SUMMER 2008

Weekend Workshop

July 18 - 20, 2008

Friday Evening: 7 - 10 PM

Sat. & Sun.: 10 AM to 5 PM

$350 by July 5/ $375 thereafter

MC/VISA Accepted . Limited to 8*

Call for further information:

(415) 337-9474

This weekend Inner Child Workshop, July 18 -20, 2008. is a semi-annual weekend either stand-alone or an introduction to the five month Intensive offered in Fall 2008.We will make an experiential exploration of your childhood wounds using visualizations and dramas. Still hurting after all these years? Your Inner Child needs to reclaim an intuitive sense of understanding and power that was lost as the child hid from the treats she/he experienced in an unsafe childhood.. Only then can the healing begin and "waken the tiger", the natural self assertion that guides our every move. Adapted from the seminal work by the same name, on recovery from event trauma by Peter A. Levine, it is expanded from a single event to the daily traumas of childhood. This work restores you and all your real and precious gifts to give to friends and lovers, making you available to a world you long for. This small group assures an intense, suportive and interactive process. Join us for a life changing weekend experience!

Please read the Inner Child article at the left to get a more complete picture of the process.


Hotel reservations will be arranged for out-of -town members.

Call for further information:

(415) 337-9474

"Waking the Tiger" by Peter A. Levine and "The Drama of the Gifted Child" by Alice Miller, MD are highly recommended to prepare for this work.

 

 



Lila Caffery MA., CCHT

Biography:

Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT, took her MA in counseling at the University of Maryland and is a graduate of Georgetown University's Family Center where she trained under Murray Bowen, M.D., founding director, and creator of Family Systems Theory. With over thirty years of practice, she is an experienced family therapy consultant, and a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. She specializes in Inner Child work and the Enneagram, both profoundly spiritual approaches to individual growth and healing.

She has a general clinical practice in San Francisco and over the internet via videocoferencing. She specializes in family therapy, addiction and trauma recovery, especially those suffering from physical and sexual abuse. Having worked with women in prison and at a Federal halfway house in Oakland, she remains devoted to these populations. She is a multicultural, racial, religious and sexually sensitive counselor.

A past retreat director at both the Jesuit Retreat House in Los Altos Hills, CA. where she gave her Inner Child retreat for many years, and at the Mercy Center at Auburn, CA, she has also given this work in translation in long residential settings in Japan and continues this transformational work in both short weekend formats and in an annual five-month Saturday Intensive format in San Francisco. She lectures at local conferences in the Bay Area about the deep healing that this experiential work achieves.

On Inner Child Healing

Inner Child Healing offers a directed, effective and intuitive process that uses both traditional therapy, and experiential, creative and spiritual ways of accessing old scars and negative core beliefs formed in your childhood that have been left unexamined and unhealed. Perhaps, even now, you are unaware of their existence except for the defensive and self defeating patterns that they have caused you.

Whether you are still looking for a mate, a really fulfilling career or just a more exciting and rewarding life these wounds are holding you back. If you are struggling with addictions -- and there are so many—or just isolating or anxious and angry you can be free of this awful baggage that is keeping you in a never ending cycle of defensive actions that you keep hoping will eventually work -- though they rarely do.

Why do I talk about the seeds of self in childhood? Because that is where we learn who we are and what our possibilities are. We have to learn where those lessons hurt us and made us feel unimportant, flawed, or even bad. There are new lessons to replace the old ones. Even in the best families the lessons often limit our positive belief in the beautiful creation that we are. That is our birthright.

It is just such a journey that I invite you to make: to lay down your self doubt and become a new creation - your practical every day problems worked through with your new power of self-love and self belief to a deep renewal of the spirit.  Come, let’s talk it over. You have what it takes.

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"Thank you for helping me renounce my self doubt, isolation, and fear.
I've always wanted to do something like this for myself."
Kathy

“Doing inner child work with Lila Caffery made a DRAMATIC difference in my life. With Lila’s help I confronted – and ultimately shifted – negative core beliefs around abandonment that were sabotaging me in relationships – romantic and professional.
I’ve done a lot of therapy – I’ve had maybe a dozen therapists over the 20 years of my adult life – Lila is the only one who was able to take me into the core of the issues that I needed to work on. I could’t recommend this work more highly.”
 Robert Friedman

"The mask of my smile was very thick and it contained fear and deep sorrow. I wish I could love many people with a true smile. Thank you for holding me
and accepting me"
Yumi (Japan)

You can heal and find your Power too!