Alta Mira Events
Alta Mira attracts and invites the best in the field of wellness to share and educate our neighboring professionals, our staff and our clients. Please revisit our site frequently to see who will be here next.
Ongoing Groups (AA, NA, Life Ring, etc.)
Click here for ongoing groups hosted at the Alta Mira that are open to the public.
The Gathering - A Professionals Networking luncheon
March 20, 2008
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Featuring:Beth McDougall, M.D.
Medical Director, Clear Center of Health
An Alta Mira Treatment Programs Affiliate
Beth McDougall, M.D., is the founder and medical director of the CLEAR Center of Health and the creator of the CLEAR Protocol™ for natural, comprehensive hormone balance. She is a nationally recognized expert and community educator: she empowers patients and trains doctors in Integrative Medicine. Dr. McDougall has organized educational symposia on Integrative Medicine for the allopathic community, planned interdisciplinary health science curricula on Integrative Medicine, and helped start a university department that coordinated research, clinical services, and education in spirituality, cross-cultural medicine, and Integrative Medicine at the University of Minnesota. For these and other efforts, Dr. McDougall was honored by the American Holistic Medical Association. Trained extensively in both western allopathic medicine and Integrative Medicine, Dr. McDougall has dedicated her career to bridging these two disciplines.
To RSVP please email Events@altamirarecovery.com
You are welcome to invite your colleagues; please include yourself in the number you confirm for your group.
There is no charge for this event and lunch will be provided. Please bring business cards and other printed materials about your services to share with other providers.
Professional’s Weekend
February 29- March 2, 2008
Furture Dates:
April 18th-20th
June 27th – 29th
August 23rd – 24th
October 17th-19th
lta Mira Treatment Programs is offering a schedule of events over the weekend for select individual providers to sample our offerings. Click here to view the agenda for this event.
Each exclusive weekend has limited guest availability. If you are interested in the Alta Mira Treatment Programs Experience please email pr@altamirarecovery.com
The Gathering - A Professionals Networking luncheon
February 21, 2008
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Brian Steber, M.D.
Addictionologist
Dr. Steber is Certified by American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and is the Medical Director for Alta Mira Treatment Programs. He is an acknowledged expert in the field of addiction, and works closely with government, business, and other organizations to educate people on the dangers, symptoms and recovery from substance abuse. He will be addressing the issue of pain and dependency, including the neurochemistry of addiction.
To RSVP please email TheGathering@altamirarecovery.com
You are welcome to invite your colleagues; please include yourself in the number you confirm for your group.
There is no charge for this event and lunch will be provided. Please bring business cards and other printed materials about your services to share with other providers.
Health Etc. 2008 Expo
February 2, 2008
10:00 am
The Fourth Annual Health Etc will be held Saturday, February 2nd at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. A full agenda of health issues will be explored through speeches, expert panels, seminars, and interactive exhibits. Attendees are given direct access to health experts and professionals. Bring your questions, leave with answers. Health etc is about you.
Click here to listen to our Health Expo Panel onRestoring Balance: Reclaim Your Life from Self-destructive Patterns.
Family Programs & Evolving Process Workshop
January 25-27, 2008
Dr. Joe Cruse and Sharon Wegscheider-CruseOur relationship with family is the foundation of our relationship with self and life as a whole. In recovery we are offered a powerful opportunity to gain perspectives and question beliefs ,judgments and patterns of behavior that have developed as a result of life choices. Until we look at our family of origin we may not be truly aware of how our family of choice has been created. With the experience and compassionate dedication of Dr. Joe Cruse and Sharon Weigscheider Cruse, Alta Mira Treatment Programs and our Family Systems staff, Michael Brown and Kenneth Perlmutter invite you to join us in a presentation and interaction on the EVOLUTION OF FAMILY SYSTEMS IN RECOVERY. Alta Mira is a living model of the integrity and compassion of recovery in action. This will be an excellent opportunity to share, expand and revisit the practices and beliefs that we as professionals operate from in our own offerings.
To register for this event please call 866.922.1350 or email events@altamirarecovery.com
The Gathering: A Professionals Networking Luncheon
January 17, 2008 12:00 - 1:30pm
Featuring:Amelia Hardwick, M.A., Psy.D.
Director of Integrative Psychology
Dr. Hardwick will share her practice of integrative psychology using holistic mind/body/spirit approaches to treat addictions, trauma, mood disorders, and physical illness. She will introduce a process called The Journey™, which is not well known in the United States but has been used around the world to free many people of illnesses. Dr. Hardwick will discuss the benefits and importance of addressing spiritual and soul aspects of clients' lives and how to incorporate spirituality as a healing practice that fits the client's belief system without crossing into religion.
To RSVP please email events@altamirarecovery.com
You are welcome to invite your colleagues; please include yourself in the number you confirm for your group.
There is no charge for this event and lunch will be provided. Please bring business cards and other printed materials about your services to share with other providers.
