| Workshops by Dr. Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Kasl is
available for lectures, personal growth workshops, organizational
consulting, and trainings for professionals. She presents materials
in a warm, compassionate, often humorous manner, involving the
participants and making the materials at once personally accessible and
applicable to everyday situations. All workshops and trainings
include lecture dialogue, and experiential components. |
"Excellent speaker, very interesting, presented a wealth of information in
a rich stimulating fashion." |
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To inquire about workshops or marathon therapy, contact Dr. Kasl (for fastest response, phone) |
P.O. Box
1302 Lolo, Montana 59847 |
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Workshop Descriptions
Intensive (Marathon) Psychotherapy
Upcoming Book Readings by Dr. Kasl
Upcoming Workshop: Overcoming Trauma and Addiction with Love, Strength and Power: A 16 Step Empowerment Approached
Hosted by: Abused Women's Aid In Crisis
Free and Open to the Public
Anhorage AK, October 17, 2008
Abused Women's Aid presents Dr. Charlotte Kasl psychologist, addictions specialist, and author of Many Roads, One Journey. Dr. Kasl will present: "Women, Empowerment and Overcoming Addiction and Trauma - A 16 Step Model for Discovery and Healing. For a full workshop description see below. The 16 Steps provide a flexible, developmental model that encourages focusing on one's strengths, developing authentic relationships, accepting one's humanness, healing the physical body, understanding the influences of culture, and learning to trust one's internal wisdom. For more information call Melissa Emmal at (907)743-5715. |
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| Date | Location | Subject | Registration Contact |
| May 14-17, 2007 | Charlotte, North Carolina | Day long 16 Step empowerment workshop for overcoming trauma and addiction | Sarah Moore 704-687-8962 |
| May 24-25, 2007 | Ames, Iowa | Keynote lecture and Two 1 1/2 hour workshops onon her 16 Step empowerment model for overcoming trauma and addiction | Kathy Nesteby
515-281-6915 |
| May 27-29, 2007 | The Sun Valley Wellness Festival Sun Valley, Idaho |
If the Buddha Dated or Married: Relationships as a Spiritual JourneyZen and Art of Lasting Relationships: |
Kathleen Turner kathleen@sunvalleywellness.org 208-721-0987 |
| July 20-22, 2007 | Ben Franklin Institute Boulder, Colorado |
Two 1 1/2 hour workshops: • 16 Step empowerment model • Relationships |
Paul Ortman paul@bfisummit.com |
| September 28, 2007 | Sacramento, California | Community Addiction Recovery Association (CARA): "Beyond Talk Therapy" and "The Healing Power of Relationships and Taking Action in our Lives" |
Carolyn Reuben
(916) 485-2272 |
| October 13, 2007 | Nashville, Tennessee | Day long 16 Step empowerment workshop for overcoming trauma and addiction |
Susan Hammond White
615-482-6574 |
| November 21-22, 2007 | BC Association of Specialized Victim Assistance and Counseling. Vancouver, British Columbia |
Keynote address and three-hour workshop: "Yes You Can: Healing from Trauma and Addiction with Love, Strength, and Power" |
Susan Armstrong (604) 633-2506 |
| March 7-9, 2008 | KRIPALU Lenox, MA |
Weekend Workshop on 16 Steps "Yes You Can: Healing from Trauma and Addiction with Love, Strength, and Power" |
To register, call |
| March 28-29, 2008 | Women in Psychology Conference Calgary, AB CANADA |
Evening and day-long workshops: "Yes You Can: Healing from Trauma and Addiction with Love, Strength, and Power" |
Sharon Stopforth 403-259-3427 |
Sept. 26 2008 |
Summit Community Services 125 10th Ave South Cranbook BC Canada |
Overcoming Trauma & Addiction with Empowering & Ego State Therapy | Anita Chambers 250-489-3114 ext 223 |
| Oct. 17, 2008 | Abused Women's Aid In Crisis 100 W 13th Ave Anchorage AK | See above for description | Melissa Emmal 907-743-5715 |
| May 25-27, 2009 | David Berman Concurrent Disorders Conference University of British Columbia | Overcoming Trauma & Addiction with Empowering & Ego State Therapy | Elaine Lian 604-822-4965 |
| Jan. 2-4, 2009 | Rowe Conference Center Rowe, MA |
Empowerment for the New Year: Tools for Getting Unstruck & Having Fun |
Linda (413) 339-4954 |
| Subject | Description |
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Many Roads, One Journey The 16-step Empowerment Approach for Overcoming Addiction and Trauma |
This workshop will help therapists and people recovering from addictions to understand the interrelated nature of addiction and trauma. Dr. Kasl will show how the 16-Step empowerment model addresses many of the needs of trauma survivors for a sense of mastery, healthy connections with others and to chart a personal course of healing and discovery. The 16-Step empowerment model is positive, holistic and flexible based on love and power, not fear. It is a socially concsious approach that honors cultural differences and individual needs. The model provides an invaluable source of support and information for people wanting to build self-esteem, affirm their inner wisdom and address interrelated nature of all addictions. This workshop will descibe the fundamentals of empowerment, and explore how the 16-Steps can be used to support women attaining sobriety and a self-respecting life. It will include numerous strategies for building self-esteem and casting out the voices of internalized oppression that stem from trauma, conditioning, racism, sexism and talk about the particular needs of women in "recovery". |
| If the Buddha Got Stuck
The Zen and Art of Getting Unstuck in Love and Life |
In this workshop we’ll explore the saboteurs, censors and discouraging inner voices that keep us from becoming our, most authentic courageous selves. We’ll do exercises to take on our dragons, increase our sense of deservedness, explore what it means to take care of ourselves, walk through fear (or do it anyhow), and reach out for help when we need it. This will be lively, uplifting and give you specific ways to open up your life. |
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If the Buddha Dated (or Married) Relationships: The Heart of Recovery |
