Session 1: The Basic Principles of Constructed Awareness

• 9:00 – 9:45        Welcome, Introduction, and Awareness Exercise

• 9:45 – 10:00      What Is Constructed Awareness?

• 10:00 – 10:45    A Nonviolent Approach to Psychotherapy

• 10:45 – 11:00    The Transformative Power of Awareness

• 11:00 – 11:15    Break

• 11:15 – 11:30    Theory of Constructed Experience

• 11:30 – 12:00    What Is an Emotion?

• 12:00 – 12:30    Are Emotions Real?

• 12:30 – 12:45    Cultural Construction of Emotions

• 12:45 – 1:00      Emotion Tracker

• 1:00 – 2:00        Lunch

• 2:00 – 2:30        Awareness Exercise and Group Discussion

• 2:30 – 3:30        Tracking the Orientation of the Client’s Constructed Experience—Using the Constructed Awareness Questionnaire

• 3:30 – 3:45        Break

• 3:45 – 5:15        Practicum: Using the Constructed Awareness Questionnaire

• 5:15 – 5:30        Identifying Self-Awareness Resources Based on the Client’s Needs

• 5:30 – 6:00        Group Discussion

Session 2: Awareness of the Internal and External Senses 

• 9:00 – 10:00 Group Discussion and Awareness Exercise

• 10:00 – 11:30 Awareness of Senses

• 11:30 – 11:45 Break

• 11:45 – 12:15 Talking with Your Hands

• 12:15 – 1:00 Tuning Sensation—Pendulation

• 1:00 – 2:00 Lunch

• 2:00 – 2:30 Awareness Exercise and Group Discussion

• 2:30 – 3:15 Tuning Senses and Sensation—Orienting

• 3:15 – 3:30 Break

• 3:30 – 5:30 Practicum

• 5:30 – 6:00 Group Discussion

Session 3: Awareness of Thoughts 

• 9:00 – 10:00      Group Discussion and Awareness Exercise

• 10:00 – 11:15    Review of CAQ and Emotion Tracker

• 11:15 – 11:30    Break

• 11:30 – 1:00      What is a Thought?

• 1:00 – 2:00        Lunch

• 2:00 – 2:30        The Interpreter

• 2:30 – 3:00        Group Discussion and Awareness Exercise

• 3:00 – 3:15        Expressing Actual Affirmations

• 3:15 – 3:30        Break

• 3:30 – 5:30        Practicum: Observing Thoughts

• 5:30 – 6:00        Group Discussion and Closing

Session 4: Relational Resources and Constructing Emotions

• 9:00 – 10:00      Group Discussion and Awareness Exercise

• 10:00 – 11:15 The Construction of Connection

• 11:15 – 11:30 Break

• 11:30 – 1:00 Practicum: Relational Resources

• 1:00 – 2:00 Lunch

• 2:00 – 2:30        Group Discussion and Awareness Exercise

• 2:30 – 3:00        Tuning Thought, Sensation, and Senses—Constructing Emotions

• 3:00 – 3:15        Spontaneous Resourcing/Processing

• 3:15 – 3:30        Break  

• 3:30 – 5:30        Practicum: Constructing Emotions and Spontaneous Resourcing/Processing

• 5:30 – 6:00        Group Discussion and Closing