An in-depth, integrated approach to healing from trauma
If you want to help your clients find safety and security in their bodies, unlearn old physical responses to trauma, overcome hyperarousal and hypoarousal, shift from self-hatred to self-compassion, work mindfully with body memory, break free from dissociation, and learn how to build develop rich and meaningful lives …. this 2-day masterclass is for you.
This advanced-level ACT training is intensely practical, with a major emphasis on working with the body and limbic system. Sadly many therapists don’t realise that ACT is a powerful somatic therapy, ideal for working flexibly and creatively with the body (which is, of course, where so much trauma is “imprinted”). This masterclass will show you how to use ACT in a deeper, holistic, integrative way, to work flexibly with body, mind and emotion.
This course will help you become more flexible, fluent and creative in ACT, so you can work effectively not just with PTSD but with the entire spectrum of trauma-related issues: simple, complex, acute or chronic.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
The neurobiology of trauma, including Polyvagal theory and Attachment theory
How to work effectively with the limbic system
How to bring a numb body back to life
Why and how “talk therapy” and “supportive counselling” can keep clients stuck in trauma
How to use movement and mindfulness to help a client’s body unlearn old adaptive responses to trauma
How to work with a freeze response
How to help clients find a sense of safety and security in their body
Simple psychoeducation to help clients understand their trauma symptoms
And you’ll also learn about:
How to reverse hopelessness and build optimism from the word ‘go’
How to rapidly ground and centre your clients
How to use values for post-traumatic growth
Epigenetic aspects of trauma, and how to ameliorate them
How to recognise and reverse emotional dysregulation
Powerful new tools, techniques and metaphors for working with trauma
When and where ‘mindfulness meditation’ is contraindicated in trauma work
How to use mindfulness processes flexibly and safely (without meditation)
And this too:
The art and science of compassionate, flexible exposure
How to keep exposure safe by ‘Dipping in’ and ‘Dipping out’
How to develop self-compassion, step-by-step, in the face of self-hatred
How to revisit traumatic memories safely, without getting trapped in them
How to use self-as-context naturalistically to help clients transcend past trauma
How to deconstruct and overcome shame, step-by-step
And, as if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also discover:
Inner child imagery and rescripting
Nightmare rehearsal and rescripting
Working with body memory
Defusion from self-hatred, self-criticism, self-blame
Mindfulness and defusion as antidotes to worrying, rumination, catastrophising
How to overcome common barriers to change
Working with comorbidity
Shifting paradigms: from the “window of tolerance” to the “zone of flexibility”
Making “homework” simple, desirable, and likely to be successful
And much, much more!
You will receive:
Articles, protocols, and research data on the clinical use of ACT with trauma
An 8-week e-course after the workshop for ongoing learning
Detailed handouts covering a wide array of useful ACT interventions
Scripts for a wide range of experiential exercises.
A variety of useful client worksheets
MP3 recordings of key mindfulness exercises
WORKSHOP PRICES
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