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Deconstructing Anxiety Intensive | 30 CE Credits

Deconstructing Anxiety Intensives
About this Virtual Event

Mar. 13 - 16, 2025

4 Days Virtual Event
30 CE Credits
The meta-analysis indicates our best therapies for anxiety only work about 46% of the time. Think about that statistic for a moment. It’s staggering. So why doesn’t it work ALL the time? The missing key to fully resolving anxiety requires a combination of the right insight and the right action.  Dr. Pressman will bring you the Deconstructing Anxiety technique.
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With the revolutionary understanding that anxiety (fear) is at the root of all suffering, you will gain insight into the five core fears–“universal themes of loss”–we all share, including:
  • abandonment (loss of love),
  • loss of identity,
  • loss of meaning,
  • loss of purpose and
  • fear of death.
We develop our primary defenses, usually early in childhood or at times of trauma, as our best attempt to protect ourselves from these fears, but always at too great a cost. This leaves us constantly holding vigil, on the lookout for the resurfacing of the fear. We build our entire personality upon this fear-defense dynamic. When it spins out of control, an anxiety disorder develops.The theory and techniques offered in this workshop, such as “The Alchemist”, “The Witness” and “The Warrior’s Stance”, will teach you how to uncover the core fear and chief defense quickly and reliably. These will be understood as the architects of personality and the creators of our perceptual world. With this knowledge, new strategies for “doing the opposite” of the chief defense and its secondary defenses have proven highly successful in even the most anxious clients. Incorporating psychodynamics, mindfulness, Gestalt, CBT, and transpersonal psychology, participants will undergo the presented techniques, making for a rich and highly experiential presentation.At the deepest level, we will pinpoint the precise moment where resistance is created and how to release it. This leads to the ultimate goal of letting go of “the resistance to resistance”, a key to transforming our entire view of Self and redefining the limits of the human experience. The way is then paved for the final section on “Vision Questing”, wherein the five core fears are fully resolved, and one may live their lives with a solid sense of identity, meaning, purpose, love and even a true freedom from the fear of death.​Come prepared for an exciting adventure into the deepest regions of the unconscious, where the hidden fears at the source of our difficulties live, to bring them out into consciousness, available for rapid and lasting transformation.
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Therapists
  • Counselors.
Todd Pressman, PhD

Dr. Pressman is an international presenter, psychologist, and author. He is the founder and director of Logos Wellness Center and Pressman and Associates Life Counseling Center, which is dedicated to helping people design lives of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. His studies under some of the world’s leaders in the Consciousness movement, as well as the personal grooming he received from a father whose teachers were students of Sigmund Freud, prepared the way for the discovery of the holistic principles he espouses. His work with Olympic athletes and high-performing CEOs has further honed his understanding of the secrets of excellence and the path to fulfillment.

After this training, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the core fear/chief defense model of how we build our personalities
  • Explain why anxiety is the source of all suffering
  • Explain the principle of “Doing the opposite of the chief defense”
  • Employ “Vision Questing” to transform fear into fulfillment

Thursday | 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm ET
7:30-9:30 p.m.–Introductions and Setting Intentions​

Friday | 11:00 am – 6:30 pm ET
11:00-11:45 a.m.–Theoretical foundations of the “Deconstructing Anxiety” model
11:45-12:15 p.m.–Exercise–“Digging for Gold”: Finding Your Core Fear
12:15-12:25 p.m.–Break
12:25-12:45 p.m.–Exercise–“Who are you Really?”: Finding Your Chief Defense
12:45-1:45 p.m.–Q and A and practice of exercises
1:45 p.m.-2:30 p.m.–Lunch
2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m..–Review of the Core Fear and Chief Defense
3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.–How to Heal Anxiety: “Doing the opposite” of the Chief Defense
3:45 p.m. -4:45 p.m.–Exercise–“The Alchemist”: Asking “What Happens Next?”
4:45 p.m.-4:55 p.m.–Break
4:55 p.m.-6:20 p.m.–Q and A and Further Practice of All Exercises
6:20 p.m.-6:30 p.m.–Homework​

Saturday | 11:00 am – 6:30 pm ET
11:00-11:15 am.–Review of Homework
11:15-12:15 a.m.–Exercise—“The Witness”: Enhanced Mindfulness Practice
12:15-12:30 p.m.–Building a new association to one’s core fear
12:30-12:40 p.m.–Bk
12:40 p.m.–1:30 p.m.–Q and A and Further Practice of “The Witness”
1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.–Lunch
2:00-2:30 p.m.–Integrating the results into everyday life
2:30-3:30 p.m.–Exercise—“The Warrior’s Stance”
3:30-3:45 p.m.–Break
3:45-4:45 p.m.–Integrating “The Alchemist”, “The Witness” and “The Warrior’s Stance”
4:45-6:155 p.m.–Q and A and Further Practice of All Exercises
6:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m.–Homework​

Sunday | 11:00 am – 6:30 pm ET
11:00-11:30 a.m.–Review of Homework
11:30-12:30 p.m.–Exercise—“Resolving the Resistance to Resistance”
12:30 p.m.-12:40 p.m..–Break
12:40 p.m.-1:30 p.m–Integrating all of the exercises
1:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m.–Lunch
2:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.–Integrating the results into everyday life
2:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m.–Exercise—“Vision Questing”: Finding one’s “Mighty Purpose”
3:45 p.m.-3:55 p.m.–Break
3:55 p.m.-4:45 p.m.–Integrating all of the exercises with the Vision Quest
4:45-5:30 p.m.–Q and A
5:30-6:15 p.m.–Keeping the practice fresh
6:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m.–Suggestions for continuing the practice after the seminar

Registration Mar. 13-16 | Live Interactive Virtual Event

Registration | Mar. 13-16 | Virtual Event | 30 CE Credits

Registration Deadline: Mar. 13, 2025

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