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Psychotherapy
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Workshops
- An Ecology of Mind with Nora Bateson
- Tinnitus Alleviation Therapy with Maria Holl
- Play and Dream: Winnicott, Culture and the Body with John Conger
- Somatic and Reichian Professional Training with Dr. Patricia Frisch
- Jung, Dreams and the Body with John Conger
- Mindfulness-based Emotional Intelligence at Work with Monika Broecker
- The Career Clinic™ - Coaching Group with Monika Broecker
- Work that Makes a Difference™ with Monika Broecker
- The Alexander Technique with John A. Baron
- Analytic Somatic Therapy w/ John Conger, PhD
Announcements
January 13, 2015
August 10, 2014
Offerings
Hello and welcome to the Center for Personal Growth™!
I founded the Center for Personal Growth after heading up the School of Personal Growth and People Manager Development at Google. Here is an overview of my services:
For Individuals:
- Career Transformation Coaching
- Personal Growth Coaching
- Sustainable Work- and Lifestyle Coaching ("Work-Life Balance" Coaching)
- Get-to-Work Power Coaching for people who are out of work
- Leadership and People Manager Coaching
- Executive Coaching
- Solution-Focused Therapy/Coaching and Training
- Somatic Psychotherapy
- Intro Program into Analytic Somatic Therapy™: Working with the Emotional Body
- Management and Leadership Development Coaching
- MFTi Private Practice Coaching
For Corporate Clients:
- Stress Management Workshops
- Employee High Performance, Stress Management/Burnout Prevention Coaching, Team Coaching
- Retreat Facilitation (vision, mission, strategy meetings with optional graphic facilitation)
- Workshop hosting
- Teaching and speaking engagement
April 12, 2013
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.
February 18, 2013
December 04, 2012
July 30, 2012
July 27, 2012
June 12, 2012
Summer Announcements
OFFERINGS BY THE CENTER FOR PERSONAL GROWTH
Mindfulness-based Emotional Intelligence at Work with Monika Broecker
–Building emotional capacity for effective team collaboration
Sunday August 26 2012, 2-4:30pm: Mindfulness-based Emotional Intelligence
Sunday September 2 2012, 2-4:30pm: Non-Violent Communication
Sunday September 9, 2012: 2-4:30pm: Group Process
Berkeley, CA
$50 per meeting (=$150 for entire series); $40 for students ($120 for entire series).
Price includes one 15 minute private mini coaching session.
To register, please email [email protected]
Work that Makes a Difference with Monika Broecker
–Creating a Meaningful Career in Service of a Better World
Saturday August 12, 2012, 3-6pm
$125
Berkeley, CA
To register, please email us at [email protected]
Voice, Speech and the Alexander Technique with Lisa Wentz
–A Vocal Coaching Workshop for anyone
Saturday July 28, 2012, 1-4pm
$125; $100 for full-time students (please bring your student ID to the workshop)
San Francisco, CA (Flood Building)
To register, please email us at [email protected]
Stress and Pain Management with the Alexander Technique with John A. Baron
–The thinking person's solution for pain and stress
Saturday, July 28, 2012, 2-5pm
Berkeley, CA
To register, please email us at [email protected]
The Career Clinic–Weekly Coaching Group with Monika Broecker
–Your passionate inquiry into a sustainable work- and lifestyle
Tuesday evenings, 6:30-8:30pm
$150 per person for three evenings (includes 15 minute individual coaching session)
Berkeley, CA
To register, please email us at [email protected]
OFFERINGS BY THE ORGONOMIC INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA/Patricia Frisch, PhD
Dr. Patricia Frisch and The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California Announce Their New Independent Study Path and 2012 Summer/Fall Schedule of Classes
OINC live and Independent Study classes are an especially dynamic and effective way to expose more clinicians and graduate students to the important contributions of Wilhelm Reich, often credited with being the father of somatic therapies. He was a master at character interventions that could quickly and deeply facilitate patient break-through, allowing them to make contact with their authentic self and their core feelings. Reich’s characteranalysis is a skill that maximizes potent interventions and moves the patient beyond their facade and into profound honesty. Some therapists, when they are first introduced to the theory and practice of Orgonomic Therapy, see it as a bit “out of the box” in its spontaneous, liberating style. Orgonomic Therapy’s unique approach is an effective antidote to the compelling, deadening counter-pull of patients’ habitual homeostasis. As therapists, we need to move from stale interventions and intellectualized interpretations to meaningful exchange. We teach this method of character intervention because of its great effectiveness.
Our live and Independent Study Path classes fall into the following categories:
Independent Study Path: When attending live classes is not an option, Dr. Frisch may give students permission to complete program requirements through our Independent Study Path option. The Path begins with the Introductory level training series and continues with the Intermediate and Advanced training series. There are 3 components to this path:
- Listening to Audio CD courses in each Series. There are 6 audio courses at each level (Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced).
- Listening to MP3 recordings of live Study Group classes. There are 8 live classes per level (Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced).
- Four 1.5 hour consulting sessions with Dr. Frisch per level, scheduled at a mutually agreed upon time.
