. As a self-healing and revitalization practice, seiki jutsu teaches how spontaneous and effortless movement and action provides the most natural means for tuning, awakening, and transforming your life.

Fall 2013
Exact dates, location and cost TBD.