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Treating Collective Trauma with Hakomi: Listening to the Body
Program Information
Objectives
- Use the key Hakomi concepts of applied mindfulness and somatic awareness to improve outcomes when treating trauma.
- Apply attachment- and compassion-based skills that facilitate the experiential process into the body-mind.
- Develop an experiential mindset to hold the multilayered complexity of trauma in sessions.
- Demonstrate the essential Hakomi personhood skills that help therapists stay grounded and self-regulated while in therapeutic engagement.
Outline
- Implement the key Hakomi concepts of applied mindfulness and somatic awareness to improve outcomes when treating trauma.
- Applied mindfulness is an integrated skills set by the Hakomi therapist to facilitate an in-depth process
- Learning to ask targeted questions to facilitate a safe somatic awareness for clients
- Not all somatic or mindfulness interventions are suitable for trauma clients, learning to differentiate what tool fits which client is essential for treatment success
- Apply attachment- and compassion-based skills that facilitate the experiential process into the body-mind.
- Hakomi holds the value of loving presence of the therapist as essential to convey compassion to the clients traumatic experience
- Applying attachment theory informed interventions to regulate clients internal somatic states
- Develop an experiential mindset to hold the multilayered complexity of trauma in sessions.
- Learn what it means to be an experiential therapist by trying out present moment and safe experiments that include play, breath and movement
- Recognize that trauma clients don’t fit one treatment approach size fits all
- Explain the essential Hakomi personhood skills that help therapists stay grounded and self-regulated while in therapeutic engagement.
- The role of the therapist is not just about a skill set but how they embody themselves and stay curious about their own process
- Developing a somatic repertoire to stay grounded in the body when clients trauma feels overwhelming or triggering
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16/02/2021
Racial Trauma: Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Trauma Rooted in Racism
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Objectives
- Assess the clinical implications of racial experiences leading to trauma symptomology.
- Evaluate how historical, cultural, and individual trauma may or may not fit into a DSM-5 framework.
- Employ interventions that address traumatic experiences with racism in trauma treatment sessions.
Outline
Racial Trauma Assessment:
- Start the Conversation and Uncover the Trauma of Racism
- How to start the conversation
- Race-related traumas and DSM-5 criteria
- Validated measures for racial trauma
- Assessing related cultural constructs
- Clinical Interview Assessment tool
- UConn Racial/Ethnic Stress & Trauma Survey
Clinical Techniques:
Practical Interventions for Addressing Racial Trauma in Treatment
- Culturally-informed case conceptualizations
- How to validate experiences of oppression
- Identify your clients’ strengths and supports
- Strategies to build ethnic and racial pride
- Adapting validated PTSD treatments
- 5 techniques to help clients of colour cope with stress
- Group treatment for race-based trauma
- Research and limitations
Growth as a Therapist:
Become More Comfortable Working with Issues Related to Race
- Personal growth questions answered
- What can well-intentioned people do about racism
- How to become more comfortable talking about issues related to race
- Guidance for clinicians of colour
- Homework exercises
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27/08/2020
The Neurobiology of Healing Relationships: Trauma Work Meets Couples Therapy
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Objectives
- Assess the states of your client's brain that impede emotional connections.
- Create a working relationship with your client’s brain on multiple levels to promote trauma recovery and healthy relationships simultaneously.
- Apply memory reconsolidation principles to couples therapy.
Outline
- Identify the states of your client's brain
- Define the locations and functions of the subcortical and cortical systems
- Identify integrated and disintegrated states in the brain
- Define the relationships between these systems and why working with a subcortically lead brain state (disintegrated) is so difficult
- Assess disintegration vs integration.
- Use tools that work with the brain to end this state and come back to regulation and connection
- 2nd consciousness
- Time outs
- Relational jujitsu
- Create a working relationship with your client’s brain on multiple levels to promote trauma recovery and healthy relationships simultaneously
- Your client’s ability to choose an integrated brain state is essential to them utilizing skills that will help them to heal.
- Using inner child work in couples’ sessions
- Use the witnessing of personal work to shift relational dynamics
- Apply memory reconsolidation principles to couples therapy
- Define and explain memory reconsolidation
- Identify emotional schemas that are problematic
- Learn couples interventions that bring the ability to rewire these emotional schemas home with your couples.
- Core negative image
- Dead stop contracts
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21/03/2021
Ancient Wisdom for Today’s Ailments: Connecting the Body, Mind, and Spirit
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Objectives
- Evaluate the connection between trauma, stress, and chronic illness.
- Apply three writing and drawing practices in a clinical setting to heal the effects of stress.
- Use the genogram as a clinical tool to deepen work with clients around health, resilience, and hope.
- Demonstrate guided imagery practices to use with clients in therapy and in community settings to help heal the body and heighten experiences personal growth.
- Assess how to help clients access inner strengths through creative processes that tap into the imagination.
Outline
- Explain the connection between trauma, stress, and chronic illness.
- Participants will increase their understanding of the current chronic illness incidences in the US population, and their understanding of the physiology of the stress response.
- The didactic portion of this objective will include a review of the current research on intergenerational trauma, stress perception, and health
- Apply three writing and drawing practices in a clinical setting to heal the effects of stress.
- Participants will explore the current research on the impact of journaling on stress perception and chronic illness.
- They will engage in writing exercises to address their own health challenges, along with those of their patient population.
- Use the genogram as a clinical tool to deepen work with clients around health, resilience, and hope.
