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February 27, 2011
Time: 10am - 5pm

Working with Difficult Youth 

The workshop intends to help you better understand the mental health diagnosis that you will find in working with many challenging children.  There will be a discussion of how to set up a group including safety measures as well as contract and rule setting by and for the group.  We will combine this clinical information with mindfulness skills to inform your intervention in challenging situations.  Through a better understanding of these children and what feelings may be awakened in you when working with these children, a more therapeutic and healing response is more likely to occur.

There will be a practice of yoga postures safe for beginner youth, with explanations of why postures were chosen and why some were left out.

Presenter: 

Douglas Ruest LCSW: Doug has an MSW from New York University, and is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of New York.He has post graduate certificates in individual psychotherapy from Hunter College School of Social Work and in group therapy from Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society.  Doug has a diversified background in working with homeless people with HIV and AIDS as well as with children both in the foster care system. He serves as staff psychotherapist with Gouverneur Diagnostic and Treatment Center where he divides his time between the Child and Adolescent Clinic and The Corlears Complex which is a middle and high school in the neighborhood of Gouverneur.  Doug continues his training at The New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and continues group training with the Center for Group Studies.  He has maintained a private practice since 2001.  Doug has been practicing yoga since the early 1990s and has studied meditation and Buddhism at the Shambahla Center in New York City.  He finds that yoga and meditation are vital components of his work as a psychotherapist.  

Jill Satterfield: Jill is the founder of Vajra Yoga & Meditation, a synthesis of yoga and Buddhism that combines meditation, yoga postures, visualization and contemplation practices. She is also the founder and Director of the School for Compassionate Action: Yoga & Meditation for Communities in Need, a not for profit that trains teachers to offer yoga, meditation and emotional support to at-risk youth, people suffering with chronic pain and illnesses, PTSD, and addictions.

Click the link below for more information and registration: http://www.schoolforcompassionateaction.org/?page_id=50

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