New seven channels process TRAINING group™
starts in-person in Charlottesville, VA - September 26th, 2025
deepening embodied relational SKILLS
This Seven Channels Process Training Group™ series focuses on giving and receiving the transformative gifts of the kind of secure base that we aspire to create as therapists. Our focus will be integrating and deepening the self of the therapist. We will work to offer alternative pathways to the counter-transference reactivity that can show up in us with certain psychotherapy clients and especially in working with couples.
We will practice whole-body moment-to-moment somatic tracking and speak in explicit I-statements about our internal experience. This produces an atmosphere of subtle discernment and evokes surprises of emergent selective perception, bottom-up awareness, selective reception as well as mindful expression. This small group series accesses and builds upon self-at-best skill development of heart-to-heart compassion, inner reflection and balanced acknowledgment of self and other. We will be learning first hand about affective neuroscience and transforming attachment patterns via teaching moments integrated with the experience of the group sessions.
Schedule a 20-minute conversation on Zoom with Dr. David Mars about a monthly in-person Friday group series starting on September 26th, 2025.
SESSION CALENDAr
Eight monthly Friday sessions from 11am-1pm EST starting on September 26th, 2025 Six participant maximum$150 per two-hour session paid monthly If paid at once $1150 or by monthly subscription $1200This is a hybrid Seven Channels Process Training Group™ that will alternate from us being all in person for five Fridays in C’ville and then for the three in-between dates listed below we will be on Zoom.
We will witness during the online sessions which Channels of Experience are less or more available to the group members on Zoom and which are more vibrant and clear and responsive in person. One example is that in the visual channel on Zoom, I may gain more access to registering the subtlety of micro-expressions, due to the close proximity of the camera to the other person on screen.
This alternation of in-person and on Zoom can help us cultivate more capacity to open more selective perception, selective reception and selective expression in all Seven Channels of Experience.
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September 26, 2025 in person
October 17, 2025 on Zoom
November 21, 2025 in person
December 12, 2025 on Zoom
January 16, 2026 in person
February 13 on Zoom
March 13, 2026 in person
May 8, 2026 in person
Eight monthly Friday sessions from 4pm-6pm EST starting on September 26th, 2025 Six participant maximum$150 per two-hour session paid monthly If paid at once $1150 or by monthly subscription $1200This is a hybrid Seven Channels Process Training Group™ that will alternate from us being all in person for five Fridays in C’ville and then for the three in-between dates listed below we will be on Zoom.
We will witness during the online sessions which Channels of Experience are less or more available to the group members on Zoom and which are more vibrant and clear and responsive in person. One example is that in the visual channel on Zoom, I may gain more access to registering the subtlety of micro-expressions, due to the close proximity of the camera to the other person on screen.
This alternation of in-person and on Zoom can help us cultivate more capacity to open more selective perception, selective reception and selective expression in all Seven Channels of Experience.
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September 26, 2025 in person
October 17, 2025 on Zoom
November 21, 2025 in person
December 12, 2025 on Zoom
January 16, 2026 in person
February 13 on Zoom
March 13, 2026 in person
May 7, 2026 in person
Additional Information
This course is designed for beginning to intermediate learners.
Our target audience is Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, MFT's, Licensed Professional Counselors, Social Workers, Registered Clinical Counselors and Pastoral Counselors.
Cancellation policy: You may end your enrollment at any time and receive a refund for the remaining sessions of the course. Questions or concerns may be communicate by email to davidmarsphd@gmail.com. If you have a need for ADA accommodation, please contact davidmarsphd@gmail.com
David Mars, PhD, the presenter for this course, holds a PhD in Psychology and has taught Transformative Couples Therapy® and Seven Channels Process Training Groups to psychotherapists since 2008. He is the developer of the TCT method and taught it as a faculty member of the AEDP Institute for eleven years. He is the director of the Transformative Couples Therapy® Institute has been treating couples and families in private practice for over forty years. Click here for a more complete bio.
There are no conflicts of interest or external commercial support related to this course or any course offered by the Transformative Couples Therapy® Institute.
MEETING SCHEDULE
All times are in Eastern Standard Time
9:30 AM to 11:30 AM Seven Channels Process Training™ Group
9:30-9:50am: Orientation and opening five-minute Channels of Experience meditation
9:50-10:15am: Check-in and discussion of each participant’s response to the meditation and any breakthroughs of awareness that they want to share are invited. Questions about the Seven Channels of Experience™ and about mindful and selective perception, selective reception and selective expression are all part of the process.
10:15 to 11:15am: Facilitated interaction that demonstrates a growing grounded skillfulness in affective regulation and moment-to-moment tracking. Practice in the use of I-language, I-Thou (Buber) consciousness and a deepening capacity to access Channels of Experience that are “crimped” by defensive exclusion and are therefore less accessible.
11:15-11:30am: Metaprocessing the experience of the group and closing
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Seven ChannelS Process Training™ GrouP
4:00-4:20pm: Orientation and opening five-minute Channels of Experience meditation
4:20-4:45pm: Check-in and discussion of each participant’s response to the meditation and any breakthroughs of awareness that they want to share are invited. Questions about the Seven Channels of Experience™ and about mindful and selective perception, selective reception and selective expression are all part of the process.
4:45 to 5:45: Facilitated interaction that demonstrates a growing grounded skillfulness in affective regulation and moment-to-moment tracking. Practice in the use of I-language, I-Thou (Buber) consciousness and a deepening capacity to access Channels of Experience that are “crimped” by defensive exclusion and are therefore less accessible.
5:45-6:00pm: Metaprocessing the experience of the group and closing
COURSE COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS:
Participants must complete each session to be awarded CE. Missed sessions will not be refunded, but can be available for CE. An evaluation will be required prior to CE being awarded. Attendance will be taken and documented each session. Reading the course materials that are sent out need to be read to access the principles of the Process Language and moment-to-moment tracking in Seven Channels of Experience™.
Any questions about this course can be addressed to davidmarsphd@gmail.com.
At the end of the course, CE can be applied for via this link
The cost for 16 Continuing Education (CE) credits will be $40. An email will be sent to all participants who complete the course from Credits Education.
Credits Education is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Credits Education maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 16 hours of Continuing Education (CE) credits for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Many state boards, including Virginia, accept CE credits from organizations that are accredited by national organizations like AAMFT, which CAMFT is affiliated with.
And according to Virginia's Department of Health Professionals' Board of Counseling's "Regulations Governing the Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy":
d. Workshops, seminars, conferences, or courses in the behavioral health field offered by an individual or organization that has been certified or approved by one of the following: (1) The International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors and its state affiliates. (2) The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and its state affiliates [which includes CAMFT].
***Please remember that it is the participant’s responsibility to confirm with your state board that CAMFT CE apply to your licensure in your state and for your specific license.
This is a live, in-person, interactive course. Learning will be by gained through group discussion, lecture and live demonstrations.
Special Needs - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We can only ensure accommodations with adequate prior notification.