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• Executive Committee Meeting (February 2020)

  • When
    Sunday, February 09, 2020
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    RRUUC

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• February Wine & Cheese Social

  • When
    Tuesday, February 18, 2020
  •  
    5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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    DC-TBD
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  The Wine & Cheese committee invites you to join clinicians of all levels for our upcoming social. Come mingle with fellow social workers; make connections, make friendships! Stay for as little or as long as you'd like.

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• Learning to Use the Enneagram System of Temperament Types with Clients (Session 1)

  • When
    Friday, February 28, 2020
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Sunrise at Chevy Chase, 2201 Colston Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
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  Presenter: Lynn Turner, PhD, LCSW

  CEUs:  Category 1 | 3 CEUs per workshop/9 Total CEUs if all three attended 

  The More Attuned Therapist not only understands her client’s attachment style or nurture, but also understands her client’s nature or innate temperament type.

  The Enneagram is a system of inborn temperament types, discerned by ancient cultures and recorded by the Ancient Greeks. By learning this system, therapists are able to help their clients understand innate behavioral tendencies which can interact with childhood triggers such as attachment issues. For example, one temperament type, the perfectionist, notices what is out of place and has a strong urge to correct whatever is not “right”. If this client is the wife of a man who is the “easy-going” type, noticing very little out of place type, usually ADD, the wife’s frustration can be predicted. If both the husband and the wife had attachment disorders or other childhood issues, their temperament types would also predict their even stronger reactivities to each other’s behavioral tendencies by temperament. A psychotherapist armed with temperament knowledge can help ease a clients self-criticism over temperament normalities as well as carry a deeper understanding of her client’s overall issues. While learning a new “system” or theory can look time consuming, the Enneagram types can be easily grasped by psychotherapist and client when they are taught pragmatically around behaviors and feelings.

  Lynn’s training in brain theories has lead her to believe that our brains are wired in utero with our Temperament. Innate temperament wiring leaves us vulnerable to our nurturing environment in specific ways which will be explained. This training will teach not only the nine different types, but their relationship to our three brains (Paul McClean 1960). The Ancient Greeks knew that each type had a specific relationship with one of the three brains and that this guided their behavior. Lynn also teaches the interactions of the various types across the circle of 9 types. These interactions create our many differences and similarities, but allow for our uniqueness.

  Lynn Turner, PhD, LCSW, has been using knowledge of the Enneagram Temperament System to help her clients, friends and family since 1995. Lynn leads 2 workshops annually on the Enneagram in which each of the 9 types have a chance to be interviewed by seminar members and the leader. These temperament “panels” provide evidence to everyone present that each type adds intrigue to relationships. When these relationship patterns are understood, life becomes easier for all involved. A 3 session workshop teaching clinicians of all levels how to use the Enneagram Temperament Typing with their clients. While numerous researchers have analyzed inborn temperament stability of various types over 50 years, the Enneagram Temperament System was written down by Ancient Greeks based on discoveries by earlier cultures.

  The presenter will show evidence that we are born with our temperaments or nature which must then interact with our nurture to create who we are.

  The first session of this workshop will include detailed descriptions of the 9 Enneagram Temperament Types and a booklet written by the presenter. Learning both the gifts and burdens of each innate hardwired temperament will allow clinicians to distinguish between the healthy and unhealthy aspects of each Temperament. 20 minutes will be devoted to questions from clinicians. Homework will be to find their own Enneagram Temperament and those of family members before the next session.

  The second 3 hour session, will describe how each Enneagram Temperament is related to our three brains, the visceral, limbic and Neo-cortex (McClean, 1960). Learning the alignment of temperament to our heart, gut or mind, increases self-understanding for the client and skill for the clinician. By combining nature (Enneagram) and nurture (attachment or a traumatic event) clinicians will learn to more deeply understand their client's individual dilemma's or issues. In this session we will also explore the participants own Enneagram Temperament by interviewing panels by type. Homework will be to think about how at least two clients fit the Enneagram Temperament Typing and how the therapist might bring this thinking into the therapy room.

