Welcome To The ISIP 2025 Fall Advanced Workshop Landing Page!
Here you will find all you need to have a great workshop experience. We will post the Zoom Link and other document links on this page prior to the workshop for you to quickly reference if you have questions or need anything.
The workshop is held in person at the Riverside Hotel and on Zoom.
Here is the Zoom Link for the workshop: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84323210410?pwd=lTfrnUgQdLn42pvajgDpzoaWS07an8.1
Meeting ID: 843 2321 0410
Passcode: adler
WORKSHOP MATERIALS:
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ALL HANDOUTS IN 1 FILE FOR THE 2025 Fall Advanced Workshop
Technique-Envisionining the Future.docx
Outline-Adlerian Approach to Working with Clients Struggling with Grief or Depression
Collateral Beauty Video CLICK HERE
Slides for Courage in Connection Adlerian Suicide Prevention
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Workshop Schedule
(All times are Mountain Time)
Friday, October 10th, 2025
8:30 – 10:00 AM PART ONE: The Impact of Loss and Grief: The Heartbreak of Humanity
Grief: The Undesirable Human Emotion
- Social interest: The central core of our being
- Grief, addiction & depression: The triadic bypass of mental health
- The differences between grief and depression
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s stages of grief (with my suggested changes)
Grief: The Inescapable Human Experience
- The five gates of grief
- The many faces of grief
- The six portals of pain
10:00 – 10:15 AM Morning Break
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Grief: The Inevitable Effects on Human Existence
- Adlerian Depth Psychology: The roots of our existence
- Relational, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects from bypassing grief
- Adlerian theory: An existential, holistic, and in-depth approach to healing
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 PM PART TWO Need for Healing Relationships: The Heartbeat of Humanity
The ART (Adlerian Relational Therapy) of Counseling
- Counseling is both science and art
- Adlerian stages of counseling and my terms
- Clients’ needs for a healing relationship
The Adlerian Counseling Relationship
- An egalitarian relationship:
- An empowering relationship:
- An encouraging relationship:
- My Adlerian approach: The “Encouragement Model”
An Adlerian Approach to Working Through Grief
- Stage 1: Engaging with clients and encountering their pain
- Stage 2: Enlightening the client’s lifestyle and examining priorities
- Stage 3: Envisioning the future while embracing the present sorrow
- Stage 4: Encouraging movement towards healing with heightened social interest
2:30 – 2:45 PM Afternoon Break
2:45 – 4:00 PM
Stage 1: Engaging with Clients and Encountering their Pain
- Four aspects of personhood
- Helping the client to embrace the loss and begin to grieve
- Making use of early memories, metaphors, or dreams to help the processing of grief
Stage 2: Enlightening the Client’s Lifestyle and Examining Priorities
- What does lifestyle have to do with grief?
- A developmental perspective on lifestyle and development
- Lifestyle protects against re-experiencing inferior feelings
- When the lifestyle is not able to prevent harm and loss
The Heartache of Humanity
- The effect of grief on lifestyle
- The challenge of enlightening the client about the path towards healing
- Exploring Lifestyle Through Early Memories
- The canyon metaphor: “The Pit of Despair”
- Ethical Integration Begin
15Saturday, October 11th, 2025
8:30 – 10:00 AM PART THREE: Moving Forward with Others: Heart-Mending of Humanity
Motivating the Grieving Client to Move Towards Others
- Re-defining the meaning of loss
- Re-examining the reality of the change
- Reviewing the significance of social interest
- Reorienting individuals by socially connecting amid the loss
Stage 3: Envisioning the Future while Embracing the Present Sorrow
- Grieving clients often prefer looking backwards rather than forward
- Looking backwards allows one to have gratitude for what life has brought
- Looking forward allows one to be grateful for the gifts one has to offer
- The body will move in the direction it is looking: Perception proceeds performance
Insight: Connecting the Lifestyle to the Presenting Concerns
- How can insight cultivate the desire for change?
- Why insight alone is sometimes not enough for change
- What does it mean to “Sweeten the Soup”?
10:00 – 10:15 AM Morning Break
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Stage 4: Reorienting the Lifestyle through Encouragement
- Recognizing the major obstacles to change: Fear, fog, and familiarity
- Overcoming the obstacles to change through a healing relational experience
Encouraging Movement by Heightening One’s Social Interest
“The lifestyle develops in the context of early social relationships. The adjustment (or tweaking) of the lifestyle is most likely to occur in the context of safe, healing relationships”- Bauman
- Integration in Supervision
- Introduction to Assessment Questions
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 PM Courage in Connection – Suicide Prevention Through an Adlerian Lens, Presented by – CAM Melick
2:30 – 2:45 PM Break
2:45 – 4:15 PM
