TARA GRADUATES

Why learn to Mentalize?

Why would you want to participate in another 10 week Workshop? Starts April 8, Monday, 7PM

ARE YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONE CONNECTING?

ARE YOU TRUSTING ONE ANOTHER?

ARE YOUR MINDS MEETNG?

ARE YOU ABLE TO SEE THE WORLD

FROM YOUR LOVED ONE'S PERSPECTIVE?

DO MISUNDERSTANDINGS and MISINTERPRETATIONS CREATE FAMILY CHAOS?

TARA Family Empowerment Workshop graduates, now know that social interactions are Achilles Heel for their loved one. You’re aware of their sensitivity to words, voices, and non-verbal communications; you know how quickly misunderstandings occur, how inadvertently and unintentionally escalation can be triggered. You now know more than most therapists.

Are you ready for the next step,

learning how to mentalize? 

Mentalization Based Therapy can develop effective communication with your loved one and all your family. It develops understanding of how each person’s perception of a situations leads to completely different interpretations.

Mentalization is a two-person process:

Focusing on what is going on in your mind and the mind of the other person, in the moment. It is not about "fixing" or changing behavior. Mentalization provide you with new tools to enhance empathic communication, clarifies misunder-standings, and is a pathway to genuine, authentic communication. 

Mentalization helps you decode/translate what your loved one is trying to tell you so that you know how to respond, what to say ,and how to say it. It improves communication with everyone (family members, friends, colleagues, and other relationships in your life.) It is not about learning skills, it is not about validating. It is about authentic communication and trust.

Mentalization, (MBT), is not available in most US communities. Therapists are generally unaware of this BPD evidence-based treatment. Families find it easy to implement MBT techniques; it makes sense. You have the ability to mentalize. For now, there is no one else to help your loved one.

Participation in the Mentalization Workshop is limited to those who have attended TARA Family Empowerment or Weekend Workshops. Participants need to understand the neurobiological basis of BPD, practice in TARA methods of dealing with stressful interactions, radical acceptance that behaviors are due to misperceptions of interactions and intentions of others, not to "abuse iior invalidation.". The MBT program is taught at a professional level, training family members to be therapeutic adjuncts. Family members who have attended other types of family education programs do not have the background required for this program. PLease email or call if you have questions re registration or fees.. 9178177620 tara4bpd@gmail.com

To attend this program you must have attended a

TARA4BPD Family Empowerment Workshop or Weekend

ONLY GRADUATES ARE ELIGIBLE

TO ATTEND TARA'S MENTALIZATION PROGRAM

Instructors for Family Mentalization

Valerie Porr, MA, Marsha Meyer, PhD, Marcia Redikopp, RN