Nourish Your Therapeutic Self
- Presenter: Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D.
- Presenter: Elizabeth G. Magnavita
FOR HEALTH CLINICIANS, PSYCHOTHERAPISTS, AND PRACTITIONERS
Inviting all behavioral health clinicians, psychotherapists, and practitioners to a retreat focused on expanding your “self” to advance your development as a therapist. Join renowned psychologist, psychotherapist, and author Jeffrey J. Magnavita and Elizabeth G. Magnavita, clinical social worker and psychotherapist, for a weekend retreat of immersive and educational experiences.
Learn ways to develop your therapeutic effectiveness by utilizing a unifying framework and ways of nourishing and expanding your “self” to optimize results and experience greater professional and personal satisfaction.
Experience ways to expand your “self” using the principles that Leonardo da Vinci followed to live an engaged and creative life, with application to vital aspects of psychotherapeutic effectiveness.
In this retreat, you will:
- Explore and practice some of the ways of engaging the world by developing your right- and left-brain functions.
- Learn what we can adopt from “supershrinks” to increase our efficacy.
- Understand the balance of art and science in the practice of psychotherapy.
- Create a mind map to guide your development.
- Learn the fundamentals of a unifying holistic framework to clinical practice.
- Stimulate and enhance your sense of perception, creativity, pattern recognition skills, and fast and slow thinking processes, and apply these to your professional practice.
- Learn to draw from your experiences and apply your personal gifts to enhance your practice.
Learn, explore, and experience ways to enhance your personal and therapeutic self in this weekend of restoration through personal and professional engagement.
Recommended Reading:
- Magnavita and Anchin, Unifying Psychotherapy: Principles, Methods, and Evidence from Clinical Science
- Michael J. Gelb, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
“We don’t learn from experiences; we learn from reflecting on the experience.”—John Dewey
Included in Your Stay
| Daily Yoga Classes | 3 All-Natural Meals | Access to the Kripalu Grounds |
Program at a Glance
Presenter(s)
Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D. is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and author who is known as an innovator in the treatment of mental health disorders. Jeffrey has been in private practice for over four decades and is the recipient of numerous awards for his work.
Full Bio and ProgramsElizabeth G. Magnavita, LICSW, is a psychotherapist who works at an acute inpatient psychiatric hospital in Boston treating diverse populations, including individuals coping with chronic illness, grief, addiction, and psychosis. Elizabeth also works in private practice specializing in adolescents and young adults.
Full Bio and Programs