Take home body-oriented interventions for increasing stability, improving quality of life, and integrating traumatic memory Adapt mindfulness, yoga, and physical exercise for easier access to clients with PTSD, anxiety, and panic Live demonstrations and case consultations that put theory into practice Join Babette to learn the answers to these key questions in trauma therapy: Why is it that some clients improve from trauma therapy and some do not? In which combinations is success or failure inherent in the treatment modality, the therapeutic relationship, and the client’s resources? What is it that is going wrong when clients decompensate or drop out of treatment? Join trauma pioneer and innovator, bestselling author and international trainer, Babette Rothschild, for two days of content that will expand on the theory of trauma, address the questions above, and tackle critical and key issues in recovering from trauma. The seminar will provide you with an expanded mind and body based toolbox for increasing and maintaining stability and determining when or when not to proceed to memory processing. Attend this workshop and Babette will provide you with the following key points: Take home body-oriented interventions for increasing stability, improving quality of life, and integrating traumatic memory. Interpret and modulate the body’s nervous system (sensory and autonomic) to better regulate arousal levels in your clients and yourself. Adapt mindfulness, yoga, and physical exercise for easier access to clients with PTSD, anxiety, and panic. Reduce and stop flashbacks and constructively manage waking from nightmares. Tools to protect yourself from vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue. This training is ideal for any helping professionals practicing all types of trauma healing treatments. The theory, tools and techniques presented in this seminar are easily integrated across the widest range of treatment modalities including CBT, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and more. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the pioneers and innovators in the trauma field- one of the rare trainings offered in the United States! Objectives: Identify the central goals of trauma therapy Demonstrate how to become skilled in applying and adapting the phase-oriented structure, no matter which method you practice Explain how to prevent decompensation during trauma therapy Distinguish clients who will benefit from processing trauma memories from those who will not Increase skills and options for helping clients who do not want to, or do not benefit from, remembering their past trauma/s Utilize tools to maintain your clients’ (and your!) clear thinking at all times Demonstrate how to teach clients to reduce and stop flashbacks Guide clients to manage nightmares Distinguish triggers from flashbacks Recognize and maximize the importance of attachment, support, and relationship for stabilizing and healing trauma Summarize how to become adept at helping all types of clients to achieve and maintain stability Identify hidden resources in your clients’ lives Recognize culture differences when working with your clients Describe how to improve your ability to identify and regulate hyperarousal in your client and yourself Explain the value of modulating pacing and reducing the size of steps to guarantee and build on success Integrate your tool box with mind and body oriented interventions for increasing stability and integrating traumatic memory Outline: IMPERATIVE GUIDING PRINCIPLES Major goals for trauma therapy Quality of life Professional obsolescence Importance of contact and support IMPROVEMENT VS. DECOMPENSATION Why clients get worse Identifying what works vs. “the evidence base” Client and therapist curiosity THE TERMINOLOGY OF TRAUMA DSM-5 ® update Stress, Trauma, Posttraumatic stress, Posttraumatic stress disorder PACING Three phases Stabilization & safety Reviewing trauma memories Integration Small, successful steps CONTROL Loss of control in trauma Loss of control in the wake of trauma Regaining control DIAGNOSIS Trauma types Role of attachment Who does not benefit from memory processing and why When story matters FOCUS HEALING ON THE PRESENT Mindfulness Body awareness Recovery vs. resolution CULTURAL AWARENESS Cultural differences Traditions Rituals Advantages THE TRAUMA COMPROMISED CORTEX Amygdala Hippocampus Prioritize clear thinking THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM AND DUAL AWARENESS Exteroceptors Interoceptors Reconciling external and internal cues Flashbacks Nightmares Triggers SWEET SURVIVAL AND PERSONAL RESOURCES Contact and support Faith and nature Purposeful activity OBSERVING AND REGULATING HYPERAROUSAL Structure of the autonomic nervous system From heightened alertness to flight, fight, and freeze Applying the brakes Relaxed vs. calm AVOID THE WRONG ROAD Medical concerns vs. PTSD Current issues vs. past issues Importance of the client’s agenda Prevent “false memories” BODY FOCUSED EXERCISES AND PRACTICES Body awareness Feet and grounding Exteroceptive resources Proprioception Autonomic NS awareness Distance and boundary Center of gravity and balance Balance & strength training THERAPIST SELF-CARE Preventing vicarious trauma & compassion fatigue Sit back! Empathy and mirror neurons Facial feedback Respiration synchrony Image control DEMONSTRATIONS CASE CONSULTATIONS About the Speaker: Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW, has been a psychotherapist since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. She is the author of five books, all published by WW Norton and translated into more than a dozen languages: The Body Remembers – The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (bestseller); The Body Remembers CASEBOOK – Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD; Help for the Helper – The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma, 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery (bestseller), and Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide. She is also the creator and Series Editor of the WW Norton 8 Keys to Mental Health Series. (10 titles and growing). After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark she returned to her native Los Angeles. There she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, and supervise professional psychotherapists worldwide. For more information, visit her website: www.trauma.cc |