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All continuing education programs are authored and conducted by Jim Morningstar, PhD, clinical psychologist and Director of Transformations.
Who benefits and what are the goals?
To receive Continuing Education Credit Certificate:
- Select and purchase the course(s) you want.
- Listen to the course recording, read any handouts and do any exercises involved.
- Take the Content Evaluation for each course (enclosed in CE course package).
- Complete CE Credit form and Evaluation of Satisfaction form (enclosed in CE course package).
- Print your Certificate of Completion.
Includes course recordings, materials and tests for credit.Click on Course for description and individual classes.
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Jim Morningstar, Ph.D. This series of seminars lays the foundation for a holistic approach to life. Six major life areas are examined to infuse a greater sense of self-responsibility, creativity and thus balanced healthy approach to well being. Being unaware of the belief systems which shape one's reality often keeps one searching for knowledge in endless variations on outmoded themes. Having the tools to more objectively witness one's structure of thought, alter basic patterns and then analyze the results is a profound step in human development. This allows one more choice in infusing spiritual principles in place of unconscious patterning. These seminars take students step by step through this process in life areas which hold the most meaning and emotional charge. Thus it is more than a how-to manual, but teaches group and individual support techniques to make effective change. It is expected that students will be able to:
These seminars can be taken individually, but it is recommended they be taken in order given for best understanding and application. | (24 CE credits) | $275 for all | BUY |
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Taking responsibility for knowing the spiritual basis upon which one lives and using the mind as a positive tool in the process of meeting challenges on one's journey are the subject of this seminar. Exercises to examine one's defining beliefs, initiate conscious changes and manifest positive results are given. The text, Spiritual Psychology, Milwaukee, WI: Transformations Incorporated, Revised Third Edition, 1998, by Jim Morningstar, Ph.D., is an adjunct to completion of exercises and further reading. Course objectives:
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(4 CE credits) | $47 | BUY |
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Engaging one's body as a greater source of guidance and positive feedback is the purpose of this seminar. The body will be studied as an energy conducting system, means of communication and a product of one's thoughts. Exercises for reading and releasing holding patterns will be demonstrated and practiced. Course objectives:
| (4 CE credits - with Video) | $57 | BUY |
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Early life influences toward prosperity will be put in context of current behaviors. How one's attitudes effect habits of earning, spending, saving and investing and how this impacts one's overall sense of safety and happiness will be explored. Many practical exercises and practices will be given to identify and alter ineffective patterns. Course objectives:
| (4 CE credits) | $47 | BUY |
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The lifelong influence of primary parental relationships is well documented. This seminar will give insight into the personal patterns in one's relationships that are having the most profound impact. Psychological and emotional exercises will assist in becoming more objective and effective in making conscious loving changes to increase fulfillment and pleasure in relationship with partners, family and friends. Course objectives:
| (4 CE credits) | $47 | BUY |
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Expanding conscious awareness and exploring the boundaries of memory are topics for this mind-altering seminar. Now we begin to open the doors to other levels of "reality" for the purpose of enriching our present, learning lessons in alternate dimensions and deepening the sense of purpose and gratitude for this life. Course objectives:
| (4 CE credits) | $47 | BUY |
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Strengthening the sense of self-acceptance and fullness while engaging fully in life goals is the aim of this work. Uprooting the self-defeating effects of birth drama, the parental disapproval syndrome, specific negatives, multilevel patterns and the unconscious death urge is undertaken with lecture and exercises. Participants confront their major excuses for perpetuating their sense of incompletion. Course objectives:
| (4 CE credits) | $47 | BUY |
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These holistic practices have been developed over the past 30 years. Students will be introduced to the theory and practice of reading and releasing characterological and their corresponding physical energy holding patterns. Cues from the body, family history, symptomology and behavior of the client will be interrelated. This gives the practitioner several avenues of intervention in helping increase the client's self-awareness and self care. Specific verbal, postural, movement, and attitudinal interventions are demonstrated to assist in effecting positive changes more readily and more permanently than just verbal or physical intervention alone. Bio-spiritual energetic awareness and many of the techniques can be integrated effectively into clinical practice. These seminars can be taken individually, but it is recommended they be taken in order given for best understanding and application. The video with demonstrations of exercises for all BAS classes comes with Seminar #1. | (34 CE credits) | $375 for all | BUY |
