Description of Training:
The Amish and Las Vegas are symbols of two polarities in the world and within ourselves. Las Vegas represents fast pace, instant gratification, materialism, risk, impulse, excitement, and individualism. The Amish symbolize simplicity, plainness, selflessness, community, slow change, and humility. The workshop will explore a clinical transtheoretical model that integrates how thoughts, behavior, biology and feelings integrate with culture/ environment. An integrative cultural/clinical model gives us a wider clinical perspective of how ADHD, depression, anxiety, addiction, family dysfunction, trauma affects our lives. We will explore how to integrate skills to managing cultural polarities that affect our dynamics and symptoms such as: under and over stimulation, self- oriented versus other- directed, denial of loss versus honoring loss, violence versus nonviolence, present versus past, enmeshment versus disengagement and blaming versus accepting. This workshop will be a blend of movies, stories, lectures, discussions and exercises within a liberal arts perspective to explore the patterns of Amish and Las Vegas on dynamics and symptoms and offer pathways to resolve the struggle of polarities. Meets Cultural Competency CE requirement.
Learning Objectives:
- Emphasize the presence of polarities that exist in culture and ourselves.
- Highlight a trans-theoretical model that integrates mind/mood/behaviors and the body with culture/environment.
- Learn how to integrate a holistic cultural perspective with dynamic tensions such as self-directed other directed.
- Connect how one can influence one’s environment and affect change in moods, thoughts, behaviors versus and the body.
- Examine an easy to learn cultural model to better understand the context of symptoms.