Mind, Past, and Thoughts (Psychotherapy Certificate Course - Session 2)
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 7pm - 9pm (EDT)
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A Journey from Fear and Suffering to Harmony and Aliveness
This is the second in the 1-Year Course and Continues every Tuesday until November 2, 2021
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A Psychotherapeutic Model Based on
The Course
A Weekly 1-Year Course
On how to help your patients, your clients, your loved ones, or yourself, put an end to
*Anxiety * Loneliness * Depression,
and Build A Fulfilled Life based on Authentic Happiness, Success, and Joy
“Nothing Real Can Be Threatened
Nothing Unreal Exists
Here Lie Peace, Harmony, and Joy”
Adapted from The Course
This week's session will cover:
- Perceiving through The Past
- The Preoccupations of the Mind
- The Mind Perceiving Nothing
- Unreal Thoughts
- Thoughts and Meaningless Effects
- Being Upset Over the Meaningless
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At the end of the full Certificate Course, you will be able to help those you work with understand why:
- And how our brain creates the illusion of meaning from nothingness.
- Our thoughts do not have any meaning.
- We don’t understand anything.
You will also be able to help them understand:
- There is another way.
- How to get to that other way.
- How the other way leads to harmony, authentic happiness, authentic success, and how to reach it.
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Additional Context:
Nearly half of American families have at least one person receiving some form of mental health treatment, of which psychotherapy is the most common one.
The model in the Course makes up for all shortcomings found in our usual evidence-based practices, including CBT, DBT, or in psychoanalysis, and its derivatives, while addressing the root of suffering and the formula to end it and start anew.
The Course; A model written and edited by two psychologists at the department of Medical Psychology at Columbia University, in New York.
Who is This Course For?
- Therapists
- Coaches
- Anyone driven to help end suffering and help others reach aliveness and fulfillment
- Anyone who would like to use the Model for themselves or their loved ones
Session Dates and Topics:
Week 1: Meaning and Understanding - September 8, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- The Meaning of Things
- Meaning Assignment
- Understanding
- The Meaning of Thoughts
- The Why of Being Upset
- Being Upset About Nothing
Week 2: Mind, Past, and Thoughts - September 15, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- Perceiving Through The Past
- The Preoccupations of the Mind
- The Mind Perceiving Nothing
- Unreal Thoughts
- Thoughts and Meaningless Effects
- Being Upset Over the Meaningless
Week 3: Cause and Effect - September 22, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- Genesis of Fear
- Only Reality is Real
- Thoughts as Images
- Thought as the Operant Factor
- Perceiving as the Effect of Thought
- Joining Minds when Perceiving
- Joining Minds when Thinking
Week 4: Decision to Perceive Differently - September 29, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- Decision to Perceive
- Decision to Perceive Differently
- Current Form of Perceiving
- Giving Up Attack Thoughts
- Best Interest Theory
- Illusion of Purpose
- Attack Thoughts and Invulnerability
Week 5: Perceiving What’s Real - October 6, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- Wanting to Perceive
- Wanting to Perceive Differently
- Perceiving Reality in Everything
- Reality in the Mind
- The Illusion of Victimhood
- Self-Invention of One’s World
Week 6: How to Perceive - October 13, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- Another Way of Perceiving
- The Perception of Harmony
- Being Part of Reality
- Seeing Everything through Reality
- Providing for Everyone and Everything
- Limitlessness of Reality
- Reality as Freedom
Week 7: Nature of Reality - October 20, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- Availability of Provision as Part of Reality
- Reality Everywhere
- Reality as Strength
- Reality as Source
- Perceiving in the Context of Reality
- Thinking with Reality in Mind
Week 8: Reality as Foundation - October 27, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- Reality and Real Love
- Reality and Understanding
- Reality and Trust
- Lack of Basis for Fear
- Ubiquitousness of Reality
- Sustenance by Reality
Week 9: Role and Modeling - November 3, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- Modeling for Others
- Modeling through Forgiveness
- Modeling Reality for Others through Forgiveness
- Unmemorable Role
- Role Singularity
- Role and Fulfillment
Week 10: Modeling and Complaining - November 10, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- Being Part of Real Love
- Real Love and Complaint
- Complaining and Modeling
- Freedom through Mismodeling