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The prenatal period into the first year of life will be studied to identify how our basic sense of security is held in mind and body. How lifelong anxiety (e.g., "I'm not safe in my body or my world.") is structured into the organism and how this effects self image are demonstrated. The family messages, body language and adaptive and compensating defenses are examined. Innate strengths and coping mechanisms which when built upon lead to reintegration and a flowering of psychic and artistic talents as well as spiritual capabilities are revealed. Course Objectives:
| (6 CE credits with BAS Video #1-#6) | $87 | BUY |
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Development of the generalized life themes of deprivation/abundance during the first year of life is examined (e.g., "I'll never get enough." "If I love enough I'll be loved."). How one's body posture and expression daily reinforces the felt experience of self-sufficiency is shown. The family messages, body language and adaptive and compensating defenses are examined. How to utilize the E/N strengths and avoid collusion with the limiting E/N themes is discussed in assisting maximal integration. Course Objectives:
| (6 CE credits) | $67 | BUY |
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How Inspirational Leader themes (e.g., "To give into feeling is weak.") are developed especially during the first to third year of life is shown. The two variations of "overpowering" and "seductive" are explained and their body structure examined. The family messages, body language and adaptive and compensating defenses are given. The challenges of working with I/L clients and accessing of their strengths en route to their integration are explained. Course Objectives:
| (6 CE credits) | $67 | BUY |
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Freedom of expression versus closeness can become a lifelong struggle for Steadfast Supportive individuals. Themes like "No one appreciates me." can undermine all relationships and personal aspirations. How these themes are emphasized and structured into the body during the second to forth year of life is displayed. The family messages, body language and adaptive and compensating defenses are examined. Therapeutic pitfalls and favored approaches are given in the process assisting the S/S client to achieve freedom of expression and eliminate humiliation and guilt as major life motivations. Course Objectives:
| (6 CE credits) | $67 | BUY |
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During the third to fifth year of life gender identity is being reinforced. How role confusion is introduced and themes like "If I assert myself spontaneously, I'll be rejected," are taken on and perpetuated is explained. Both male and female patterns of exaggerated compensation are displayed. The family messages, body language and adaptive and compensating defenses are examined. Working with G/B clients to lead to sexual integration is demonstrated. Course Objectives:
| (4 CE credits) | $47 | BUY |
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Sustaining intimate relationships can be the major challenge for many who are otherwise successful in their life. A strong theme of betrayal during the fourth to sixth year of life can initiate unconscious themes like "No one is going to hurt me again," or "I'm a loving person that no one understands." The Energetic Grounded male and female repeat relationship patterns with little insight as to how to get beyond their defensive armoring. Their family messages, body language and adaptive and compensating defenses are examined. Direct techniques to assist E/G individuals to surrender safely to love and to unite their love and their sexuality are displayed. Course Objectives:
| (6 CE credits) | $67 | BUY |
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Jim Morningstar, Ph.D. Integrative psychology has antecedents in the fields of psychotherapy, systems theory and communications that have paved the way to more essential contact between human beings. Some of the most clear and effective theories and practices from the psychological domain are presented here. They open the doors to and interface with spiritual traditions that have been wise enough to train the mind rather than demonize it or try to eliminate it. Students will apply these practices to their own lives and relationships and learn first hand how to tailor the tools to their psyche as well as alter them for others. Several foundational systems approaches presenting holistic paradigms for spirit/mind integration will be studied. This will include Family Systems Theory and General Systems Theory as practiced on a personal and organizational level. Students will study their own systems as well as their personal communication patterns as well as learn the techniques for assisting those they serve. In this course the student will learn:
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(14 CE credits) | $150 for all | BUY |
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How to approach goal setting from a holistic perspective and utilize physical, mental and emotional energy in synchronous ways to manifesting one's heart's desires is studied. Analysis of one's personal schedule and techniques for effective change will be demonstrated. The recommended text, Spiritual Psychology, Milwaukee, WI: Transformations Incorporated, Revised Third Edition, 1998, by Jim Morningstar, Ph.D., is an adjunct to completion of exercises and further reading. Course Objectives:
| (2 CE credits) | $27 | BUY |
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Students will get a foundational understanding of the theory and practice of Family Systems Therapy. Concepts of individuation, triangling, family secrets, multigenerational projection process and others will be explored. Methods for examining students' personal patterns will be presented and their influence on their life and work will be demonstrated. This study is based upon the the research and practice of Murray Bowen, known as the grandfather of family systems theory and treatment. Course Objectives:
| (4 CE credits) | $47 | BUY |
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Knowing how to recognize "Risky Rascals," those commonly used messages that purport to help, but which enmesh communicators emotional systems is key to assisting self and others to increase clarity and effectiveness. Recognizing communication styles and redirecting ineffective styles is the second goal of this seminar. Course Objectives:
| (3 CE credits) | $37 | BUY |
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The basic elements of therapeutic breathwork that has been developed since the 1970's and applied to areas of therapy, medicine and spiritual growth is presented through audio download or CDs and the recommended text, Breathing in Light and Love, Milwaukee, WI: Transformations Incorporated, 1994, by Jim Morningstar." Practitioners will be introduced to theory and application. Adaptation to breathing patterns of six different body types is shown. Course Objectives:
| (2 CE credits) | $27 | BUY |
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The general systems theory of the late visionary thinker and psychologist, Claire W. Graves, Ph.D., is presented along with its profound implications for understanding and predicting human behavior. Applications in the clinical, business and political arenas are graphically demonstrated by his students in their work, Beck, D. and Cowan, C. Spiral Dynamics, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996." Students may take an inventory (The Way I See It) and get a profile of their own belief systems and know how these systems compare to the emerging systems around the planet. Students will have a foundational understanding of one of the most comprehensive tools for charting the growth of human consciousness, individually and culturally. Course Objectives:
| (3 CE credits ) | $37 | BUY |
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Jim Morningstar, Ph.D. The Personal Effectiveness Principles training is a series of eight two and one half hour classes enabling participants to gain clarity about their life goals and success in achieving them. The course encapsulates concise and useful principles for mental mastery, emotional intelligence, goal setting and long term purposeful success. Techniques for effective communication, relationship building and energy maintenance through breathing fully and freely are also covered. Course Objectives:
These seminars can be taken individually, but it is recommended they be taken in order given for best understanding and application. |
(16 CE credits) | $175 for all | BUY |
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Learn and practice the two basic time-honored principles empowering one to rewrite the formula for one's personal success. Course Objectives:
| (2 CE credits) | $27 | BUY |
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Engage in the process which uncovers the hidden personal beliefs which undermine one's effectiveness. Course Objectives:
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Gain expertise in creating personally designed tools for mental mastery and life change. Course Objectives:
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Apply the Four P's of effective goal setting and craft a blueprint for balanced responsible accomplishment. Course Objectives:
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Monitor and maintain progress in manifesting results through challenges along the way. Course Objectives:
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Recognize communication traps; practice healthy ways to to engage others and strengthen environmental support. Course Objectives:
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Find your "personal law" and sort out six major relationship patterns in yourself and others; use their strengths while minimizing their limiting influences. Course Objectives:
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Clarify your life purpose and complete an implementation plan for ongoing progress beyond this course. Course Objectives:
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Beyond an overview of theory this course provides a variety of learning opportunities and leadership skills for integrating spiritual principles into one's career and everyday life with psychologically grounded techniques. Topics include dream mastery, creating a statement of purpose and a yearly holistic life plan, Gestalt leadership in life groups, inculcating a daily spiritual practice and preparing an hour-long public presentation. Taking spiritual leadership out of classroom theory into life and career requires development of personal disciplines which encompass one's work and finances, intimate and social relationships, personal growth and health, as well as recreation. The tools and techniques for making spiritual leadership real in the student's life are practiced and monitored to help them be integrated. Holistic healing skills are learned and applied to oneself in order for the student to truly be able to share them with others. |
(16 CE credits) | $160 for all | BUY |
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Jim Morningstar, Ph.D. In six seminars, the issues and techniques of holistic counseling are explored and developed by Jim Morningstar, PhD. The Holistic Counseling Training is an opportunity to become more aware of how you give counsel to others and to consciously advance in your helping skills both personally and professionally. For practitioners and students who want to expand awareness and gain skills as counselors.Topics include personal purpose, successful contact and contracts, ethics, spirituality, diagnosis, establishing a practice as well as experience in current methods of effecting change in the whole person. Group and individual exercises in and out of class will enhance effectiveness as a non-intrusive change agent. Course Objectives:
These seminars can be taken individually, but it is recommended they be taken in order given for best understanding and application. | (8 CE credits) | $87 for all | BUY |
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The theory and practice of holistic counseling is presented and distinguished from general counseling practices. Topics for the training course are outlined. Holism as a worldview evolving from systems thinking is detailed along with three basic tenants. Exercises to examine one's own holistic principles and to clarify one's purpose in pursuing a holistic orientation in practice are given. Goals for holistic practice are written. Course Objectives:
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(1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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The quality of counselor contact with clients before, during and aftersession is examined from a holistic perspective. An exercise on counselor self perception is introduced. The issue of creating successful agreementswith clients is addressed and basic principles outlined. Exercises to explore self expectations and self observations are explored. Awareness of ones ideals as well as one's actual behavior are the basis for a holistic counselor's effectiveness in guiding clients to self acceptance and positive life changes. Course Objectives:
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(1.5 CE credits) | $18 | BUY |
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Professional ethics are examined from a holistic perspective. In-session behaviors involving self-disclosure and sexual energy as well as Out-ofsession behaviors involving dual relationships are discussed. Ethics in the use of unresearched techniques and client confidentiality are also presented. Awareness of the counselors ethical basis is highlighted. Various systems of client diagnosis are presented as well as the theoretical basis underneath them. Ipsative vs. nomothetic standards are delineated and the current medical diagnoses are outlined along with its system of Multiaxial Assessment. The holistic paradigm is applied to diagnosis. Course Objectives:
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(1.5 CE credits) | $18 | BUY |
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A history and overview of the development of holistic counseling is presented. Individual theories and the practices associated with them are presented. These include the Family Systems Theory of Murray Bowen, MD, Gestalt Therapy of Fritz Perls, MD, Bioenegetics of Alexander Lowen, MD, Primal Therapy of Arthur Janov, PhD, and Therapeutic Breathwork of Jim Morningstar, PhD. The newly emerging field of Positive Psychology is introduced. The holistic paradigm is viewed in a developmental perspective. Course Objectives:
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(1.5 CE credits) | $18 | BUY |
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The systems theory of Clare Graves, PhD and its growth into Spiral Dynamics* is presented. The historical evolution of belief systems and its effect on individual development and growth is explored. How learning systems and their physiological and psychological underpinnings have evolved is described. How therapies have been generated to utilize evolving learning systems will be explicated. The counselors own systems development and its impact on effectiveness will be discussed. An opportunity to identify ones levels of belief will be presented. *Beck, D. and Cowen, C. Spiral Dynamics: mastering values, leadership and change.
