Classes and Workshops James Yates, Ph.D., leads Coactive Counseling classes and workshops that emphasize an experiential learning approach for gaining the awareness, knowledge and tools for taking a more active role in your personal growth and emotional healing. Participants learn facilitation skills such as how to observe, listen and make interventions grounded in the Gestalt approach. The classes and workshops are for non-professionals, mental health professionals and those in the helping professions. The following are offered in a class and workshop format: Coactive Individual Counseling Take part in a reciprocal relationship with a counseling partner, and take turns facilitating each other’s personal growth and emotional healing. This class/workshop is a learning laboratory for gaining coactive counseling skills while providing an opportunity to do your own personal growth work. Coactive Group Counseling Create a trusting, supportive group for healing emotional wounds and becoming more conscious and effective in your interactions with others. This class/workshop is both a personal growth group and a learning laboratory to learn group dynamics and group facilitation. Coactive Group Counseling utilizes experiential techniques that work with the whole person and the dynamics of the group. Vital Impulse: Coactive Expressive Arts Therapy Vital Impulse is an expressive arts therapy for enhancing awareness and unleashing spontaneity and creativity. Through participation in guided exercises drawn from improvisational movement and improvisational theater, participants are encouraged to tap their vital impulse - the life force within all of us that promotes healing and growth. Vital Impulse emphasizes working with the whole person and the collective dynamics of the group. The exercises are geared for people with no acting experience. Finding a Career With Heart: Coactive Career Counseling Are you in search of a fulfilling career path that you love? Are you planning a career transition due to downsizing, burnout or retirement? Are you still trying to figure out what you want to be when you grow up? This course will take you through a series of exercises that will help you identify your life purpose. You will create a vision for your life’s work and construct a plan for making it happen. With the support of others, you will take concrete steps towards your goals. Tapping the Power of Your Dreams: Coactive Dream Work Tap unused potential, heal emotional wounds and reveal solutions to personal and interpersonal conflicts. This experiential approach is a powerful and effective way to discover the meaning of your dreams without interpretation and guesswork. In addition to working with your own dreams, you will learn how to facilitate dream work with individuals and groups. For a schedule of upcoming classes & workshops click Schedule. Additional Information Regarding Classes & Workshops Coactive Counseling training is offered in the following three phases: Phase 1: Introduction to Theory and Practice. An introduction to the model is presented through instruction, demonstration, discussion and participation in guided exercises.   Phase 2: From Theory to Practice. Advanced concepts and techniques are presented while giving more emphasis to practicing what has been learned. Phase 3: Practicum. Emphasis is on gaining experience and applying concepts and techniques. The training is presented in a series of classes or in a workshop format. Each phase of the class format is twelve two-hour sessions. The workshop format is flexible, e.g., weekend, week-long or one-day workshops, with each phase comprising 24 hours. Smaller classes with 2 to 4 people can be organized upon request. Fees:  All classes and workshops are provided on a sliding scale. Introductory workshops are available for organizations and groups. For information regarding upcoming classes and workshops:  (434) 977-6918 or jyates@coactivecounseling.com