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Course (Template)

Course (Template):

A Fundamental Health Concept

IMPORTANT!! Please check the Board Approval Information below to ensure the course is approved by your professional board and will provide the CE credits you need.

Course Description

Forgiveness is a long term process that promotes release from painful events of our past. In that respect, it is a skill to be learned and to be practiced over and over. The lack of forgiveness is a major component to ongoing chronic stress, reflected through emotions such as resentment, hatred, fear, shame, or/or guilt.

Thus, forgiveness is an important factor to physical and mental health and the recovery from disease. This course strives to integrate both the traditional, (and largely mental/emotional) and the alternative, (and largely body-based) approaches to forgiveness, making the point that true forgiveness requires work in all domains, and thus is more complete when the body/mind is all part of an ongoing process.

Purpose and Objectives

  • Objective No. 1: Define what forgiveness is and what it is not.
  • Objective No. 2: Associate abuse or harm with a loss of personal power.
  • Objective No. 3: Identity how power moves within the disempowerment triangle of the perpetrator, the victim and the rescuer.
  • Objective No. 4: Recognize how our judgments trigger power loss.
  • Objective No. 5: Identify five domains that usually become part of the neuro-net of power loss, demonstrating the multiple layers of forgiveness work required.
  • Objective No: 6: Consider forgiveness as a mental process, reviewing the descriptions of leading authorities in forgiveness research.
  • Objective No. 7: Recognize the value of helping the victim reframe the story.
  • Objective No. 8: Support the process of discovering the characteristics of our internal self-talk, and chose an internal dialogue that allows growth and healing.
  • Objective No. 9: Recognize internals beliefs about the situation that are disempowering, and become aware of your true beliefs that will create a nurtured life.
  • Objective No. 10: Recognize features of self-concept that support victimization and choose to enhance self-love.
  • Objective No. 10: Explore guilt and shame as erosive to self-concept and to the boundary building process.
  • Objective No. 11: Identify the features of a good apology and its effects on the forgiveness process.
  • Objective No. 12: Consider unmet needs as a motivation for attacks, and resolve to develop internal resources that would allow greater responsibility for personal needs.
  • Objective No. 13: Consider common difficulties people have processing emotions and learn to allow emotional expression.
  • Objective No. 14: Consider how the body holds memories and emotions as tension, or stores unconscious feelings in deep tissues.
  • Objective No. 15: Identify how body-based therapies help the process of forgiveness.
  • Objective No. 16: Recognize the potential growth that acceptance allows and the benefits of sufficient personal power.

About the Author

Rosalva Ramon, SLP

Rosalva has a special talent in working with children and has been dedicated for over 30 years in of private practice working as a speech therapist with children in New York City, New York.

Rosalva graduated from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland with a B.S., and from Seton Hall University in South Orange New Jersey with an M.S.

Board Approval Information

Course (Template):
A Fundamental Health Concept

Consultants for the Future has been approved by the Florida Boards of Nursing, Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling, Massage Therapy, and Acupuncture, Provider No. 50-435; the Iowa Boards of Nursing, Provider No. 61, Behavioral Science Examiners for Mental Health Counselors and Marital & Family Therapists, Sponsor No. 1-05, Social Work Examiners, Sponsor No. 334; the California Board of Nursing, Provider No. 04422; the Georgia Board of Nursing, Provider NO. 50-435; and the District of Columbia Board of Nursing, Provider No. 50-435. The Course meets the requirements of the Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada, and Kentucky Boards of Nursing, and other states by reciprocity.

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