About the Event
Day One - An Introduction to Working with the Body in Complex Trauma Treatments
Current research indicates that trauma is largely remembered non-verbally, leaving the body and nervous system primed for future threat. Many traditional approaches to treatment lack techniques to work directly with this physical legacy of trauma; indeed, the body has largely been left out of the ‘talking cure’.
Through a combination of lecture material, experiential exercises and discussion, this workshop will introduce a body-oriented approach to working with unresolved trauma. Andrew’s approach to training encompasses not only the most recent theoretical understanding regarding neuroscience and the impact of our experiences on our body, but also provides a clear and pragmatic link between theory and practice.
At the conclusion of day one, participants will be able to:
- Review current neuroscience and practical applications in relation to safe trauma work.
- Understand the role of the body in trauma treatment, including the role of procedural learning and its relevance to trauma treatment.
- Apply simple somatic techniques to facilitate clients' self-regulation (including directed mindfulness).
- Acquire increased knowledge and skills in assisting clients to develop body-based resources and enable them to experience and stabilise embodiment.
- Understand the significance of the relational field in body-based psychotherapy.
- Acquire increased knowledge and skills in incorporating bodily experience into all phases of trauma therapy.
Day Two - Deepening Resources for Stabilisation
The second day will build on content covered in the first day, with particular focus on assisting clinicians to use more advanced body-based psychotherapeutic techniques to enrich and enhance their treatment approach to clients presenting with unresolved trauma.
Areas of focus will include the impact of somatics on the therapeutic relationship, and assisting clients to effectively access body-based resources to improve their capacity to regulate strong emotion and physiological arousal and more effectively process their traumatic experiences. The workshop will include both didactic and experiential material, with an emphasis on the provision of practical skills for body-based psychotherapy practice.
At the conclusion of day two, participants will have:
- Practiced simple somatic techniques to facilitate clients’ self-regulation (including directed mindfulness).
- Grasped the significance of the relational field in body-based psychotherapy.
- Acquired increased knowledge and skills in incorporating bodily experience into all phases of trauma therapy.
- Acquired increased knowledge and skills in assisting clients to develop body-based resources and enable them to experience and stabilise embodiment.
- Acquired practical skills for the development of advanced resourcing that supports clients’ trauma processing.
Program
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is suitable for those working professionally with clients who have experienced complex trauma and who have current professional registration with an Australian regulatory body:
- General Practitioners
- Occupational Therapists
- Social workers
- Counsellors
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Psychotherapists
- Mental Health Nurses
Applicants who do not meet the above criteria can apply on an individual basis to the COTWA Board by emailing diana.phillips@complextraumawa.org.au or vivien.bainbridge@complextraumawa.org.au. Consideration will be given to the applicant’s:
- Nature and length of employment
- Educational background and qualifications
- Training in trauma
- Support from the applicant’s supervisor and/or employer
About the Presenter/s
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Date/s: | Friday 26th March & Saturday 27th March 2021 | ||||||||
Registration: | Registration opens on Wednesday 17th February Registration closes Sunday 21 March 2021 |
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Trinity on Hampden Conference Centre, 230 Hampden Road, Crawley WA 6009 Additional Venue Information |
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Catering: | Tea and a light lunch will be provided Please advise special dietary requirements at time of registration |
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Enquiries: | Workshop EnquiriesDiana Phillips diana.phillips@complextraumawa.org.au Vivien Bainbridge vivien.bainbridge@complextraumawa.org.au Membership/Directory EnquiriesSonia Smuts sonia.smuts@complextraumawa.org.au |
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Disclaimer
The information in this panel discussion is general in nature and should not be relied on. You should always seek your own professional advice. The views expressed are those of the presenters and may not represent the views of COTWA.
About the Workshop
What can we learn from hypnosis to enhance our clinical effectiveness in working with trauma and dissociation? Can a dissociative therapeutic approach, such as hypnosis, be helpful for someone where dissociation is symptomatic? Can this approach be integrated into one’s current therapeutic practices, such as with mindfulness and meditation? And, perhaps most importantly, how can it help a client grow from trauma?
While this two-day course will cover topics such as the principles, ethics, and practise of hypnotherapy in up-to-date, evidence-based, outcome-oriented approaches, it is best seen as an introduction to clinical hypnosis. It will introduce you to the language and processes of clinical hypnosis for post-trauma growth, in a user-friendly, experiential learning format with particular emphasis on your own clinical applications and clinician skills.
Moving beyond the traditional scripted approach to hypnosis, you will learn about the application of hypnosis into therapy in ways that are creative, individual, and adaptive to client goals.
Topics covered will include:
- What is hypnosis
- A brief history of therapeutic trances
- Myths and misconceptions
- Hypnosis, trauma and dissociation
- The nature of suggestions
- Types and power of suggestions
- Basic theories of hypnosis
- How to induce and deepen the hypnotic experience
- Hypnosis for facilitating post-trauma growth
- How to apply your new skills in your own therapeutic work
The style of teaching will be focussed on practical skills-development with many exercises designed to facilitate the application of hypnotherapy in your daily therapeutic work with clients.
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Who is this workshop for?
Working with hypnosis, trauma, and dissociative disorders require a high level of psychotherapy skills, and a mental health background is an essential prerequisite for the effective application of hypnosis with this client population.
This workshop is open to experienced mental-health professionals who are fully registered with a professional association and meet the following criteria:
- COTWA Clinical Members
- COTWA General Members
- Non-Member Medical Practitioners
- Psychiatrists need to be registered with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
- General Practitioners are required to have additional training in Psychological Medicine, and be registered with the Medical Board of Australia.
- Non-Members Allied Health Professionals
- Psychologists are required to be registered with Psychology Board of Australia or the New Zealand Psychology Board.
