About this event:

Counselling Tutorial Academy have been running training and workshops to counsellors and health practitioners and members of the public for the last 20 years. If you are interested in receiving CPD certificate for your participation in this workshop, please be sure to add this option to your registration. This workshop will be on Zoom and the link will be sent on registration.

Learning Objectives:

This workshop will provide you with tools, knowledge, and some expertise on how to assist clients with trauma and understand how trauma impacts the brain, emotions and the body. The Level 1 training includes how embodied emotion and trauma memory is stored in the body and ways it can be released. The workshop provides both didactic and experiential exercises to facilitate deeper integration of knowledge.

It will cover 5 sections:

Section1 : 10-11: 00 am

Understanding Trauma: The effect of trauma on the body & the brain &the nervous system and on our gene expression.

Tools: Brain integration after trauma: Vertical Integration: working with the thoughts, emotions and the body. Left brain & Right brain integration: Work with the unconscious.

Section 2 : 11:30-12:30

Understanding Attachment: How a child brain is affected by attachment. Attachment styles and relationships: How Dysfunctional Interactions Are the Key to Healing.

Tools Using the therapeutic relationship to rewire the brain. How secure attachment Is the basis for emotion regulation .How to build secure attachment with a client. How to empower clients & draw out their innate intelligence. How to work with the body to heal trauma.

12:30-1:00 : Break

Section 3: 1:00-2:00

Memories &Trauma: How to Work with Traumatic Memory. How to Help the Nervous System unlearn it response to trauma. Why client get stuck in trauma time.

Tools: Working with procedural Memory. How to Work with memory at a preverbal age. How to integrate traumatic memory.

2:00-2:30 group work

4. Section4: 2:30-3:30

How to Help Clients Tolerate Dysregulation. Childhood Trauma and Self-Regulation. Attachment & Self-Regulation. Window of Tolerance & Trauma. What Happens in the Body During Hypoarousal and how to work with it. How to Help Clients Shift Back Into Their Window of Tolerance.

Tools: Window of tolerance. Three Strategies That Can Improve the Traumatized Brain’s Capacity to Focus and Engage. How to Help Clients Tolerate Distress After Trauma Brain-Based Approaches & Self-Regulation. How to Help Traumatized Clients Reengage the Thinking Brain3:30-:00 group work

Section 5: 4:00-5:00

The Body During Trauma One Common Coping Mechanism for Childhood Trauma. How to Help Traumatized Clients Become More Comfortable with Focusing Inward Working with the Body (Somatic Narrative).The Client’s Trauma Story. When Somatic Narrative and Verbal Narrative Don’t Match Up. Read a Client’s Trauma Story Through Their body. How to Use the “Autonomic Window” to Get a Reading on a Client’s Nervous System.

Tools: Body-Oriented Approaches. Working with a Client’s Movement Vocabulary Working with the limbic system. Brain integration: Reconnect the upper and lower parts of the brain.

Intended Audience:

This training will give you a complete picture of understanding the inside out of trauma and practical tools to help your clients move and heal traumatic experiences.

Anyone with an interest in Trauma Informed Practice, both professionally and personally, is invited to attend the training. This program is designed to assist individuals with no, little, or substantive expertise in the content area, as well as graduate students in relevant disciplines.

Workshop Schedule:

• 10:00 AM: Workshop Starts

• 12:30-1:00 PM: Break

• 5:00 PM: Workshop Ends