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(1.5 CE credits) | $18 | BUY |
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Holistic counseling by definition includes the spiritual realm of clients. How this is addresses while respecting the client's religious beliefs is addressed. Differing models of spirituality within the holistic field are presented. How the holistic counselor identifies his/her own spiritual core and connects with that of the client is explored. Composing a personal statement of purpose as a holistic counselor is undertaken. Issues involving the establishment of a practice including: institutional vs. private practice, who you represent as a counselor, accountability, reimbursement, and work setting are discussed. Course Objectives:
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(1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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Learning how to facilitate group energy to bring out the best in each participant, create a spiritual focus and accomplish group goals is the focus for this class taught by Jim Morningstar, PhD. Students will study group process from a variety of theorists including making contracts and effective contact, boundary setting, handling challenges and coming to completion. In addition members will construct a group relevant to their skills and interests that they will prepare to present in their community if they choose. As the world population increases and along with it social tensions and inner isolation, there is an ever increasing need to work effectively and lovingly together. Facilitating empowering group interaction is needed in every occupational and social sector. This training is not topic specific, but covers the dynamics that are endemic to groups with a common interest and/or goal. Course Objectives:
| (8 CE credits) | $87 for all | BUY |
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Jim Morningstar takes you on an engaging journey through 12 essential components of your life maximizing your effectiveness and joy as a human being. Each video class presents life enhancing information on one of the 12 areas of the Wellness Wheel.* Exercises are demonstrated and practical tips given to help ground the principles of healthy living in your body and mind. Practices are detailed to explore in between classes for installing the new habits you choose for your wellbeing. These comprehensive interactive sessions illuminate the life areas of Self-Responsibility and Love, Breathing, Sensing, Eating, Moving, Feeling, Thinking, Playing and Working, Communicating, Intimacy, Finding Meaning, and Transcending. Course Objectives:
Included in this course package are: 12 zip files containing one video presentation, a pdf Course Description and a file with pdf handouts for each class in areas of Self-Responsibility and Love, Breathing, Sensing, Eating, Moving, Feeling, Thinking, Playing and Working, Communicating, Intimacy, Finding Meaning, and Transcending. *The Wellness Wheel is a component of the Wellness Inventory, one of the most comprehensive whole person assessment and promotion tools available www.wellpeople.com. |
(12 CE credits) | $170 for all | BUY |
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Jim Morningstar, PhD, introduces the Life InWellness Series and the primary principles of the course: Self-Responsibility and Love. With a balance of self-responsibility (self improvement) and love (self acceptance) as the foundations of our being, living and wellness are synonymous. As we take this journey of well being together, each of us must find our optimal balance and inner wisdom, knowing when to take charge/make changes and when to adapt/go with the flow. Life gives us opportunities to do both each day. This first seminar gives us guidelines and exercises for keeping this balance, not just during the course, but for the course of our life. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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The Life InWellness Series would not be effective without teaching the basics of breath awareness and breath training. Over the past 25 years, there has been an explosion in the blending of ancient breathing techniques for health and spiritual awareness with contemporary growth and therapeutic practices. Jim Morningstar, PhD, who has taught breathing practices since the 1970s, shares the most useful of time honored tools passed down through the generations combined with newly evolved discoveries to improve wellbeing and life satisfaction. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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It is through the senses -- seeing, touching, smelling, hearing, tasting -- that we come to know and enjoy the world. Our abilities to work, to feel pleasure, to communicate with others, and to impact the world are directly related to our abilities to appreciate and use our sensory input efficiently and creatively. In this class, Jim Morningstar, PhD, presents information and exercises to help us use our human sensory system to increase our potential for pleasure, satisfaction and meaning in our lives. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food," - Hippocrates. The third energy input type in the Wellness Energy System is food. Eating is much more that the mechanical process of assimilating food, as we all know. It has layers of meaning and feelings attached to it that touch every aspect of who we are. Jim Morningstar, PhD, presents critical information and incisive exercises to help us come away from this class with practical ways to both enjoy our food more and have it better serve our wellbeing. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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How does the fact that all life is in constant movement impact our health and wellbeing? How can we use movement consciously to maintain wellness and going in the direction we desire? Jim Morningstar, PhD, Director of InWellness presents in a 50 minute class basic aerobic, stretching and muscle building exercises that can be done right in the office or home. How to initiate an exercise program that fits the individual and how to maintain it to get the results wanted with pleasure is demonstrated. