Multidimensional Approach to Trauma, Body, Mind, and Spirit and Why it Matters
The Gestalt Center
5 Saturdays:
10/9/21, 11/6/21, 12/4/21, 1/8/22 & 2/5/22
10am - 6pm (1 hour lunch break)
Presenters:
Judy Choix and Matthew Whaley
Price: $895.00 for all 5 days; $800.00 early bird incentive if signed up by August 1st
The body, mind, and psyche have a natural hierarchy that, when aligned, naturally orients the system toward health. When this happens, we are able to regulate and experience connection, support, and "flow" in daily life. We suffer and have a crisis in life not because we are broken, but because we are out of alignment and/or disconnected somewhere in this multi-dimensional field.
Through a Gestalt lens, using field theory and neuroscience, this workshop this five-day, comprehensive workshop on trauma proposes a multidimensional diagnostic model for identifying what trauma looks like in a client's body, mind, and psyche, and offers concrete methods of treatment to restore vitality and wholeness.
October 9th, Day 1: introduction
Theoretical framework
Holism and the field
What is trauma: single incident, acute, complex: (Note that this workshop will touch on but not go into depth around intergenerational, social and collective trauma. It is beyond the scope of this workshop)
The prevalence of trauma in our society
Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE’s) and the importance of recognizing ACE’s experiences in our clients
The Triune Brain
How trauma effects the brain and brain development
The neurobiology of trauma – what’s going on In the brain when someone experiences trauma?
Neuroplasticity
Psychoeducation
November 6th, DAY 2: the body
BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING; The Reptile Brain: Intrapersonal
The Autonomic Nervous System and how trauma gets stuck in the body
Polyvagal Theory
ANS States: Recognizing and working with charge in the system
Neuroception, interoception and proprioception and the role they play in feeling safe in our body, relationship and in the world
How to help clients tolerate dysregulation and come back from hyper and/or hypoarousal
Help clients befriend the body and mitigate avoidance of sensations
Restoring sense of self through embodiment: grounding, sensing, orienting and self-touch
Using your body as therapist bas a regulating tool
December 4th, Day 3: the mind
THE BRIDGE: The Limbic/Emotional Brain: Interpersonal
Types of Relational trauma
How to Work with the limbic system to reverse the physiological imprint of trauma
Emotions and emotional regulation and its role in trauma
Affect tolerance
Completing unfinished business in the body and in relationship
Attachment Theory
How early trauma effects brain development
How a Client’s Attachment History Impacts the Treatment of Trauma
How to work with different attachment styles
The Role of Memory in keeping clients stuck in a trauma loop and how to eradicate the charge
Memory Reconsolidation
Therapist as a secure attachment
The importance of positive affect in transforming trauma
January 8th, Day 4: spirit
TOP-DOWN PROCESSING; The Thinking Brain: Transpersonal
Consciousness and Dissociation
How to work with implicit core beliefs ingrained by early trauma
How Trauma derails the time-keeping part of the brain and how to get it back online
How to work with dissociation and shift a client to present time
What is prediction bias in the brain and how to work with it
Self-States: Working with Parts
Chair work
Child work
Inner Critic
Creating a cohesive narrative
Imagination
The Future Self
February 5th, Day 5: integration
Review: Putting it all together; FLOW
Healing the fragmented Self
Post Traumatic Growth
Vicarious Trauma
Self-Compassion