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.
Copyright :
28/10/2019
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 behaviours, 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.
Copyright :
19/03/2020