The RESET Model Training Program
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The RESET model training is a comprehensive, experiential workshop designed for clinicians to work with clients in non-ordinary states, including psychedelic therapy. It integrates Western psychological theories and techniques with indigenous, spiritual, and energetic approaches.The program immerses clinicians in over a dozen non-ordinary states, empowering them to cultivate their own Relational, Energetic, Somatic, Expressive, and Transpersonal (RESET) experiences. This hands-on approach teaches them to work from a truly integrative lens, allowing and inviting all aspects of a client's experience to emerge.Through this unique journey, clinicians gain a deeper understanding of their own consciousness, fostering greater intuition and presence. This enhanced self-awareness enables them to trust themselves more fully and provide an exceptionally safe and expansive therapeutic container for their clients.
Week 1: Introduction to the RESET Model, Preparation, and Ceremony
Participants will learn the basic principles of the RESET model. We'll discuss essential elements of preparation for clients working in non-ordinary states, including safety, ethics, and consent. We'll also cover basic tenets of ceremony facilitation and engage in an experiential group ceremony. This group experience will include here-and-now facilitation to build cohesion and begin developing these essential skills.
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Week 2: Mindfulness and Hypnosis
Participants will learn basic hypnosis skills, such as trance, suggestion, and creating scripts, and will be guided through several hypnosis exercises. You'll also learn mindfulness-based skills and how to apply this approach when working with clients in non-ordinary states. We'll include experiential and didactic exercises focused on sensory awareness and activation.
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Week 3: Energy Work
We'll explore different models of energy facilitation. Participants will learn how to directly work with energy from a Reiki perspective and by engaging with the chakra system. You'll be guided through an energy session and learn tools to provide self-energy sessions.
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Week 4: Shamanism
We'll discuss various shamanic lineages and traditions, with in-depth attention focused on Michael Harner’s Core Shamanism approach. Participants will be led through a power animal retrieval ceremony and learn skills to help guide clients with this technique.
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Week 5: IFS/Parts Work
Participants will learn the basic tenets of different parts theories, including Internal Family Systems, Roll's method of Drama Therapy, and Jungian archetypes. You'll be led through an individual embodied parts practice as well as a here-and-now group process.
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Week 6: Somatic Approaches I: Body-Based Healing and Touch
We'll discuss and explore body-based therapeutic approaches, examining how trauma affects the body and how working with the body can release trauma and facilitate post-traumatic growth. We'll cover safety, ethics, and boundaries associated with therapeutic touch. Participants will learn touch and self-touch skills and be guided through various somatic and self-touch exercises.
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Week 7: Somatic Approaches II: Emotional and Somatic Regulation and Release
We'll continue exploring somatic-based approaches. Participants will learn Emotion Release Techniques, principles of the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and other tools to help regulate the nervous system.
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Week 8: Creative and Expressive Therapy I: Drama Therapy
Participants will learn the basic tenets of the three main types of Drama Therapy (Psychodrama, Traditional Drama Therapy, and Developmental Transformations) as well as the principles and practice of Drag Therapy. There will be an expressive therapy experiential where participants will be led through exercises incorporating all of these expressive modalities.
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Week 9: Creative and Expressive Therapy II: Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Dance Therapy, and Music Facilitation
We'll continue exploring expressive and creative art modalities, including music, dance, and art. We'll also discuss the use of music in non-ordinary experiences and how to create playlists for different experiences. Participants will learn how to apply these creative techniques during non-ordinary experiences and as tools for integration. We'll have another expressive-art experiential where these approaches will be put into action. After these two workshops, participants will have a better understanding of how to work with metaphor, role-playing, free-form movement and creative expression, play, and how to show up for clients in a non-ordinary state in whatever capacity they need.
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Week 10: Cannabis Journey
This four-hour workshop guides participants through a complete cannabis medicine session. Use of medicine is optional, and participants can substitute with breathwork. The workshop will include a grounding meditation, ceremony, intention setting, two hour journey, and optional group processing.
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Week 11: Integration and Bringing It All Together
We'll discuss principles of Integration, and participants will learn skills to help clients process their experiences in non-ordinary states. We'll also facilitate group integration from the cannabis experiential. Ways to bring together all the elements of this training will be discussed, providing participants with a clearer, more structured way to apply the RESET method with their clients.