COURSE OVERVIEW
Validation
Your Communication Superpower
Harness the power of validation.
This course will introduce you to the powerful tool of validation, illuminating how it can improve your relationships with others as well as your relationship with yourself. You will leave with concrete tools and resources to begin using this powerful practice right away. The class is appropriate for anyone: parents, adolescents, therapists, teachers, coaches, business and community leaders, spouses and partners, and families.
What you’ll learn
What validation is & isn't
We’ll look at several definitions and approaches to validation and explore the surprisingly invalidating forms of communication that we all use regularly.
What inhibits validation
Using a case study, we’ll explore common barriers to validation. We’ll learn how to validate these barriers and clear the way to be with those we care about in healing, compassionate, attuned ways.
Practicing validation
By the end of the class, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the necessity for validation and leave with concrete tools to begin the practice in your own life.
What we want in any given moment is to be seen, heard, accepted, valued, and loved for who we are in the moment as we are.
"Dr. Robin Barre is the foremost expert in adolescent psychology. As a psychologist, her applied research integrates life as a therapist, a teacher, a parent, a poet, a soul-seeker. Her experiences as a scholar and educator are not isolated from the real world. Instead, Robin’s intuitive, therapeutic work lives in day-to-day moments of personal transcendence, as she provides light and meaning for her clients’ pathway through challenging times of emotional chaos and psychological duress. As an advocate for the adolescent in all of us, she understands the forgotten language of this part of life, those bridge years in between childhood and in becoming an adult, and provides guidance into how to reclaim the exiled self. Working with Dr. Barre is an initiation into remembering the many blessings of one’s heart, soul, body and mind."
Brenda Littleton | Jungian Coach, Retired Professor of Graduate Studies in Education, Marriage Family Therapist
With each new seed of understanding, we add to our skills, we grow our ability to serve and guide our clients.
About Dr. Robin Barre
Dr. Robin Barre has 30 years of experience working with adolescents in various settings, from teaching high school and middle school to running a private practice. She is a Level 2 trained certified Internal Family Systems therapist. Dr. Barre earned her MA degrees in counseling and depth psychology, as well as her Ph.D. in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Pulling from her extensive experience in the field and years of research, she is dedicated to helping caregivers, practitioners, and organizations improve the lives of the adolescents they serve by refining, developing, and deepening their knowledge and approach.