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

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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.

Copyright : 01/11/2018

Part 1: The Biology of Multigenerational Transmission of Trauma

Copyright : 01/11/2018

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.

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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 behaviours in adulthood.
Propose 3 examples of skills for building resilience in the face of loss.

Copyright : 19/03/2021

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.

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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.