Full Course Description

Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry in Action: An Experiential Course for the Healing of Deep Traumatic Wounds

Program Information

Objectives

Determine how trauma disconnects a client from deeper experiencing of the self to improve clinical outcomes.
Distinguish the three levels of knowledge as they relate to clinical implications.
Demonstrate a process of inquiry that changes limiting beliefs as related to clinical treatment.
Apply compassionate inquiry to go beyond insight into the experience for deep change in clients.
Appraise how suffering comes from attempts to avoid the truth in client descriptions of their problems.
Apply a process of body awareness to enable clients to access and identify emotional states.
Develop an understanding of the client’s deeper unconscious emotional issues for purposes of client psychoeducation.
Demonstrate how addiction is an attempt to solve a problem to alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Integrate compassionate inquiry in psychotherapy to engage the client to recover vitality and self -compassion.
Demonstrate how to create a sense of safety for the client’s best therapy outcomes.
Demonstrate how to create a sacred space between therapist and client to improve clinical outcomes.
Appraise the current research on how trauma influences the expression of genes as it relates to clinical implications.

Outline

Trauma and Constriction

Mind Creates the World
Stress Before Birth Leads to Adult Addiction
How Unconscious Emotional Memory Emerges in Reactivity
Adaptive Purpose of Behavior

The Dynamics of Repression

Fear and Trauma
Interpersonal Neurobiology
Safety and Attunement
Diagnoses as Adaptations and Coping Mechanisms
Depression, Anxiety, ADHD as Coping
To Maintain Attachment We Give Up The Self
Personality As an Adaptation

Need for Attention From Not Being Fulfilled As A Child

Never Feeling Satisfied
Sense of Not Being Wanted
Living in Disconnection

Process of Compassionate Inquiry

Creating Safety for the Client
Part of the Self Designs Challenges to Wake Up
What to Ask
Recognizing the Healthy Self In All People That Cannot Be Damaged
Healing As A Natural Process and the Essence of the Self
Healing Ability in Every Person
Be Unafraid of Emotional Pain
How to Help the Client Remove What Is In The Way to Peace

How The Mind Interferes with Hope and Safety

Resourceful, Resilient, Strong, Wise, Dynamic Process of Humans
Overcoming the Normal Childhood
Emotional Memory Triggered in Reactivity
Fear As An Implicit Memory
Accessing Blocked Memory By Bypassing the Unconscious Mind

Stages of Therapeutic Process

Self Observation
Understanding How Perception is Rooted in the Past
Personal Drama Based in Early Trauma
Self Awareness Through Inquiry
Developing Presence

Stages of Compassion

Ordinary Compassion
Compassion of Truth
Compassion of Understanding
Compassion of Recognition
Compassion of Possibility

Target Audience

Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Case Managers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Copyright : 11/01/2018

Part 1: The Biology of Multigenerational Transmission of Trauma

Copyright : 11/01/2018

The Biology of Loss: How to Foster Resilience When Attachments Are Impaired

Bestselling author Gabor Maté has become a leading voice for the destigmatization and compassionate treatment of mental health and addiction. He’s the author of four bestselling books, including When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. 

He’ll discuss how trauma and emotional stress, often hidden below consciousness and interwoven into the very fabric of society, prepare the ground for disease. He'll also explore how to unlock our natural abilities for recovery and healing, particularly at a moment when therapists are struggling in unprecedented ways.

Maté will also cover the core elements of healthy human development and what happens when critical attachments are lost or severed. He will discuss what it really means for humans to be resilient in the face of attachment injuries. What emerges is a new paradigm for relating, grounded in the present moment while not flinching from the past.

Program Information

Objectives

Measure the impacts of childhood trauma on psychological functioning and well-being in adulthood.
Differentiate how to uncover early traumatic events of childhood and unconscious feeling states.
Devise how to cultivate deeper therapeutic presence by bringing awareness to unconscious patterns and processes that may be exacerbating client symptoms.
Demonstrate how to keep clients engaged in present-moment experiences using a mind-body framework.
Evaluate recent developments in attachment research and trauma.
Extrapolate how early loss can translate into maladaptive behaviors in adulthood.
Propose 3 examples of skills for building resilience in the face of loss.

Outline

Defining the impacts of trauma and hidden emotional stressors
Understand the role of stress in the development of disease
Review the stress reaction from the perspective of systems theory
Understanding the nature of resilience as adaptation
The ways in which we can overcome stress and foster resilience
The social context of stress and problematic behaviors
Moving past reaction to understanding origins as adaptations
The attachment drive as a biological necessity
A paradigm for developing resilience in the face of attachment loss

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/19/2021

Psychedelics in Modern Healing

Today there’s growing interest in the use of psychedelic substances, once considered therapeutically off-limits, in the clinical treatment of PTSD, depression, addictions, and a range of other conditions.

The principles on which these healing pathways are based have been shown to be validated by psychoneuroimmunology and interpersonal neurobiology.

This workshop recording will look at the distinctive experiences of both clients and therapists that psychedelics can facilitate.

Program Information

Objectives

Appraise the differences among various psychedelic substances and their potential uses in a therapeutic setting.
Investigate the process of introducing and preparing for a psychedelic-based session with clients.
Assess how to integrate what has been experienced and learned in a psychedelic journey after the session.

Outline

Four Concepts of Therapeutic Psychedelic Use

Set & Setting
- Most Important Determinants: Set & Setting
- 1960’s Push for Psychedelics in Treating Mental Health Issues
Integration of Experience into One’s Life
- Psychedelic Experiences Are Not Transformative of Themselves
- Transformation Comes with Integration
Expectations vs. Experience
- Expectations Get in the Way of Experience
- Exploring What the Experience Was About
Attitude of Curiosity

Psychedelics & Pain

Belief that One Cannot Handle Pain
Embracing Your Ability to Handle Pain
Feeling in a Safe, Held Context
Connecting with Oneself

1960’s Cultural Phenomenon & Psychedelics

Vietnam War, Racism, “Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30”
Young Adult Use of Psychedelics Leads to “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” Situation
Repression of Psychedelic Research

Creation of Retreats

Focusing on Setting & Integration
Increasing Self-Awareness & Self-Processing
Creating Shared Community

Psychedelic Drugs

Ayahuasca
Ketamine
MDMA
Psilocybin
Psychedelics: The Royal Road to the Unconscious

Q&A; Introduction to Andrew Tatarski (Center for Optimal Living)

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals