Melissa (Missy) Bradley-Ball – Resilience: Helping Clients Navigate the Heroic Journey to Personal Transformation
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- Faculty:
- Melissa (Missy) Bradley-Ball
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 17 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jun 25, 2012
Description
Handouts
| Manual – Resilience (8.41 MB) | 106 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
Building the Foundation of Change—Resilience, Transformation, and the Heroic Journey
- Theories of transformation
- Archetypes of transformation, assessments, and change
- Four primary stages of the Heroic Journey
- separation from the known
- into the unknown
- the “initiation”
- the “return”
- How the framework of the Heroic Journey has been used in different cultures
- The innate desire for heroes
- How to utilize the natural attraction to elements of popular culture which model resilience
- How sacred and secular rituals in a community can promote resilience during change
Stage 1: Separation from the Known—the Call to Change or Heal
- The transformative crisis
- Dealing with resistance and refusal to change
- Cognitive therapy
- Identifying the mentor voices within
- The emotional stages of all change
- Dealing with the discomfort of change
- What’s in the backpack
Stage 2: Into the Unknown—Beginning the Journey toward Change
- The “sonic boom”
- Appropriate resources to use during the second stage
- movies and inspirational stories
- journaling and narrative work
- identifying life successes and the lessons that come from them
- mindfulness, meditation, prayer, centering, and other grounding practices
- music and the arts
- The success of “failure”
- The honeymoon period of change
- Identifying and building support
Stage 3: The Initiation—the Road of Trials and Lessons of Life Challenges
- Moving through “the dark night of the soul”
- Identifying and using the gifts and lessons of initiation
- Making transpersonal meaning out of life’s pain
- Keeping the courage and momentum
- Performance enhancement techniques that empower individuals to thrive
- Identifying who you are becoming
- What Finding Nemo has to teach us about initiation and transformation
Faculty
Melissa (Missy) Bradley-Ball, MS, NCC, BCETS, FAAETS, Related seminars and products: 3
Melissa (Missy) Bradley-Ball, MS, NCC, BCETS, FAAETS, is a nationally recognized clinical educator, corporate consultant, family mediator, and author with over 37 years of experience as a psychotherapist, providing individual, group, and family therapy. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Music Education and Master of Counseling Psychology from the University of Tennessee. Her extensive EMDR training (Level I, II, and specialized protocols) helped her become a trailblazer in the field of sexual trauma through a Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth model and she often trains personnel at medical/mental health agencies, universities, school systems, and other facilities. An in-demand Child Sexual Abuse Investigator, expert court witness, and subject matter expert on sexual assault with the Pentagon, Mrs. Bradley-Ball has conducted seminars for more than 300,000 medical, behavioral health, law enforcement, educators, clergy, and military personnel, as well as members of the public throughout the U.S., Canada, and Central America. She was a primary speaker for the first National Conference on Post-Traumatic Growth in 2011.
Her frequent keynote addresses at regional and national conferences – as well as television and radio news broadcasts – have won her the Scripps Howard Award for Broadcasting Excellence, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and numerous other accolades. She is currently working on a PBS special about the heroic journey of children healing from divorce.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Melissa Bradley-Ball is the owner of The Omnibus Center. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Melissa Bradley-Ball is a member of the American Counseling Association. She is a Fellow and Diplomate for American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.
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