  The third 3 hour session will be devoted to exploring how to use the Enneagram Temperament Typing with clients. The presenter will talk about her 24 years of experience with examples of using he Enneagram Temperament Typing with Individuals, Couples and Children. Then, clinicians will discuss their thoughts about 2 clients they have identified and how this identification might be useful in their practice. Lastly there will be an hour for questions concerning using the Enneagram Typing in therapy.
  

  Session 1: Objectives

  Participants should be able to:

  1. Describe at least four Enneagram Types.
  2. Identify the gifts and burdens of at least four Enneagram Types.
  3. Have some idea of their own Enneagram Type.
  4. Understand the dynamics of healthy vs unhealthy Enneagram Types. 

  Session 1: Agenda

  • 10:00 Introduction of participants (in a circle) and their knowledge of the Enneagram
  • 10:20 Introduction of the Enneagram Temperament Types description, including presenter's background
  • 11:20 Famous people in each type, Connection of types to gifts and burdens leading to healthy and unhealthy behavior patterns
  • 12:00 Interaction of Nature (Enneagram) and Nurture (childhood environment). The brain wiring that creates the temperament types. Brief intro of research into temperament
  • 12: 30 Lunch break
  • 1:00 Review and questions, Homework given. Study the Enneagram system to know four types with their gifts and burdens, to have some idea of their own Enneagram type and study the dynamics of healthy vs unhealthy Enneagram Types

  Click here for Session 2 Objectives & Agenda

  Click here for Session 3 Objectives & Agenda

  RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Baron, R. & Wagele, E. The Enneagram Made Easy: discover the 9 Types of People. Harper, San Francisco, 1994.

  Chess, S & Thomas A. Temperament in Clinical Practice. Guilford Publications, New York, 1995.

  Kagan, J & Snidman, N. The Long Shadow of Temperament.Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2004.

  Palmer, H. The Enneagram in Love & Work: Understanding Your Intimate & Business Relationships. Harper, San Francisco, 1995.

  Ratey, J.J. A User’s Guide to the Brain. First Vintage Books, New York, 2002

  Riso, R. The Wisdom of the Enneagram. Bantam Doubleday Del Pub, New York, 1999.

  Turner, L. The Enneagram: Mandala of Temperament. Self-Published, Alexandria, VA 2018.

  NOTES:

  2/3 hour parking nearby, we will allow for moving cars, if necessary. Please bring lunch or request from Panera

  Please let us know about any contingencies of walking/sitting, physical needs.
  

  
  

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• Learning to Use the Enneagram System of Temperament Types with Clients (Session 2)

  • When
    Friday, March 13, 2020
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Sunrise at Chevy Chase, 2201 Colston Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

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  Presenter: Lynn Turner, PhD, LCSW

  CEUs:  Category 1 | 3 CEUs per workshop/9 Total CEUs if all three attended 

  The More Attuned Therapist not only understands her client’s attachment style or nurture, but also understands her client’s nature or innate temperament type.

  The Enneagram is a system of inborn temperament types, discerned by ancient cultures and recorded by the Ancient Greeks. By learning this system, therapists are able to help their clients understand innate behavioral tendencies which can interact with childhood triggers such as attachment issues. For example, one temperament type, the perfectionist, notices what is out of place and has a strong urge to correct whatever is not “right”. If this client is the wife of a man who is the “easy-going” type, noticing very little out of place type, usually ADD, the wife’s frustration can be predicted. If both the husband and the wife had attachment disorders or other childhood issues, their temperament types would also predict their even stronger reactivities to each other’s behavioral tendencies by temperament. A psychotherapist armed with temperament knowledge can help ease a clients self-criticism over temperament normalities as well as carry a deeper understanding of her client’s overall issues. While learning a new “system” or theory can look time consuming, the Enneagram types can be easily grasped by psychotherapist and client when they are taught pragmatically around behaviors and feelings.

  Lynn’s training in brain theories has lead her to believe that our brains are wired in utero with our Temperament. Innate temperament wiring leaves us vulnerable to our nurturing environment in specific ways which will be explained. This training will teach not only the nine different types, but their relationship to our three brains (Paul McClean 1960). The Ancient Greeks knew that each type had a specific relationship with one of the three brains and that this guided their behavior. Lynn also teaches the interactions of the various types across the circle of 9 types. These interactions create our many differences and similarities, but allow for our uniqueness.

