Trainings and Events
Summer Solstice Labyrinth Meditation Workshop
June 14th, 10am-12pm
Kathryn Bikle and Natasha Morisawa will be your hosts and instructors in walking the Labyrinth. This
event is suitable for all experience levels.
Walking the Labyrinth is an age-old meditative practice for releasing ineffectual habits and
attitudes, receiving wisdom from within, and opening to growth. The Summer Solstice is a powerful time
to bring positive, action-oriented energy to your personal goals. Join us for a unique opportunity to
engage and connect the profound inner knowing of your body with your intention to effect lasting
change in your daily life. Explore how connecting with the body’s inner wisdom enriches your walking
of the Labyrinth in a powerful ritual for personal discovery.
Mindfulness and Nature Therapy Workshop
July 12th, 9am-11am
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This two-hour continuing education workshop is designed for licensed clinicians, and offers a clear
distinction between mindfulness and nature therapy as two related but distinct clinical skills. Both
modalities begin with sensory contact, yet they produce different outcomes. Mindfulness trains
attention; nature therapy opens relational contact with the more-than-human world.
The workshop briefly locates mindfulness as familiar clinical ground, then moves participants into
nature therapy as a distinct skill and presents the conceptual case for nature-informed practice as a
foundation for mental health rather than an adjunct technique. Through brief lecture, two short
experiential practices, and structured discussion, clinicians will leave able to distinguish the two
skills and identify when each is appropriate to clinical aims.
Professional Training
Our combine sharing information and inspiration. The Professional Continuing Education Program was established in 2018 with our flagship workshops around labyrinth work and psychotherapeutic work. We have since expanded this to bring specialists in our field and community together in experiential and relevant training events.
And our public education events offer opportunities for learning, personal and interpersonal healing, and development. They are an extension and complimentary to the individual, couples, and family therapy that we offer. And it is also a way for the general public to get to know us before they utilize our psychotherapy services or refer us to their friends, family, or community.
Every event or CE event you register and pay for directs the proceeds to come back into The Place Within to help us offer affordable psychotherapy to our clients. Programs offered free of charge allow more individuals to participate. Those events will have the opportunity for those who are grateful for the work we do to reciprocate that gratitude through financial donations. By choosing our workshops and events, you directly support us in the work we do.
Thank you for considering joining us in growing together!
Continuing Education
For LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs
The goal of the Training and Professional Development Program of The Place Within is to provide relevant, engaging, and enhancing educational experiences to our staff, partners, and professional community. We strive to do this with integrity and promotion of sound practice. We take pride in being able to enhance the practice of Marriage and Family Therapy through training and professional development.
The Place Within is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs , and/or LEPs. The Place Within maintains responsibility for this program/ course and its content. (CAMFT CE Provider #141393)
See the individual program for the number of CE credits awarded for each program; one credit hour is assigned for each hour of lecture/instruction. Only the actual number of hours spent in the educational activity may be claimed for credit.
For further information, questions, or concerns, leave a voice mail message at (626) 359-4330 or email.
To receive continuing education units, participants must:
- Register for and pay for the event and additional CE credits if applicable for each program, in advance of the program
- Log into the Zoom program and remain logged in for the scheduled duration of the event. Or for in-person events, arrive on-time and stay for the duration of the program.
- Complete a Continuing Education Program Evaluation form which will be emailed or handed to registrants after completion of the entire program.
If the event is offered on-line, within two weeks of receipt of the CE Program Evaluation Form, a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to each attendee. We make every effort to provide a Certificate of Completion on the day of an in-person event. If one is not available, you will be emailed one within two weeks of the completion of the event and receipt of the CE Program Evaluation.
If you register for CE credits and then find you cannot attend the program, you must notify us by email at least 48 hours before the program begins in order to receive a refund or have the payment applied to a future program.
Please notify us by email or by phone (626) 359-4330 upon registration, and at least one week prior to the event if you believe you need special and reasonable accommodation to attend a program we are offering. We try to make our programs accessible to all abilities, and we recognize that we may not know your unique needs. To help us make every effort to provide training and education that meets your needs, we ask for time and partnership to accomplish this.
If you are not satisfied with a program, please email us your grievance or leave a comment on your CE Program Evaluation Form.