Tom McGee is a psychotherapist who incorporates nature practices to help people enrich and enhance their lives. Leading groups and retreats since 1993, McGee is a wilderness guide, trained spiritual director, member of Spiritual Directors International and member of the Wilderness Guides Council, an organization dedicated to helping people access wilderness in a way that promotes personal and spiritual growth. He is also a certified provider for continuing education units for Licensed Clinical Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists in California. www.tommcgee.com .

WAKING UP ON EARTH:
Being with nature through contemplative practice
Tom McGee, MFCC
July 15 - 19, 2009

Program fee $90

Our bodies and our awareness have developed in reciprocity with other-than-human entities with whom we share this planet. As a culture, we have lost a reverence for those forms that awareness takes when it is not in human form. When we think about it, we realize we live among multiple intelligences that take the form of elk, dolphin, pine, squirrel, crow, and boulder. It is not merely a matter of esthetics but a matter of survival on this earth that we make contact and learn from the other powers in the land. Using contemplative techniques that enhance communication between human and nature, we will explore our experience of ourselves in the outdoors and deepen our connection to the life around us. We will awaken ourselves to the web of life and become participants in the more-than-human world. Participation in this program will offer:
- A deepened connection with nature and awareness of the interdependence of all living forms
- Access to natural surroundings in ways that support self-esteem and self-image
- Reduced stress through a nurturing relationship to the environment
- Enhanced sensory awareness and mental clarity
- Facilitation of spiritual awareness through nature practices


CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR MFTs and LCSWs:

This course meets the qualifications for 14 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. 

In addition to the above-mentioned offerings, this training will offer to licensed therapists:
Group facilitation methods
Introduction to principles of ecopsychology
Use of poetry and story in faciliting discussion of personal material
Methods of stress reduction and relaxation to reduce anxiety
Exploring the spiritual element in psychotherapy
Facilitating mindfulness as a source of relaxation and self-awareness
CEUs provided by BBS provider # PCE 3783, Thomas McGee, L.C.S.W.