Mindfulness-Informed Psychotherapy: Inquiring Deeply

In this intermediate level continuing education course, Dr. Marjorie Schuman will explore a mindfulness-informed paradigm for clinical exploration in psychotherapy, “Inquiring Deeply,” which uses Buddhist methods of awareness practice (mindfulness, investigation, and inquiry) to amplify and unpack psychological experience. Through the meditative process of asking questions and listening deeply for answers, Inquiring Deeply consciously engages our experience of problems in an ongoing way which invites the wisdom within them to unfold.

Informed both by the teachings of Buddhism and by relational psychoanalytic theory, Inquiring Deeply weaves together awareness practice and psychodynamic understanding into a cogent framework that integrates mindfulness into psychotherapy as an aspect of self-reflection rather than as a clinical technique.

This intermediate level continuing education course is designed to help mental health professionals:

1. Compare and contrast mindfulness and psychotherapy with respect to their purpose and process.
2. State the basic assumptions involved in relational psychotherapy.
3. Identify at least three common misguided existential assumptions that can contribute to psychological problems.
4. Explain how the method of deep inquiry (“inquiring deeply”) can be incorporated into the psychotherapeutic dialogue.
5. Describe the elements involved in transformative conversation.

Statement of program material's accuracy, utility, and risks: This program presents clinical method that combines a relational psychotherapeutic approach based in contemporary psychoanalytic theory with a mindfulness-informed strategy based in Buddhist methods of awareness practice (mindfulness, investigation, and inquiry). It is consistent with the ethics code of the American Psychological Association. A significant body of research supports the idea that all of the elements utilized in this clinical method are effective and safe when properly applied.

Declaration identifying any potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support: Presentation of this material is free from any conflict of interest on the part of the instructor.

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How the Web Conference Works

Before the scheduled event, all registered attendees will be sent a reminder email from GoodTherapy with specific instructions on how to log in to the webinar, as well as links to optional handout materials if applicable.

To attend the event, registered attendees will log in to the Microsoft Teams web conference center using a computer or device with internet access and/or call into the teleconference line on a phone. Attendees will be able to submit questions during the webinar via text chat in the Microsoft Teams web conference center and will be able to see the live streaming video and/or document sharing. 

At the conclusion of this event, participants will receive an email with information about how to request a CE certificate in your GoodTherapy Account. To confirm attendance, participants must enter the start code and end code announced at the beginning and end of the live presentation. Participants will also be prompted to complete an online survey evaluating the event. Participants will need to complete this online survey within six days after the event. Once completed, participants will be able to download a copy of their CE certificate right away by logging in to their GoodTherapy account.

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Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety. 

GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395. GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost, as well as other member benefits such as a profile listing in GoodTherapy's Therapist Directory. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Just want CE credits? Sign up for a monthly or annual CE Subscription with GoodTherapy to get unlimited access to our CE Program, including this event, other live CE web conferences, and hundreds of hours of homestudy courses.

Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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