Introduction to NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)

Date/Time
Date(s) - Sunday, April 27, 2014
10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Location
Destiny Arts Center

Category(ies)

• Workshop

About NARM

The NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM™) is a powerful theoretical and practical map for navigating the complexities of relational, developmental, and attachment trauma.  NARM™ brings shock trauma skills into a coherent approach for working with developmental trauma, and works with the link between psychological issues and the body.   It is a both a psychodynamic and nervous system based approach designed to help build clients’ capacity for self-regulation and interpersonal connection.  The
June 2014 Oakland NARM™ training will be presented by Dr. Laurence Heller and Dr. Aline LaPierre, authors of author Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship.

Brad Kammer is an international practitioner and trainer in somatic psychotherapy.   A psychotherapist, NARM-trained therapist and Somatic Experiencing practitioner with a private practice in northern California, Brad has trained with Dr. Laurence Heller and is deeply steeped in in the fields of somatic psychology and interpersonal neurobiology.

This workshop will offer an overview of developmental trauma from a NARM™ perspective.  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 of Dr. Laurence Heller using the NARM™ approach

You Will Learn About:

• The distinction between shock and developmental 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 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.   CEU’s for this workshop and the NARM training will be offered for psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs, nurses and licensed professional counselors.

Cost: $65 Full Price/$55 Early-Bird (before April 1)/$55 Student-Intern Price

CEUs: 4 CEUs will be available for MFTs, LPCCs, and LCSWs

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

Coordinator: Abby Rose, 510 465 4630, abby@abbyrosesomatics.com

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