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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Because feelings have been the motivating force behind the greatest heroism and the greatest atrocities in human history, they are often treated with great caution if not suppressed entirely. Yet they are an essential ingredient not just to our survival, but to the enjoyment and fulfillment we all seek. Jim Morningstar, PhD, Director of InWellness' presentation on Feeling helps you explore the role of feelings in your daily existence and practice ways to have them increase the richness and intimacy in your life. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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Our capacity to think truly sets us apart from other life forms on the planet. But how much are we the master of our thinking or how much does our thinking master us? Psychological research tells us we think on the average 40-50,000 thoughts per day as a conservative estimate. Many of these thoughts are variations of familiar themes which populate our mind. These themes can serve us or not on our life path. Or perhaps they served us at one point, but have outlived their usefulness. The good news is that we have the capacity to examine our thoughts and the tools to change those that have overstayed their welcome. Few people, however, develop the skills to be objective enough to achieve even the simplest level of mental mastery. This class by Jim Morningstar, PhD, Director of InWellness, will give you the opportunity to practice powerful and effective tools on your thinking patterns that can have a profound influence on your life satisfaction. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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How we structure our life's activities of Working and Playing tells us much about our values. What we "have time for" is a product of what we prioritize as important as well as what is available in our environment. In our quest for a happy and healthy lifestyle, it is our attitudes toward working and playing which determine a great deal about our life satisfaction. This class by Jim Morningstar, PhD, Director of InWellness, will give you the opportunity to examine your attitudes and habits as well as some tools and incentive to create a nurturing and fulfilling balance of work and play in your life. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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Jim Morningstar, PhD, Director of InWellness presents - Communicating - the ninth life area of the wellness wheel. The quality of our communication is a major factor in our interpersonal and life happiness. Communication is at the core of all our relationships and determines the degree of cooperation or conflict we experience on a daily basis. This class will give us the opportunity to examine our communication style and effectiveness as well as ways to increase our abilities and satisfaction in the process. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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Jim Morningstar, PhD, Director of InWellness examines - Intimacy - the tenth life area of the wellness wheel. Intimacy with ourself and others reflects what touches us most deeply in life and gives worth to our existence. Intimacy takes us into our greatest vulnerability and also our most profound sense of pleasure and satisfaction. This class will give us the opportunity to explore how we create intimacy in our lives as well as ways to enhance and enjoy the intimacy we value most. Course Objectives:<
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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Finding Meaning, the eleventh life area of the Wellness Wheel, creates a personal context for all the wellness topics and has profound implications for our ultimate health and well being. In this class Jim Morningstar, PhD, Director of InWellness will assist us to clarify what gives our life meaning and how we can choose to lead a more purposeful existence now and in the future. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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Jim Morningstar, PhD, InWellness Director, presents Transcending, the twelfth and final life area of the wellness wheel. Transcending promotes genuine growth and is more than just going beyond or escaping what was. It involves learning and incorporating from the past and building upon it. This is a true integration that is the platform for evolving rather than just abandoning all that came before. The final transcending "leap of faith" has preparatory steps that allows the new heights to be reached, but also new roots to be grown. This effects a permanent change rather than a temporary high followed by a resounding crash. Our work in this class will allow us to strengthen those preparatory steps to our personal transcending on the physical, emotional, mental as well as spiritual levels and to integrate all the ares of wellbeing we have covered in our Life InWellness Series. Course Objectives:
| (1 CE credit) | $15 | BUY |
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Application of spiritual principles in one's chosen life work is the theme of this course. Inner work will include the clearing and strengthening of one's energy centers as a regular practice. Outer work will entail the presentation and analysis of ones career autobiography and the completion of a major project relevant to manifesting purpose in life work. Living and applying the spiritual principles which nourish our souls is the foundation for a sense of purposeful existence. This does not happen by chance. Unless the time and focus is given to this intention, we will continue to operate on cultural and familial survival patterns. Some research indicates the only measurable factor positively correlating with longevity is "job satisfaction." If the work we do on a daily basis is not building our vital energy, it is depleting it and decreasing our ability and motivation to work and play wholeheartedly. This course is directed to clarifying and infusing our life work with our highest purpose and supportively integrating the practices to do so. These seminars should be taken in order given for best understanding and application. Course Objectives:
