CM 815 - Practitioner Cultivation II

Credit(s): 1.50

This course focuses on relationship dynamics between the practitioner and patient. The recognition and attention to these dynamics can greatly enhance and support the healing dynamic. There is a strong emphasis on deeper listening, connection, communication, and understanding of boundary dynamics, role/power dynamics, and transference/counter transference. These concepts are applied directly to current patient interactions and relationships, and therefore it is required that students be actively seeing patients. The primary tools of exploration are discussion, lecture, case-study, role-play, mind-body exercises, self-reflection and writing. Prerequisite(s): Intern status; These courses are to be taken in the ordered sequence of CM635 and CM815.