Compassionate Inquiry

CPD

Speaker

Gabor Maté, MD Related seminars and products

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Gabor Maté, MD, is a renowned speaker and bestselling author. Dr. Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development.

His Compassionate Inquiry approach draws from his professional work as a physician as well as his personal experience, having suffered trauma as an infant in Nazi-occupied Hungary, and his adult struggles with behavioral addictions, depression, and an ADHD diagnosis.

As an author, Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books published in more than 20 languages on five continents, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction; When the Body Says No: Exploring The Stress/Disease Connection; and his newest book, The Myth of Normal.

Among other honors, Dr. Maté has received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Simon Fraser University, and the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian distinction.

"Trauma is not what happens to us. It’s what happens inside of us as a result of what happens to us.”

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Gabor Maté receives compensation as a presenter. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Gabor Maté has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Demonstrate how to keep clients engaged in present-moment experience using a mind-body framework. 
2. Explain how to help clients access emotional states through body awareness. 
3. Discuss how to uncover early traumatic events of childhood and unconscious feeling states. 
4. Explore how to cultivate deeper therapeutic presence by bringing attention to what remains unexpressed in clients’ everyday awareness. 

Outline

In this workshop Dr. Mate weaves together scientific research, his practice and personal experiences to present a treatment modality that transforms and heals.

Part I

Mate defines and introduces Compassionate Inquiry as an approach to psychotherapy in which both the individual and therapist uncover the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states which forms the real message that words both express and conceal.

This session will:

• Review the basic assumptions of Compassionate Inquiry
• Understand the importance for both the therapist and client, to embody their true nature and co-create a new paradigm 
• Recognize the limitations of the DSM and of using diagnoses as labels
• Look at emotional and physical diseases that can be addressed by Compassionate Inquiry
• Recognize the importance of relational aspects of diagnosis
• Explore questions that create conditions under which a new paradigm can develop

Part II

Mate builds on his book, When the Body Says “No”.

This part of the session will:

• Understand the belief that who gets sick is not accidental
• How to challenge a client’s processing system
• Understand the role of stress in the development of disease
• Review the stress reaction from a systematic understanding
• Identify the risk facts and the primary adaptations to stress and how it affects: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health
• Look at several case studies that used Compassionate Inquiry to bring about transformation and healing

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Physicians
• Addiction Counsellors
• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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