Seven Channels Process Group: Deepening Embodied Relational Experience

The Seven Channels Process Group series focuses on receiving the transformative gifts of the secure base that we aspire to create as therapists. Our focus will be integrating and deepening the self of the therapist. We will work to offer alternative pathways to the counter-transference reactivity that can show up with clients into opportunities for growth.

 We will practice whole-body somatic consciousness and speak in explicit I-statements about our internal experience. This produces an atmosphere of subtle discernment and evokes surprises of emergent self-reflection and bottom-up expression.   This is not a therapy group, but instead accesses self-at-best skill development focused on heart-to-heart loving compassion, deep reflection and acknowledgment of self and other.

(The remaining sessions in the 2023 Process Group are on Thursdays: 9/7/23 and 10/5/23.)

Learning Objectives

  1. Identify three ways to help establish a secure base in treatment.

  2. Describe two ways to regulate emotional reactivity.

  3. Detect the healthiest aspects of each individual.

  4. Utilize two methods to help an individual to process emotional experience.

  5. Define why affirmation of the self is important.

  6. Explain how clients can melt defense of intellectualization

  7. Find shared matching values in couple members.

  8. Describe how to process warded-off emotional experience.

  9. Conduct meta-therapeutic processing when couples experience reparative experiences.

  10. Define the value of the core emotion of surprise in treatment.

  11. Integrate core affect through slowing down.

  12. Locate two ways to tailor treatment to a couple member’s attachment style.

  13. Select opportunities to help couple members to feel and show more positivity.

The 2024 group will again be limited to six participants. We will meet monthly for a renewable eight-session series on Thursdays:  1/25/24, 2/22/24, 3/21/24, 4/18/24, 5/16/24, 6/13/24, then a summer break until 9/26/24 and 10/24/24 from 8 AM PST to 10 AM PST

If you would like to discuss being a participant in this group, click the “Contact David Mars for Interview Button” below.

The registration fee is $800 paid in full or payment of $100 a month for 8 months by subscription. This series is highly compatible with the Multichannel Webinar, but not with Core Training or Supervision due to the nature of the work.

Additional information:

  1. This course is designed for intermediate to advanced learners.

  2. Our target audience is Psychologists, MFTs, Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychiatrists, Licensed Social Workers and Pastoral Counselors.

  3. Our schedule for this course is:

    8:00 to 8:20 AM PST Orientation and opening eight-minute Channels of Experience meditation

     8:20 to 8:45 AM Check-in and discussion of each participant’s response to the meditation and any breakthroughs of awareness that they want to share

    8:45 to 9:45 Discussion in the context of demonstrating grounded alternatives of moment-to-moment tracking of the seven channels of experience to judgment and reflexive reactivity, while practicing selective perception, reception and expression using process language.

    9:45 to 10:00 AM Metaprocessing and closing

  4. Our cancelation is policy is that you may end your enrollment at any time and receive a refund for the remaining sessions of the course. In terms of grievances, questions or concerns may be communicated to David Mars, Ph.D. by email at davidmarsphd@gmail.com or by phone call to 415-234-3821.

  5. David Mars, Ph.D. the presenter for this course holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, is licensed as an MFT, has taught Transformative Couples Therapy® (TCT) to psychotherapists for over thirteen years. He is the developer of the TCT method and was formerly a faculty member of the AEDP Institute teaching the method for eleven years. He is the director of the Center for Transformative Therapy has been treating couples in private practice for over forty years. For a more complete bio, see https://cfttsite.com/david-mars-phd-mft

  6. There are no conflicts of interest or external commercial support related to this course or any course offered by the Center for Transformative Therapy.

  7. CUE Management Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CUE Management Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.