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Podcast January 2012: Heather LaFace, PhD

Monday, January 16th, 2012

The topic for January 2012′s Podcast is “Imagery and Evolutionary Complexity“.  It is indeed a heady topic as it brings a number of fields together says Heather LaFace, PhD.  She gives our host Juliet Rohde-Brown, PhD a lengthy explanation of this new field.  She also provides on request an experiential Guided Imagery exercise that Juliet finds very helpful for building confidence within.

Heather LaFace

Adolescence is a time of deep relational engagement where the body’s changes becomes so important we take up all these interactions when healing.

Adolescents are  learning to have symbolic experiences for the first time. Image production is relational. It’s generated on it’s own cord. LaFace is interested in how images bridge mind and body, inner and outer in adolescents. Their movement is out into the world and away from family.

Click here to hear the latest podcast.

Heather is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology and is a licensed Psychological Assistant working with individuals, couples and adolescents in a Westwood private practice under the supervision of Dr. Elaine Schulman, PhD. Heather also works as a Psychological Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Marshall Levy, PhD and serves as clinical staff in a multidisciplinary team at a long-term inpatient psychiatric hospital where she works with the chronically and severely mentally ill in treating a wide range of psychological issues, including: mood and anxiety disorders, psychoses, alcohol and substance abuse, and dual diagnosis.

 

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Have an Outstanding Presentation? Pitch Your Idea Now!

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Hello all you Imagery Lovers everywhere!!

Jann Fredrickson, LICSW

Yes, I am writing about the FOURTH annual Imagery International’s Conference:  “Imagery and the Soul.”  Our third annual was an even bigger success than our first two and I KNOW this one will be our best yet.

So, why am I writing, you might ask?  Because I am going to begin receiving proposals to speak for us on January the 31, 2012.  I will accept them until April 30th which gives YOU plenty of time.  Be thinking about what you might like to teach us, enlighten us about, or just plain entertain us with.  I want you also to know that last year we received a record number of proposals and so we chose the best ones.  I am sure this year will even be greater than last year!!  So, get yours in EARLY.

This year’s conference is October 5-7, 2012 at the beautiful Mercy Center retreat in Burlingame, California.   I am letting you know in plenty of time so that you can join us in October.  This has really turned out to be our great Imagery Reunion.

We don’t have specific data up yet on our website but you can always call me at: 651-208-6458 Eastern Standard Time.  I am TWO HOURS ahead of you wonderful California folks so be mindful of this when you call.   Actually, the job I recently took requires me to be on call 24/7…..isn’t employment lovely??

Love to all of you and I cannot wait to see you at our FOURTH annual
Imagery Conference!!

Jann Fredrickson Ramus
Conference Chair, 2012

P.S.  Click here to go to the annual conference page to find the latest updates.  You can send an email to our Registrar if you wish to receive email updates.

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Podcast November 2011: Linda Holder, PhD

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Linda Holder, PhD and Juliet Rohde-Brown discuss ”Owning Your Projections” on Juliet’s program Emotional Pathways on webtalkradio.net.   They clarify what the shadow is and the role it plays in relationships, and why it is important to own our projections. Click here to hear the latest podcast.

Dr. Linda Holder has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is also an educator and current faculty member at California Lutheran University and Antioch University, Santa Barbara. She is an expert in leading multicultural tolerance retreats and she has won the Women of Vision Award, the Ventura County Teacher of the Year Award and the Golden Wings Award in Ventura County. In both her teaching and therapeutic work, she honors ritual, story, dreams and imagery. She brings insight from her depth psychology orientation regarding the use of imagery to own back projections so that we integrate our shadow sides rather than projecting onto others.

 

 

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Free Guided Imagery healing toolkit

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Experience a new teaching tool where technology, science, nature and healing intersect! This is a sensorium and imagery visual palette for healing consciousness with the elements.  Said Osio, a featured speaker at Imagery International’s Third Annual Conference, offers a free deeper guided Imagery healing toolkit on LinkedIn.  His website is illuminated with images containing rich colors and complex patterning.

Said Osio

Experience where technology, science, nature and healing intersect! See a new kind of Powerpoint guided Imagery tool kit: Deeper Guided Imagery Centers and Liquid Light ( wait and read resource as well! ) /guided-imagery-resources/blog

With the ever evolving learning’s in neuro-biology, plasticity, mindfulness as well as an impressive array of creative energy expanding healing horizons in medicine, architecture and design technology the Guided Imagery Collective, exploring creating a deeper approach to healing energy and  spirit mind-body consciousness, has developed its first offering and is releasing a new guided imagery toolset for health care professionals ( Nurses ) practitioners, caregivers, and anyone seeking healing intelligence. This is a free toolset for enhancing learning as well as expanding the building blocks of a visual healing intelligence. A Storyboard Tool Kit: Centers of liquid light.

