Counseling and healing are not about fixing others, or making everything right for others, but rather shedding the light of empathy and compassion on their path to help them as they find their own way. |
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Looking into the eyes of a greyhoud, one cannot help but see the amazing soul within. Having an actual conversation with such a soul using the skills of loving, respectful, empathic inquiry, tells us so much more about the stories of souls--their journeys, their current thoughts, feelings and needs than a one way psychic/intuitive reading.
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Compassion and love alone do not heal, if the helper lacks empathic inquiry into the client's story and heart, and merely imposes tools and beliefs of their own. It is the skillful expression of empathy, along with compassion and love, that offers a haven of safety and understanding for another to open to healing.
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Workshop Location Cypress Inn
www.cypress-inn.comOwned by animal lover, activist and film star Doris Day, the Inn is just blocks from the stunningly beautiful Carmel Beach and is the area's premier pet friendly facility. Animals are welcome in the lobby, lounges, lodging rooms and two in our meeting room. At the beach commune with sea birds, sea otters, harbor seals, dolphins and whales.
Lodging is conveniently available at the Cypress Inn as well as low cost Motel 8's, a youth hostel, and camping grounds. For detailed information about reserving lodging and about the local areaclick here.
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To view a larger version of this Soul Empathy Model reviewed in the workshop, click here.
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Workshop Series, Practice Groups and Mentoring:
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The complete workshop series
provides preparation for a career as a professional animal communicator, as well as continuing education for practicing professional animal communicators. The series provides training in the competencies needed to practice animal communication from a solid professional and ethical foundation within a client-centered, empathy based philosophy of healing.
Individual workshops are all open to and appropriate for anyone wanting to remember and fine tune their telepathic abilities to talk primarily with their own animal family, and for those interested in personal growth or continuing professional development in any of the workshop topics.
· Basic Animal Communication
· Advanced Animal
Communication
· Essential Counseling Skills
· Preventing & Healing
Compassion Fatigue
· Flower Essences for Animals
& People
· Legacies of Love:
Healing from Grief
· Grief Support Skills: Helping
Others Heal from Grief
· Practice Groups are held
quarterly on Saturday
afternoons in Carmel, CA
Mentoring is available by phone by appointment.
For more information, click here. |
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Quick Links to
Animals in our Hearts
Nurturing the People Who Love, Serve and Grieve Animals
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Dear Colleagues,
I've always known in my heart that the necessary root of all healing is compassion and love. What I've learned, however, is that for us as healing practitioners to feel compassion and love is not enough. Communicating these qualities to our clients effectively is not automatic, however deeply we feel them in our hearts. I've learned that if I intend to offer a true healing presence, I need to use specific skills and ethics and with conscious intention.
The workshop was develped by scrutinizing my own efforts to integrate the skills of counseling and therapy--the roots of my education and professional work since 1976--into my private practice of animal communicaiton and flower essence therapy which I began in 1991.
The workshop is about the conscious overlay of basic yet powerful counseling skills into our work as animal communicators and healers. When strategically applied, these skills allow us to bring the best of what our souls have to offer to serve others. It's not about becoming a therapist. It's about borrowing some time tested empathy skills from the field of therapy which research has shown to have an extremely positive impact on the growth of clients and applying them to our healing arts work.
The energy of empathy allows a person or animal who is in pain or in struggle to feel acknowledged, understood and capable of a greater openness to healing. Offered without empathy, the best expertise and healing tools in the world can be perceived as cold, uncaring, ego based, or even useless. Next to love, empathy is the most powerful force in the universe to facilitate healing. This workshop provides an opportunity to learn very specific empathic skills to bring the power of our love, compassion and expertise alive to serve the clients we care about so much.
For more information on this client-centered, empathy based approach, click here. I lovingly invite you to join me at this workshop.
Namaste'
Teresa
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Workshop Content
In this intensive and intimate workshop, we tell our stories of how we came to be healers and animal communicators, what has worked for us and what has not, where we feel strong and where we have doubts, and how to integrate essential counseling skills into our practices. During informational presentations, discussions and practice sessions participants have an oppportunity to:
Frame consultations to be Client-Centered: what that means, what it looks like, how it's structured, what is involved; how this approach is different from other consultation styles; research indicating the positive impact of the client-centered approach on clients
- Recognize how personality types impact helper effectiveness
- Learn and practice the skills of emotional empathy
- Learn and practice the skills of gentle questioning
- Understand soul empathy and its power to heal
- Define and plan for healthy boundaries: physical, emotional and psychic
- Learn appropriate use of self disclosure in consultations--its purpose and limitations
- Learn how to protect yourself from depletion and unnecssary absorption of others' pain
- Increase your comfort level in being present with others' pain
- Explore effective and ineffective references to spiritual beliefs when helping others
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Who Should Attend
This workshop is appropriate for both practicing professionals and students of animal communication and any healing arts fields. The ideas, issues and skills covered in the workshops are applicable to verbal or telepathic communication with both humans and animals.
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Workshop Costs and Registration
Workshop Fee is $432 Includes four full days of training and over 60 pages of handoutsTo Register:
1. Simply email us with your intention to attend. A spot will be held for you for two weeks.
2. Send a deposit of $200.00 to confirm and hold your reservation. Upon receipt of your deposit you will be sent location directions. a list of what to bring. etc.
3. Send the remaining $232.00 two weeks before the workshop.
To use credit cards click PayPal below. Contact us for information on sending checks.
Refunds are available only if workshops is cancelled and are not transferrable.
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Photo and Image Credits and Descriptions
Image of person in boat & three healers on land: A heartfelt thanks to artist Nancy Bright, who has graciously allowed the use of her copyrighted image in the top left column titled The Blessing. This image has been an inspiration to me for many years about the true role of healing. For information on buying this image and many more click here.
Image of Hands Holding Hand: A heartfelt thanks to artist Rachel Hemmingson who has graciously allowed
the use of her inspiring, copyrighted image of the comforting touch of
hands above. To purchase copies, email Rachel.
Photo of Greyhound: Traveler Jackson Brown, deeply beloved dog of Debra Steffen. Photo copyright Laurie Sand. May Jack and Debra be blessed always.
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of woman and cat: Marisa Katnic with her beloved cat Kairo, just days
before Kairo left the earth. Marisa says "the picture brings me peace
and moments to reflect on the true unity I shared with this cat. The
photo brings the two of us to one." May Marisa and Kairo be blessed always.
Image of hand holding light: artist unknown
Photo of ocean: Personal photo taken by Teresa near her home in Big Sur
Soul Empathy Model: Copyright Teresa Wagner; computer graphic work created by talented Ronni Sweet of www.rare-bird.net.
Last photos: A very happy Teresa on a whale trip; her cat Katie who graced the earth from 1978-1995. Cat/whale logo by the talented Ronni Sweet of www.rare-bird.net.
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Teresa has an undergraduate degree in psychology and a masters degree in counseling from Villanova University, and has completed post graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Nottingham, England where she studied with Carl Rogers, the creator of Client Centered Therapy. She has used the counseling skills taught in her workshop in her early career of counseling delinquent adolescents, during her fifteen year career in corporate organization development, in her pet loss counseling work since 1986, and in her animal communication and flower essence practice since 1991.
 Teresa WagnerAnimal Communication and Flower Essence Consultant
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