- Freedom Only through Reality, Role Singularity, and Forgiveness
- Complaining and Revolting against Reality
Week 11: Reality, Means, and Complaints - November 17, 2020 (7-9pm EDT)
- Will to Model
- Reality: The Only Will
- Inception of Reality
- The Laws of Reality
- One with Reality
- Means Entitlement
- Means-Complaints Substitution
Week 12: The Problem and Its Solution - November 24, 2020 (7-9 EDT)
- Insight into the Problem
- Separation: The Only Problem
- Separation: A Solved Problem
- Revision of the First 12 weeks
Winter Break - November 25, 2020 - January 11, 2021
Week 13: True Nature - January 12, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Means Perceived in Reality
- Reality and Strength Are One
- Reality, Fulfillment, and Harmony
- The Unthreatened Nature
- Oneness
- Self-Realization
Week 14: Role, Acceptance, and Happiness - January 19, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- True Self
- Acceptance
- The One Role
- One’s Part
- Perfect Happiness
- Reality, Will, and Happiness
Week 15: Seeking, Truth, Giving, and Receiving - January 26, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Reality, Love, and Happiness
- Seeking
- Reality, Harmony, Fulfillment, and Me
- Listening to Truth
- Truth and Correction
- Giving and Receiving
Week 16: Respite, Forgiveness, and Appreciation - February 2, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Respite in Reality
- Reality and Me
- Key to Happiness
- Forgiveness Outcome
- Appreciation
- One with Reality
Week 17: The Worlds and Wants - February 9, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Receiving
- Outcome of Giving
- Love Only in Reality
- The World and Wants
- Beyond This World
- Impossibility of 2 Worlds
Week 18: Sickness, Liberation, and Self-Defense - February 16, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Failure
- Liberation
- Valuing
- The Perception of Forgiveness
- Self-Defense
- Sickness
Week 19: Recovery, Wellness, and Cure - February 23, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Recovery
- Wellness
- Self-Forgiveness
- Cure
Week 20: Working with Reality - March 2, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Echoes of Reality
- Decision
- Safety
- Identity
- Stepping Back
- Working with Reality
Week 21: Disappearing Fear and Anger - March 9, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- New Experience
- Learning to Give and Receive
- Giving as Receiving
- Fear as Foreign
- Disappearing Fear and Anger
- One with Reality
Week 22: Talents, Freedom, and Entitlement - March 16, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Freedom
- One with the Source
- Denying Reality
- Talents and Gifts
- One Life
- Being Entitled
Week 23: Living in Harmony - March 23, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Living
- Compassion
- Trusting
- Home
- Asking True Inheritance
- Choosing Harmony
Week 24: One’s Part - March 30, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Doing One’s Part
- Reciprocity
- Recognition
- Review of the Previous 12 Weeks
Week 25: Art and Science of Living - April 6, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Feeling Loved
- Choosing Authentic Happiness
- Who Am I
- Purpose
- Learning
- The Future
Week 26: Freedom from Perception - April 13, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Love and Appreciation
- Attack and Self-Attack Phenomenon
- Appreciation in Giving
- Condemning and Injuring
- Freedom from Perception
- The Only Source of Harmony
Week 27: Mind Adjustment - April 20, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Still Thoughts
- Living and Moving
- The One Life
- Unconditional Love
- Self-Love
- Adjusting Mind
Week 28: Returning to Reality - April 27, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Returning
- Knowledge
- Today
- Preserved Identity
- Seeking and Finding
- Replacing Thoughts
Week 29: Guilt Be Gone - May 4, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Remembering
- Being Undismayed
- Guided by Reality
- Guilt Be Gone
- Self-Assurance
- Serving
Week 30: Worthiness - May 11, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Arising
- Worthiness
- False Humility
- Unjustified Fear
- Surrounded by Reality
- Self-Love and Love of Others
Week 31: Ending Suffering and Loss - May 18, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Blindness
- Suffering
- Ending Suffering and Loss
- Limitation
- Despair
- Beyond All Thoughts
Week 32: Goal Setting - May 25, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Extension
- Words and Actions
- Choosing the Day
- The Daily Goal
- Daily Choice of Reality
- Overlooking the Unreal
Week 33: Sense of Security - June 1, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- The Attainable
- Already There
- Sense of Security
- Unity
- Clarity
- Joining In
Week 34: Letting Go - June 8, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- End of Deception
- Acknowledgment
- Reality Centered Life
- Letting Be
- New Perception
- Power
