About this program
Facilitators
Course description
This highly experiential training will help you cultivate deeper grounding, openness and compassion so that you can be fully present to your clients’ journeys – and your own.
The embodied inquiry model provides a reliable framework for orienting yourself in the arc of the therapy, freeing up cognitive bandwidth to bring curiosity, non-judgment, and kindness to the investigation of whatever is arising in session. These foundational attitudes enhance your own compassion and resilience and helps to strengthen the therapeutic container for your client’s exploration.
This course has been accredited through the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA), the l’Ordre des psychologues du Québec (OPQ), and the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA).
This course includes 12 hours of live sessions and 4 hours of online pre-work. Please see below for more information.
Summer 2023 Cohort: July
Time (PT): 10:00am-2:00pm PT
Time (ET): 1:00pm-5:00pm ET
Course access begins: Monday, July 10
Live session 1: Monday, July 17
Live session 2: Monday, July 18
Live session 3: Monday, July 19
Language: English
Fall 2023 Cohort: November
Time (PT): 8:30am-12:30pm PT
Time (ET): 11:30am-3:30pm ET
Course access begins: Monday, November 6
Live session 1: Friday, November 17
Live session 2: Friday, November 24
Live session 3: Friday, December 1
Language: English
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Content Overview
Please use the arrows below to learn more about what will be taught in each module.
Topics
• What is inquiry?
• Inquiry framework (method, embodiment, process)
• Psychological flexibility
• Demonstrations and practice exercises
Learning Outcomes
• Describe the underlying assumptions and attitudes of inquiry
• Utilize the 3 layers of inquiry at an introductory level
• Use the 3 Characteristics when engaged in the inquiry process
• Apply inquiry to challenging experiences to increase psychological flexibility, distress tolerance, and acceptance
Topics
• Applied neuroscience (trauma and psychedelic-assisted therapy)
• Trauma skills
• Inquiry skills
• Demonstrations and practice exercises
Learning Outcomes
• Identify the difference between narrative (secondary consciousness) and experiential self-referencing (primary consciousness) and difficult emotions
• Explain how an understanding of trauma neurobiology is essential to embodied inquiry
• Describe the threat response states of the nervous system threat as they relate to trauma and psychedelic-assisted therapy
• Apply embodied inquiry to present experience
Topics
• Case work
Learning Outcomes
• Apply the use of embodied inquiry within the context of IFS parts work at an introductory level
• Describe the intentions of embodied inquiry through the arc of psychedelic-assisted therapy (Preparation, Medicine, and Integration Sessions)
• Use inquiry to work with dysregulation
• Apply embodied inquiry to present experience
Learning Outcomes
After the course, you’ll be able to
Apply mindful and somatic inquiry skills at an introductory level.
Describe the components of inquiry.
Utilize inquiry skills to help clients process challenging experiences.
Direct clients to mindfully attend and stay with experience using the body as a source of information and anchor for attention.
Disclaimer
The continuing professional development program in no way promotes, condones, or facilitates illegal activity, and is strictly for educational and harm reduction purposes only. Please be aware that certain psychedelic substances still remain illegal in many jurisdictions, including Canada. This program and the contents of this website do not constitute medical advice, and are not a substitute for professional medical advice and treatment.
FAQs
Embodied Inquiry is a modality where clinicians provide guidance to the client before, during and after a modality derived from mindfulness-based interventions and other process-based and somatic therapies.
Yes – Continuing Education (CE) accreditation will be available upon completion.
You will need to be able to commit to the live sessions each day. Please email training@numinus.com if you have any special circumstances.
Yes, just be mindful of the time zones! Please also note that daylight savings time in North America typically comes into effect on different dates than some other parts of the world.
Please consult the Numinus Practictioner Training Policies for more information about our policies.
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