GOODFIELD TRAINING

Basic Training

Basic Training includes 10 days of training. It is an extensive and intense introduction to the basic principles of the Goodfield Method, and is designed to help not only professionals (in business, human resources, mental health, law enforcement and other fields) but also individuals who want to better communicate in daily life.

The Basic Training concludes with the Basic Training Workshop, in which participants will have the opportunity to actively work on reviewing and adapting their personal strategy towards a more efficient way of working, based on the analysis of their own nonverbal leak.

Participants will learn to decode unconscious messages, allowing them insight into numerous interactions, including business dealings, crisis negotiation or personal relationships. The Goodfield method applies a patented psychotherapeutic process that is body-oriented but linked to classic therapeutic principals. The Basic Training is unique in that it:
  • Gives clearer understanding in the structure of personality and the role of both it’s conscious and unconscious aspects,
  • Reveals the dualism that is present in each individual and gives insight into the roots of this dualism,
  • Gives a testable and referential method to profile individuals, identifying their key conscious and unconscious drivers,
  • Gives clear guidelines to analyze the personal strategies of individuals, groups, organizations and even nations based on both conscious and unconscious drivers, and
  • Gives a basic understanding of the therapeutic process of the Goodfield Method.
The Basic Training is designed for:
  • Professionals in business, human resources, law enforcement, mental health, diplomacy and other fields.
  • Individuals that have the ambition to become a Goodfield Therapist.
Main topics covered in Basic Training include:
  • The development of Scientific Humanism,
  • General semantics and the process of communication,
  • The concept of perception and meta-level,
  • The structure of personality,
  • The conscious and unconscious self concepts,
  • The Non Verbal Leak and the communication system of the unconscious mind
  • Profiling individuals based on the Non Verbal Leak (*),
  • The Interactive Non Verbal Leak and Historical Interactive Non Verbal Leak, focusing on the case studies of the Milosevic and the Kosovo conflict, and
  • Non-verbal aspects of crisis management from the personal to the international level.

Advanced Training (AT)

Advanced Training gives a deeper understanding and insight in the therapeutic process and the tools of the Goodfield Method. A section is reserved for dealing with special issues such as treating alcohol and drug abuse, aggression, children, and issues relating to various forms of past abuse. An essential part of the Advanced Training includes the making of a video concerning one’s life. In this one hour video, participants will demonstrate insight into their own process. Videos will be shown and discussed in the group. An Advanced Training Seminar (ATS) is included in this process, and is focused on connecting the bridge between the Goodfield Method and Classic Psychiatry.

The ATS syllabus includes Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice DSM-IV Edition, by Glen O. Gabbart, M.D. Each ATS training block concludes with the theoretical exam covering three parts of the training and mandatory reading. During the ATS, participants may start working with their own client. Part of the training includes making a one hour video of your client. When you start working with your own client you also start with Client Supervision.

Participants must additionally complete a minimum of 12 sessions with their private client, as well as 12 supervised sessions with a Goodfield supervisor.

Therapist Workshops

Becoming a Goodfield Therapist also means experiencing and gaining insight into your own personal strategies by working on them in therapist workshops. It is important to revise your own strategies to be as clear, honest and direct with yourself and those around you as possible. In each phase of the training, it is mandatory to participate in 2-3 therapist workshops. The total duration of the training requires attendance of at least 8 therapist workshops.

Assistance in Workshops

After completing Basic Training, you can assist, under supervision of the training staff, in workshops of Dr. Goodfield. Mandatory supervision meetings will be organized around the workshops and a total of 12 workshops are necessary to complete the training.

Senior Certificate

In addition to being an expert on communication, personal strategy analysis, crisis management and conflict resolution (negotiation skills), upon completion of your training, the Senior Certificate will allow you to start your own private practice as a Goodfield therapist as well as give personal coaching.

Graduate Seminar in Personality Analysis (GSPA)

The three interdependent steps in this course are evaluation, symbolic level, and personality typing. This course covers why much difficulty in learning is due to our reluctance to give up old learning and that seeing in a “new way” takes time and careful guidance. Participants will learn why no personality type can be completely understood without first getting their Non-Verbal Leak “exactly right.” GSPA will establish the skill level of each student and seek to standardize both knowledge and application abilities. This will be accomplished while exploring practical relationships between various Non-Verbal Leak levels and various personality types. Initial efforts to determine the unique and essential differences between the various personality types will be central to the Graduate Seminar.

 


The Goodfield Institute
22042 N 64th Avenue • Glendale, AZ 85310
(623) 748-9499