Upcoming Workshops and ongoing groups

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Mindfulness-based Emotional Intelligence Series with Monika Broecker
Sunday 4/8/2012, 2-4:30pm: Mindfulness-based Emotional Intelligence
Sunday 4/15/2012, 2-4:30pm: Non-Violent Communication
Sunday 4/22/2012: 2-4:30pm: Group Process
Berkeley
To register, please email info@center4personalgrowth.com

The Career Clinic - Weekly Coaching Group with Monika Broecker
Ongoing, Thursday evenings, 6:30-8:30pm, Berkeley

Voice, Speech and the Alexander Technique with Lisa Wentz
April 14, 1-4pm, San Francisco

Work that Makes a Difference with Monika Broecker
April 21, 2012, 3-6pm, Berkeley

Pain and Stress Management with the Alexander Technique with John A. Baron
April 28, 2012, 2-5pm, Berkeley

The Center for Personal Growth has moved to Berkeley

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We are now fully operational in Central Berkeley, conveniently located near the North Berkeley BART station and I-80 exit University Avenue and Ashby exits. While her main practice will be in Berkeley, Monika will continue to see clients in San Francisco.

To be announced soon: The Center for Personal Growth Agency which will be focusing on bringing together service providers in the area of Wellness with Corporate Entities bringing Personal Growth to their employees. Stay tuned.

Starting in May, Monika will also be seeing psychotherapy clients in Berkeley in her private practice internship. Monika's focus is Somatic Psychotherapy. Stay tuned.

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OFFERINGS BY THE CENTER FOR PERSONAL GROWTH

Career and Personal Growth Coaching
First 3 sessions at $85 per session (all three sessions must be paid in advance)
New clients only. Offer expires January 31.
To register, please email us at info@center4personalgrowth.com

Work that Makes a Difference with Monika Broecker
January 8, 2012, 3-6pm
$125
San Francisco, CA
To register, please email us at info@center4personalgrowth.com

The Career Clinic–Weekly Coaching Group with Monika Broecker
Tuesday evenings, 6:30-8:30pm
San Francisco, CA
Cost: $150 per person for three evenings (includes 15 minute individual coaching session)
To register, please email us at info@center4personalgrowth.com

Voice, Speech and the Alexander Technique with Lisa Wentz
January 21, 2012, 1-4pm
Cost: $125
$100 for full-time students (please bring your student ID to the workshop)
San Francisco, CA (Flood Building)
To register, please email us at info@center4personalgrowth.com

Pain and Stress Management with the Alexander Technique with John A. Baron
Date: January 14, 2012, 2-5pm
$150
$120 for full time students (please bring your student ID to the workshop)
Location: San Francisco, CA
To register, please email us at info@center4personalgrowth.com

OFFERINGS BY THE ORGONOMIC INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA/Patricia Frisch, PhD

New Distance Learning Comprehensive CD Training Series
Approved for CE’s for California Psychologists

OINC’s 6-course Comprehensive CD training series is designed for new and current students who want to learn characteranalysis and have a comprehensive education in Wilhelm Reich, Masterson and Dr. Frisch’s method.

These courses are at an intermediate/advanced level and will thoroughly cover the theoretical and clinical approach of Wilhelm Reich and his somatic techniques. The Masterson Group's delineation of the Disorders of the Self will also be included in order to represent later research in developmental attachment theory and round out Reich's diagnostic typology. These training courses are rich with information, include non-confidential discussion and experiential coaching to hear the approach in action, and allow students to self-pace and deepen their learning to the point of mastery. These courses facilitate your entry into more advanced classes that include Reich's biophysical interventions.

In addition to Dr. Patricia Frisch’s instruction, several segments of the training are taught by Dr. Richard Blasband. Richard A. Blasband is a board-certified psychiatrist. Dr. Blasband studied medical orgonomy with Dr. Elsworth Baker, who was appointed by Wilhelm Reich to train physicians in his therapeutic discipline, psychiatric orgone therapy. With others of Dr. Baker’s students, Dr. Blasband assisted Dr. Baker in the creation of the American College of Orgonomy.

These courses are approved by MCEP for continuing education credit for California Psychologists. They are also approved for CE’s for California MFT’s, LCSW’s, and RN’s.

Dr. Patricia Frisch also offers comprehensive training programs in Wilhelm Reich’s character-analytic and somatic approach, Mastersonian disorders of the self, and elements from Jung to qualified mental health and medical professionals, and graduate students.

To learn more about Dr. Frisch Audio Training Courses or to place an order, visit http://orgonomictherapy.com/audio-courses/audio-comprehensive-series/
or call 415-388-0622.

Dr. Patricia Frisch and The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California Announce Their New 2012 Schedule of Classes

OINC live classes are an especially dynamic and effective way to expose more clinicians and graduate students to the important contributions of Wilhelm Reich, often credited with being the father of somatic therapies. He was a master at character interventions that could quickly and deeply facilitate patient break-through, allowing them to make contact with their authentic self and their core feelings. Reich’s characteranalysis is a skill that maximizes potent interventions and moves the patient beyond their facade and into profound honesty. Some therapists, when they are first introduced to the theory and practice of Orgonomic Therapy, see it as a bit “out of the box” in its spontaneous, liberating style. Orgonomic Therapy’s unique approach is an effective antidote to the compelling, deadening counter-pull of patients’ habitual homeostasis. As therapists, we need to move from stale interventions and intellectualized interpretations to meaningful exchange. We teach this method of character intervention because of its great effectiveness.

Our live classes fall into the following categories (come to one or all – your choice)

Topical Mentoring Classes:
(8 classes, 4 hrs. each, Saturdays 9:30am-1:30pm)
Topical Mentoring classes are short, experiential courses covering topics such as Differential Diagnosis, Dream Analysis, and Building and Sustaining your Clinical Practice.

Intermediate CD Course Series with Study Groups:
(8 classes, 4-hrs. each, Sundays 1:00pm-5:00pm)
The 8 Intermediate Study Group classes are designed to support the 6-CD Intermediate Audio Series.

Clinical OINC Community Days:
(2 classes, 6.5 hrs. each, Saturdays 9:30am-5:30pm)
These are clinical experiential classes where students apply Orgonomic methods in order to practice and enhance their skills, including but not limited to: differential diagnosis, character interventions, dream analysis and transference issues. Case presentation with mentoring by Dr. Frisch is included.

Intermediate Bodywork Classes:
(6 CD’s, 8 classes, 4-hrs. each, Sundays 1:00pm-5:00pm)
The 8 Intermediate Study Group classes are designed to support the 6-CD Intermediate Audio Series.

Biophysical Demo Days:
(2 classes, 6.5 hrs. each, Saturdays 9:00am-5:00pm)
Biophysical Demo Days present demonstrations of Orgonomy with 4 practice clients who volunteer for this purpose. Practice clients are worked on by Accredited Orgonomists coached by and under the supervision of Dr. Patricia Frisch.

Public Workshops:
(2 classes, 6.5 hrs. each, times to be announced)
The Orgonomic Institute of Northern California produces wonderfully rich, powerful public workshops based on Wilhelm Reich’s Orgonomic Therapy, Jung’s Concepts of Individuation and Expressive Arts and the mindfulness practices of Thich Nhat Hanh.

All classes will be held in the Marin (CA) area – locations to be announced. Please check our website for more descriptive information on each class, including prerequisites, tuition, and policies.

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Upcoming Workshops and ongoing groups

The Center for Personal Growth has moved to Berkeley

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