Seminars
Please note: payment will be taken at the time of the event.
October 2024 Seminar:
Intro to Marriage and Family Therapy
Cost: $50 for pastoral counselors, clinicians, and community guests
- CE credits: 8 hours (There is an additional $100 fee for CE credits and materials to review.)
- Location: 250 Broadalbin St. Suite 110, Albany, OR 97321
- Time: 9am-5pm
- Meals: Light breakfast provided; bring your own lunch (time provided to purchase food at local restaurants).
- Online: Remote options available.
October 18, 2024
9 AM - 5 PM
Albany, Oregon
8 CE Credits Available.
Join us for an intro to Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT). MFT and FT (Family Therapy) are systematic psychologies that addresses the science of relationship as well as the psychological dynamic of relationship. Taking a 2-person view of psychology, systematic psychologies see the human not merely as an individual but as an individual within a relational system. Our Intro to MFT course introduces the counselor and the therapist to various systemic theoretical thoughts and their key conceptual understandings. We will survey the history of, and major contemporary approaches to, couple, marriage, and family counseling. This is a good introduction for lay and pastoral counselors, and a good refresher for clinicians already in the counseling field. We will approach the subject from the vantage of the Manock Integrative Method, seeking an integration of the science and theology of relationships.
"Sustained curiosity. Explore, evoke. Get their world, bring their world to them. Hear what their heart is saying."
-Dr. David Manock
Other Dates:
November 1-3, 2024: ICI Beach Retreat. Theme: Neurobiology of Trauma (register here: https://salemici.com/retreats/)
December 2024: No Seminars
ICI offers an all-day seminar on the 3rd Friday of each month except for August and December. Different from our community events, these seminars are the Pillar and Core courses of our ICI certification track and are geared toward clinical and pastoral counselors and interns. These seminars are open to the public, however, and you are welcome to join us if the topic interests you even if you have no counseling background. Please register above.
Pillar Course Seminar Descriptions
ICI's 5 pillar courses are the 5 most essential of our 20 core courses and are foundational to our integrative method. They are: Attachment Theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Intersubjectivity Psychoanalysis, Neurobiology of Relationships, and Image of God.
ATTACHMENT THEORY
Attachment Theory (AT) suggests that children come into the world biologically wired to form attachments with others because this will help them survive. All humans need attachment relationships and all humans experience attachment wounds. There are four basic attachment styles (secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized) that are formed in our early years of life. The Manock Integrative Method operates out of an attachment perspective, understanding that childhood and adult attachment bonds lie at the heart of what it is to be human. In this core course we examine the principles of Attachment Theory, looking closely at the teachings of Drs. Mary Main, Mary Ainsworth, and John Bowlby. We will utilize tools such as the genogram, AAI, and MAAI to learn how to determine primary attachment style and how to use them to facilitate growth and healing.
“The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature."
- Dr. John Bowlby
EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY
Emotionally Focused Therapy is the most researched form of couple’s therapy with an attachment, neuropsychology, and Gestalt base. This therapeutic method can help couples and family members form a more secure emotional bond which can result in stronger relationships and improved communication. While often used for couples, EFT has also been adopted for use with families. Considered the leading couple’s therapy, EFT conceptualizes a couple’s healing as necessitating 9 relationship steps organized into 3 relational stages. This course will explore each stage utilizing a live-team approach. Dr. Manock was trained directly by Dr. Sue Johnson, the developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy, and has been incorporating EFT into his private practice for nearly 25 years.
“The first and foremost instinct of humans is neither sex nor aggression. It is to seek contact and comforting connection.”
- Dr. Sue Johnson
INTERSUBJECTIVITY PSYCHOANALYSIS
As the 5th generation psychoanalysis, Intersubjectivity Psychoanalysis (IS) acknowledges that humans possess internal working models that contain organizing principles to systematize our experience. In therapy IS is the interchange of thoughts and emotions both conscious and unconscious that form between two persons or “subjects” as facilitated by empathy, and moves psychology from a one-person to a two-person model, one that understands we are constantly operating in response to others. The task of the psychoanalyst is to analyze intersubjective interactions rather than intrapsychic material. IS is organized around three key relational movements: together explore the subjective world/experience of the analysis; together explore both the conscious and unconscious meaning, with its organizing principles, of the subjective experience; and together explore the impact of the organizing principles on the sense of self and other in relationship.
“Get the subjective experience of your client, get the meaning of the subjective experience, get the impact of the subjective experience.”
- Dr. David Manock
NEUROBIOLOGY OF RELATIONSHIPS
NBR draws heavily upon the work and insight of one of the leading thinkers in the area of the neurobiology of relationships, Dr. Daniel Siegel, who brilliantly postulated a constructional triad to understand the human person: brain, mind and relationship. NBR is an introduction to the neuroscience of relationships and explores both the impact of life experiences and the effect that therapy has on the brain. In the past experts believed that neurological growth stopped as late as early adulthood but the discipline of neurobiology demonstrates that humans have life-long neuroplasticity. Our brains can change and so can our minds and relationships! Neurobiology is transforming the field of psychology and is foundational to the MIM.
“Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows."
- Dr. Daniel Siegel
IMAGE OF GOD
God as an attachment figure? Research indicates yes. Come explore the correlation between Adult Attachment Style and Unconscious IoG. Dr. Manock's seminal research into attachment and bondedness with God was the foundation of his doctrinal dissertation and is a pillar of the Manock Integrative Method. IoG differentiates God Concept (revealing social conditioning) and God Image (a person's internal, and often unconscious, picture of God). Our IoG Core Course assists the counselor in noting projective and compensatory IoG material, understanding that humans view and relate to God as an attachment figure whether they believe in him or not. Informed by our primary attachment styles and impacted by the imprints from our caregivers, each person wrestles with the Divine and with our own role in history.
“Every human is haunted by eternity.”
- Dr. David Manock
2 Year Seminar Cycle:
- MIM Overview: Manock Integrative Method (AT, IS, EFT, NB, IOG)
- Attachment Theory* (AT)
- Intersubjectivity Psychoanalysis* (IS)
- Emotionally Focused Couple’s Therapy* (EFT1)
- Emotionally Focused Couple’s Therapy 2 (EFT2)
- Neurobiology, Neuropsychology of Relationships* (NB/NPR1)
- Neurobiology, Neuropsychology of Relationships (NB/NPR2)
- Image of God* (IoG)
- Principles and Techniques of Counseling (PTC)
- Retreat (Topic Varies)
- Spirituality and Clinical Praxis (SCP)
- Personality and Counseling Theory (PCT)
- Social and Cultural Foundations (SCF)
- Human Growth and Development (HGD)
- Psychopathology, DSM-5 (PP)
- Substance Abuse | Healing Prayer (SA/HP)
- Intro to Marriage & Family Therapy (MFT)
- Lifestyles Career Development Counseling (LCDC)
- Research and Statistics (RS)
- Retreat (Topic Varies)
To learn more see our ICI Certification Track, Manock Integrative Method page, and Events page.