For Health Professionals
I haven’t offered workshops or webinars in the past two years, but below is one that I’ll offer in November 2024:
Explorations in Multidimensionality:
Accessing Alternate Selves and
the Optimal Future Self
A 3-Hour Live Webinar
with Nancy J. Napier, LMFT
November 17, 2024
10am – 1pm EDT
For many years now, I have explored themes of multidimensionality and quantum realities. With my extensive background in using Ericksonian hypnosis, along with other approaches, I have worked with processes such as accessing the optimal future self and others, offering myself and clients the opportunity to have a body-mind experience of being healed and enlivened in a variety of ways. More recently, I’ve explored and begun to work with accessing alternate selves—versions of us in the multiverse that aren’t burdened with the issues we carry in this version of our lives, or that have developed talents and ways of being we would like to experience and/or express.
In this webinar, I’d like to present what may turn out to be an introduction to this work, as well as an introduction or deepening conversation about engaging choice and intention to draw on optimal and healed possibilities from within what Jean Houston calls the “quantum foam”—the repository of infinite potentialities. For some of you, this will be new material. For others, it will be familiar. I’ll do my best to offer basic assumptions about this work so that it will make clinical sense.
In addition, I’ve had a shift in how I think about healing, at least from the perspective of moving into more quantum-based approaches and dynamics. That shift has me sensing that healing is a process of receiving new “information”. I feel that when we have a body-mind experience that contains new states of being and new understandings, this represents an information transfer. Once a new experience/new information is received, I sense that the body-mind then goes through a process of generating a new template that organizes around, reflects, and integrates the new experience. None of this process need be conscious. For me, it’s quite organic and one of the things I encourage my clients and myself to do is to get out of the way, allowing the conscious mind to be in the backseat of this process so our preconceptions and conditioning don’t get in the way of taking in the new information.
One of the important assumptions I bring into this kind of work is that the “imaginal realm” is real and things that we experience within it bring valid and useful information into our body-mind experience and being. What matters is that we can access and take in a felt-sense, lived experience that conveys something new to our body and psyche. In my own experience with optimal future selves and alternate selves, it has been the experience of blending with them in order to take in a new body-based experience that has enlivened the process and made it real. By becoming a “sponge”, the only part I play is to actively soak in/receive what I experience and then to notice shifts in thinking and behaving that arise organically, without my conscious participation.
My sense is that our toolkit will increasingly expand into these kinds of approaches, even as I still have great respect for the power of self-talk, insight, and ever-deepening self-understanding and awareness. I look forward to sharing my current thoughts and approaches and to hopefully stimulate your own creativity as we journey together into ways of thinking and working with ourselves and our clients that increasingly include what we are learning from current theories and experiments involving quantum realities.
Please note that there no CEs are being offered with this webinar.
If you are interested in registering for this webinar, please contact Sharon Kleinberg at skworkshopinfo@gmail.com.
VIDEOS: On-Line Learning Opportunities
The materials offered below are for mental health, other health professionals, bodyworkers, clergy, educators, coaches, and others who work with people to promote healing and change. The videos are for training purposes and not for self-help applications.
There are currently 12 video programs of my workshops and live webinars for professionals available on Vimeo. Although these videos previously had CE approval, the original provider, R. Cassidy, has gone out of business and there are only a few States that approve these CEs. The person taking over the company will hopefully be able to reinstate the CEs at some point, but at this time it’s important that you check with your State licensing board to see if they still honor R. Cassidy CEs. For example, New York State stopped approving these CEs in December 2023. I only found out about that recently.
Even without the CEs, I believe that the content of these videos is useful in clinical practice, so I trust you will benefit from them if you choose to rent them.
Here’s a link to the Vimeo Video-On-Demand page:
https://vimeo.com/user37116819/vod_pages
Here are the individual programs, along with their CE information and individual links to each program:
Cultivating Connection in A World of Reciprocal Relationships: A Psycho-Spiritual Journey—A Live Webinar
When we recognize that we are part of a community of being, we experience that we belong to a dynamic community of life.
This webinar was approved for 5.5 CEs
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/cultivatingconnection
Working with Implicit States: A “Whole-Brain” Approach to Metabolizing Trauma-Based Responses–A Live Webinar
Processing implicit trauma-based states allows us to live more fully in the present moment.