Soulful Retreat
November 30th - December 2nd, 2007
Into the Crucible: A Three Day Intensive for Personal Transformation
Many of us have become masters of seeking, experts in recovery, and professional self-improvers -- only
to find ourselves endlessly seeking, recovering, and improving. What if we could abandon all our masteries,
release our strategies, and relinquish the desperate attempt to manage and control our lives? What if we
could undermine the mind that runs our lives, and find a clearer, more loving, more creative intelligence
already present in our deepest being? In this three day intensive, we will begin to abandon our masteries
and practice the art of surrender, through breath-work, movement, toning, ceremony, sweat lodge, and
deep play. We will question the premises that form the foundation for our work in recovery, tear down the
the beliefs that no longer support us, dissolve self-importance, and begin to experience ourselves as the
unlimited force of life flowing through our bodies. And then? We begin, at last, to truly live.
Call now to reserve your space 866.922.1350 or email events@altamirarecovery.com
Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance
November 17, 2007
Dr. Tian Dayton, PhD TEP
Bill W. spoke of “emotional sobriety” as one of the next important horizons of recovery. Neuroscience has opened the door to understanding how emotional regulation is a mind body experience that involves not only our thinking mind but our “feeling mind” or our limbic system. The limbic system governs such fundamental aspects of self as mood, appetite and sleep. Deregulation in the limbic system can lead to depression, trouble regulating mood, eating or sleep and an increased desire to self medicate. Living with addiction can be traumatic and can lead to limbic deregulation. This experiential workshop will describe how we learn the skills of emotional regulation, how we can become deregulated by the kind of emotional trauma that surrounds addiction and what we need to do, in recovery, to reregulate both our minds and our bodies. We will learn how to use experiential methods to reconnect the thinking and the feeling mind (the limbic mind) and how to help groups to break their isolation, begin to feel and reconnect with themselves and others. Author of The Living Stage: A Step by Step guide to Psychodrama, Sociometry and Experiential Group Therapy and recovery best seller Forgiving and Moving On, Trauma and Addiction; twelve other titles.
Dr. Dayton is a fellow of the American Society of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy ASGPP, winner of their scholar’s award, executive editor of the psychodrama academic journal, sits on the professional standards committee. Dr. Dayton has a masters in educational psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology and is a board certified trainer in psychodrama. guest expert on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Montel, Rikki Lake, John Walsh and Geraldo.
Call now to reserve your space 866.922.1350 or email events@altamirarecovery.com
Exploring Money Issues: Helping Clients Modify Their Self-Defeating/Self Destructive Financial Behaviors
November 13, 2007
Ted Klontz, PhD, CSAT III, CET II, MACTed is President of Onsite Workshops and has developed and implemented intensive outpatient treatment programs dealing with Sexual Addiction/Compulsivity as well as Compulsive Financial Disorders. He also has an active private consulting practice working with high profile individuals, couples and families. Money issues are directly related to a client’s addictive/compulsive behaviors. It has been well established that stress, a sense of isolation, physical/emotional/psychic numbness, and distorted thinking fuels self-defeating/self-destructive behaviors. Money is often used by clients as a means of feeling less stress, more connected, and more alive. The prevalence of compulsive spending (just one of the self-destructive/self-defeating financial behaviors) alone exceeds that of prevalence of depression. Whether it is spending money on alcohol or other drugs, or for something else, money is a key component in the addictive/compulsive process. Money issues are the #1 stressor for 73% of all Americans, more likely to cause young marriages to fail than any other factor, are one of the top three issues for all relationships, and yet 97% of mental health clients report that their therapists have never raised the issue of money behaviors with them. It can be assumed that the reason for this oversight is that therapists are not familiar with ways to address or comfortable talking with clients about this topic. This workshop will provide a rationale as well as demonstrate tools for practitioners to begin addressing this issue with their clients.
- Participants will be able to identify methods of helping clients identify the “money scripts” that drive their behaviors.
- Participants will be able to practice some tools used to assist clients who are dealing with self-defeating/self-destructive financial behaviors change their financial template.
- Participants will be able to learn of research that
supports the efficacy of the tools and techniques
used to help clients change their
self-defeating/self-destructive money behaviors
.
Open House
Tuesday October 23, 2007
Please join us for Alta Mira Treatment Programs' Open House. This event will be on Tuesday, October 23, 2007, from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Dr. James Braly and Dan Millman will be speaking, and a buffet will be open throughout the afternoon and evening.
James Braly, MD will be speaking on IV-Oral Nutrient Therapy: For Rapid Reversal of Abstinence Symptoms. 3:00-3:30 pm.
Dr. Braly is a clinician, author, editor, educator, consultant, researcher & product formulator in the areas of naturopathic medicine, clinical nutrition, addictionology, laboratory science, food allergy, Gluten Sensitivity-Celiac Disease and essential fatty acid therapy.
Featured Speaker Dan Millman, author of The Journeys of Socrates, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, and The Life You Were
Born to Live. 4:00-5:00pm.
The Oracle Visits Alta Mira
August 1, 2007
"Nechung" refers to the Dharma Protector and the Chief Tibetan Oracle, as well as the monastery. Tibet's State Oracle, Dorje Drakden ("Nechung"), is the chief protector for Tibet, its government, and people. The Oracle's energy enhances the positive aspects of human activity in the world, while helping overcome obstacles and the forces of negativity. It was on the advice and assistance of the Nechung Oracle that H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama accomplished a safe passage out of Tibet in 1959. The State Oracle is often consulted on significant matters by H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Government, and High Lamas.