October 30th 2009

     Thanks for looking into our program. We are now in the process of finishing up groups 5,6 and 7 of our program. Many participants are making great strides in fighting the twin demons of procrastination and disorganization

    Groups 8 and 9 will begin in early February. Please join our mailing list and well keep you posted

    In the intervening period we will be focusing our efforts on creating and sustaining a continuing community among participants. Veterans of groups 1-4 will be holding a workshop in November. Groups 1-7 will convene together in Janurary. Look at our blog postings for more details of these efforts.

Time limited skills based program designed to teach deep relaxation, address the subtle effects of childhood trauma and release the innate ability of the mind to train the brain.

Includes instruction in trance, meditation, deep relaxation, self hypnosis, guided visualizations, and organizational and anti-procrastination techniques.

• Ten weeks
• Covered by insurance we accept many
• Includes initial psycho-pharmacological evaluation and ongoing medication management
• 2 hours per session
• 8-12 members per group
• Skills based
• Direct teaching mixed with experiential exercises
• Groups have the option to become ongoing after the initial ten week curriculum

Mission Statement

It is the goal of the Greenpoint Group Therapy Project to develop an effective and reproducible group therapy experience that is directly targeted at adults with ADD. It is our intention to incorporate the latest understandings in neuroscience, the wisdom traditions of hypnosis trance and meditation with the judicious use of medications in a setting which will also foster a sense of connection and community. We believe that there are thousands upon thousands of people suffering with varying degrees of ADD in the NY metropolitan area, and that by and large it is very very difficult to find affordable effective treatment The ten week group therapy program is a guided user manual for the ADD brain, a set of basic tools that we think everyone should know.

Requirements

1. All participants must have a screening/medication evaluation.
2. A commitment must be made to attend all group sessions approximately 2 hours each.
3. Each participant needs to be willing to devote at least 20 minutes per day, usually two ten minutes sessions, to developing a personal brain training regime.

Group Curriculum

All meeting begin with a meditiation and end wth a brief hypnosis 

Meetings 1-5 contain structured exercises

Meetings 6-10 contain more individualized problem solving using the techniques mastered in prior meetings

Meeting One

• Group building intro exercises
• Discussion of three conditions / self assessment
• Introduction to trance, meditation and self hypnosis and brain training
• Intra-group coaching

Meeting Two

• Introduction to time mapping
• Inner child exercises for control of emotions

• The Inner self;
• Inner parent exercise part I; authority and resistance

• Inner parent exercises part II

• Time management Tools; timemaps; transitions, requesthandling algorithms
• Integration of time mapping with inner selves