Workshop

Working with Reactivity in Couples and Families: A Buddhist Psychological Approach to Strong Emotions

Description

Emotions are filters for how we experience the significant people in our lives.  As such and they often inhibit our capacity to see things clearly.  This is particularly true with the compelling nature of negative emotions.  When we feel injured, threatened or shamed, we are at risk of creating harm through language and action.  Using a Buddhist psychological perspective, this workshop will focus on the nature of emotional experience and the way it can cause havoc and harm in relationships.  When not managed skillfully, emotions can cause a great deal of suffering.

Over the course of 2,000 years, Buddhist psychology has developed a specific set of practices that decrease suffering and cultivate well-being. Through the use of didactic presentation, experiential exercises and video-tape, this workshop will explore ways to work skillfully with aroused emotional states. The practices of mindfulness, the cultivation of patience and the use of gratitude will be explored.

Faculty: David Kezur, L.C.S.W., is a faculty member of the Ackerman Institute for the Family. He has an ongoing interest in the connection between Buddhist psychology and systemic therapy.  Kezur is a long time practitioner of Vipassana Buddhism, and for the past five years, he has offered workshops Buddhist Psychology and Systemic Therapy.  In addition to teaching family therapy, he maintains a private practice in New York City.
 
Date: Friday, March 2, 2012
Time: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Tuition: $128
CE Credits: 5