LEAH MATSON PH.D.

LEAH MATSON HAS A DOCTORATE IN COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY FROM USC. SHE IS A LICENSED MARRIAGE FAMILY THERAPIST, PRACTICES PERSONAL COUNSELING FOR INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES AND FAMILIES IN SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA, AND IS AVAILABLE FOR TELEPHONE CONSULTATION AND COACHING.

SHE SPECIALIZES IN RELATIONSHIP ENHANCEMENT, AND PROBLEM SOLVING, CREATIVE LIVING, ARTISTIC BLOCKS, AND WORKING IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRIES.

SHE ALSO CONDUCTS PERSONAL ALL DAY CREATIVITY PROCESS RETREATS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS. SHE IS A CEU PROVIDER FOR MFT AND LCSW, AND TEACHES PSYCHOLOGY AND CREATIVE PROCESS AT ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY LA.

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Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA.

SOULSALON: A CREATIVE BLOCKBUSTING WORKSHOP

LEAH MATSON PHD, MFT    BASHO FUJIMOTO BFA

AT ESALEN INSTITUTE: Weekend of December 17-19th, 2010.
10 CEU units MFT, LCSW

When the voice of the soul is blocked we may struggle mightily to free ourselves. In our imaginations we can create inspired homelands, but then we hide them in journals, mask them with social roles, speak in code. Much remains secret, lost before translation, unsaid, unheard even by ourselves. How do we break through that silence, that hiding? This workshop is designed to provide teachable tools and breakthrough experiences of collective and individual authenticity for those who seek a true voice with authority and agency. It is for individuals who are irresistibly attracted to expanding their creative authentic voice, building courage, seeking magic, community, and mentorship. The workshop will takes place in Esalen's natural resources, baths, and meditation house, as well as in the inner landscapes, minds, and hearts of the participants. The focus will be a practice inspired by new sciences and ancient arts. Participants will engage in:

  • € Developing their response and relationship muscles
  • € Fine-tuning skills in truthful interaction and unashamed creative expression
  • € Awakening and activating improvisational perception
  • € Practices of theater, drumming, storytelling, body awareness
  • € Cultivating a unique audio fingerprint, a personal tone and timbre

Leah and Basho write: "Join us in the heat of transformation and inspiration. Walk the edge of your current identity, dare expansion, and make magic from the mystery.
Guides and fellow travelers:
Leah Matson Ph.D.: LA Psychotherapist, artist, actress, surfer, award-winning teacher in creativity and psychology; Antioch University LA.
Basho Fujimoto BFA: Performing artist and musician, Fine Arts BA, from UC Davis. Apprenticed with internationally performing Kodo, the heartbeat drummers of Japan.

Comments from the Esalen catalog interview:
"Creative blockbusting is a workshop that introduces a new process of awareness for the adventure of emergent discovery. What does this mean? "out with the old, in with the new". Its not about the block, it's the flow that we are seeking to engage in. Rather than obsess about why and when we are blocked, we will focus on what we really want by activating a new creative reality. We are seeking a perceptual shift, examining the power of our values that either free us or hold us in old patterns. Our workshop will provoke the deepest creative growth we can, providing inspiration, opening the doors to our new intended work. Activating the ability to recognize how the emergence of self awareness can lead to manifesting creativity in our daily lives. From the chaos of trauma to recovery and renewal, we are led to discover a new process to practice. Whether or not its artistic blocks, healing from old wounds, or trauma and addiction recovery, Creative Blockbusting can activate a motivated response, rather than a habitual response pattern. It's the habitual patterns that hold us frozen in an old identity. As teachers, this class is an artistic destination, provoking our deepest creative growth. We can wholeheartedly admit that we are teaching the class we would most want to take. Leah is a psychotherapist from LA whose work includes people in the entertainment industry who have creative blocks. Basho is a performing musician who will present the creative and performance pieces of the workshop. Leah's group and individual process expertise will round out the workshop so that together, their combined artistic talents will offer a creative sanctuary for all those involved."


CEU COURSE POLICIES
1) CEU provider's name; Leah Matson Ph.D. MFT Provider #PCE 4221 Courses meet the qualifications for individually specified hours of continuing education as specified by the BBS of California.
2) Certificate of attendance will be provided.
3) Refunds in cases of non-attendance:
For Esalen course policies see their website, www.esalen.org.
For Topanga based courses, there is a $50 non-refundable deposit to hold space in the workshop. If cancellation is within 5 full days, the balance will be refunded, if after 5 days the balance will be credited towards future workshops.


CONTACT US:
For ESALEN COURSE, contact them directly at www.esalen.org
 To contact Leah Matson for anything else, including therapy sessions and private retreats please email . or call her Santa Monica office at (310) 455-4305.

RADIO INTERVIEWS

Interview Topic: ON CREATIVE LIVELIHOOD FOR ARTISTS. 2-1-2010
(click on here to listen)

LEAH MATSON INTERVIEWED BY TERRI BELFORD-HOOVER FROM.
In my work as a therapist and artist I seek to activate an experience of manifesting and putting into motion our relationship to creative work and freedom. In workshops and personal therapy the invitation is to enter a catalytic environment to support the beginnings of new visions. It's the flow that we are seeking to engage in. Once the work is done to release the past and its stories, the movement becomes to lift out of our obsessions and resistances about why and when we are blocked. We focus on what we really want by activating a new creative reality. We are seeking to sustain the perceptual shift, provoke the deepest creative growth we can, providing inspiration, and opening the doors to our new intended work. Art, writing, movement, music, communication and all creative activities are the mediums of each day where you are guided to surrender to your creative vision and join the dance. Money and work become the flowers of following your enthused and heartfelt interests and desires. Length one hour.

LEAH MATSON PH.D. INTERVIEWED ON THE SAMI RADIO PROGRAM STATION

2 one hour episodes.

To listen to either show go to AnutzaBellissimo.com, search by date of broadcast in the center page section called On Demand Episodes.

Interview Topic: FLAME THROWERS AND SHADOW DWELLERS CONVERTING ANGER TO VITAL CREATIVE ENERGY

MAY 26TH 2009 Speaker Leah Matson Ph.D., MFT interviewed by Anutza Bellissimo

Anger teaches us. Although it emerges in many forms, we often choose to dwell in habitual ways with its energy. Are you a flame thrower, exploding into fire, movement, and destruction or one who dwells in the shadows of anger, face hidden as you convert it into resentment, withdrawal, withholding, and bitterness. We learn to shame its force into submission and depression rather than build the fortresses it demands around our dignity. Throughout life we may learn control, but instead of harnessing the power, we deep-freeze our rage by calling ourselves "inappropriate", out of control, "psycho", and hysterical. We can learn new meaning and motivation by using the energy of it as we guide it's power mindfully into effective, energetic pathways of growth and evolution. Length one hour.

Interview Topic: THE ART OF ANGER CONSCIOUSNESS

MARCH 31ST 2009 Speaker Leah Matson Ph.D., MFT interviewed by Anutza Bellisimo.

Creative use of anger can enliven and expand us as we enter new territory in our co-creation of relationship with self, the other s and with life itself. We are not taught how to respect and use its alchemy as the foundation for freedom and the expression of a deeper sense of dignity and love. The emergence of uncontrollable rage can be seen as the last outpost of a complex battlefield, there are so many faces and shapeshiftings to be encountered when we explore and harness that fiery energy. I experience this emotion as an important indicator and symptom of creative blocks in our approach to life and self-expression. Emotional tools and a change of perception and metaphor can release us into the new. Length one hour.

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