Family of Origin Workshop

Family of Origin issues surface in their own time regardless of effective therapeutic prompting. Family of Origin issues are generally the culprit of many relational dynamic maladies. Though much work is done, it is impossible for every issue to be addressed in a residential care programme or in the 12-step 'rooms'. Time and focus is needed to remedy the self-defeating re-enactment behaviours that have the potential to stunt our emotional and spiritual growth. Each person is different, so should each intervention(s) used to address issues be different. Rather than develop a one-size-fits-all therapeutic process, each participant and their particular concern(s) will be addresses individually.

Biography

Don Lavender, MDiv, has over twenty-five years experience working in the addiction field, seventeen of which have been in residential settings. He has been a consultant to Next Health systems in the United States as well as a consultant in Britain and the Near East in programme development and implementation.

He has been a key management player in 'start-up' programs for Sierra Tucson Hospitals such as a 70-bed facility dealing with behavioral health disorders as well as Harmony Devon in England, which focused on trauma resolution. He has worked with the California Diversion Program for Physicians as well as corporate team building and management training work with Daniel Meyers and Associates.

He has managed family systems therapy programmes for the International Community Psychiatric Hospitals as well as Sierra Tucson Hospitals. He specializes in family systems, trauma resolution, family of origin work and equine assisted psychotherapy. He also specializes in challenge course programmes, metaphoric therapies. Don holds a Professional Masters Degree in Management, Administration and Counseling from St. Meinrad's in Indiana.

Don's experience includes working with and analysing systems and managing change. He has developed therapy programmes still in use today in the International Community Psychiatric Corporation system.

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