“Boundary Warrior” 7.5 Hour Credited Workshop

Boundary Warrior is the foundation workshop. To be able to progress to the next levels, this is a prerequisite. Boundary Sentinel is not required.

This workshop includes everything covered in Boundary Sentinel, and it takes participants on a journey exploring different energetic boundaries, discovering their boundary deficits, and the reasons for them. The work requires deep vulnerability to benefit the most from it. A limit of 6 participants and the instructor assures its intimacy; there can often be tears of release.  Participants often emerge with a different paradigm of being in the world, and most are now fully embodied. They even look physically different at the end of the class. Length of this workshop is 9 hours.

“In Depth” workshop provides you with the core concepts used to strengthen your boundaries and has space for up to 8 people.

This workshop has no breaks, all if the time in the workshop is awarded CE Credits.

This workshop meets the qualifications for 7.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Merle Yost, CEPA Provider No. 23236, is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor Continuing Education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Merle maintains the responsibility for the program and all its content. CE Credit will be awarded after the completion of the course in exchange for a completed course evaluation form. Provider No. 87911

Merle J. Yost is also an approved provider from the National Certification Board. Provider No: 1000238.

No CE’s will be awarded to persons arriving late or leaving early. Partial CE credit will not be awarded.

Participants must sign in at the beginning of the meeting, sign out at the end of the meeting and be present throughout the training in order to receive CE Certificates which will be provided at the end of the program.

Accommodations

To request accommodations for special needs, click the button below to message the Program Administrator.

Upcoming Workshops:

SANTA BARBARA, CA

• Postponed do to national health issues. This workshop will be rescheduled soon.

MEET YOUR FACILITATOR:

Merle Yost, LMFT , is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.  Mr. Yost received his MA degree from John F. Kennedy University in 1991.  Mr. Yost is a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco in 1991. A graduate of the Menla Healing Program – Tibetan Buddhist Psychology and Energy Healing 2017. Merle was licensed in 1995 as an LMFT. He is also an EMDR Approved Consultant.

Mr. Yost was in private practice for 25 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has done extensive training on Men Sexually Abused as Children, Intimacy, EMDR and other topics. He has been a supervisions and consultant for many years. He is a lifetime member of CAMFT and founder of Gynecomasita.org

• Participants will be able to identify 2-3 observable cues that a client’s energy and their own energy is dysregulated.

• Participants will be able to describe the difference between merging and joining with clients and how merging negatively impacts client and clinician.

• Participants will utilize and be able to teach clients 3-4 exercises they can use to manage their energy and maintain boundaries

• Participants will be able to describe the three types of vulnerability.

• Participants will be able to track a client’s emotional state without merging

• Participants will utilize and be able to teach clients the 3 parts of a clean “no.”

• Participants will utilize and be able to teach clients the two times that merging with another is healthy

• Participants will utilize and be able to teach clients how “Emotional Parts” are formed, as described in Structural Dissociation.

• Participants will describe a framework to conceptualize energy boundaries and be able to teach it to their clients.

Workshop Schedule

As this workshop is experiential, these times are estimates.

8:30am Registration Starts
9:00am - Welcome, Introductions
9:15am - 9:55am - Lecture
9:55 AM - 10:00am - Buddhist Concentration Exercise
10:00am - 12:00pm - Boundary Explorations Exercise
12:00pm - 1:00pm - Lunch
1:00pm - 2:15pm - Continued Boundary Explorations Exercise
2:15pm - 2:30pm - First Aid Boundary Tools
2:30pm - 2:45pm - Running the Gauntlet Guided Visualization & Discussion
2:45pm - 3:00pm - Break
3:00pm - 3:30pm - A Clean No Exercise Dyad
3:00pm - 4:00pm Understanding Boundary Deficits Exercise Dyads
4:00pm - 4:30pm Daily Boundary Tools & Discussion
4:30pm - 6:00pm - Final Boundary Explorations
6:00pm - Workshop Ends

Course Outline

The concepts we cover in this workshop.

• Signs of boundary failures

• Slide show of boundaries

• Explanation of energy boundaries

• Ways that boundaries are violated

• Buddhist Concentration Exercise

• Exploration of deficits in a person’s boundaries

• Group practice tracking process without merging or losing themselves

• First Aid for Boundaries

• Figure 8’s disconnecting and connecting

• Moving qi technique

• Practice of First Aid Techniques

• Types of Vulnerability

• Guided Visualization handling being disliked

• What a “Clean No” looks like

• Dyad exercise exploring how boundary deficits form

• Mindfulness exercise - Daily practice for boundary hygiene

• Group practice tracking process without merging or losing themselves

• Closing comments and discussion