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How to use Therapeutic Meditation with your clients in Class, Group and Individual Sessions…a Hands-on

Workshop Casey Cole Corbin

What this Workshop is and What it is NotInternal (Meditation) Expressive Art Therapy Approaches

(This handout is an excerpt from Casey Cole Corbin’s book, “Create! Expressive Art Therapy for Problem Solving and Getting Past Your Past!”)

What this workshop is: This workshop is an opportunity to first try the approaches yourself and later share them with others like your peers and clients. The goal is becoming a more centered and whole person. Tap your own creativity to solve problems in your life. Explore your past painful emotions and memories to resolve them and move forward with your life. Get unstuck!

Our culture often doesn’t support this. We must make this happen for ourselves, and then we can teach it to others. There will also be internal expressive projects that are meditative in nature. Mindfulness is our focus. The processes in this workshop will teach you how to get into the Therapeutic Meditation mindset. It provides three external expressive projects in detail that you can quickly perfect. This is just a small example of the endless possibilities. They are easily adaptable into your preferred modality.

To the Counselor in a Clinical SettingSince I am a counselor, most of this resulted from my perspective of working with clients, coaching professionals, and corporate/employee workshops. It can be incorporated with other subjects like:

Anger Management

Assertiveness Training

Pain Management

Anxiety

Depression

Grief/Loss

Trauma

Memory Loss

Guilt

Emotional Detachment

Abuse/Neglect

Rejection Issues

Relationship

Resentment

And more!

This handout is a random compilation of things that I tend to say to my clients. They seem to help move the client in the right direction so I thought I’d share them with you. You certainly have a similar list of things you often say because they work. I love to benefit from seeing your list! Please consider sharing it so we all can improve. Share on the Facebook page or email (info on both provided in this handout.)

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ― Albert Einstein

How to use Therapeutic Meditation with your clients in Class, Group and Individual Sessions…a Hands-on Workshop CaseyColeCorbin.com

I share this list below with the group that I am working with. Whether it is a group of clients, a church group, or professionals in a training session, they all seem to get something out of understanding why art and other (external or in-ternal) expressive therapies work. I share briefly how the brain works differ-ently with creative expression and can by-pass blocks in the intellectual areas. I suggest you share these with your group:

Why counselors use Creative Art and Expressive Therapies:

1. Allows us to express feelings and thoughts that are either con-scious or unconscious, which we might have difficulty communi-cating in just spoken words alone.

2. Utilizes and strengthens creative centers of the brain which are sometimes unused or dormant. As a result, in our brain grows and we become more intelligent in other areas too.

3. Develops creative interests to become more of a whole person: well rounded, centered, and in balance.

4. Fosters social interaction which helps the group become a thera-peutic community. Also creates connection with other group mem-bers for more meaningful individual relationships.

5. Provides insight into feelings which can lead to remembering sup-pressed memories thereby helping to uproot core issues. Everyone in this imperfect world has “root issues.”

6. Allows us the opportunity to discover thoughts, feelings, and memories that we may not be able to connect with normally or in “talk-therapy”.

7. Carries over to increased talk therapy. Once something hidden comes out it can now be expressed and talked about by their intellec-tual aspect.

8. Provides new options for coping skills for stress, grief, anger, etc.


Therapeutic Meditation course is created so you can immediately implement Therapeutic Meditation in your next class, group, and individual session. More than a course … a curriculum! There are materials available that are organized and presented in a way that authorized users of these resources can use them in groups and classes as a curriculum: Printable Handouts:

1. Assessment of Primary Representational Systems 2. Stress/Breath Calibration Infographic 3. Emotion Mapping Diagram 4. Mood Management Infographic

Audios:

1. Emotion Mapping Metaphor (Recorded audio time: 15 minutes 16 seconds) 2. Mood Management Outside (Recorded audio time: 7 minutes 52 seconds) 3. Mood Management Higher Power/Jesus (Recorded audio time: 11 minutes 0 seconds) 4. Meditation in 5 Seconds (Recorded audio time: 5 minutes 45 seconds) 5. Autogenic Training (Recorded audio time: 7 minutes 08 seconds) 6. Breathe Mindfulness (Recorded audio time: 10 minutes 01 seconds) 7. Progressive Muscle Tension Relaxation (Recorded audio time: 9 minutes 25 seconds) 8. 3, 2, 1 Mindfulness (Recorded audio time: 7 minutes 02 seconds) 9. 5 Senses Mindfulness (Recorded audio time: 5 minutes 12 seconds) 10. Long Meditation (Recorded audio time: 38 minutes 14 seconds)

Class and Group. How it works: Class and group sessions can be as easy as playing one of the audios and going over the one of the handouts.

Examples for immediate implementation of the resources you now own: Class 1: Administer the Assessment of Primary Representational Systems; process with clients. Then play Meditation in 5 seconds audio; process with clients. Class 2: Distribute copies of Stress/Breath Calibration; process with clients. Then play Breathe Mindfulness; process with clients. Class 3: Distribute copies of Emotion Mapping Diagram handout and play Emotion Mapping Metaphor Guided Therapeutic Meditation; process with clients.