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(16 CE credits) | $160 for all | BUY |
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During this course students will learn and practice the techniques which best realign their body, mind and spirit. Students will identify their core issues and strengths of each of their chakras and use the most effective Bioenergetic, yogic, sound, and inner reflective exercises to get them humming with harmony. This material is based on the clinical expertise of Jim Morningstar, Ph.D. and wisdom of Anodea Judith, Ph.D. foremost authority on the chakra system and energy work. This course involves practicing new life affirming exercises that improve the quality of lives daily, building upon what is done each class to truly grow in mastery, and develop tools which will continue to be useful throughout one's life. These seminars should be taken in order given for best understanding and application. Course Objectives:
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(16 CE credits) | $160 for all | BUY |
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Jim Morningstar, PhD. The theory and practice of breathwork will be presented along with readings and techniques for integrating the practices into ones life and profession. Since the 1970s, there has been an explosion in the blending of ancient breathing techniques for health and spiritual awareness with contemporary growth and therapeutic practices. The result has been the evolution of powerful and incisive healing and consciousness changing modalities. This has given birth to the field of breathwork that has promoted significant advances in medical, psychological and spiritual domains. The call for professional training and supervision in theory and practice is immanent as breathwork is emerging as a primary technique in the practice of Spiritual Psychology. The Breathwork Practicum is a foundational course in this training. These seminars can be taken individually, but it is recommended they be taken in order given for best understanding and application. |
(16 CE credits) | $160 for both | BUY |
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Students will be exposed to the core theory and techniques of breathwork. Adaptation to one's current professional service will be addressed. Should a practitioner choose to additionally complete all the Level 1 Breathworker requirements including direct supervision, certification at that level could be obtained. The recommended course text is: Morningstar, Jim (1994), Breathing in Light and Love, Your Call to Breath and Body Mastery. Wisconsin: Transformations Incorporated. Course Objectives:
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(8 CE credits) | $87 | BUY |
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This series of classes is designed for students who are ready to or have begun to practice breathwork under supervision. Dealing with the major issues that arise in practice and hearing other students' challenges and feedback to them is central to this work. This can prepare the student for Level II and Level III (professional practitioner) training. Course Objectives:
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(8 CE credits) | $87 | BUY |
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Jim Morningstar, Ph.D. and TBTP Staff The Breathworker Training Modules focus in depth on specific aspects of being a competent and successful breathworker. Each module highlights different techniques for guiding oneself and others through the many and varied applications of breath for healing and growing. This ranges from breathwork's use in professional practice, water and group breathwork, pre-birth stages and the physiology and history of the use of breath mastery throughout the ages. Finally the finer points of body and energy reading as a breathworker are covered. This material when combined with clinical practicum is all applicable to certification as a professional breathworker according to the standards of the International Breathwork Training Alliance. Course Objectives:
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(76 CE credits) | $740 for 1-9 | BUY |
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The purpose of this training is to introduce breathwork skills to professionals in the healing arts. Breathwork is a conscious breath monitoring process which is used by health care professionals around the world to explore, release and integrate mental, emotional and physical material that maybe impeding a clients ability to:
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(12 CE credits) | $97 | BUY |
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Recommended course text; required for Continuing Education and Certificate Program credit (not included): Taylor, Kylea (1994), The Breathwork Experience. This training prepares the practitioner to give wet breathwork sessions. Both theory and supervised experience are given in profoundly moving method of healing and growth. The stages of pre natal growth, recognizing and releasing patterns which develop from them are detailed. Course objectives:
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(8 CE credits) | $87 | BUY |
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Recommended course text; required for Continuing Education and Certificate Program credit (not included): Grof, S. Psychology of the Future. State University of new York Press, Albany: 2000 Understanding and working with group dynamics, creating group sessions, use of music, movement, art, successful teamwork, and supervision in facilitation will all be addressed in this day long training. Course objectives:
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(8 CE credits) | $87 | BUY |