  Lynn Turner, PhD, LCSW, has been using knowledge of the Enneagram Temperament System to help her clients, friends and family since 1995. Lynn leads 2 workshops annually on the Enneagram in which each of the 9 types have a chance to be interviewed by seminar members and the leader. These temperament “panels” provide evidence to everyone present that each type adds intrigue to relationships. When these relationship patterns are understood, life becomes easier for all involved. A 3 session workshop teaching clinicians of all levels how to use the Enneagram Temperament Typing with their clients. While numerous researchers have analyzed inborn temperament stability of various types over 50 years, the Enneagram Temperament System was written down by Ancient Greeks based on discoveries by earlier cultures.

  The presenter will show evidence that we are born with our temperaments or nature which must then interact with our nurture to create who we are.

  The first session of this workshop will include detailed descriptions of the 9 Enneagram Temperament Types and a booklet written by the presenter. Learning both the gifts and burdens of each innate hardwired temperament will allow clinicians to distinguish between the healthy and unhealthy aspects of each Temperament. 20 minutes will be devoted to questions from clinicians. Homework will be to find their own Enneagram Temperament and those of family members before the next session.

  The second 3 hour session, will describe how each Enneagram Temperament is related to our three brains, the visceral, limbic and Neo-cortex (McClean, 1960). Learning the alignment of temperament to our heart, gut or mind, increases self-understanding for the client and skill for the clinician. By combining nature (Enneagram) and nurture (attachment or a traumatic event) clinicians will learn to more deeply understand their client's individual dilemma's or issues. In this session we will also explore the participants own Enneagram Temperament by interviewing panels by type. Homework will be to think about how at least two clients fit the Enneagram Temperament Typing and how the therapist might bring this thinking into the therapy room.

  The third 3 hour session will be devoted to exploring how to use the Enneagram Temperament Typing with clients. The presenter will talk about her 24 years of experience with examples of using he Enneagram Temperament Typing with Individuals, Couples and Children. Then, clinicians will discuss their thoughts about 2 clients they have identified and how this identification might be useful in their practice. Lastly there will be an hour for questions concerning using the Enneagram Typing in therapy.
  

  Session 2: Objectives

  By the end of Class 2 participants should be able to:

  1. Identify the Enneagram Types in each of the three brain Triads.
  2. Identify the three Triangles or connections of the Enneagram.
  3. Know their own Enneagram Type with their gifts and burdens.
  4. Identify the healthy and unhealthy aspects of at least 4 Enneagram Types.

  Session 2: Agenda

  • 10am Review of Enneagram circle with types, descriptions, gifts and burdens
  • 10:30 Brief intro into the Triune Brain | Introduction of connections between Enneagram types and the Triune Brain: gut, heart and mind | The ways in which Heart Types respond differently than Mind Types for example
  • 11:00 Introduction to connections across the Enneagram circle in three Triangles and their varying characteristics. Examples from client workshops on the Triangles.
  • 11:30 Questions about the Brain Triads and about the Triangles
  • 12:00 Interviewing class participants according to their Enneagram Types: questions from presenter and participants
  • 12:30 Lunch
  • 1:00 Continue interviewing panels of Enneagram types
  • 1:25 Homework to think about 2 clients, their Enneagram Types and using the Enneagram in practice

  
  Click here for Session 1 Objectives & Agenda

  Click here for Session 3 Objectives & Agenda

  RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Baron, R. & Wagele, E. The Enneagram Made Easy: discover the 9 Types of People. Harper, San Francisco, 1994.

  Chess, S & Thomas A. Temperament in Clinical Practice. Guilford Publications, New York, 1995.

  Kagan, J & Snidman, N. The Long Shadow of Temperament.Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2004.

  Palmer, H. The Enneagram in Love & Work: Understanding Your Intimate & Business Relationships. Harper, San Francisco, 1995.

  Ratey, J.J. A User’s Guide to the Brain. First Vintage Books, New York, 2002

  Riso, R. The Wisdom of the Enneagram. Bantam Doubleday Del Pub, New York, 1999.

  Turner, L. The Enneagram: Mandala of Temperament. Self-Published, Alexandria, VA 2018.