Class 4: Distribute copies of Mood Management Infographic and play one or both of the Mood Management Guided Therapeutic Meditations; process with clients. Class 5: Play Progressive Muscle Tension Relaxation; process with clients. Then play Autogenic Training; process with clients. Class 6: Play 3, 2, 1 Mindfulness; process with clients. Then play 5 Senses Mindfulness; process with clients. You can always add another short meditation audio as time permits. There is tremendous benefit


for clients to experience the same skill-building meditation exercise in repetition.

Quick Tip: Clinicians can work on their progress notes while the long audio plays for their group clients.

Individual Sessions. How it works: Therapeutic Meditation is meant to be engaged somewhere in your usual process with your client, like after you build rapport, assess, talk therapy, etc. Suggested outline of Therapeutic Meditation process used by the clinician in therapy sessions:

1) Use Primary Representational System Assessment

2) Help calibrate client’s emotional intensity using the Stress/Breath Calibration handout

3) Use Therapeutic Mediation approaches (play audio or read scripts)

4) Show client the Emotion Mapping Metaphor Diagram and use Emotion Mapping Metaphor Meditation (play audio or read scripts)

5) Your favorite intervention

6) Calibrate and use Mood Management Meditation approach (play audio or read script)

7) Calibrate at end of session, and install a positive new emotion

Quick Tip: At first use the audio recordings with clients. Then switch to reading the scripts. When your experience builds your confidence you will no longer need the scripts. Soon you will be able to adapt as needed to customize to your client.


Details of above process on the following page: 1) Client completes the Primary Representational System Assessment. I include the As-

sessment of Primary Representational Systems in all my client’s intake paperwork so it is completed before I see them. I have a form that I make my notes on during the session. It has all my standard abbreviations on it. One at the top is “VAK”. I write the client’s re-sults under each letter that represents Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic. I keep this infor-mation literally at the top of my list!

2) Calibrate client’s emotion about the issue to be worked on. Give your client a copy of the Stress/Breath Calibration handout. After your client brings up issues that you and your client agree to work on in that session, I suggest you gauge your client’s current emotional status by calibrating. You can use the Stress/Breath Calibration handout in this guide or simply use a scale of 1-10, 10 being most intense. After discussing the issue further, cali-brate again. Usually their number will go up. This is good because they are not only fo-cusing on the feeling but beginning to accept it. Now you have something to work with, and they are motivated to do this hard internal emotional work!

3) Facilitate client to relax while teaching them skills they keep. Use Therapeutic Mediation approaches by playing a short audio for your client or reading the written scrips in this guide. Use one of the mini-meditations such as Autogenic Training. Remind the client in session that the success they are having in meditation is real skill development! This is helpful in numerous situations in the future and they get to keep these skills for the rest of their life, if they practice doing them regularly.

4) Show your client Emotion Mapping Metaphor Diagram and use Emotion Mapping Metaphor Meditation to help your client to be able to connect and accept their feelings. If you’ve already taught them the Emotion Map in a previous session or group, you can remind them to use this as a reference to process their feelings in the session.

5) Tailor your favorite interventions to their Primary Representational System Assessment’s results while client is in meditation, also called the Resource State or Productive Brain Wave Level. Use your therapeutic intervention, customized to the visual, audio or kines-thetic learning style of your client. (Although sometimes the only intervention needed is Mood Management.)

6) After you’ve done the work, have them calibrate their emotion. Improve it with Mood Management if needed.

7) Calibrate one last time, help them make adjustments if needed. Then help them become fully alert with energy (examples in the meditation audios.)


About the AuthorCasey Corbin, BA, CADC-II, CCS has worked as counselor with credentials as a certified alcohol and drug counselor since 1998. He has used his advanced certification as a Certified Clinical Supervisor and assisted dozens to become counselors and therapists. He specializes in Whole Mind therapeutic approaches utilizing mindfulness, meditation, visualization, and relaxation to access the Whole Mind (both conscious and subconscious) for learning and treatment. He has certifications as a Mindfulness Instructor and Medical Meditation. He does not exclude a person’s spirit but includes their beliefs. With the client’s invitation, he readily expresses his own belief as a follower of Jesus! He works in full-time Christian ministry at Penfield Christian Homes, a 6-week substance abuse rehab. He is also active in his own private practice he founded in 2005 called Solutions Counseling Services. He is a speaker at conferences and workshops, and he somehow makes time to create and sell art through his art company called Artcycle. Casey enjoys doing exhibitions, live demos, and workshops for artists and workshops for counselors to use Expressive Art Therapy with their clients. But Casey’s greatest passion is his relationship with God and his family; wife Mary, children: CJ, Cole, Maddy, and Gus. Want more info? Casey authored the book, “Create! Expressive Art Therapy for Problem Solving and Getting Past Your Past!” Get your copy on Amazon!He also offers an audio series entitled, “Mediation for Everyone! (including Christians)” available through his website.

Want more training? Casey enjoys doing in-service training for counseling programs and workplace workshops on numerous immediately applicable topics! Feel free to contact Casey.

Want to see more of this Art? Therapy? Art therapy? caseycolecorbin.comContact Information:

Address: Casey Corbin, 15320 HWY 129, Alapaha GA 31622. Call: 229-292-4366 Email: [email protected] Website: CaseyColeCorbin.com


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