A new approach for rapidly uncovering the root causes of anxiety in even the most challenging patients. This course will cover highly effective techniques for releasing the resistances that keep anxiety alive, getting at their source and transforming them into a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

Beginning with the important discovery that there is a single “core fear” at the root of all anxiety, the “Deconstructing Anxiety” model proposes that we may help patients find this core fear to resolve not just their anxiety but the fundamental source of suffering.

The core fear expresses itself in five major universal themes of loss:

• abandonment (loss of love)
• loss of identity
• loss of meaning
• loss of purpose (the chance to express oneself )
• fear of death (including fear of sickness and pain)

The "Deconstructing Anxiety " model predicts clients with anxiety would develop their primary defenses as their best attempt to protect themselves from these fears, but always at too great a cost. This leaves them constantly holding vigil, on the lookout for the resurfacing of the threat. When this process spins out of control, an anxiety disorder develops. A new three-phase model for personality development is also elaborated from this fear-defense dynamic, explaining how the anxious personality disorders can evolve.

The theory and techniques offered in this workshop will help your clients uncover their core fear and chief defense quickly and reliably. Armed with this knowledge, new strategies for targeting the precise moment when the chief defense is applied reveal how it may be dismantled in a highly efficient way, thereby exposing the "lie" of the core fear. Participants will undergo the actual techniques being presented, making for a rich and experiential presentation. Come prepared for an exciting adventure into the deepest regions of the unconscious, where the hidden fears at the source of our patients’ difficulties live, making them available for rapid and deep transformation.

Participants completing this course will be able to:

1) define techniques for deconstructing the core fear and chief defense at the source of all suffering.

2) identify the five core fears that reveal a path to profound freedom, high purpose, and enduring fulfillment.

3) outline the principle of ‘doing the opposite’ of the chief defense to resolve anxiety.