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Updating Psychotherapeutic Practices with Ancient Indigenous Wisdom

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CE Credits: 1 Credits
Length: 1 Hour
Level: Introductory
CE Eligibility: APA, ASWB ACE, ANCC, NAADAC, CPA, NYSED
Training Style: Video
Category: GIFR Membership Exclusive
Intended Audience: Mental Health, Correctional, and Legal Professionals

Training Description
Through the aboriginal practice of storytelling, with minimal lecturing, Gerry will explain the Native American concept of “Original Instructions” as it pertains to today’s healing practices. It is a practical application of Kierkegaard’s notion of living our life forward by understanding it backward. As we create more and more sophisticated technologies, there is a tendency to conclude there is no validity to any other culture, or period of time, in which healers believed and acted differently. Yet, ancient cultures healed each other in accord with long established best practices that flowed with the rhythms of their natural environment. Drawing from his books Ancient Ways and Ancient Ethics for Today’s Healers, Gerry will explain how psychological and medical methodologies can advance when we are willing to look backward. Grounded in a variety of ways of knowing, rooted in our best personal ethics, when reverent rituals are included in our compassionate healing practices, and as sessions slow down and quiet down, patient healing will be expedited.
Trainer Biographies
Geral Blanchard, LPC, has served both the victims and perpetrators of trauma for over 40 years. He is the author of The Difficult Connection and co-author of Sexual Abuse in America. Geral’s long-standing interest in the many ways indigenous cultures inform today’s psychology is showcased in his book Ancient Ways: Indigenous Healing Innovations for the 21st Century. After residing in Wyoming for decades, Geral now maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Des Moines, Iowa, and regularly travels to Africa, South America, and Canada to work with traditional healers.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
  • Understand the Native concept of Original Instructions
  • Understand that advancement of the psychotherapeutic art does not require moving past the past, but incorporating it
  • Understand what a reverential and ritual based practice can look like, without mimicking unfamiliar cultural practices

1 Sponsorship: Multi-Health Systems, Inc. (MHS, Inc.) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MHS maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts Continuing Education Credit sponsored by the American Psychological Association. The Global Institute of Forensic Research, provider #1371, 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. Global Institute of Forensic Research maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 6/8/2022-6/8/2025. Social Workers completing this course receive continuing education credits. Multi-Health Systems, Inc. (MHS, Inc.) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MHS maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Multi-Health Systems, Inc. (MHS, Inc.) has been approved by NAADAC as an approved Continuing Education, Provider No. 144308. Programs that do not qualify for NAADAC credit are clearly identified. MHS maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The Global Institute of Forensic Research (GIFR) has been approved by NBCC as an approved Continuing Education provider. ACEP No.6711. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. GIFR is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Global Institute of Forensic Research (GIFR) 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-0337. Multi-Health Systems, Inc. (MHS, Inc.) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0036.

2 Refund/Cancellation Policy: If you wish to request a refund on account of technical difficulties, please contact [email protected].

3 Commercial Supports: Multi-Health Systems, Inc. (MHS, Inc.) reports no conflicts of interest in the development and sponsorship of this training. MHS receives no commercial support for its Continuing Education programs or from its presenters.

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