http://www.charlottekasl.com

Dr. Kasl is available for lectures, personal growth workshops, organizational consulting, and trainings for professionals. She presents materials in a warm, compassionate, often humorous manner, involving the participants and making the materials at once personally accessible and applicable to everyday situations. All workshops and trainings include lecture dialogue, and experiential components.

"Excellent speaker, very interesting, presented a wealth of information in a rich stimulating fashion."
"As a woman of color, I had the rare experience of feeling completely included."
"Open, loving atmosphere created... I love the way she connects personal experiences to the culture we live in-- it all makes so much sense."
"Finest workshop yet. Outstanding, well-presented, academically sound."
"Excellent! Very well organized, very informational with excellent analogies."
-- attendee evaluation comments

To inquire about workshops or marathon therapy, contact Dr. Kasl (for fastest response, phone)

P.O. Box 1302 Lolo, Montana 59847
406-273-6080
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February 16-18, 2007	Rowe Conference Center 22 Kings Hwy Rd Rowe, Massachusetts	The 16-step model for discovery and healing overcoming addiction and trauma: an empowerment workshop for women	retreat@rowecenter.org 413-339-4954
May 14-17, 2007	Charlotte, North Carolina	Day long 16 Step empowerment workshop for overcoming trauma and addiction	Sarah Moore 704-687-8962
May 24-25, 2007	Ames, Iowa	Keynote lecture and Two 1 1/2 hour workshops onon her 16 Step empowerment model for overcoming trauma and addiction	Kathy Nesteby 515-281-6915
May 27-29, 2007	The Sun Valley Wellness Festival Sun Valley, Idaho	If the Buddha Dated or Married: Relationships as a Spiritual Journey Zen and Art of Lasting Relationships: Daily Practices	Kathleen Turner kathleen@sunvalleywellness.org 208-721-0987
July 20-22, 2007	Ben Franklin Institute Boulder, Colorado	Two 1 1/2 hour workshops: • 16 Step empowerment model • Relationships	Paul Ortman paul@bfisummit.com
September 28, 2007	Sacramento, California	Community Addiction Recovery Association (CARA): "Beyond Talk Therapy" Banquet Talk: "The Healing Power of Relationships and Taking Action in our Lives"	Carolyn Reuben (916) 485-2272
October 13, 2007	Nashville, Tennessee	Day long 16 Step empowerment workshop for overcoming trauma and addiction view conference brochure	Susan Hammond White 615-482-6574
November 21-22, 2007	BC Association of Specialized Victim Assistance and Counseling. Vancouver, British Columbia	Keynote address and three-hour workshop: "Yes You Can: Healing from Trauma and Addiction with Love, Strength, and Power"	Susan Armstrong (604) 633-2506
March 7-9, 2008	KRIPALU Lenox, MA	Weekend Workshop on 16 Steps "Yes You Can: Healing from Trauma and Addiction with Love, Strength, and Power"	To register, call 800-741-7353 or on-lne at www.kripalu.org
March 28-29, 2008	Women in Psychology Conference Calgary, AB CANADA	Evening and day-long workshops "Yes You Can: Healing from Trauma and Addiction with Love, Strength, and Power"	Sharon Stopforth (403) 259-3427

