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

Date/Time
Date(s) - Friday, January 13, 2017
10:00 am - 5:30 pm

Location
Homewood Suites by Hilton Columbus Airport

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Introduction to NARM™ with Gina Essex, MA, LPC

Friday, January 13, 2017     10 am – 5:30 pm   

Homewood Suites/Hilton Airport, Columbus, Ohio

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About NARM

The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM™) is a powerful theoretical and practical map for navigating the complexities of attachment, relational and developmental trauma.  Based on the work of Dr. Laurence Heller, author of Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship, NARM™ expands the clinical approach to working with shock trauma into a coherent approach for working with developmental trauma, and the link between psychological issues and the body.   It is a both a somatic (“bottom-up”) and psychodynamic (“top-down”) based approach designed to help build clients’ capacity for self-regulation and interpersonal connection.

The 2017-18 Columbus Area NARM™ training will be facilitated by Brad Kammer, and dates and venue will be announced shortly.  Training Discount: By attending this Intro workshop, you are eligible for a $50 discount when you complete the first NARM module in 2017 in Columbus.

LOCAL NARM COORDINATORS:
Mary Ware
mary.ware1@yahoo.com
614-500-3908

Jean Leslie
jeanleslie@live.com
614-216-0547

NARM™ Introductory Workshop

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 roots in the fields of somatic psychology, psychodynamic psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology
  • 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:
Gina Essex, MA, LPC

COST:

$150

$130 [early registration before December 12]

$105 [For Registered Students and Clinical Interns]

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

[$20 non-refundable deposit for cancellations made up to 14 days before the class;
cancellations made in last 14 days are non-refundable
]

LOCATION:
Homewood Suites by Hilton Columbus/Airport
2880 Airport Dr.
Columbus, Ohio 43219

5.5 CEUs Available:

CE’s pending for Counselor’s, Social Worker’s and Marriage and Family Therapists applied for through the CSWMFT Board of Ohio.  Please inquire with Mary and Jean for more information.

Bookings

Bookings are closed for this event.