Training Program in Affect Regulation, Attachment, and Trauma Level I: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory

STARTING 17 APRIL 2013 UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS

Traditional psychotherapy addresses the cognitive and emotional elements of trauma but lacks techniques that work directly with the physiological elements, despite the fact that trauma profoundly affects the body and that so many symptoms of traumatized individuals are somatically driven, including affect intolerance, autonomic reactivity, vegetative depressive symptoms, impulsivity, and anxiety. All of these clinical issues are inaccessible or difficult to treat in a talking therapy context without a way to include the bodily symptoms in treatment. The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level I Training presents simple, body-oriented interventions for tracking, naming, and safely exploring trauma-related, somatic activation, creating new competencies and restoring a somatic sense of self. Students will learn effective, accessible interventions for identifying and working with disruptive somatic patterns, disturbed cognitive and emotional processing, and the fragmented sense of self experienced by so many traumatized individuals. Techniques are taught within a phaseoriented treatment approach, focusing first on stabilization and symptom reduction. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can be easily and effectively integrated into psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and EMDR-focused treatments.

Lana Epstein, M.A., LICSW, is an EMDRIAapproved consultant in EMDR, anASCH-approved consultant in Hypnosis, a Consultant and past supervisor at the Trauma Center and was a Member of the NESTTD board for 6 years. Integrating a number of therapeutic models, Lana presents internationally and maintains a private practice in Lexington, MA, focusing on adult survivors of childhood trauma.

Tony Buckley, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in Counseling and is a certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist and Trainer, an experienced teacher and supervisor. Tony has also earned a Certificate of Education, Diploma in Gestalt Therapy and a Certificate in Advanced Studies Supervision. He is the manager of the Counseling and Trauma Service for Transport for London and is the chair of the UK Association of Sensorimotor Psychotherapists.

DATES 1.) 17-20 April 2013 (Wed.-Sat.) 2.) 19-22 June 2013 (Wed.-Sat.) 3.) 4-7 September 2013 (Wed.-Sat.) (12 days spread over 3 modules)

TIMES 9:00am-5:00pm, all days (80 contact hours)

LOCATION Vergadercentrum Vredenburg Vredenburg 19 Utrecht, Netherlands

Tuition: 2450,00 (inclusion of lunch, coffee and tea). Accreditation: FGzP, NVvP, NIP/NVO, NIP Lichaamsgericht. Local Contact: To register or all questions relating to the training including payment plans, accommodations and l

local information, please contact: Dr. Anniek Thoomes, anniekthoomes@planet.nl

www.sensorimotor.org

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute | 805 Burbank St., Broomfield, CO 80020 P: 303.447.3290, 1.800.860.9258 | F: 303.402.0862 | trainings@sensorimotor.org

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

Founded by Pat Ogden, Ph.D.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute is an educational organization dedicated to the study and teaching of a somatic approach to clinical psychotherapy practice. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-oriented talking therapy that integrates verbal techniques with body-centered interventions in the treatment of trauma, attachment, and developmental issues. SPI offers trainings and workshops for psychotherapists and allied professionals in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and courses for body therapists on somatic resources. The courses taught by SPI are based on principles of mindfulness and mind/body/ spirit holism and informed by contemporary research in neuroscience, attachment theory, trauma, and related fields.
Pat Ogden, Ph.D., is a pioneer in somatic psychology having trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches. She has 34 years experience working with individuals and groups in diverse populations. She is first author of the groundbreaking book, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and is both founder and director of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She is a clinician, consultant, international lecturer and trainer, co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, and on faculty at Naropa University. Currently she is working on her second book, The Body as Resource: Sensorimotor

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a conceptually elegant, powerfully effective body therapy that involves a broad repertoire of somatic interventions specifically designed to help clients tap into the wisdom of their bodies. The SPI Training Program offers ingeniously taught intensive courses for clinicians seeking to deepen their understanding of the body.
Martha Stark, MD, author of

Working with Resistance and Modes of Therapeutic Action

Interventions for the Treatment of Trauma.

Level I: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory

Curriculum | 80 contact hours

Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy The foundational theoretical principles of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, the importance of the body in trauma treatment, and beginning skills of tracking the body, describing, and naming sensorimotor experience in the form of a contact statement Core Sensorimotor Skills Accessing questions and interventions to analyze building blocks of each present moment, mindful questions and directives, and the guidelines of phaseoriented treatment.

Orienting and Defensive Responses Interventions to reinstate effective orienting and defensive responses truncated in the wake of trauma, methods for helping clients develop healthy boundaries that are capable of assuring their safety, the potentially therapeutic use of touch and its pitfalls Memory Processing: Sensorimotor Sequencing Somatic approaches to work with dysregulated arousal and overcome the fear of traumatic memory and interventions to process and integrate memories.

Integration and Resolution Working with primary and secondary emotion, the Somatic Resources for Stabilization The role of the body in meeting the Phase One goals of cognitive effects of trauma, working at the edges of the stabilization and symptom reduction, and analysis of Window of Tolerance, themes of self-development, survival and creative resources to identify missing adaption to normal life, and relationships in Phase Three somatic resources and employ interventions to help work clients develop new resources

For more information or to register for a Training or Workshop, please visit our website:

www.sensorimotor.org

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute | 805 Burbank St., Broomfield, CO 80020 P: 303.447.3290, 1.800.860.9258 | F: 303.402.0862 | trainings@sensorimotor.org