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Recommended course text; required for Continuing Education and Certificate Program credit (not included): Minett, G. Exhale. Floris Books, Edinburgh: 2004 Participants will learn the foundational mechanics of healthy breathing and how to coach positive changes in dysfunctional patterns. The schools and styles of breathwork techniques will be presented and experienced so practitioners may choose the methods that fit themselves and their clients best. Course objectives:
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(8 CE credits) | $87 | BUY |
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Recommended course text; required for Continuing Education and Certificate Program credit (not included): Morningstar, J. Breathing in Light and Love. Milwaukee, WI: Transformations Incorporated, 1994. Participants will be trained in hands on and hands off energetic release work, reading body types and facilitating exercises for maximizing their strengths and integrating these techniques into the breathwork session. Application from infancy through adulthood will be addressed. Course objectives:
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(8 CE credits) | $87 | BUY |
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Jayne Ader and Kate Becker Jayne and Kate are both veteran bodyworkers and Therapeutic Breathwork Trainers who present the theory and practical demonstration of the safe, ethical and effective use of touch and movement in breathwork sessions. Topics covered include the contract of touch, non-contact touch. touch as a clarifier, connector, communal and compassionate, catalyst, comic and mystery. Movement in breathwork is demonstrated as embodied intuition, presence. co-regulating and holy vision. The difference between exaggerated physical resistance and direct energetic processing is explained. The use of guided visualization, sound and music and touch in movement is presented along with an experiential group breathwork session involving the use of the techniques described. Course objectives:
Accompanying text for this course (not included): Cohen, B. B.. Sensing, Feeling and Action. North Atlantic: Berkeley, CA.,1993. |
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The aim of this Module is to elucidate the role that trauma plays in our development on all levels and the importance of the use of breathwork in healing the effects of trauma, as well as to engage in exercises and learn techniques which can safely and effectively be employed when working with trauma in a healing session to assist in integrating clarity and passion into one's life. Course Objectives:
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This Module explores the ethical principles of Therapeutic Breathwork through didactic presentation as well as experiential exercises. Particularly highlighted are the ethical concerns in dealing with a holistic approach and non ordinary states of consciousness. Also considered are the challenges of client and practitioner safety and sexuality. The Global Professional Breathwork Alliance practice principles and ethical standards are presented. Course Objectives:
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Tamarack Song and Lety Seibel We each have intrinsic shamanic abilities. Their purpose is to keep us whole by repairing the psychic damage incurred in life. The issue with many of us is that our shamanic tools have gotten rusty from lack of use. We live in a culture that values the rational over the intuitive, and that sends us to specialists rather than encouraging us to look within. In this module, we learn how to awaken and develop our intrinsic shamanic abilities by re-membering the body/mind/spirit life-force connection through the Spirit of Breath. Together we fan the fire of our creative energy to transform everyday activities into Ceremonies that enliven the ever-present magic patiently waiting to be acknowledged and directed for healing and revealing the wholeness of our world. Course objectives:
Accompanying text for this course (not included): Wolf, L, S. Shamanistic Breathwork: journeying beyond the limits of the self.. Bear & Company: Rochester, VT., 2009. |
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Break Through with Breathwork is approved for 10 Continuing Education credit hours by the National Board of Certified Counselors and the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counselors through Transformations Incorporated; Director, Jim Morningstar, PhD. Register to take Content Evaluation, with unlimited tries to pass, and print out a certificate for 10 Continuing Education credit hours. Preview of Test Questions: Introduction 1. Research suggests that __________ percent of the U.S. population suffers from breath-related illness every year.
Chapter 1: Breath in the Consulting Room 4. Faster than normal breathing can give counselors the following, both personally and professionally:
Chapter 2: Principles of Therapeutic Breathwork Facilitation in Counseling and Community 9. The principle of Heart-Centered Contact in therapeutic breathwork:
Chapter 3: The Evolution of Therapy and Breathwork 16. "Ontology recapitulates phylogeny" is a way of saying that the growth of each individual reflects:
Chapter 4: Therapeutic Breathwork and the Healing of Trauma 22. Trauma is caused by:
Chapter 5: Therapeutic Breathwork and Body Themes: An Integrative Approach and Neuroscience Hypotheses to Six Major Breathing Patterns 30. A body theme is an enduring constellation of structural and characterological positions a person takes toward their life which reflects:
Chapter 6: Therapeutic Breathwork's Application in Life Challenges, Professional Practice and Conscious Growth 38. In the course of therapeutic breathwork when a client's storehouse of past trauma, incomplete relationships, and holding patterns have been significantly reduced:
Appendix I: Global Professional Breathwork Alliance Training Standards and Ethics 40. "Continue to develop personally, practicing the technique that I offer to others while nourishing passion and reverence for my calling, and keeping a healthy balance in my work and self care," is one
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