When Thoughts Scream: Transforming Inner Critics and Intrusive Mindstates
with Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW
Sunday, July 28th, 2019 | 10:00am to 5:00pm
Too many of us wrestle with intrusive and self-judging thoughts cycles. In spite of our efforts to cultivate self-love and self-acceptance, we find ourselves stuck in narratives about how we’re not good enough; that we’re imposters, failures, and unlovable. We might find we resist the very things we want so badly — like taking the steps to actualize a dream or a new career or a meditation practice. Or we finally fall for someone but are so freaked out by the vulnerability that we fight against it. It’s as if our mind has a mind of its own.
You can shift your experience of these voices permanently. What’s needed is clarity about why those voices are there to begin with, the logic that these voices are obeying, and a compassion-based approach to relating tothese voices directly.
Drawing from Tibetan Buddhism, neuroscience, the “parts work” of Internal Family Systems, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, and evolutionary psychology, this daylong retreat will give you a three-step method for engaging with these inner voices that will, over time, heal your relationship to these inner energies completely. You’ll also learn evidence-based methods for settling the mind that go beyond the modern mindfulness approach and techniques to use when panic and anxiety attacks strike.
Registration:
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Registration Fees include Teacher Support
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Teacher(s)
Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW
Ralph De La Rosa (they/he) is the author of three books, including the new Outshining Trauma: A New Vision of Radical Compassion (foreword by Richard Schwartz). He is a psychotherapist in private practice and a longtime meditation teacher known for his radically honest and humorous approach.
Perhaps most crucial is that Ralph walks the path of outshining trauma alongside the people he works with. He is a survivor of PTSD, heroin addiction, Borderline Personality Disorder, ADHD, and liver failure. Walking through these matters with the help of profound therapists and mentors has been an empowerment no school could have offered. It is simply part of his path to offer back what he’s been shown.
Ralph has mentored personally with Richard Schwartz, founder of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy, known for its efficacy in healing trauma. Ralph has completed an invite-only advanced teacher training with Jack Kornfield. His work has been featured in GQ, CNN, NY Post, Tricycle, Mindful Magazine, and beyond.
He began practicing meditation in 1996 and has trained in a spectrum of yogic and healing traditions, including devotional Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. Ralph began teaching Buddhist-inspired meditation in 2008. Today, Ralph identifies as practitioner and teacher of human spirituality. He teaches a highly specialized hybrid of IFS and Buddhism to offer students a direct path of conscious evolution and self-discovery.
Ralph is an intersectional activist, musician, wannabe acrobat, and outdoor enthusiast currently residing in Seattle, WA.