Visit our website at http://orgonomictherapy.com/independent-study-path/ for more information.
Introductory CD Course Series with Study Groups:
(4-hrs. each, Sundays 9:30am-12:30pm)
The 8 Introductory Study Group classes are designed to support the 6-CD Introductory CD Audio Series.
Topical Mentoring Classes:
(4 hrs. each, Saturdays 9:30am-1:30pm)
Topical Mentoring classes are short, experiential courses covering topics such as Differential Diagnosis, Dream Analysis, and Building and Sustaining your Clinical Practice.
Clinical OINC Community Days:
(6.5 hrs. each, Saturdays 9:30am-5:30pm)
These are clinical experiential classes where students apply Orgonomic methods in order to practice and enhance their skills, including but not limited to: differential diagnosis, character interventions, dream analysis and transference issues. Case presentation with mentoring by Dr. Frisch is included.
Biophysical Demo Days:
(6.5 hrs. each, Saturdays 9:00am-5:00pm)
Biophysical Demo Days present demonstrations of Orgonomy with 4 practice clients who volunteer for this purpose. Practice clients are worked on by Accredited Orgonomists coached by and under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Frisch.
All classes will be held in the Marin (CA) area – locations to be announced. Please check our website for more descriptive information on each class, including prerequisites, tuition, and policies.
Dr. Patricia Frisch also offers comprehensive training programs in Wilhelm Reich’s character-analytic and somatic approach, Mastersonian disorders of the self, and elements from Jung to qualified mental health and medical professionals, and graduate students.
To learn more about Dr. Frisch Audio Training Courses or to place an order, visit
http://orgonomictherapy.com/audio-courses/audio-comprehensive-series/ or call 415-388-0622.
New Distance Learning Comprehensive CD Training Series 
Approved for CE’s for California Psychologists
OINC’s 6-course Comprehensive CD training series is designed for new and current students who want to learn characteranalysis and have a comprehensive education in Wilhelm Reich, Masterson and Dr. Frisch’s method.
These courses are at an intermediate/advanced level and will thoroughly cover the theoretical and clinical approach of Wilhelm Reich and his somatic techniques. The Masterson Group's delineation of the Disorders of the Self will also be included in order to represent later research in developmental attachment theory and round out Reich's diagnostic typology. These training courses are rich with information, include non-confidential discussion and experiential coaching to hear the approach in action, and allow students to self-pace and deepen their learning to the point of mastery. These courses facilitate your entry into more advanced classes that include Reich's biophysical interventions.
In addition to Dr. Patricia Frisch’s instruction, several segments of the training are taught by Dr. Richard Blasband. Richard A. Blasband is a board-certified psychiatrist. Dr. Blasband studied medical orgonomy with Dr. Elsworth Baker, who was appointed by Wilhelm Reich to train physicians in his therapeutic discipline, psychiatric orgone therapy. With others of Dr. Baker’s students, Dr. Blasband assisted Dr. Baker in the creation of the American College of Orgonomy.
These courses are approved by MCEP for continuing education credit for California Psychologists. They are also approved for CE’s for California MFT’s, LCSW’s, and RN’s.
Reichian/Somatic Therapy: Distance Learning Orientation Audio CD Series
These two Orientation audio courses are designed to offer the public and professional audience some basic exposure to Wilhelm Reich’s theoretical orientation and clinical approach. They are recordings of live classes with experiential segments, lectures, and Q&A’s. They are a wonderful addition to any learning library and contain practical information that can be immediately useful.
Reichian Therapy is a method for character transformation that recognizes the essential functional identity of the mind and body. Also known as Orgone Therapy and Orgonomic Therapy, Reichian Therapy recognizes how “armoring” against the free flow of life energy blocks full emotional expression and the realization of one’s core self. The Orgonomic therapist works psychodynamically in the form of characteranalysis, as well as somatically to reveal to the patient\client their character attitudes and their biophysical armoring. As the character armor dissolves, the somatic interventions assist in breaking up the unhealthy, historically embedded patterns that lead to physical and mental symptoms.
The two orientations contained in this series are:
Breaking Through Patient Resistance
Therapy falls apart and patients move on unless the therapist can work effectively with the patient’s resistance. Reich worked directly with immediacy and efficacy in approaching resistance. Learn how to work with presenting character styles that actually illuminate and manifest the patient’s resistance. Discover ways to pinpoint latent negative resistance and see how it infects treatment.
Integrating Somatic Psychology into Current Therapeutic Paradigms
This audio class provides an overview of Reich’s theoretical and clinical approach including characteranalysis and a description of the elements of Reich’s biophysical theory and practice. Reich’s understanding of character and its template in the body will be presented. Many psychodynamic approaches can incorporate Reich’s techniques that will enliven and deepen long term or short term treatment. The orientation will include an experiential demonstration of characteranalytic verbal work.
CE Credit:
Our audio courses meet the qualifications for continuing education credit for MFT’s and LCSW’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. We are also an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 15245.
For more information, visit http://orgonomictherapy.com/audio-courses/audio-orientation-series or call 415-388-0622.
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