1. Illness Management and Recovery Clinic
Applied Behavioural Medicine
4-Part clinic for individuals with chronic illness and stress-related problems.
Goal: To compliment external illness management (medication, surgery etc.) with internal healing processes that control the psychological and emotional aspects of illness and healing.
Part 1: Controlling Stress Associated with Illness
Relaxation training for reducing the stress and anxiety associated with illness. In part 1 we "stress proof" ourselves in order to manage illness effectively.
Part 2: Mental Management of Illness
Part 2 involves learning techniques to control thoughts and feelings that cause a negative response in the body (tension, headaches, pain etc.). Secondly, finding positive aspects to one's illness to enhance healing.
Part 3: Mental Imagery and Healing
Part 3 deals with each individual's specific illness condition such as pain, immobility, anger, etc. Mental imagery is used to find new recovery solutions and, to aid in the body's own specific healing processes.
Part 4: Unconscious Healing
Part 4 involves healing with advanced imagery techniques. Secondly, dreamwork or "prodromal dreaming" will be explored to find your body's own solutions to healing and recovery.
Instructional CD and Workbook Provided
2. Mind-Body Healing With Dream Therapy
Researchers and scientists have known for decades that dreams carry a wealth of information, that they are meaningful to the dreamer and, that they are a problem-solving mechanism in the brain.
With the four dream interpretation techniques taught in this program, participants will find the underlying emotions, the unconscious desires and the large storehouse of memories all playing and interacting within. The result of applying this scientific knowledge to dreams is that a wealth of self-discovery and insight is to be had. The dreams will reveal the dreamer's health, personality, desires, wishes, longings, goals, mind-body connections and deepest self. The meanings will provide solutions to life problems, relationship information, spiritual paths and, all things relevant to the dreamer. Dreams are an inexhaustible wealth of information for the dreamer.
The 4 Dream Interpretation techniques are: The Storytelling Method (DeCicco, 2006), The 2-A Method (DeCicco, 2007), The Projective Method (DeCicco, 2007) and Meditative Dream Re-Entry (DeCicco, 2007). See PRODUCTS for More Information.