This tool teaches a process for visual learning, a new visual language for deepening spirit mindbody and healing intelligence, where one can see oneself embodied in union, a visual language of healing symbolism, a stripped visual language as a vocabulary, a pattern language, accessing and tuning into the sensorium of energy through nature’s elements of earth, air, fire and water (the water element is the first release and fire scheduled as the second), a manuscript of nature’s grammar, its elements and the blueprint of living systems from DNA to cells and organs. See resources for free PDF download. http://www.guidedimagerycollective.org/guided-imagery-resources/blog or go to slide share to view the PowerPoint http://slidesha.re/hcEwwj

 

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Conference Starts this Friday

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Imagery International conference starts this Friday, September 30. Shhhhh the official deadline is past, but commuters will be welcome up to the start of the conference. See our conference page for more information.

Jann Fredrickson, LICSW

Jann Fredrickson-Ramus is our conference chair and MC. She is the most enthusiastic imagery practitioner I’ve ever met. That enthusiasm is unflagging and contagious. Coupled with her gift for teaching and leadership (she is a Past President of Imagery International and Imagery Person of the Year for 2005 and writes in ImagiNews under the byline ‘Imagery Here and There’) she has a knack for creating delicious, nurturing, enlightening and motivating gatherings. At her conferences not only do we learn about practical practice applications and intellectual stuff and earn CEUs for it, we enjoy playfulness and humor too. You are invited to sit back relax, enjoy and let your hair down.

If you are an energy psychologist, you will feel the energy of the room shift from contraction to expansion with grounding. There is something about our imagery conferences that goes on beneath the surface and carries a sense of well being beyond it. 

If you are interested in learning more, want to improve your skills, meet with like minded people or be in the healing energy of our professional healers, come to Mercy Center in Burlingame this Friday, September 30.

Friday evening we will hold our annual meeting.  The Imagery Person of the Year will be revealed. This year we will hold a silent auction.  The public is welcome to come and bid on some very interesting items.

Speakers and Topics

Robin Gayle, PhD, MDiv, MFT, “Metaphoric Dialogue: Bringing Hope Alive”
Carl Hendel, MD: “The Neurobiology of Hope”
Lea Houston, MA: “Move, Breathe, and Imagine: Activating the Triple Power Keys to Body mind Healing and
Transformation!”
Jenny Garrison, RN: “Expanding Open-Heartedness: Imagery as a Spiritual Practice”
Jose Said Osio: “Getting to a Newer, Richer Self by Accessing a Deeper Guided Imagery Pattern”
Jeanne M. Schul, PhD: “Dancing the Dream Image: Out of the Nightmare, Into the Light”
Susan Gold, MA: ”Using Imagery to Overcome Creative Blocks”

To find out more about our speakers, the program, or a look at their biographies visit the conference page.

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Conference Countdown

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Registration for staying overnight at Mercy Center ends August 31.  Go here to register.  Commuters can register up to the day of the conference.

We have a fantastic line up of speakers.

Speakers and Topics

Robin Gayle, PhD, MDiv, MFT, “Metaphoric Dialogue: Bringing Hope Alive”

Carl Hendel, MD: “The Neurobiology of Hope”

Lea Houston, MA: “Move, Breathe, and Imagine: Activating the Triple Power Keys to Body mind Healing and
Transformation!”

Jenny Garrison, RN: “Expanding Open-Heartedness: Imagery as a Spiritual Practice”

Jose Said Osio: “Getting to a Newer, Richer Self by Accessing a Deeper Guided Imagery Pattern”

Jeanne M. Schul, PhD: “Dancing the Dream Image: Out of the Nightmare, Into the Light”

Susan Gold, MA: ”Using Imagery to Overcome Creative Blocks”

To find out more about our speakers look at their biographies.

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Podcast June 2011: Andrew Wagner, MD

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

Jann Fredrickson Ramus and Dr. Wagner’s Hospice discuss his work using Guided Imagery in Hospice and End of Life Care. They discuss sacred space and trusting the process as aspects of working with Guided Imagery.

Andrew Wagner, MD

Andrew is a Board Certified Family Physician, and previously worked as a primary care doctor for Kaiser Permanente for almost 15 years. He had special interests in sports medicine, HIV care, bioethics, and complementary medicine.

In 2000, after attending a series of workshops with Rachel Remen, MD, of the Commonweal Cancer Retreat Program and the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness, he decided to commit himself to a different career path. He completed the Academy of Guided Imagery training program, and became a certified practitioner.

His focus has been working with people with chronic medical conditions, including chronic pain and life threatening illnesses. His intention has been to create a collaborative relationship with his clients to help them identify and make decisions that are consistent with their goals and values. He is now in the midst of expanding into another arena of medical care, palliative medicine and hospice.