  NOTES:

  2/3 hour parking nearby, we will allow for moving cars, if necessary. Please bring lunch or request from Panera

  Please let us know about any contingencies of walking/sitting, physical needs.
  

  
  

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• Executive Committee Meeting (March 2020)

  • When
    Sunday, March 15, 2020
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    RRUUC

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• New Member FREE Spring Brunch (Spring 2020 )

  • When
    Sunday, March 22, 2020
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Cindy Crane’s home 7313 Millwood Rd Bethesda, MD 20817

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  "When I joined GWSCSW and, since then, I have formed extraordinary friendships, established a professional network, and found the best resource for learning and staying current. I think association membership and activity is a cornerstone of one's professional life."  ~ Long-time GWSCSW Member
  

  
  We invite you to join us for a New Member Spring Brunch 

  Any GWSCSW member who has joined in the past 2 years are warmly invited to join us! And all current members are invited to come meet new members!

  Learn how to get more out of your membership! If you've joined the Society in the past few years but have never been to a New Member Brunch, please come join us - we'd love to meet you!

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• Learning to Use the Enneagram System of Temperament Types with Clients (Session 3)

  • When
    Friday, March 27, 2020
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Sunrise at Chevy Chase, 2201 Colston Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

  Register

  Presenter: Lynn Turner, PhD, LCSW

  CEUs:  Category 1 | 3 CEUs per workshop/9 Total CEUs if all three attended 

  The More Attuned Therapist not only understands her client’s attachment style or nurture, but also understands her client’s nature or innate temperament type.

  The Enneagram is a system of inborn temperament types, discerned by ancient cultures and recorded by the Ancient Greeks. By learning this system, therapists are able to help their clients understand innate behavioral tendencies which can interact with childhood triggers such as attachment issues. For example, one temperament type, the perfectionist, notices what is out of place and has a strong urge to correct whatever is not “right”. If this client is the wife of a man who is the “easy-going” type, noticing very little out of place type, usually ADD, the wife’s frustration can be predicted. If both the husband and the wife had attachment disorders or other childhood issues, their temperament types would also predict their even stronger reactivities to each other’s behavioral tendencies by temperament. A psychotherapist armed with temperament knowledge can help ease a clients self-criticism over temperament normalities as well as carry a deeper understanding of her client’s overall issues. While learning a new “system” or theory can look time consuming, the Enneagram types can be easily grasped by psychotherapist and client when they are taught pragmatically around behaviors and feelings.

  Lynn’s training in brain theories has lead her to believe that our brains are wired in utero with our Temperament. Innate temperament wiring leaves us vulnerable to our nurturing environment in specific ways which will be explained. This training will teach not only the nine different types, but their relationship to our three brains (Paul McClean 1960). The Ancient Greeks knew that each type had a specific relationship with one of the three brains and that this guided their behavior. Lynn also teaches the interactions of the various types across the circle of 9 types. These interactions create our many differences and similarities, but allow for our uniqueness.

  Lynn Turner, PhD, LCSW, has been using knowledge of the Enneagram Temperament System to help her clients, friends and family since 1995. Lynn leads 2 workshops annually on the Enneagram in which each of the 9 types have a chance to be interviewed by seminar members and the leader. These temperament “panels” provide evidence to everyone present that each type adds intrigue to relationships. When these relationship patterns are understood, life becomes easier for all involved. A 3 session workshop teaching clinicians of all levels how to use the Enneagram Temperament Typing with their clients. While numerous researchers have analyzed inborn temperament stability of various types over 50 years, the Enneagram Temperament System was written down by Ancient Greeks based on discoveries by earlier cultures.

  The presenter will show evidence that we are born with our temperaments or nature which must then interact with our nurture to create who we are.

  The first session of this workshop will include detailed descriptions of the 9 Enneagram Temperament Types and a booklet written by the presenter. Learning both the gifts and burdens of each innate hardwired temperament will allow clinicians to distinguish between the healthy and unhealthy aspects of each Temperament. 20 minutes will be devoted to questions from clinicians. Homework will be to find their own Enneagram Temperament and those of family members before the next session.

