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FRIDAY EVENING PROGRAM
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Friday, Jan 15, 2010, 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM
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The Community Room is located on the south end of the property in the office building, Suite 201
770 Tamalpais Drive
Corte Madera, CA 94925
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Avis Rumney
Phone 415-924-2100
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Friday Evening Program |
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Not Required
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Payment In Advance Only
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JANUARY 15, 2010
New Ways of Working With Trauma:
Healing the Feminine Psyche
with Ellery Akers, MA and Michele Ritterman, PhD
Michele Ritterman will speak on ways to help women “break the spell” of dysfunctional relationships with others and with oneself. The loving and generous qualities women have and are encouraged to have socially can sometimes be used against women. Women need special skills to protect these loving and generous feelings. Michele will draw from her life’s work on how families hypnotize their members (Using Hypnosis in Family Therapy), on social contributions to the healing of torture survivors (Hope Under Siege) and especially her latest and most spiritual and spirited book, The Tao of a Woman. This last book contains 100 ways to get unstuck from sticky situations. It is not for women only, but it is especially for women!
Ellery Akers will read from her new children’s book, Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse, winner of the Skipping Stones magazine award in the Teaching and Parenting Resources category. Akers will talk about new tools for healing from shame and dissociation, discuss ideas for healing art projects, and demonstrate calming and grounding exercises developed by somatic psychologists Peter A. Levine and Julie Henderson and MFT Maggie Kline.
Michele Ritterman, PhD, pioneered the integration of hypnosis and family therapy, and has trained thousands of psychotherapists in her approach to working with couples and families. A student of Milton Erickson, she originated the concept of the symptom as a trance state — shared and separate-track trances — in family and couple interactions, and also the development of therapeutic counterinductions. Dr. Ritterman is a prolific author whose work has been translated into several languages. Also a dedicated activist, she has served as a spokesperson for Amnesty International and other human rights organizations, and her book, Hope Under Siege, with a foreword by Isabel Allende, considers the applications of psychotherapeutic principles in the larger context of political and social reality. In Dr. Ritterman’s words, “Reciprocity is the highest form of love. And love has everything to do with healing.”
Writer and artist Ellery Akers, MA, has won seven national writing awards. Her writing has been featured on NPR, and she has taught at San Francisco State University, Foothill College, and Cabrillo College. She is a graduate of Harvard University and San Francisco State University. “Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse” has been reviewed at myshelf.com as a book that “should be in the hands of every professional therapist who works with abused children, and in every school and library.” It has been featured on Comcast Newsmakers, Dr. Jacqueline Golding’s healing-stories.com and Best Interests, the website for children’s advocates.