The Body Remembers: Integrating Body and Mind for Trauma Recovery – Babette Rothschild

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Join trauma pioneer, bestselling author and international trainer, Babette Rothschild, for this workshop that will expand on the theory of trauma and tackle critical and key issues in recovering from trauma.

Babette will provide answers to these key questions in trauma therapy:

• Why is it that some clients improve from trauma therapy and some do not?
• In which combinations is success or failure inherent in the treatment modality, the therapeutic relationship, and the client’s resources?
• What is it that is going wrong when clients decompensate or drop out of treatment?

This workshop will provide you with an expanded mind and body based toolbox for increasing and maintaining stability and determining when or when not to proceed to memory processing. You will learn how to:

• Interpret and modulate the body’s nervous system (sensory and autonomic) to better regulate arousal levels in your clients and yourself.
• Adapt mindfulness, yoga, and physical exercise for easier access to clients with PTSD, anxiety, and panic.
• Strategies to help your clients reduce and stop flashbacks and constructively manage waking from nightmares.
• Utilize tools to protect yourself from vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue.

The theory, tools and techniques presented in this seminar are easily integrated across the widest range of treatment modalities including CBT, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing and more.

1. Identify the central goals of trauma therapy
2. Demonstrate how to become skilled in applying and adapting the phase-oriented structure, no matter which method you practice
3. Explain how to prevent decompensation during trauma therapy
4. Distinguish clients who will benefit from processing trauma memories from those who will not
5. Maximize skills and options for helping clients who do not want to, or do not benefit from, remembering their past trauma/s
6. Utilize tools to maintain your clients’ (and your!) clear thinking at all times
7. Demonstrate how to teach clients to reduce and stop flashbacks
8. Guide clients to manage nightmares
9. Distinguish triggers from flashbacks
10. Recognize and maximize the importance of attachment, support, and relationship for stabilizing and healing trauma
11. Summarize how to become adept at helping all types of clients to achieve and maintain stability
12. Identify hidden resources in your clients’ lives
13. Recognize culture differences when working with your clients
14. Describe how to improve your ability to identify and regulate hyperarousal in your client and yourself
15. Explain the value of modulating pacing and reducing the size of steps to guarantee and build on success
16. Integrate your tool box with mind and body oriented interventions for increasing stability and integrating traumatic memory

IMPERATIVE GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• Major goals for trauma therapy
• Quality of life
• Professional obsolescence
• Importance of contact and support

IMPROVEMENT VS. DECOMPENSATION

• Why clients get worse
• Identifying what works vs. “the evidence base”
• Client and therapist curiosity

THE TERMINOLOGY OF TRAUMA

• DSM-5 ® update
• Stress, Trauma, Posttraumatic stress,
• Posttraumatic stress disorder

PACING

• Three phases
• Stabilization & safety
• Reviewing trauma memories
• Integration
• Small, successful steps

CONTROL

• Loss of control in trauma
• Loss of control in the wake of trauma
• Regaining control

DIAGNOSIS

• Trauma types
• Role of attachment
• Who does not benefit from memory processing and why
• When story matters

FOCUS HEALING ON THE PRESENT

• Mindfulness
• Body awareness
• Recovery vs. resolution

CULTURAL AWARENESS

• Cultural differences
• Traditions
• Rituals
• Advantages

THE TRAUMA COMPROMISED CORTEX

• Amygdala
• Hippocampus
• Prioritize clear thinking

THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM AND DUAL AWARENESS

• Exteroceptors
• Interoceptors
• Reconciling external and internal cues
• Flashbacks
• Nightmares
• Triggers

SWEET SURVIVAL AND PERSONAL RESOURCES

• Contact and support
• Faith and nature
• Purposeful activity

OBSERVING AND REGULATING HYPERAROUSAL

• Structure of the autonomic nervous system
• From heightened alertness to flight, fight, and freeze
• Applying the brakes
• Relaxed vs. calm

AVOID THE WRONG ROAD

• Medical concerns vs. PTSD
• Current issues vs. past issues
• Importance of the client’s agenda
• Prevent “false memories”

BODY FOCUSED EXERCISES AND PRACTICES

• Body awareness
• Feet and grounding
• Exteroceptive resources
• Proprioception
• Autonomic NS awareness
• Distance and boundary
• Center of gravity and balance
• Balance & strength training

THERAPIST SELF-CARE

• Preventing vicarious trauma & compassion fatigue
• Sit back!
• Empathy and mirror neurons
• Facial feedback
• Respiration synchrony
• Image control

DEMONSTRATIONS
CASE CONSULTATIONS