Wholeness and the Myth of PerfectionA live, real-time, interactive virtual workshop
for mental health clinicians Presented by
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$125 Professional
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$60 Student
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Carl Jung tells us, in Modern Man in Search of a Soul, that the beginning of the cure for the patient (or client) occurs when he encounters something strange arising from his own psyche to face him, something which cannot be understood as his ego or his identity and, therefore, cannot be controlled (p. 248). This will prove to be his first encounter with the Self.
It is hard to imagine that being good could be a problem. But those who identify with goodness (i.e., perfection, because they are never quite good enough) are very commonly run entirely by guilt, by obligation and by a deep sense of unworthiness. Those who, often unconsciously, strive for perfection frequently live miserable lives trying so hard to be perfect that they don’t even know what is real within. Further, they often find themselves deeply involved in manipulative, abusive, and toxic relationships again and again. This workshop will uncover the myth of perfection, its source and its consequences and offer some avenues to facilitate healing and movement toward wholeness for the many clients you see who struggle with perfectionism.
OBJECTIVES
OBJECTIVES
- Explain how we have attached perfectionism to identity as a sense of self.
- Explain perfectionism as certainty.
- Explain some religious, Transpersonal, and Jungian concepts regarding the duality between good and evil.
- Explain how shame might be considered to be the shadow of perfectionism.
- Define wholeness from Transpersonal and Jungian perspectives.
- Explain how self-guidance and making friends with difficult emotions leads toward wholeness.
- Explain some constructive ways to transform practice into process.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
~ Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 154
And so, for the first time in my life…I took the lamp and descended into the depths of myself, into the deep abyss. But as I moved away from conventional certainties..., I realized that I was losing touch with myself. At each step of the descent, a new person revealed itself in me…. And when I had to stop my exploration because the path was fading…I found a bottomless abyss at my feet, and it was from there—arising I know not whence—came the current I dare to call my life.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Le Milieu Divin, 1927, pp. 76-77
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Andrea Mathews, LPC, NCC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6031. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Andrea Mathews, LPC, NCC, is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
Andrea Mathews, LPC, NCC is also an approved provider for the Alabama Board of Examiners in Social Work, #0528. |