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Seminar Outline Example

Each of our seminars is tailored for the individual client. This is an example of one of our seminars.

Part 1 - Discovering the Ways People Fall Into The Secret Keeping Trap

  • Introduction and definition of secret–keeping characteristics
    • Healthy vs. unhealthy secrets, privacy vs. secrecy
    • Celebrities and everyday folks who are Secret Keepers, with discussion of the wide variety of causes and consequences
  • Secret–Keeping as survival...people seek secrecy because:
    • The isolation helps them cope
    • The security offers them control
    • The power of secrecy makes up for their powerlessness
    • The role of Developmental Deficits
  • The 3-Way Lure of Secret Keeping emotions: excitement, pleasure, delight
    • The role of risk, dopamine, and thrills in the negative, downward spiral
  • "Continuum of Secrets" model -
    • Simple Secrets, Silent Secrets, Secret Keeping, Crime/Psychosis
  • What Science says: Summary of 100 studies/experiments
  • Duality and Double Lives
    • Clinical case examples of Secrets Keepers
  • Interview Tool : Using a specially designed questionnaire as a tool for deeper dialogue
    • Separating denial from secret–keeping
    • Interviewing skills development

Part 2 - Helping Free Clients From The Secret–Keeping Trap

  • Tips, tools, and techniques to improve outcomes and simplify your job
  • How the 4 Squares of Life® diagram boosts client motivation
    • The role of meaning, purpose, and choice in the positive, upward spiral
  • The Seven Effective Strategies
  • The benefits of Disclosure and Congruence:
    • Motivating clients to change their attitudes and behavior
    • Combining external pressures and internal motivators to change
  • Changing beliefs and living a H.O.T. life (Honest, Open, Transparent):
    • Cognitive inventory of an individual's childhood development/trauma
    • Replacing shame/guilt with honesty/self-esteem
  • Teaching clients how to use the six stages of the Blueprint for Gaining Freedom:
    1. Help Clients Surrender
    2. The value of Accepting Duality
    3. Preparing to Disclose
    4. The 4 Levels of Disclosure
    5. Trusting in a New Worldview
    6. Accountability today and for the future
  • Treatment Planning tips and exercise -
    • Effective use of the Secrecy >>> Transparency chart
  • The Stages of Recovery and how the assurance of a happier present and brighter future inspires consistency and continuing success.

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