At one point someone asked me for a list of things I could present on or run a workshop on short notice. I dashed out a somewhat incomplete list of all the things I've taught at least once at a workshop, camp, or conference, which still managed to surprise even me with how long it got. At some point I'd like each of these to be its own blog post, but for now it seems useful to have a single place where it's all collected.
Philosophy of Therapy
How therapy works, ways the major philosophies can be more or less helpful for different types of problems, and more specifically how to use therapy philosophy to solve problems even if you never go to a therapist.
Based on my series of research posts on this, it's about how to improve our understanding of our own wants and the process that takes us from our wants to our actions to help with executive dysfunction.
Emotions Make Sense
Rundown of the value emotions have in decision making and motivation, and exercises to help better understand our emotions and how to factor them into better decision-making and avoid negative expressions of them.
Creativity is Problem Solving
Basically how to write around/through writer's block, as well as general ideas about how writing works, creative vs non-creative, etc.
This is the Gendlin technique that is very valuable for better understanding our illegible feelings and reactions to things, and turning those feelings into explicit language, then managing them in a healthy way.
How to design plans to be better protected against failure modes, as well as reduce anxiety and stress that can come from such worries.
Romantic Epistemology
What we think we know and why we think we know it about romance and dating, how much bad info we get from media and culture for various reasons, and some group discussion on how to improve epistemics around such things.
Narrativemancy 101
Brief explanation of Narrative Therapy, overview of how stories shape our self-perception, why they impact us so deeply, and how to use this info more deliberately for mental health and motivation.
Information Hygiene
How to improve the quality of the information you're exposed to day to day, improve your epistemic ecosystem, and generally better vet your epistemics around beliefs you get from others.
Bug Generators
Basic rundown of what a Bug List is, and then an exploration of the taxonomy of what sorts of "deeper bugs" might be causing emotional or mental unwellness that lead to the ones that we tend to think of first when doing a Bug List, but tend to just be symptoms of the issues generating bugs.
Communities and Cults
General rundown of what makes community so valuable, what aspects might make them start to be "cultlike" in the way that can be harmful, and how to reinforce the former while avoiding the latter.
Internal Family Systems 101
Brief explanation of how the IFS model of therapy is useful for identifying and resolving internal conflicts, as well as how it can be a general path toward improved mental and emotional wellbeing.
Double Crux
How to orient to disagreements such that you (and ideally your conversation partner) seek truth and understanding of why you believe what you do, and what might change your mind.
Boggling
The skill of re-embodying "Wonder" in daily life, avoiding reflexive or habitual explanations in order to reconnect with the sort of deep curiosity that lets you learn better, and recognize what you don't realize you don't know.