2-Day Trauma & Memory Workshop: Clinical Strategies to Resolve Traumatic Memories and Help Clients Reclaim Their Lives By Peter Levine - PESI  For Immediate Digital Download!

Speaker: Peter Levine, PhD
Format: Audio and Video
Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description
Addressing traumatic memories directly is critical to successful therapy.

But there’s tremendous misunderstanding in how to work with traumatic memories in treatment. It can leave you confused, insecure, and seeking a deeper understanding of memory systems to help guide your important work.

Peter Levine, PhD is a master therapist, pioneer in the field of trauma and memory, and author of several seminal books on trauma. His body-oriented techniques for healing traumatic memories are built upon 50 years of research and clinical work and have influenced generations of therapists.

This 2-day recording is your chance to learn from Dr. Levine himself!

Watch Dr. Levine as he explains the significance of memory systems in the resolution of trauma, and shares the therapeutic approaches that he’s found most effective during his decades of groundbreaking clinical work. His proven strategies will help you to quickly reduce symptomology in your clients and the traumatic memories that haunt them.

Under Dr. Levine’s expert guidance, you’ll discover how you can take your treatment of complex, deeply entrenched trauma to the next level and overcome the painful roadblocks that can frustrate you and your clients.

You don’t want to miss this rare opportunity to study directly under Dr. Levine and learn from a legend in our field!

Speaker
Dr. Peter Levine holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE), a naturalistic body-awareness approach to healing trauma, which he teaches all over the globe. Dr. Levine is also the founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment and was a stress consultant for NASA during the development of the space shuttle.

An accomplished author, Dr. Levine penned Healing Trauma, Sexual Healing and the bestselling book, Waking the Tiger. He also co-authored with Maggie Kline Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His latest book, In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, is a testament to his lifelong investigation into the connection between evolutionary biology, neuroscience, animal behavior, and more than 40 years of clinical experience in the healing of trauma.

Dr. Levine was honored in 2010 with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) and is a Senior Fellow at Meadows Behavioral Healthcare.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Peter Levine is the founder and president of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education, the president and editorial director of Ergos Institute Press, and receives a consulting fee from the Meadows Addiction Center. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Levine receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Peter Levine is a senior clinical fellow and advisor to the Meadows Addiction Treatment Center. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Humanistic Psychological Association, and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Objectives

1. Articulate the four major developmental stages that increase vulnerability to trauma and how to recognize them in your clients.
2. Determine the naturalistic mechanics of trauma and survival responses of flight, fight, freeze and collapse as it relates to clinical treatment.
3. Differentiate the different types of memory systems and comprehend the connection to the mind and body’s way of processing the types of memories.
4. Analyze the various forms of memory and their impact on working with clients in therapy.
5. Differentiate ways to identify which memory systems are operative and how to access these (memory) components in a systematic fashion to promote self-regulation, integration and empowerment with clients.
6. Appraise the evolutionary underpinnings of trauma and the Polyvagal theory and their clinical implications.
7. Demonstrate the importance of “Bottom-Up” processing versus “Top-Down” processing to improve treatment outcomes.
8. Analyze the effects of stress on somatic and emotional syndromes in clients.
9. Incorporate Dr. Levine’s simple containment tools to more effectively engage your client in trauma therapy.
10. Implement Somatic Experiencing© techniques to help clients heal traumatic memories.
11. Demonstrate practical tools for therapeutic work with emotional and procedural (“body”) memories.
12. Manage avoiding pitfalls of generating spurious (“false”) memories and help clients come to peace with their troubling memories and haunting emotions.

Outline

Trauma and the Body

• Developmental trauma
  Pre-natal through age 5
• Evolution and Polyvagal foundation
• How the body stores trauma
• Clinical research

Deeper Understanding of Memory and Clinical Implications

• Explicit – More Conscious Memory
  Declarative
  Episodic
• Implicit – Less Conscious Memory
  Emotional
  Procedural/Body Memory
• Clinical application for memory systems

Traumatic Memories

• Long-term memory vs short-term memory
• How the brain and body store memory
• Memory engrams with somatic markers
• Fight, flight, freeze response

How Clients Get “Stuck”

• Tonic immobility – The fallback to freeze
• Freeze couples with Fear
• Dissociation
• Bracing and terror
• Euphoric dissociation
• Collapse

Somatic and Emotional Reactions to Trauma

• Symptoms and complexities of each in therapy
• Emotional – anxiety, depression
• Somatic – chronic pain, fibromyalgia
• Autonomic – migraines, irritable bowel
• Resolving Traumatic Reactions

The Basic Stages of Trauma Treatment

• Containment of strong sensation and emotion
• Pendulation – The dual opposites of sensation
• Titration – going gradually
• Completion
• Renegotiation of active for passive responses
• Allow things to settle: Self-Paced termination

Therapeutic Approaches to Treat Traumatic Memories

• The importance of “Bottom-Up” processing
  The Paul MacLean’s Triune Brain
  In an Unspoken Voice
• Somatic Experiencing©
  Renegotiation vs. Reliving
  Restoration of self-regulation
  Somatic experience of trauma
  Developing internal awareness
• The mind-body connection in trauma work
• Help reinforce trust and acceptance in clients
• Incorporating client’s spirituality in trauma work

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Occupational Therapists
• Case Managers
• Nurses
• Other Helping Professionals

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