Building on Buddhist principles for creating loving, authentic relationships, Dr. Kasl gives a clear and accessible guide to improving, revitalizing, and creating loving relationships. Dr. Kasl combines professional expertise with real-life stories of "successful" couples to define the "Buddha Union" - one that is harmonious with the path of awakening. |
| If the
Buddha Dated (or Married) The Zen and Art of Intimate Relationships and How They Help Us Heal From Addiction |
Through a combination of key teachings of Buddhism, psychology, Sufi, and other spiritual traditions, this talk will show how people find and form intimate relationships that help them feel deeply connected and become more truly themselves. Including: understand differentiation and fusion; explore the daily practice of living and loving; how to make friends with conflict; when to look in your own mirror; the keys to keeping sexuality vital and alive; the difference between being close and being dependant. |
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Yes, You Can! A 16-Step Empowerment Approach to Overcoming Addictions |
Teaches the fundamentals of empowerment and includes numerous strategies for finding one's inner truths and building self-esteem. The 16-step approach intertwines steps to create affirming relationships, heal the physical body, bond in power, fine one's strengths, trust one's inner wisdom, and understand addiction and codependency in a cultural context. |
| Women, Sex,
and Addiction A Search for Love and Power |
Will help women to recognize the symptoms of their addiction, explore the addictive thinking (sex equals love, etc.), learn self care, and find a model of sexuality that is truly born of their passion, love, wisdom, and creativity. |
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A Tapestry of Connections-- Plenary |
Authentic connections to ourselves, spirit and others are the true source of overcoming addiction and trauma. From the intricate interweaving of different brain functions, to accessing our feelings, to tapping our deepest wisdom, to bringing integrity and kindness into all our relationships, we form a tapestry of connections, each separate, yet interdependent. |
| Sexuality, Spirituality and Relationships | Explores sexuality as a source of love, power and spirituality and the role of passion in our lives. Teaches skills to: avoid fusion in relationships; to stay centered in the face of conflict and strong emotions. Give exercises to let go of past conditioning around sexuality and transform our core beliefs. |
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Overcoming Internalized Oppression/Depression: Naming and Releasing the Voices that Haunt our Minds |
Helps participants recognize the double bind of internalized oppression from all forms of prejudice including sexism, racism, classism and homophobia. Explores how these oppressive voices live inside you, affect your self-esteem and relationships, and what you can do to release these negative voices from tour minds and find your authentic self. |
| Empowering Women So Treatment Works | Addresses the specific needs of women in overcoming addiction and codependency. Fundamentals of empowerment and becoming a healthy, evolved human being. Learn to discern between intruders, addictive voices, and internal wisdom. Explores the 16-Step empowerment model. |
Sample Workshop Schedule |
Agenda: 9:00 a.m. to Noon Introduction: The Trauma, the Response or If I can't get love, I'll take drugs, sex, chaos, or romance. Disassocation, affect, dis-regulation, compulsions automatic responses and addictions as natural responses to trauma and lack of secure attachments. Why do I Keep Reacting this Way? Survival responses to trauma and abuse that get "hard wired" in the brain and nervous system and become automatice. How responses for self protection and the alleviation of anxiety become complusions and addictions. Learn to recognize fight, flight, freeze reactions. What's Love go to do with it? Sexual Addiction and Codependency Traumatic relationships as intertwined with addictions. The potential for healthy, safe relationships to help heal from trauma and addiction. Lunch 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Healing through the body: The importance of unlocking trauma in the body and learning to set boundaries, self-protect and take action. Explanation and demonstration. Finding the Freedom o fRealizing you not your mind: The zen and art of finding your natural self and lowering stres by getting out of the game of proving, achieving or competing. Day Two Naming the Voices that Dance in our heads: Learn to sort out internalized critics/saboteurs and addictive voices and recognize one's authentic voice. Understand internalized oppression/depression stemming from abuse, proverty, racism, sexism and homophobia. Yes you Can! Empowerment and the 16 Steps Model for Overcoming Addiction and Trauma. Create your personal road map to overcoming addiction and trauma. Find your internal wisdom and strenght, create safe trusting relationships, develop self-mastery, heal the body, learn self care, develop curiosity and creativity. Lighten Up, It Matters but it's Not Serious! Quick strategies for preventing burnout and learning to lighten up.
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| Intensive
Psychotherapy - While weekly
therapy can be tremendously helpful, there are times when we need to go
deeper and have more intensive work to release trauma and break through
tenacious patterns that keep us stuck. Dr. Kasl works with a
combination of psychotherapy, hypnotherapy EMDR quantum psychology to help
people get to the source of trauma and negative beliefs and release them
from the nervous system at a cellular level. Dr. Kasl has developed
this multi-faceted approach over twenty-five years of working with incest,
abuse, trauma, psychosomatic symptoms, anxiety, depression and addiction.
This work is appropriate for couples and individuals (sessions vary from 3
to 16 hours over a four day period.
Intensive Therapy is Helpful When: Philosophy: Intensive psychotherapy is a creative process that varies with each individual or couple. |