Full Course Description
2-Day Trauma & Memory Workshop: Clinical Strategies to Resolve Traumatic Memories and Help Clients Reclaim Their Lives
Program Information
Objectives
- Articulate the four major developmental stages that increase vulnerability to trauma and how to recognize them in your clients.
- Determine the naturalistic mechanics of trauma and survival responses of flight, fight, freeze and collapse as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Differentiate the different types of memory systems and comprehend the connection to the mind and body’s way of processing the types of memories.
- Analyze the various forms of memory and their impact on working with clients in therapy.
- Differentiate ways to identify which memory systems are operative and how to access these (memory) components in a systematic fashion to promote self-regulation, integration and empowerment with clients.
- Appraise the evolutionary underpinnings of trauma and the Polyvagal theory and their clinical implications.
- Demonstrate the importance of “Bottom-Up” processing versus “Top-Down” processing to improve treatment outcomes.
- Analyze the effects of stress on somatic and emotional syndromes in clients.
- Incorporate Dr. Levine’s simple containment tools to more effectively engage your client in trauma therapy.
- Implement Somatic Experiencing© techniques to help clients heal traumatic memories.
- Demonstrate practical tools for therapeutic work with emotional and procedural (“body”) memories.
- Manage avoiding pitfalls of generating spurious (“false”) memories and help clients come to peace with their troubling memories and haunting emotions.
Outline
Trauma and the Body
- Developmental trauma
- Evolution and Polyvagal foundation
- How the body stores trauma
- Clinical research
Deeper Understanding of Memory and Clinical Implications
- Explicit – More Conscious Memory
- Implicit – Less Conscious Memory
- Emotional
- Procedural/Body Memory
- Clinical application for memory systems
Traumatic Memories
- Long-term memory vs short-term memory
- How the brain and body store memory
- Memory engrams with somatic markers
- Fight, flight, freeze response
How Clients Get “Stuck”
- Tonic immobility – The fallback to freeze
- Freeze couples with Fear
- Dissociation
- Bracing and terror
- Euphoric dissociation
- Collapse
Somatic and Emotional Reactions to Trauma
- Symptoms and complexities of each in therapy
- Emotional – anxiety, depression
- Somatic – chronic pain, fibromyalgia
- Autonomic – migraines, irritable bowel
- Resolving Traumatic Reactions
The Basic Stages of Trauma Treatment
- Containment of strong sensation and emotion
- Pendulation – The dual opposites of sensation
- Titration – going gradually
- Completion
- Renegotiation of active for passive responses
- Allow things to settle: Self-Paced termination
Therapeutic Approaches to Heal Traumatic Memories
- The importance of “Bottom-Up” processing
- The Paul MacLean’s Triune Brain
- In an Unspoken Voice
- Somatic Experiencing©
- Renegotiation vs. Reliving
- Restoration of self-regulation
- Somatic experience of trauma
- Developing internal awareness
- The mind-body connection in trauma work
- Help reinforce trust and acceptance in clients
- Incorporating client’s spirituality in trauma work
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Occupational Therapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Other Helping Professionals
Copyright :
10/28/2019
The Body as Healer: Working from the Bottom Up
Program Information
Objectives
- Integrate the clients’ awareness of their internal experience and your observations of their nonverbal behaviors, including involuntary gestures, posture changes, and external indications of shifts in their autonomic nervous system.
- Develop your capacity to read your own somatic cues as a means of resonating and connecting with the client’s experience.
- Assess the often-fleeting physical cues of their internal states that indicate crucial resources clients can access as they move toward healing.
Outline
From Trauma to Awakening & Flow
- Trauma Vortex & Counter Vortex
- Emotions & Touch
Core Regulation: Working from the Bottom Up
- The Roots of Traumatization
- Terror & the Freeze Response
- Neuroception & the Activation of Arousal
- Unsafe Touch
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/19/2020