Working with Developmental Trauma: Integrating The Body, Identity and Relationships

Date/Time
Date(s) - Saturday, January 24, 2015
10:00 am - 5:30 pm

Location
Sacramento Friends Meeting House

Category(ies)

• Workshop

Working with Developmental Trauma: Integrating the Body, Identity and Relationships

This educational and experiential workshop will present an overview of working with complex trauma, integrating both a somatic (bottom-up) process with clients’ identity and relational dynamics (top-down).  We will explore the 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.  We will focus on how an integrative treatment approach – based on a psychobiological understanding – helps build clients’ capacity for self-regulation and interpersonal connection.

We will discuss and explore:

• A review of identifying developmental trauma and working with the Social Brain
• Working both “top-down” and “bottom-up”: integrating talk therapies with somatic therapies
• The pitfalls of working with trauma without recognizing the complex developmental themes running in the background
• An introduction to the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) of working with Developmental Trauma
• Identifying early developmental themes, how they distort identity, and how they affect adult life
• Reviewing and practicing interpersonal somatic skills in working with complex trauma – particularly focusing on somatic mindfulness, reflective inquiry and dual awareness

FACILITATOR:
Brad Kammer, MFT, LPCC, SEP

COST:

$130

$105 [early registration before January 1]

$90 [For Students and Interns]

15% off for groups of 3 or more

[$20 non-refundable deposit for cancellations]

*CEUs (6 CREDIT HOURS) for MFTs, LPCCs, LCSWs
(CEUs included in cost of workshop)

LOCAL COORDINATOR:
Katie Uemura
(916) 799-0387
kuemura@sbcglobal.net

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