Uncovering Genius: Nature-Based Parts Work
A 5-Day In-Person Certificate Program for Counselors and Healers
Help Your Clients Harness Their Inner Wisdom
If you’d like to support your clients in tapping into their inner wisdom through relationship with and reflection from the natural world, Uncovering Genius can help! We’ll dive deep into nature-based parts work theory and practice.
Join us for this five-day, highly experiential outdoor training that is influenced by many psychological models and modalities that acknowledge the complexity of our humanness and the brilliance of our inner capacity for wholeness and healing.
You will leave with a solid understanding of the innate function of our inner parts and a roadmap for identifying these parts, as well as inspiration for how doing this work in the natural world can greatly enhance your time with clients.
Who This Training is For
This training is for counselors, coaches, educators and healers who are ready to integrate a powerful nature-based parts work paradigm into your work. Uncovering Genius will help you feel confident leading nature-based therapy, coaching, or self-growth sessions and intensives. The nature-based interventions you’ll learn in this training can be applied indoors, outdoors, and even online as you support clients' learning and growth. You’ll deepen your confidence and therapeutic skillset, increase value for your clients, and elevate therapeutic outcomes.
What You’ll Get From This Training
A theoretical overview of parts work
Tools for identifying different parts of self
Experiential exercises to help uncover and unpack the wisdom of parts
Nature-based experiential exercises and tools to further explore, dialogue with, and bring compassion and understanding to the parts that need healing
A variety of ways to incorporate these tools into diverse settings and therapeutic formats
Support for integrating the training material into your work with clients
“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival…
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”
What is Parts Work?
Have you ever found yourself saying “A part of me really wants to do this (take a new job, go bungee jumping, or really try anything new), and a part of me is terrified?” Or “A part of me does not want to go to this party, but another part fears how someone will feel if I don’t show up?”
Parts work is a particular paradigm that has been identified, studied and developed for nearly a century in the world of counseling, psychotherapy, and self-growth work. In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud identified three aspects, or parts, of the self: the id, the ego, and the superego. Since then, many additional theorists and therapeutic modalities have developed models for looking at the way we internally navigate the world and negotiate our own conflicting inner challenges and desires. Many say that the different parts of us have their own unique wants, needs, fears, values, physical postures, and even biochemical states.
In this training, our teachings are informed by a variety of parts work models, including techniques from Gestalt Therapy, Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Ecopsychology, and Mandala Parts Work. We will look at some of the common elements across modalities and engage in a variety of creative, expressive, and nature-based experiential exercises that will support identifying, coming into relationship with, getting to know, and even beginning to shift some unwanted fears and behaviors, as well as strengthening resourced parts that can support overall greater insight and health.
Training Outline
Day 1: Orienting to the training, land, group and intentions, introduction to parts work, identifying parts
Day 2: Continue identifying parts, get to know your parts
Day 3: Creative representation of parts, wanders on the land- as, with and to find parts, explorations to learn more about core parts of self
Day 4: Continued experiential deepening of relationship with parts, working through decisions and life transition with parts work, inner dialogue, psychodrama, gestalt and Internal Family Systems, inner attachment through parts work
Day 5: Developing creative interventions for parts, creating ceremony for parts, arts work as applied to particular populations and formats, including for couples and therapy intensives, next steps for integrating this into your work
What People are Saying About Uncovering Genius
About the Course Creator and Your Facilitator
With several decades of experience in outdoor education, therapy, teaching,and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, the founder of the Somatic Nature Therapy Institute, is a master facilitator and educator on nature-based therapeutic interventions.
Katie started her career as an instructor for Outward Bound and after becoming a clinician, began training outdoor educators and facilitators how to identify and address trauma and panic responses among students on wilderness trips.
Katie also has had a 20-plus-year career working with therapy and coaching clients and teaching graduate-level wilderness therapy, adventure therapy, ecotherapy, and somatic therapy at Naropa University and Prescott College.
She is a skilled facilitator, educator, speaker, and therapist who has trained practitioners internationally in somatic and nature-based interventions for working with trauma, attachment, and nervous system regulation with a strong emphasis on parts work. Katie also focuses on incorporating ceremony and rites of passage into healing work in order to honor life transitions. She has developed a number of professional trainings for helping professionals in these areas, has presented internationally for over 20 years, published a variety of writings, and has been a frequent guest on podcasts and as a speaker in international communities. She is passionate about sharing the many ways nature connection can be woven into the therapeutic process and empowering practitioners to lean into the inherent wisdom of the natural world.
Training Details
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July 17, 2024, 9 a.m. MT — July 21, 2024, 4:30 p.m. MT (most days go from 9 a.m. MT — 5:30 p.m. MT with a 50-minute break for lunch)
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In the mountains 45 min northwest of Boulder, on private land (at 9,200 feet)
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$1,450 (early bird pricing, ends May 17, 2024)
$1595 regular rate after May 17, 2024
Payment plans available (please inquire)
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Introduction to Nature-Based Interventions is recommended, but not required.
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Camping is available on or near the land where the training will be held. We have an additional $20/night facility use fee which includes camping toilets (porta potties), water, camp stove and fuel (let us know if you need assistance with equipment rentals). There is no running water on the land. There are also several hotels in Boulder (about a 40 to 45 minute drive to the land or AirBnBs, and campgrounds near the property. If you’re interested in this option, please let us know and we can help with recommendations. We provide a shared 2 burner camp stove and coolers for your prep and food storage needs.
Apply for Uncovering Genius
To apply, click the link below to fill out an application and share about your goals for attending the training. We’ll review your application and schedule a time to talk with you, share more about the program, answer any questions you have, and collaboratively determine if it is the right fit for you. From there, we will send you enrollment and payment details.
For questions or if you’d like more information, please contact us.
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