2-Day Introduction to NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) – Austin, TX

Date/Time
Date(s) - Friday, September 9, 2016 - Saturday, September 10, 2016
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location
SafePlace

Category(ies)

• Workshop

NARM™ Introductory Workshop

This special two-day workshop will offer an overview of developmental trauma from a NARM™ perspective, as well as an opportunity for being introduced to the basic NARM skills.  Understanding and being able to work with developmental dynamics is critical for helping our clients in their healing process.  We will look at how clients’ life experiences present themselves in the context of a complex, psychobiologically-driven relational framework that is often largely unconscious.  This framework, laid down by our early attachment experiences, shapes our development, who we are in the world (our self), and how we relate to others.   When clients are having difficulty shifting out of patterns of dysregulation, these implicit dynamics are at play and must be addressed.  The NARM approach weaves together a somatic or body-based (bottom-up) process while simultaneously working with clients’ identity and relational dynamics (top-down).

Workshop Format:

• Overview of NARM’s theoretical and clinical approach to developmental trauma
• Lecture and experiential exercises on each of the five adaptive survival styles
• Video demonstrations and discussion of Dr. Laurence Heller using the NARM approach
• Reflective inquiry and clinical practice with basic NARM theory and skills

You Will Learn About:

• The distinction between shock and developmental trauma (“complex trauma”)
• The pitfalls of working with all forms of trauma without recognizing the complex developmental themes running in the background
• NARM’s five early adaptive survival styles, their corresponding identity distortions, and how they affect adult life
• The role of shame in complex trauma
• Building skills of dual awareness and somatic mindfulness
• Integrating a bottom-up (body-based) and top-down (cognitive or identity-based) therapeutic approach

NARM™ is open to licensed therapists and somatic practitioners interested in working with developmental trauma.

Cost: $330 Full Price / $300 Early-Bird (before August 1) / $275 Registered Student-Intern Price

$20 non-refundable deposit for cancellations

CEUs: 12 CEUs will be available for psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs, nurses and licensed professional counselors [$20 per 12 CEUs]

Discount: By attending this Intro workshop, you are eligible for a $50 discount when you complete the first NARM module in Austin, Texas***

Location:
SafePlace
1515 Grove Blvd.
Austin, TX

Local Contact:
Sue Snyder Pederson
sues.pederson@gmail.com
(512) 484-7902

*** The 2017-18 Austin NARM™ training is presently being planned, with an anticipated starting date in March 2017.  More details will be announced soon; or contact local coordinator Sue Snyder Pederson for more details.

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