One of the universal frustrations psychotherapists experience has to do with facilitating a client's movement in therapy from a preoccupation with problem solving toward greater openness, clarity of awareness and guided inward searching. An increase in the depth of the client's experience in psychotherapy is achieved when both client and therapist can commit themselves to an entirely different way of knowing and experiencing. This involves stilling the mind and resting patiently with open awareness in the present moment. For the client, it is letting things be as they are, in open, wakeful presence. Through the integration of mindfulness and presence, client and therapist co-construct a therapeutic experience that cultivates depth and increases the possibility for personal transformation. Join us for this day of exploration into how to experience and reframe psychotherapy as a field of potential and possibility. This workshop is highly experiential.

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Dr. Arthur Giacalone is a Clinical/Consulting psychologist in private practice in Walnut Creek, California, USA. He has taught widely in a number of venues throughout North America, Scotland, Italy, Cyprus, Hong Kong and China. Dr. Giacalone has studied, practiced and taught meditation and its applications to psychotherapy for over 35 years. In 1994 he Co-Founded The Institute of Contemplative Studies, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the training of graduate and postgraduate psychologists and psychotherapists. From 1989-1991 he held the position of Chairman in the Graduate School for the Study of Human Consciousness at John F. Kennedy University. He has been a continuing education provider for the California Psychological Association since its inception in 1994. Dr. Giacalone has also served as a management consultant and trainer in solution-focused coaching, organization development, and competency based executive hiring . The International Thomas Merton Society elected Dr. Giacalone a 2004-05, William Shannon Fellow for a documentary he is producing on Thomas Merton and Contemplation entitled, Silent Lamp: Thomas Merton on Contemplative Life and the Mysteries of the Heart. Dr. Giacalone is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology.