Introduction to NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) – Columbus, Ohio

Date/Time
Date(s) - Wednesday, July 20, 2016
10:00 am - 5:30 pm

Location
Kelton House

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 2017-18 Ohio NARM training will be presented by Brad Kammer, with special segments being taught by NARM founder Dr. Laurence Heller, author of Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship.  For more information on this training, check back at this site, or contact Mary Ware and Jean Leslie (contact info below)

Discount: By attending this Intro workshop, you are eligible for a $50 discount when you complete the first NARM module in the Ohio NARM Training, beginning in 2017

NARM™ Introductory Workshop

Brad Kammer is an international practitioner and trainer in somatic psychotherapy.   A psychotherapist, NARM Practitioner and Somatic Experiencing practitioner with a private practice in northern California, Brad has trained and taught 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.

FACILITATOR:
Brad Kammer, MFT, LPCC, SEP, NMP

COST:

$150

$125 [early registration before June 1]

$100 [For Registered Students and Clinical Interns]

15% off for agency groups of 3 or more
[does not apply to student/intern fee – contact Mary or Jean for more details and registration instructions]

[$20 non-refundable deposit for cancellations]

*5.5 CEUs approved by The APA & the State of Ohio CSWMFT Board for social workers, professional clinical counselors, and marriage and family therapists. [There is a $20 fee for CE’s.]

LOCATION:
Kelton House
586 E Town St
Columbus, Ohio 43215

LOCAL COORDINATOR:
Mary Ware, mary.ware1@yahoo.com, 614-500-3908
and
Jean Leslie, jeanleslie@live.com, 614-216-0547

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