  The second 3 hour session, will describe how each Enneagram Temperament is related to our three brains, the visceral, limbic and Neo-cortex (McClean, 1960). Learning the alignment of temperament to our heart, gut or mind, increases self-understanding for the client and skill for the clinician. By combining nature (Enneagram) and nurture (attachment or a traumatic event) clinicians will learn to more deeply understand their client's individual dilemma's or issues. In this session we will also explore the participants own Enneagram Temperament by interviewing panels by type. Homework will be to think about how at least two clients fit the Enneagram Temperament Typing and how the therapist might bring this thinking into the therapy room.

  The third 3 hour session will be devoted to exploring how to use the Enneagram Temperament Typing with clients. The presenter will talk about her 24 years of experience with examples of using he Enneagram Temperament Typing with Individuals, Couples and Children. Then, clinicians will discuss their thoughts about 2 clients they have identified and how this identification might be useful in their practice. Lastly there will be an hour for questions concerning using the Enneagram Typing in therapy.
  

  Session 3: Objectives

  By the end of Session 3 participants should be able to:

  1. Identify two of their client's Enneagram Types.
  2. Identify the healthy and unhealthy as well as nature combined with nurture aspects of these clients.
  3. Understand the unhealthy dynamics of two couple combinations of Enneagram. Temperament Types with possibilities for creating collaboration in place of conflict. 
  4. Be able to make recommendations to parents of two child types concerning the gifts and burdens in their child's Temperament.

  
  Session 3: Agenda

  • 10am Review of Enneagram Circle with Brain Triads and Triangles. Questions welcome
  • 10:40 Presenter talks about her experiences using the Enneagram Temperament System with her clients |Examples include Gifts and Burdens, the interplay of nature vs nurture, uses with individuals, couples, families and children
  • 11:20 Participants sit in groups of 4-5 discussing clients they have been able to identify in an Enneagram type and how it could help in their practice
  • 11: 50 Individual, couple and family therapists share from their practices, ways in which using the Enneagram knowledge might be useful
  • 12:30 Lunch
  • 1:00 Questions for the presenter about any aspect of the Enneagram Temperament System

  
  Click here for Session 1 Objectives & Agenda

  Click here for Session 2 Objectives & Agenda

  RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Baron, R. & Wagele, E. The Enneagram Made Easy: discover the 9 Types of People. Harper, San Francisco, 1994.

  Chess, S & Thomas A. Temperament in Clinical Practice. Guilford Publications, New York, 1995.

  Kagan, J & Snidman, N. The Long Shadow of Temperament.Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2004.

  Palmer, H. The Enneagram in Love & Work: Understanding Your Intimate & Business Relationships. Harper, San Francisco, 1995.

  Ratey, J.J. A User’s Guide to the Brain. First Vintage Books, New York, 2002

  Riso, R. The Wisdom of the Enneagram. Bantam Doubleday Del Pub, New York, 1999.

  Turner, L. The Enneagram: Mandala of Temperament. Self-Published, Alexandria, VA 2018.

  NOTES:

  2/3 hour parking nearby, we will allow for moving cars, if necessary. Please bring lunch or request from Panera

  Please let us know about any contingencies of walking/sitting, physical needs.
  

  
  

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• March Wine & Cheese Social

  • When
    Sunday, March 29, 2020
  •  
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    MD-TBD
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  The Wine & Cheese committee invites you to join clinicians of all levels for our upcoming social. Come mingle with fellow social workers; make connections, make friendships! Stay for as little or as long as you'd like.

  This is a FREE member event.

  
  

  
  
  

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• Board Meeting (April 2020)

  • When
    Saturday, April 04, 2020
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    River Road Unitarian 6301 River Road Bethesda

  Full board meeting

  
  

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• April Wine & Cheese Social

  • When
    Sunday, April 19, 2020
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    DC-TBD
  • Spaces left
    25

  Register

  

  The Wine & Cheese committee invites you to join clinicians of all levels for our upcoming social. Come mingle with fellow social workers; make connections, make friendships! Stay for as little or as long as you'd like.

  This is a FREE member event.

  
  

  
  
  

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• Executive Committee Meeting (May 2020)

  • When
    Sunday, May 03, 2020
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    RRUUC

  Executive Committee Meeting

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