Many Roads, One Journey The 16-step Empowerment Approach for Overcoming Addiction and Trauma	Charlotte Kasl’s 16-Step empowerment model, based on love and power, not fear, is positive, holistic, and flexble. It approaches addiction and compulsions and the associated depression, shame, helplessness, and anxiety as survival responses to trauma, hurt, and alienation. The steps are focused on helping people build core strength, attune to their inner wisdom, develop warm supportive relationships, experience joy, and trust in the healing power of the truth. We move toward a way of being that reflects a profound care for our life as part of all life.
If the Buddha Got Stuck The Zen and Art of Getting Unstuck in Love and Life	In this workshop we’ll explore the saboteurs, censors and discouraging inner voices that keep us from becoming our, most authentic courageous selves. We’ll do exercises to take on our dragons, increase our sense of deservedness, explore what it means to take care of ourselves, walk through fear (or do it anyhow), and reach out for help when we need it. This will be lively, uplifting and give you specific ways to open up your life.
If the Buddha Dated (or Married) Relationships: The Heart of Recovery	Building on Buddhist principles for creating loving, authentic relationships, Dr. Kasl gives a clear and accessible guide to improving, revitalizing, and creating loving relationships. Dr. Kasl combines professional expertise with real-life stories of "successful" couples to define the "Buddha Union" - one that is harmonious with the path of awakening.
If the Buddha Dated (or Married) The Zen and Art of Intimate Relationships and How They Help Us Heal From Addiction	Through a combination of key teachings of Buddhism, psychology, Sufi, and other spiritual traditions, this talk will show how people find and form intimate relationships that help them feel deeply connected and become more truly themselves. Including: understand differentiation and fusion; explore the daily practice of living and loving; how to make friends with conflict; when to look in your own mirror; the keys to keeping sexuality vital and alive; the difference between being close and being dependant.
Yes, You Can! A 16-Step Empowerment Approach to Overcoming Addictions	Teaches the fundamentals of empowerment and includes numerous strategies for finding one's inner truths and building self-esteem. The 16-step approach intertwines steps to create affirming relationships, heal the physical body, bond in power, fine one's strengths, trust one's inner wisdom, and understand addiction and codependency in a cultural context.
Women, Sex, and Addiction A Search for Love and Power	Will help women to recognize the symptoms of their addiction, explore the addictive thinking (sex equals love, etc.), learn self care, and find a model of sexuality that is truly born of their passion, love, wisdom, and creativity.
A Tapestry of Connections-- Plenary	Authentic connections to ourselves, spirit and others are the true source of overcoming addiction and trauma. From the intricate interweaving of different brain functions, to accessing our feelings, to tapping our deepest wisdom, to bringing integrity and kindness into all our relationships, we form a tapestry of connections, each separate, yet interdependent.
Sexuality, Spirituality and Relationships	Explores sexuality as a source of love, power and spirituality and the role of passion in our lives. Teaches skills to: avoid fusion in relationships; to stay centered in the face of conflict and strong emotions. Give exercises to let go of past conditioning around sexuality and transform our core beliefs.
Overcoming Internalized Oppression/Depression: Naming and Releasing the Voices that Haunt our Minds	Helps participants recognize the double bind of internalized oppression from all forms of prejudice including sexism, racism, classism and homophobia. Explores how these oppressive voices live inside you, affect your self-esteem and relationships, and what you can do to release these negative voices from tour minds and find your authentic self.
Empowering Women So Treatment Works	Addresses the specific needs of women in overcoming addiction and codependency. Fundamentals of empowerment and becoming a healthy, evolved human being. Learn to discern between intruders, addictive voices, and internal wisdom. Explores the 16-Step empowerment model.

Intensive Psychotherapy - While weekly therapy can be tremendously helpful, there are times when we need to go deeper and have more intensive work to release trauma and break through tenacious patterns that keep us stuck. Dr. Kasl works with a combination of psychotherapy, hypnotherapy EMDR quantum psychology to help people get to the source of trauma and negative beliefs and release them from the nervous system at a cellular level. Dr. Kasl has developed this multi-faceted approach over twenty-five years of working with incest, abuse, trauma, psychosomatic symptoms, anxiety, depression and addiction. This work is appropriate for couples and individuals (sessions vary from 3 to 16 hours over a four day period.

Intensive Therapy is Helpful When:
► You have a lot of insight about yourself, but can't seem to break away from destructive patterns that cause pain and keep you from intimacy;
► You need deep healing work on incest, trauma and abuse;
► You want to speed up the process of your own growth and healing;
► You have tenacious symptoms that are not alleviated with insight therapy: headaches, panic attacks, anxiety, compulsive behavior addictions;
► You are in a relationship that is on the brink of falling apart and you want to see if something can be done. You are in a relationship where you love each other but get caught in destructive patterns of hurting each other;
► You feel led to have intensive therapy.

Philosophy: Intensive psychotherapy is a creative process that varies with each individual or couple.