Week 35: Feeling Undisturbed - June 15, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Moment to Moment Choice
- Out of Illusions
- Feeling Undisturbed
- As They Are
- Immunity
- One Message
Week 36: Authentic Freedom - June 22, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Imposition
- Authentic Freedom
- Withholding
- Limitlessness
- Hurt Only Thoughts
- Determination
- Conclusions and Review of Previous 12 Weeks
Week 37: Self-image, Conflicts, and Grief - June 29, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Self-Image
- Grief
- Expectation
- Conflicts
- Substitution
- Others as Teachers
Week 38: Fear, Past, Present, and Future - July 6, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Farewell to the Past
- Embracing the Present
- Day of Quietness and Harmony
- The End in Mind
- Fear, Past, Present, and Future
Week 39: Body and Reality - July 13, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Understanding the Body
- The Sight of Reality
- Reality through Us
- Gifting Self-Forgiveness and Forgiveness of Others
- Acceptance through Gratitude
- Endless Self
Summer Break - July 14, 2021 - August 2, 2021
Week 40: Mirror of Perception - August 3, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Judging, Suffering, and Feeling of Abandonment
- Restored Sight
- Restoring Perfection
- Perception as a Mirror
- Futility of Comparisons
Week 41: Fearlessness, Real Goals, and Accepting More - August 10, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Doing Less and Accepting More
- Conflicting Goals
- The Only Time There Is
- Embracing Real Goals
- Fearlessness
Week 42: A Future Different From the Past - August 17, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Relieved from Judgements
- Judgment-Free and Real Perception
- New Perception
- A Future Different From the Past
- Belonging
Week 43: Authentic Success - August 24, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Personal Belonging
- A Special Place to Fill
- Means and End
- Chief Aim
- Authentic Success
Week 44: Giving Up All Suffering - August 31, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Source of Authentic Freedom
- Giving Away Illusions
- Giving Up All Sense of Loss
- The Way
- Insane Wants, Insane World
Week 45: Real Cause of Suffering - September 7, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- An Effect of Reality
- Impossible to Fail
- Interdependence
- Saying Yes
- End to Mind Self-Attack
- Real Cause of Suffering
- The Hidden Treasures of Life in Reality
- Perceiving Others Differently
- Ending False Perception through Forgiveness
- Harmlessness
- All a Product of Thoughts
- Asking Well
- Freedom From Suffering
- Reflection
Week 47: Exponential Growth - September 21, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Plan, Means, and Action
- The Sense of Deserving
- The Feedback Loop
- Exponential Growth
- Seeking the Things of Time
- Cause and Effect of Anger
- Letting Go of Anger
Week 48: Ending Sense of Separation - September 28, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Freeing Everyone and Everything
- Reality and Solution in Relationships
- Everyone, A Guide
- Suffering Vs. Harmony
- Unified Purpose
- Togetherness
- Choice of Now
Week 49: Ending Misery - October 5, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Sickness Vs. Health
- Reality, Means, and Final Outcome
- Myself and My Self
- Ending Misery
- All Through Oneself
- Directed Harmony
- Conclusions and Review of Previous 12 Weeks
Week 50: Beyond The Year - October 12, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Constant Masterminding
- One Thought Away
- Asking
- Arriving Home
- Mind Higher Functions
Week 51: Final Application I - October 19, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- Meaning
- Mind, Past, and Thoughts
- Cause and Effect
- Decision
- Reality
- Role and Modeling
Week 52: Final Application II - October 26, 2021 (7-9pm EDT)
- The Problem and Its Solution
- True Nature
- Acceptance and Happiness
- Giving and Receiving
- Respite, Forgiveness, and Appreciation
- Wants and Wants
Week 53: Final Application III & Reflections (BONUS WEEK) - November 2, 2021
- Wellness and Cure
- Authentic Freedom
- Reflection and Graduation Plan
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Mardoche Sidor, MD
Mardoche Sidor, MD is a Harvard-trained Quadruple Board Certified Psychiatrist, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, School of Physicians and Surgeons, trained in and taught all major psychotherapeutic modalities, including and not limiting to CBT, DBT, Family Systems, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He is also the author of 3 books including Journey to Empowerment; Discovering Your Worth; and The Power of Faith. Dr. Sidor has worked both as a primary care physician and Medical director in three different settings, including a Chief Medical Officer of Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES). He is a main facilitator for the SWEET Institute.
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