- Occupational Therapists are required to have additional specialist training in mental health and need to be registered with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia or the New Zealand Occupational Therapy Board.
- Social Workers need to be registered with Australian Association of Social Workers or in New Zealand with the Social Workers Registration Board.
- Counsellors and Psychotherapists are required to be registered with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) as a Clinical Mental Health Practitioner or the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) as a Level 3 or 4 member.
- Non-Member Mental Health Nurses
- Mental Health Nurses are required to be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia /AHPRA or in New Zealand with the Nursing Council of New Zealand
- Interns/Students enrolled in a graduate level program in mental health (psychiatry, psychology, social work, counselling, etc.) that are currently involved in the internship portion of their program and are working under the supervision of a qualified mental health professional.
Applicants who do not meet the above criteria can apply on an individual basis to the COTWA Board by emailing admin@cotwa.org.au. Consideration will be given to the applicant's:
- Nature and length of employment
- Educational background and qualifications
- Training in trauma
- Support from the applicant's supervisor and/or employer
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Date/s: | Friday 28th August & Saturday 29th August 2020 | ||||||||
Registration: | Registration opens on the 22nd July 2020 and closes on 20th August 2020
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The Newman Siena Centre, 33 Williamstown Road, Doubleview WA 6018 Additional Venue Information |
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Cancellation prior to 20th August 2020 will attract a $50 processing fee. Cancellation after 20th August 2020 will attract full fee (transfer of registration is possible). |
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Enquiries: | Ms Sonia Smuts - sonia.smuts@complextraumawa.org.au |
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Notes about Fees |
Disclaimer
The information in this workshop is general in nature and should not be relied on. You should always seek your own professional advice. The views expressed are those of the presenters and may not represent the views of COTWA.
About the Workshop
Dissociative processes are most evident in the rapid shifts in self-states identified by the close tracking of ‘no-go zones’ - those places in our psyche which are too dangerous or painful to enter. These places frequently result from persistent early trauma, commonly as a consequence of growing up in an environment where the child’s caretaker(s) are either frightened or frightening, or both.
Working therapeutically with individuals with such disorganised attachments presents considerable difficulties since, by definition, the dissociative processes are designed to ‘hide’ both the fear and the longing for connection from both oneself and the Other. This can result in behaviours which fluctuate between angry attacks on the therapeutic relationship and a tenacious attachment to it. An intolerable dilemma arises from a longing to feel ‘real’ yet also desperately wanting to avoid the associated pain that comes with it. This requires the therapist to survive, detoxify, and metabolize the emotional turmoil that results from the internal shame and fear of humiliation, intolerable loss, intense dislike, disgust, and contempt that often underpin such ‘attackments’.
In this workshop, Dr Chefetz marries dissociation and its clinical manifestations with a wealth of extended case histories. Drawing on theories of self-states and their involvement in dissociative experiences, he demonstrates how to identify and work with persistent dissociative processes, and their related neurobiological and psychodynamic underpinnings.
Learning outcomes
- Recognising dissociative processes in your casework;
- Understanding memory processes in trauma patients; and
- Working with shame, repetition compulsions, enactments, addictive behaviours, depersonalisation, self-harm, and suicidality in the lives of adult survivors of childhood trauma.
Objectives
- Describe the normal tension between association and dissociation and how the balance between them contributes to mental coherence.
- Discuss why discerning depersonalisation is critically important in assessing dissociation.
- Describe how dissociative process influences memory and the questions that are important in discerning dissociative disturbances of memory
- Compare the basics of infant attachment behaviours and their adult manifestations in trauma treatment.
- Discuss the differences between emotions in the shame spectrum of experience and their personal and interpersonal correlates
- Explain the potential value and pitfalls of countertransference disclosure in psychotherapy with trauma survivors.
- Describe appropriate questions to discern depersonalisation, derealisation, amnesia, identity confusion, and identity alteration toward making a diagnosis of a dissociative disorder.
- Discuss and be able to apply the four basic patterns of infant attachment, secure, anxious-ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganised/disoriented to their adult cases and apply these to the clinical setting.
- Predict which patients in your practice are likely carrying hidden shame
- Describe the process from which shame and rage become welded together.
- Discuss how hippocampal and amygdala functions interact in trauma treatment.
- Discuss a strategy for pointed intervention to impact and reduce suicidality as an immediate threat.
- Explain how "attackment" describes a shift from proximity seeking in the attachment paradigm to guaranteeing distance when domination- submission, power and control, dynamics overwhelm the interpersonal world of a child
- Describe the difference between the words affect, feeling, and emotion as well as the clinical utility of distinguishing between them.
- Describe the general underlying cause of addictive behaviour as it relates to dissociative processes.
- Discuss a technique for specific psychotherapeutic exploration of addictions and their relief.
- Explain the likely sources of negative therapeutic reaction in the treatment of a person with a complex dissociative disorder.
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Date/s: | Friday 20th & Saturday 21st September 2019 | ||||||
Registration: | Registration opens on 1 July 2019. Please register at www.complextraumawa.org.au Inaugural membership offer ends on the 16th August 2019. |
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Venue: |
Trinity on Hampden Conference Centre, 230 Hampden Road, Crawley WA 6009 Additional Venue Information |
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Cancelation Policy: |
Cancellation prior to September 1st will attract a $50 processing fee. Cancellation after September 1st will attract full fee – transfer of registration is possible. |
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Enquiries: | Mrs Sonia Smuts |
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Notes about Fees |
Disclaimer
The information in this panel discussion is general in nature and should not be relied on. You should always seek your own professional advice. The views expressed are those of the presenters and may not represent the views of COTWA.