Training Offerings

Learn to easily access your clients’ most powerful inner resources—their personal metaphors– with a client-centered,  systematic process that helps them get unstuck, heal, and move forward.

• Be more effective with clients and enjoy doing it!
• Better your listening skills
• Establish instant empathy
• Be assured you are working with your clients’ content, not your own ‘stuff’
• Take the guess work out of what your clients need most right now
• Empower your clients to trust their inner knowing and find their own solutions
• Work on the mind/body level
• Use an experiential process that enhances brain neuroplasticity

Most class sizes limited to 12 participants so you’ll have plenty of personal encouragement and guidance.

Introductory Courses
Symbolic Modeling Introduction-online
Introduction to Symbolic Modeling Basics Part I
Introduction to Symbolic Modeling Basics Part II
Walking in Your Metaphor Landscape-Clean Space

Advanced Courses
All Together Now
Readying Your Client for Change
Facilitating As Your Client Draws

Online  Courses

Symbolic Modeling: A Detailed Introduction for Mental Health Clinicians
This online course introduces the materials from Basics Parts I and II, along with an introduction that compares and contrasts Symbolic Modeling to other  therapeutic theories and approaches, particularly CBT. Included as well is an annotated transcript of a session.
While the course is geared towards therapists, if you want an online introduction to this material, anyone  can benefit from this step-by-step presentation. Should you then decide to pursue the training, you will come that much better prepared to get the full benefit from your experiences as a client and facilitator, with a trainer at your side to help you hone your facilitation skills.
For details, visit www.yourceus.com
Cost: only $50. Approved for core clinical continuing education credits by ASWB, NASW, NBCC, CBBS (accepted in most states) for 5 credit hours.

In-Person Courses
Introduction to Symbolic Modeling Basics Part I:   Facilitating Clarity
Introduces the most basic Clean Language questions used with everyday information or metaphors
Works with Desired Outcomes, starting with the fundamental question that guides all Symbolic Modeling sessions, ”What would you like to have happen?”
Teaches a systematic questioning process to brings clarity to any issue or idea
The training balances didactic explanations with lots of practice so you’ll understand the what’s and why’s of Symbolic Modeling and Clean Language AND gain basic skills. We’ll practice utilizing these skills with verbal, drawing and space-related approaches so you can find your preferred way of working with a variety of individuals and/or groups.
Training runs 21 hours over 3 1/2  days.
Prerequisites: None
Class size is limited to 12.
Continuing Education credits from NBCC available.
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Introduction to Symbolic Modeling Basics Part II:  Facilitating Change
Level II skills are a significant step up from Level I, and are well-utilized by therapists, counselors, Asian body workers, coaches and others in the healing professions.
With Level II training, we’ll:

• Move from clarity to encouraging conditions for change
• Continue to build on the basics by further developing your facilitating skills
• Add powerful additional questions for working more deeply still with metaphors
• Emphasize ‘thinking like a modeler’—on the logic of selecting questions and guiding the session

Theory and explanations are balanced with lots of hands-on practice and feedback from trainers.
Prerequisite: Level I training and a full Symbolic Modeling session with Gina or another approved facilitator so you can better appreciate the process.
Training runs  21 hours over 3 1/2 days.
Class size limited to 12.
Continuing Education credits from NBCC available.
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Walking in Your Metaphor Landscape: Facilitating Clean Space
Are you looking for an easy-to-learn, easy-to-facilitate technique that:

• Is client-centered ?
• Actively and creatively engages the client ?
• Can help a client gain clarity and make new discoveries about any topic ?
• Works with both mind and body ?
• Can rapidly address thoughts, feelings, beliefs and more ?
• Can guide an individual to develop an action plan ?

Just as you can imagine a real, physical space in your mind, you can reverse the process, and project your inner knowing into the physical space around you. Move in that space, and you’ll discover that what you know standing in different spots is different! Space becomes the metaphor you work with. Psychotherapist David Grove called this technique Clean Space.  You’ll have opportunities to explore your psychological response to space and ways to work with it creatively. With an introduction to Clean Space theory and demonstrations, you’ll practice with the technique as both client and facilitator.

Training runs 12 hours over two days.
Prerequisites: None
Continuing Education credits from NBCC available.
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Advanced Courses
We’ll be scheduling more advanced courses as we grow. Let us know if you’re interested even if you don’t see these on the calendar… that helps us plan based on the interest out there!

All Together Now
This course will give you an opportunity to put together all you’ve learned in Basics Parts I and II and practice with an experienced trainer at your side. You’ll again benefit from being a client,  improving your facilitating as you learn from your own responses to different facilitating styles and choices. (Your personal growth is an added bonus!) We’ll also practice applying Symbolic Modeling and Clean Language skills to group metaphors–great for working with couples or larger teams, as in business or education contexts.
Training runs 12 hours over 2 days.
Prerequisite: Basics Parts I and II
Class size limited to 12.
Continuing Education credits from NBCC available.
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Readying Your Client for Change
This advanced class is designed to offer further practice opportunities for the basic skills while introducing specific strategies around the issue of motivation and readiness. We’ll focus on ways to help your client get ready for change by exploring what might be beneath resistance or hesitation, recognizing and strengthening resources, and building momentum so relapses are less likely to occur.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Symbolic Modeling Basics Parts I and II  (previously called Levels I and II) or their equivalent with another Symbolic Modeling/Clean Language training program.
Class size limited to 12.
Training runs 12 hours over 2  days.
Continuing Education credits from NBCC available.
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Facilitating as Your Client Draws
If, during the Basics courses, you really connected with facilitating as your client actively develops his/her metaphor map throughout the session,  this advanced course is a great way for you to continue practicing and developing your modeling skills.  Whether you’re an art therapist who regularly engages with clients and their art work or  someone who likes having this versatile tool in your tool box for the right client or the right moment, being able to work with the whole of the metaphor landscape always in view for both you and the client has its advantages.
Training runs 12 hours over 2 days.
Prerequisite: Basics Parts I and II
Class size limited to 12.
Continuing Education credits from NBCC available.
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Calendar
Visit our Calendar to learn about upcoming scheduled talks, conferences and trainings.

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CEUs
Gina Campbell is a certified provider of CEU credits for NBCC, the National Board for Certified Counselors. All in-person trainings with her are eligible.
The National Federation for Biblio/Poetry Therapy has approved Gina’s trainings for didactic credit for those pursuing credentialing, subject to the approval of the trainee’s mentor/supervisor.
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