Groups
Openings
A group for women survivors of childhood sexual abuse has openings. Tuesday evenings,
7–8:30 pm, co-led by Lisa Reardon, LICSW, and Charlotte Rogers, LPC. For more information, please visit www.abusesurvivorsdc.com
Spiritual Skills for Psychological Wellness
An interfaith, multi-spiritual workshops that teach an eclectic variety of spiritual and religious skill sets for psychological well-being.
Workshops are led by BPC therapists, and occasionally by invited clergy and guest speakers.
Examples of spiritual skills taught may include:
- Spiritual autobiographies & genograms
- Buddhist meditation
- Mindfulness practices
- Christian spiritual direction techniques
- Personal exercises for connecting to the Divine
Socialize & participate! This is not a therapy group, although personal sharing may occur.
$25 fee per workshop. Advanced registration required. Contact coordinator Michael Reeder at (202) 526-4445, X710 or mreeder@bpcccounseling.com. See below for the schedule of workshop dates and descriptions.
Workshops
Begins April 12:
Basic Counseling Skills for Church Leaders
Guiding the personal and spiritual growth of individuals by utilizing common counseling techniques and tools in the context of religious faith.
8-week training class starts Thursday April 12th, 7pm to 9pm, $125 -- Advanced Registration Needed.
Classes consist of lecture, discussion, & practice sessions. Participants will demonstrate new skills for the instructor & class through simulated counseling scenarios. These classes are for clergy or anyone in a church leadership role of any faith who want to learn or brush-up on counseling skills.
Some covered topics:
- Characteristics of effective care providers
- Basics Skills——Personal Values; Critical Nonverbals; Attending Skills; Rapport, Empathy, & Unconditional Positive Regard; The Four Listening Responses; Influencing Responses
- Appropriate Confrontation
- Spiritual Counseling Models & Spiritual Assessment (Note: These are religion-neutral models)
- Confidentiality and Legal Issues
Contact Michael Reeder at 202-526-4445, X710 or mreeder@bpccounseling.com for advance registration.
APRIL 14: Components of Spirituality
Michael Reeder
Michael will briefly discuss the links between spirituality & psychological wellness. We will discuss definitions of, and similarities & differences between, spirituality and religion. We will cover the components of spirituality and challenge participants to start to define what is important to their own spiritual make-up.
Michael is a therapist in private practice at BPC. Find out more about Michael online and at www.hygeiacounseling.com.
APRIL 21: Introduction to Mandalas
Maura Kristof
Mandalas are found among the most ancient art forms created by human beings. Maura will provide an overview of their fascinating history, discuss various ways of using mandalas to access and facilitate psychospiritual development, and lead participants in creating a series of their own personal mandalas.
Maura is a therapist in private practice at BPC. Her bio can be found online and at www.maurakristof.com.
APRIl 28: Spiritual Assessment
Michael Reeder
Michael will cover several spiritual assessment instruments and lead the group through exercises designed to uncover what is personally important to their own spirituality. It’s amazing how much time people can spend analyzing their thoughts, relationships, and life without ever objectively looking at the contents of their spiritual beliefs and how these effect everything!
MAY 5: To be announced
MAY 12: Moving Closer to the Divine
Angela Roberts Reeder
Angela will show participants several methods used by both mystics and lay people for developing closer ties and communication with the Divine. She will touch on the related topics of home shrine and altar construction as well.
Angela Roberts Reeder is a writer, artist, and ordained celebrant of Becoming, a pagan-pantheist church incorporated in Washington, DC. She creates custom altar pieces and rites of passage, such as weddings, baby blessings, and cronings. Her websites are www.nineravens.com and www.becomingdc.org.
MAY 19: Aligning Values & Life
Michael Reeder
Knowing what you value is the core 1st step to aligning your values with how you live your life. Michael will introduce three techniques for coming to grips with what’s important to you – and the results may surprise you.
- Planning on Purpose Cards: A card exercise that lets you rank-order all manner of life goals, then challenges you to act on them.
- Physical, work, and social environment worksheets: Is what you want from these environments what you are getting?
- De-Role Exercise: Participants learn to pick important roles in their life, meditate on what it would be like without them, and realize their emotional reactions in order to discover the importance or lack of importance of these roles in their life.
MAY 26th: Creating Sacred & Safe Space
Angela Roberts Reeder
We have all been inside churches, natural groves, etc. where we felt safe, connected, and in the Presence of Divinity. Angela explores with participants some of the factors, mundane and spiritual, that go into the creation of sacred space. She offers concrete step-by-step methods for creating such spaces yourself and cleansing places of negative vibrations.
JUNE 2: Introduction to Buddhist Meditation
Jonathan Kirkendall
Jonathan will teach an introduction meditative practice and Shambhala Buddhism – a form of Buddhism designed with Western students in mind derived from the Kagyü and Nyingma Buddhist traditions. Students will learn basic principles & beliefs, as well as a simple daily practice for greater personal calm.
Jonathan is a therapist in private practice at BPC. His bio can be found online. Jonathan has also taught periodically at the DC Shambala Center (www.dc.shambhala.org).
JUNE 9: Guided Imagery & Music as a Connection to the Soul
Ann Marshall
Ann Marshall is a Licensed Professional Counselor in DC and has completed advanced training in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery & Music (GIM). Her bio can be found online. Information on the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery & Music is at http://www.bonnyfoundation.org/.
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