This website is one of our network of ten that we operate through our nonprofit, tax exempt organization, the Carolina Institute for Conflict Resolution and Creative Leadership (CICRCL, pronounced “circle”), which is based in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. We also do our consulting, therapy intensives and trainings in DPW through CICRCL. As Co-directors of CICRCL, our mission is providing our readers with evolutionary resources for shifting their consciousness.
On this website we focus on Developmental Process Work (DPW), the clinical model we created to help individuals, couples and families shift from the trauma track of development to the LOVEvolution track.
The primary goal of DPW is helping people heal the lingering effects of their experiences of developmental shock, trauma, and stress so that they are able to give conditional love and share it with others. The ultimate goal is helping people to be deeply intimate with each other, while also psychologically separate and individuated in the way that we envision.
We often begin the process of helping clients shift from the trauma track to the LOVEvolution track by having them identify and resolve internal and/or interpersonal recurring or intractable conflicts that contain the hidden effects of shocking, traumatic, or stressful experiences from the first 3 years of life. We describe many of these tools in our books Conflict Resolution: The Partnership Way and Healing Developmental Trauma: A Systems Approach for Counseling Individuals, Couples and Families to be released February 2010.
Our clinical modality, DPW emphasizes the role of the client–therapist relationship as a major component in helping clients shift from the trauma track to the LOVEvolution track activated by very early events involving shock, trauma, and stress that originate in the mother–child relationship.
For this reason, the therapeutic environment must be very safe, emotionally supportive, and trust-building so that clients can reprocess both the biological and psychological components of their developmental shock, trauma, and stress. Therapists must have cleared enough lingering effects of their own developmental shocks, traumas, and stresses in order to interact from an empathic, heart-centered space. In this space, it becomes possible for clients to really experience the unconditional love that is central to the LOVEvolution track.
In this empathic and loving therapeutic crucible, clients are able to identify their unhealed developmental shocks, traumas, and stresses and resolve the intractable conflicts associated with them. Then clients are able to complete any essential developmental processes not completed in the codependent and counterdependent stages of early childhood. Most importantly, clients are able to experience the emotional resonance of a healthy, conscious relationship while they are doing their deep therapeutic work.
You can find us also at our social networking site, where we have a forum and chat room.
At our YouTube channel you'll find a lot of information on co-dependency, counter-dependency, developmental trauma and relationships.
In our Store you’ll find information about our other books on relationships:
Breaking Free of the Co-Dependency Trap
Conflict Resolution: The Partnership Way
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You can reach us by email at cicrcl@weinholds.org
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