This webinar was approved for 6.75 CEs.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/implicitstates
Accessing Quantum Realms of Possibility: The Optimal Future Self and More—A Live Webinar
Intention opens the way to engage quantum-reality possibilities. What the body learns, the psyche will follow…
This webinar was approved for 6.0 CEs:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/accessingquantumrealms
Untangling the Overwhelm: Working with Parts and Over-Coupling–A Live Webinar
Untangling and processing trauma-based over-couplings frees up clients to live more fully in the present. Working with parts allows increased self-acceptance and a sense of wholeness to begin to characterize one’s sense of self.
This webinar was approved for 6.0 CEs:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/untanglingoverwhelm
Cultivating and Nurturing Embodied Therapeutic Presence
The radiating presence of the practitioner creates the container for the process of healing.
This workshop was approved for 4.75 CEs
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/embodiedpresence
The Optimal Future Self: A Somatically-Based Resource
Tapping into the Optimal Future Self offers access to new options. What the body learns, the psyche will follow…
This workshop was approved for 4.5 CEs:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/optimalfutureself
Shame and the Shadow: Helping Clients Heal into Wholeness
When we are able to embrace both shame and disowned shadow parts, we offer our clients and ourselves an opportunity to experience a greater sense of wholeness.
This workshop was approved for 5 CEs:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/shameandshadow
Accessing Middle Ground: Building Capacity for Discomfort
Accessing middle ground supports a shift from overwhelm to becoming more grounded in the present…
This workshop was approved for 5.5 CEs:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/middleground
Under-Coupling and Dissociation: Delving Deeper
What lives outside conscious awareness can become a powerful influence on perception, emotional responses, and behavior.
This workshop was approved for 5.5 CEs:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/undercoupling
Unblocking What’s Stuck: Working with Part and Coupling Dynamics Using Body-Based Approaches
Our lives are powerfully affected by experiences that have not been processed or integrated. Through working with parts and a process of untangling elements of experience that are traumatically woven together, we help clients to find freedom to live more fully in the present.
This workshop was approved for 5 CEs.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/unblockingwhatsstuck
Clearing Blocks to Change: Working with Shock Trauma
Shock trauma resides in a timeless place…Explore how to access and resolve shock trauma, “update the file”, and restore underlying resilience.
This workshop was approved for 4.5 CEs:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nancynapiershocktrauma
When Spirituality Enters: Including Spiritual Process in Psychotherapy
Honoring the spiritual life of clients supports a sense of wholeness…
This workshop was approved for 4.5 CEs:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nancynapierspirituality
It’s my hope that these video programs will offer support for the work you do with clients. One of the great gifts of having focused my career on treatment oriented to trauma resolution has been the privilege of watching people come alive again. Our underlying wholeness is ever-present and waiting for an opportunity to arise and express actively in our lives, and in the lives of our clients. How stunningly fortunate we are to be part of that process!
Wishing you well, Nancy
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Working With Parts and the Interpersonal Field: A Body-Based Approach
The CDs are no longer available.
This audio recording is from a workshop offered by Nancy Napier for psychotherapists and other practitioners interested in approaches to trauma resolution that include a body-based perspective.
It can be particularly challenging to work with clients when they are unaware of being swept upby trauma energy. This workshop provides practitioners with additional skills and a greater level of ease in working with parts, the interpersonal field, and their own counter-transference responses. “Parts work” involves accessing unresolved developmental andtraumatic experiences, which express as blocked energy and habitual patterns of activation and constriction.
Some ego states represent early childhood trauma, while others emerge in later developmental stages. Many represent unprocessed trauma energy. “Parts”, include ego states, sub-personalities, imagined companions, dissociated “self-states” as well as non-trauma-based resource states such as the optimal future self.
In this workshop, Nancy also focuses on the interpersonal field created between client and practitioner, and explores opportunities that arise to track trauma responses that spontaneously emerge within relational and transference dynamics. Corrective experiences are enhanced when brought into sensory awareness in vivo.
Particular attention is brought to the capacity of practitioners to self-regulate and track their counter-transference responses, which enhances the containment and healing potential within the interpersonal field.
Nancy also describes coupling dynamics, in which elements of experience become either entangled or dissociated in ways that prevent clients from moving beyond their traumatic experience.
Resources
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