Rita Schulte – Post-Traumatic Growth for Loss, Grief and Related Trauma: Guide Your Clients through the Losses in Life and Help Them Reinvest Themselves in a Life Worth Living

Outline

• Face Loss, Grief and Trauma with a Strengths-Based Approach
  • Crisis of belief and existential shattering
  • Meaning making and the importance of “why”
  • Grief vs. complicated grief
  • Abstract losses and the Ball of Grief
  • Tapping into resiliency
    • Core competencies and key principles
    • Identify your clients’ strengths
  • Current evidence on strengths-based approaches
• Calm the Overactive Brain of Your Client
  • The neurobiology of the traumatized brain
  • Mindfulness and the art of noticing
  • Containment skills
  • Grounding exercises
  • Affect regulation
  • Breathing and soothing techniques
• Tools for Managing Anger, Guilt, Shame and Traumatic Memories
  • Dealing with anger
    • The REACH model of forgiveness
    • Certificates of debt
    • The power of surrender
  • Address guilt and shame
    • How shame relates to trauma and loss
    • Faulty beliefs and getting stuck
    • Cognitive restructuring
  • Manage traumatic memories with CBT coping skills
    • Distraction techniques
    • Positive self-talk
• Move Clients Toward Post-Traumatic Growth With Interventions Informed by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Shattered Vase Exercise – plant the seeds of possibility
  • Creating narratives
  • Letter writing
  • Positive remembering and repositioning
  • Reframe the meaning
• Expressive and Somatic Therapeutic Interventions To Cultivate Post-Traumatic Growth
  • Integrate left and right hemispheres
    • Art therapy
    • Writing to heal
  • Access and reclaim compassion
    • Somatic resourcing
    • Remembered resources
    • Assess clients self-talk
• Reinvest in a Life Worth Living: Rekindle the Desires of the Heart
  • The PIE of life – brainstorm possibilities of growth
  • Cultivate social connection and re-engagement
    • Support and grief groups
    • Toxic people
    • Working with families impacted by loss
  • Choice and perspective
  • Foster gratitude and a spirit of contentment after loss
  • Measurements of Post-Traumatic Growth