 

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Sept 30 – Oct 2 Conference Schedule

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

SCHEDULE FOR THE THIRD ANNUAL IMAGERY INTERNATIONAL’S CONFERENCE

Imagery International’s Third Conference
Co-Sponsored by Beyond Ordinary Nursing
Imagery: Hope and New Beginnings

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30:

3 – 5pm: Registration and check-in

5pm: Welcome and opening remarks by Juliet Rohde Brown, PhD, President of Imagery International

6pm: Dinner

7 – 9pm: Imagery International Membership Meeting and awarding of Imagery International’s Imagery Person of the Year. Non-conference registrants are invited to attend.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1:

8:00 – 8:30am: Breakfast

8:40 – 10:10am: Robin Gayle, PhD, MFT, “Metaphoric Dialogue: Bringing Hope Alive”

10:10am: Break

10:30 – 12:00am: Carl Hendel, MD: “The Neurobiology of Hope”

12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch

1:10 – 2:40pm: Lea Houston, MA: “Move, Breathe, and Imagine: Activating the Triple Power Keys to Body mind Healing and Transformation!”

2:40pm: Break

3:15 – 4:45pm: Jenny Garrison, RN: “Expanding Open-Heartedness: Imagery as a Spiritual Practice”

6:00pm: Dinner

7:00 – 9:00pm: Imagery Social Hour. Come drink wine, eat cheese, tell a few jokes and enjoy the company of your fellow “imagers.” Bid on Silent Auction items!! Kick back and have some fun. We may even have spontaneous joke telling and performance….who knows??

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2:

8 – 8:30am: Breakfast

8:40 – 10:10am: Jose Said Osio: “Getting to a Newer, Richer Self by Accessing a Deeper Guided Imagery Pattern”

10:10 – 10:25am: Break. Silent auction closes

10:30 – 12:00am: Jeanne M. Schul, PhD: “Dancing the Dream Image: Out of the Nightmare, Into the Light”

12:00 – 1:00pm: Lunch

1:10 -  2:40pm: Susan Gold, MA,”Using Imagery to Overcome Creative Blocks”

2:50 – 3:30pm: Closing Ceremonies

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Oct. 21-23 Woman’s Retreat in Mexico

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

A Woman’s Retreat Tepozatlan, Mexico, October 21-23

Glenda Cedarleaf

Come immerse yourself in a women’s circle and into your creative imagination through Guided Imagery, Expressive Arts, Movement, Healing Ritual and  FUN !!!

You will open to inner guidance and release emotional blocks for greater clarity and commitment

This retreat will be facilitated by 
Glenda Cedarleaf MSW LICSW 
and includes a very special
 experiential with
 Mary Lynn Patton Ed.D Clinical Psychologist

Glenda Cedarleaf is a Guided Imagery practitioner and Clinical Hypnotherapist -  who follows her calling to be a muse and midwife  for deepening the healing process through creative exploration.

She  has facilitated women’s retreats since 1995.  She has a psychotherapy and guided imagery practice in Minnetonka Minnesota.

Tepoztlan is in the mountains and is known for being the birthplace of the mighty Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. It is home to artists and lovers of Native Mexican culture. This town is filled with beautiful loving and authentic people who have maintained the best of their native culture.  You will love the weekend market filled with the colorful and flavorful foods and crafts of the people of this lovely village.

Glenda writes and records guided imagery journeys.  Her audios “Your Healing Journey” and “Healing Surgery” are now being provided to patients in the Cardiac Catheter Lab, Emergency Room, Joint Center and Surgical Department.

For more information on the retreat and how to sign up click here.

To learn more about Glenda’s work visit her website http://www.guidedimagerycd.com/

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Podcast May 2011: Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Mindfulness Based Self-Care is an interview of Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD by Juliet Rohde-Brown. Radhule guides the listener through a 10 minute loving self-care meditation towards the end.

To hear the podcast click here.

Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD

Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD, who had been trained as a physician in Germany and as a clinical psychologist in California, is currently working in private psychotherapy practice in Santa Barbara. She began her studies of mindfulness meditation during a stay at Black Rock Hermitage in Sri Lanka in 1981. She has continued her studies of Buddhist philosophy and practice since then, and is currently mentored in her teaching by Jack Kornfield, PhD and Alan Wallace, PhD. Radhule teaches mindfulness meditation both as a foundation for spiritual practice and as a tool for healing. She has been exploring how dream-work and mindfulness meditation can work in complementary ways in the therapeutic process, bringing an Eastern and a Western path together.

Radhule and her husband Michael Kearney, MD, a hospice physician, published an article in JAMA magazine in March, 2009, describing how the practice of “Exquisite Empathy” as mindfulness based self-care can prevent burnout and compassion fatigue in health care professionals. Together they teach professionals how to be present in an engaged way, which makes professional life replenishing and meaningful.

Radhule Weininger is also trained to teach “Cultivating Emotional Balance”, a project inspired and guided by the Dalai Lama. CEB workshop leaders will be able to guide others to enhanced emotional health and mental stability.

Radhule lives currently with her husband and two children in Santa Barbara, who are in junior High and High School. Her oldest son studies currently in Edinburgh/Scotland. She also enjoys her three dogs, one cat and three tortoises.

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