- Participants will create a "theme-focused" genogram around a current symptom or challenge in their lives
- The research from this module of the training is based on the work of McGoldrick and the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
- Use music and movement in sessions to get around emotional blocks without spoken words.
- Participants will deepen their understanding of the use of music as a tool for parasympathetic dominance and creativity.
- Assess how to help clients access inner strengths through creative processes that tap into the imagination.
- Participants will be guided in the appropriate application of personal and professional use of imagery, music, chanting, and journaling as tools for accessing innate wisdom.
- Describe guided imagery practices to use with clients in therapy and in community settings to help heal the body and heighten experiences personal growth.
- Participants will deepen their understanding of the use of imagery for trauma healing, managing stress, and understanding their own physiology.
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07/01/2021
Safe and Sound: How Your Voice Can Contribute to Healing Trauma
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Objectives
- Investigate the nervous system’s response to auditory signals after trauma.
- Apply features of vocalization to enact desired responses changes in the nervous system.
- Extrapolate therapeutic interventions from research on trauma and the auditory circuits of the nervous system.
- Demonstrate 3 ways to use the auditory and vocal systems during trauma treatment.
Outline
- How trauma “re-tunes” the auditory system in trauma survivors
- How to apply the specific features of vocalizations and vocal music that can help create a sense of calm and safety for clients
- How to utilize the voice to support the regulation of clients’ nervous systems and support healing
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19/03/2021
Neuroscience-based Trauma Treatment: How to Maximize Your Efficacy
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Objectives
- Assess the five areas of the brain impacted by trauma, and how each contributes to post-trauma symptoms.
- Evaluate what neuroscience tells us about the recommended “order of operations” of trauma treatment, and why evidence-based therapies are often initiated at the wrong time.
- Determine the difference between “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to therapy, and when to use each during treatment.
- Use four techniques that can help prepare clients’ brains for the often intense, cognitive-heavy trauma therapies.
Outline
- List five areas of the brain impacted by trauma, and how each contributes to post-trauma symptoms.
- Amygdala – smoke alarm
- Hippocampus – timekeeper
- Insula – interoception centre
- Cingulate – self-regulation centre
- Prefrontal cortex – executive functioning centre
- Explain what neuroscience tells us about the recommended “order of operations” of trauma treatment, and why evidence-based therapies are often initiated at the wrong time.
- Build alliance first
- Help clients develop felt sense in a safe manner
- Utilize bottom up techniques
- Utilize top down techniques
- Incorporate behavioural techniques
- Most evidence-based therapies start with #4 or emphasize #4 instead of emphasizing bottom-up, somatic, stabilizing approaches.
- Describe the difference between “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to therapy, and when to use each during treatment.
- Bottom-up: Working with the body to change the brain, especially lower areas of the brain such as the amygdala and insula.
- Top-down: Working with the mind to change the brain, especially upper areas of the brain such as the cingulate and prefrontal cortex.
- Start bottom-up when treating trauma, before integrating top-down techniques.
- Use four techniques that can help prepare clients’ brains for the often intense, cognitive-heavy trauma therapies.
- Mirror neuron activation in emotional centres to build therapeutic alliance
- Sensory awareness techniques, including grounding techniques, to increase felt sense and enter the body safely
- Vagus nerve activation through breathing-based techniques such as the 5-5-8-2 breath
- Body-based techniques such as autogenic training to increase heart rate variability, decrease amygdala activation, increase insula activation
- Lifestyle habits, and behaviours outside of session that can build brain-derived neurotrophic factor for hippocampal regeneration
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19/03/2021
The Misattuned Family: Techniques for Healing Attachment Trauma
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Objectives
- Practice activities that increase a sense of well-being and connection between family members.
- Facilitate active dialogue between parent and child using PACE to get at the dyad’s core issues.
- Practice recognizing escalation in child and parent and employing strategies for de-escalating the situation.
- Employ techniques to calm and refocus a parent’s energy and communicate messages in a constructive manner.
Outline
- Implement face-to-face between parent and child to create a sense of well-being, connection and joy
- Watch and practice activities that increase warm facial expressions, synchronized movement and rhythm
- Learn activities that work to calm a dysregulated child and engage a withdrawn child
- Learn to facilitate active dialogue between parent and child that is both safe and gets at the dyad’s core issues.
- Practice using PACE-Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy
- Learn techniques to discern underlying motives/feelings underneath a child’s behaviors
- Practice scenarios for de-escalating child and parent dysregulation optimal arousal and affect regulation,
- Detect and manage parent/child signs of escalation before they sabotage the session
- Learn techniques for reducing intensity of content to allow child to stay with difficult content
- Learn gentle ways to intervene and redirect a misattuned or critical parent
- Observe techniques for calming and refocusing parent’s energy
- Observe techniques for helping parent convey messages in a constructive manner
Copyright :
20/03/2021
Bringing the Body into Therapy: Clinical Tools from Somatic Experiencing
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Objectives
- Assess how implicit memory shapes our physiological and psychological responses to trauma and recovery.
- Apply the psychobiology of trauma and the survival responses of fight, flight, freeze as it relates to clinical treatment.
- Apply three skills to work with the autonomic nervous system to increase resilience and rebound from trauma and overwhelm.
Outline
- The science and skills of Interoception
- How awareness of sensation (interoception via the Insula) can read ANS states
- Introduction to stabilization skills based on interoception
- Introduce multiple somatic tools that re-wire implicit traumatic memory in the body
Copyright :
19/03/2021
The Body as Healer: Working from the Bottom Up
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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.
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
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19/03/2020