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Experiential Therapy Seminars
Steve has conducted experiential therapy seminars for counseling professionals and students, teaching techniques that can be used with individuals, couples, groups, or family counseling.
His experiential therapy work is rooted in training with Virginia Satir and Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse. He authored a therapist manual on Satir's family sculpture techniques, and he has released a 6-chapter video series on experiential therapy techniques entitled Beyond Words.
"Experiential learning is the strongest form of learning. Trauma is experienced, leaving dramatic wounds that are carried into adult life. Most trauma therapy approaches are talk therapies. To truly impact the experience of trauma, counseling and recovery need to be experienced."
Steven Earll
If you have questions about future seminars, please contact Steven.
Past seminars
These seminars were held for counseling professionals and students. They are listed here as an archive. Registration is closed.
Seminar I: Positioning / Family Sculpture / System Study
January 19, 2024, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Focus on the Family Human Resources Training Room, 8605 Explorer Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80920
This seminar presented techniques for dealing with family trauma, including positioning, family sculpture, and system study.
Topics included how to engage the client in experiential therapy; positioning; safely recreating the emotional reality of trauma; simultaneous individual and system observation; counselor-directed sculpture; client-directed sculpture; family sculpture technique; vignette sculpture; counseling creativity and the use of props; and processing the therapy experience with clients.
Seminar II: Mind Thought Experiential Therapy Techniques
April 26, 2024, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Mountain Springs Church Campus, 7375 Adventure Way (East Building, south door), Colorado Springs, CO 80923
Seminar II reviewed the role of symbolism and the mind, and taught visualized experiential therapy techniques.
Topics included how to engage the client in experiential therapy; visualized experiential therapy technique; cognitive constructs; neuroplasticity; mind-body empowerment; mindfulness and breathing technique; anxiety and worry confrontations; presence experiential therapy; experiential boundary process; visualizations working on past trauma; "Rescue and Truth Telling" experiences; and processing the therapy experience with clients.
Seminar III: Adult/Child Trauma Healing: Experiential Therapy Integration
October 4, 2024, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The Well Covenant Church, 4965 Barnes Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80917
Seminar III addressed the need to experientially establish a healthy adult self-image, and then use that new adult to heal child trauma. The workshop taught visualized experiential therapy techniques that help a client understand trauma in a new way, including techniques that experientially show clients how to parent themselves in a healing manner.
Seminar IV: Childhood Trauma and Adult Relationship Sabotage
April 11, 2025, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
The Well Covenant Church, 4965 Barnes Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80917
Seminar IV addressed how childhood trauma creates specific survival rules. These rules are subconscious and sabotage adult relationships. The workshop taught experiential therapy techniques that help a client understand their trauma in a new way, and that show clients how to heal the past, understand survival rules, and change their adult relationships.