Soul Tracks
The Healing Journey of Spiritual Autobiography
Cultivate intuitive insights and creative empathy
Create a community of learning grounded in compassion
Cross new thresholds to find peace, purpose, and inspired direction
Join Katherine Paras in small, intimate classes and experience deep learning grounded in the power of carefully guided, heart-centered groups. In these live, online, experiential and interactive courses, you benefit from multimodal teaching practices that invite many parts of self to find new synthesis, harmony, and learning.
12 CEUs for Mental Health Professionals
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Who am I?
Why am I here?
What is the story I have been creating but not yet written?
The experiences that shape our search for meaning take a diversity of forms: the stranger faced in a dark alley, the rarefied air of a mountaintop, the undertow that fails to release us, the gentle breeze lifting the curtain that veils our view.
In this lively, interactive online training, we use image and word to explore the details of such landmarks of our lives. We honor these exceptional experiences - encounters that are perhaps mystical, synchronistic, death related, extraordinary, or extraordinarily ordinary. As we uncover and share our journeys' rich wisdom, we nourish these seeds of the sacred within our lives. We learn to cherish the sacred within all lives. Art-making, self-reflective writing, meditative practices, and collective witnessing will guide our steps. As the words of your spiritual autobiography emerge, new insights deepen healing.
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Who is this training for?
This experiential training in SOUL TRACKS can benefit many in their search for deeper meaning in their lives. Contributing to growth and self care, this course benefits people in the helping professions who wish to support clients’ search for meaning, inner guidance, and healing. Mental health counselors, social workers, therapists, psychologists, holistic nurses and physicians, pastoral counselors, among others can use this training to benefit their clients.
PARAS' CEU Courses are approved for all licenses issued by the NM Counseling and Therapy Practice Board and NM Social Work Examiners Board. CEUs may also be applicable to other state licensing boards.
Course Description
In this experiential training, participants will practice and refine use of techniques that focus responses to such questions as: Who am I? Why am I here? What is the story I have been creating all of my life but not yet read? Using these techniques to guide a client in writing a spiritual autobiography, therapists can help motivate people to: (1) Identify new perspectives and release old scripts; (2) Deepen personal resources, (3) Discover insights, and (4) Amplify self awareness of previously unacknowledged strengths, and (5) Uncover wisdom emerging through the creative review of the client’s history of life experiences.
Focused on collaborative, parallel learning processes, participants will engage in multiple, role-playing scenarios. To develop participants’ therapeutic skills: (1) ‘Therapists’ in this role-playing work will focus on the needs of a variety of ‘clients’, and (2) Participants in the role of ‘client’ will develop empathy for the client’s experience of writing a spiritual autobiography. Participants will use concomitant image-making, written self reflections, self mirroring, collective witnessing, and large and small group discussions to deepen therapeutic facility with this approach. We will also highlight applications of this approach to aspects of our clients’ lives other than spiritual development, for example: Job history and relationship to money; health history and relationship to physical self care; generational child-parent relationships; history of social relationships (friendship and/or romantic), etc..
Related interdisciplinary research and literature will be referenced, including such topics as addictions; the role of childhood spiritual development on adolescent pregnancies, depression, suicide; infant development regarding the use of mirroring and self-mirroring within therapeutic relationship; the role of creative self expression in healing from past trauma.
Mental Health CEUs
Katherine Paras, M.S., ATR-BC, LPAT is a designated Clinical Supervisor and a Continuing Education Provider certified by the New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Practice Board. Her CEU classes are approved for licensees of NMCTPB and New Mexico Board of Social Work Examiners. CEUs may also be applicable to licensing boards of other states. It is the responsibility of licensees to stay informed as to their particular licensing board's requirements as they can change from time to time.