About The Mind-Beyond Institute
Founder and Director Simon d’Orsogna is an individual and family therapist, clinical trainer and process-oriented facilitator based in Melbourne.
He provides psychotherapy, process consultancy, supervision and adult developmental coaching. He specializes in treating depression and anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, and assisting life transitions. As an organiser of professional development and adult learning programs since 2002 Simon invites international guests and local specialists to present on issues and topics relevant to mental health and wellness practitioners’ development and learning edges.
The Mind-Beyond Institute comprises practitioners and theorists (clinicians, teachers, subject matter experts) bringing their lifelong exploration and competence in a variety of systemic-experiential approaches for teaching and amplifying healing, adult development and complexity.
The staff and faculty will offer teaching, practice and share knowledge in a variety of modes – in person, online and remote learning in structured and emergent environments.
Topics & Influences include –
- Whole of life (the arc towards complexity, whole-ordering and intricacy)
- Child and Adult Development (bio-psycho-social aptness, adaptation and attachment to environment and genes)
Body Oriented/Somatic Approaches (including Porge’s Polyvagal theory, Panksepp’s Affective Neurobiology, and more) - Wholeness and Trauma (including Ecker’s Memory Reconsolidation Processing, Bowen’s Trans-Generational Inheritances, Schwartz’s IFS Unburdening, Boszormenyi-Nagy’s Ledgers, and more)
- Adult development and Sensemaking (Hellinger’s Constellations, Thomas Hubl & Stephen Busby’s emergent We-spaces , Kegan & Lahey, Grubb Institute’s Connection to Source and others)
- Dreamwork (collective, group and individual psychic expression to co-regulate the irreducible – Gendlin, Ullman, Kalsched, Reed, and Jung)
Faculty and previous visiting Lecturers –
Lisa Spiegel is the co-founder and director of Soho Parenting, a New York City parenting and psychotherapy center. From her three decades of working with adults and children as a psychotherapist she has developed an approach that draws from an eclectic array of disciplines – talk therapy, trauma work, yoga, mindfulness, and parent coaching. Visit Website
Jenny Fiebig is a Licensed Professional Counselor in both Montana and Colorado in the USA, and an Assistant Trainer & Certified Supervisor with the IFS Institute. She specializes in survivors of outdoor trauma, specifically avalanches and river traumas. She also leads IFS based wilderness groups for adults wanting to deepen their knowledge of their protective system while learning about the human history and eco-system of the landscapes they are traveling upon. Visit Website
Ken Benau has a private practice in psychotherapy, consultation, and training in the San Francisco Bay Area. He works with children and adults in individual, couple and family therapy. Dr. Benau has expertise in applying understandings of shame and pride in psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma. Visit Website
Beth Tener works with social change leaders in businesses, non-profits, and communities, helping them sense what is changing and find ways to take action aligned with their values. Her passion is to bring people together in ways that unlock and ignite personal, group, and community potential. Visit Website
Bruce Nayowith has been exploring individual and collective resourcing processes since 1985. He practices and trains in various processes that support individual and collective emergence, including meditation, depth psychology, whole-brain education, Focusing, Constellations, and several forms of We-Space work. Visit Website
Frank Corrigan trained in general adult psychiatry but has increasingly specialised in the psychotherapy of emotional/psychological trauma. He trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), Trauma Training through the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Brainspotting and contributed to the development of the neuroscience hypotheses for the Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM) with Lisa Schwarz. His main clinical interest is in the psychotherapy of complex post-traumatic stress disorders and other event-based disorders, however they clinically present. Visit Website
Deb Dana’s work as a LCSW clinician, consultant, lecturer, and Coordinator of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute is focused on using the lens of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma and create ways of working that honor the role of the autonomic nervous system as we move through states of protection and connection in an ongoing quest for safety. Visit Website
Ruth Culver is an Integrative Hypnotherapist, IFS Practitioner & Internal (IFS) Constellations Facilitator. Originally trained in NLP and then in Hypnotherapy, she uses a wide range of creative or trance-based modalities to allow the client to get into the subconscious/body, which is where emotions are held and can be relieved. In particular, she now uses her further training in Internal Family Systems Therapy and Identity-Oriented Psychotrauma Therapy (IoPT). Visit Website
Einat Bronstein With a Law degree at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Masters in Clinical Social Work at Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA, Einat learnt with Dick Schwartz and practiced IFS from its early years in Chicago. She graduated from Level 1, 2 and 3 IFS trainings; an International Lead Trainer, an IFS supervisor and a Certified IFS Therapist with over 25 years of clinical experience in private practice. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Israeli Institute of IFS. She has been leading all Levels of trainings in the Australian/NZ region. Visit Website
Bruce Hersey is an Approved Consultant in EMDR and also a Certified IFS Therapist. Having completed IFS Levels 1-2-3 Training, and as a repeat Level One Program Assistant, Bruce passionately imparts a deep understanding of the model and has been teaching workshops on the integration of EMDR & IFS since 2013. In addition to this, he has advanced Clinical Hypnosis & Sex Therapy Supervisor training and experience. Visit Website
Bonnie Weiss is a psychotherapist, teacher, supervisor, trainer, and coach who has been practicing since 1974. Her distinctive approach incorporates the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model into an emotionally-deep, present-centered, yet action-oriented way of working. Visit Website
Niall Geoghegan has a private consultancy in Berkeley, CA, and is experienced in the practice of EMDR, Process Work, Gestalt, Hakomi, Inner Child Work, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapies. He specializes in Coherence Therapy (previously known as Depth Oriented Brief Therapy), and is one of just a handful of therapists and supervisors certified by Bruce Ecker, founder of Coherence Therapy and early author of the clinical descriptions of Memory Reconsolidation. View Website
Colleen West, Marriage & Family Therapist, IFS Approved Consultant
Colleen is all about helping create connection: between you and your parts, between you and your loved ones, between you, your community, and the wider world. She is unabashedly optimistic about the human capacity to heal, to tap into the wellspring of compassion that is Self. She is an author and an IFS Consultant, devoting herself to training and mentoring psychotherapists, and writing. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit Website
