White Hart Death Lodge Ritual Process Training
Learning Objectives
Counseling Theory/Practice and the Counseling Relationship
Participants will demonstrate understanding of therapeutic core principles.
Participants will be able to demonstrate a minimum of 4 ecotherapy/nature-based intervention strategies.
Participants will be able to identify and apply three experiential techniques informed by established psychotherapeutic modalities.
Participants will demonstrate understanding of the psychological aspects of the medicine wheel and how it relates to the seasons and nature.
Participants will be able to identify 4 client strengths and their corresponding seasonal archetypes on the medicine wheel.
Participants will be able to identify the 4 seasonal archetypes along with the shadow aspects of each.
Participants will be able to demonstrate how to identify maladaptive core beliefs and corresponding areas of the medicine wheel.
Participants will demonstrate knowledge of the medicine wheel as it relates to client process and the relational engagement with Nature and elements as methods of support with ritual prescriptions.
Participants will demonstrate knowledge of the elements and how they relate to various psychological states and challenges.
Participants will apply their counselor self-awareness and relational attunement through mindfulness and group process.
Participants will be able to apply experiential case conceptualization to an example client case.
Participants will be able to demonstrate how to guide clients from story (content) to emotions and body awareness.
Participants will be able to utilize tracking and contact statements to support clients in accessing their own mindfulness.
Participants will be able to demonstrate understanding of contraction and expansion of core beliefs as expressed in the physical body.
Participants will be able to demonstrate how to offer the client experiments in exploring more conscious awareness of inner process through movement and posture.
Participants will be able to identify and articulate the cognitive, emotional, and physiological processes associated with heightened sensory awareness, and describe how these internal pathways influence the therapeutic relationship.
Participants will be able to differentiate between internal self-experience (e.g., countertransference, personal emotional responses) and external client-generated content (e.g., transference, projective identification) to enhance therapeutic boundaries and clinical objectivity.
Participants will demonstrate how to recognize, manage, and therapeutically utilize altered states of awareness both in themselves and with clients.
Social and Cultural Foundations
Participants will be able to name three appropriate cultural considerations when working from an eco-therapy perspective.
Participants will evaluate the role of culture in shaping client and counselor perceptual biases and apply this knowledge to enhance the efficacy of cross-cultural communication in therapy.
Counselor Professional Identity and Practice Issues
Participants will develop an understanding of at least three ethical considerations in the use of somatic, ecotherapy, and experiential interventions.
Participants will be able to name two ethical considerations when working with altered states of awareness.
Group Dynamics and Counseling
Participants will be able to analyze and implement at least three distinct group facilitation techniques (e.g., role-playing, sculpting, process enactment) grounded in established psychotherapeutic theory (e.g., Gestalt, Hakomi, Psychodrama) to address specific group dynamics or client clinical goals.