Dabrowski Factor Dialogues:  A Clinical Application of TPD for Mental Health Professionals

Based in the presenter’s intensive training in Gestalt play therapy with Violet Oaklander, using creative symbolic means, guided dialectic, and self-documentation and support, adult clinician workshop participants will have a collective, yet private, inner opportunity to learn and sample a process to identify and explore the strength, challenge, and tension within and between their first, second, and third factors. Bringing these clarified factors into inner dialogue can illuminate and celebrate development that is underway, as well as potentially forge a new tool or process to help clients orient themselves to next steps in their development journey.

Bio: Catherine Zakoian, MA, NCC, LPC is a licensed and national certified counselor in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. For close to 24 years she has specialized in counseling gifted, multi exceptional, and profoundly gifted children, adolescents, adults, families, and organizations. Her educational, non-profit, and entrepreneurial consulting work provides guidance on leadership and organizational development, staff well-being and care, and creating and maintaining authentic psychologically healthy learning and work environments—particularly after challenging organizational incidence—for organizations serving and employing gifted and multi exceptional populations. She is author of Raising Gifted Children: A Practical Guide for Parents Facing Big Emotions and Big Potential (Rockridge Press, 2021) www.catherinezakoian.com

Participants are asked to bring writing or drawing materials of their choosing. This workshop will not be recorded.