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For Babette's new 12-day course (a series of three 4-day workshops), please contact:
Kathrin Stauffer on 01223 240815
kathrin@stauffer.co.uk
Workshop Description
PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) is an indicator that the body and mind have not, yet, recognised that a traumatic incident is over. As a result, the bodys nervous system responds by continuously mobilising the muscles and other body systems for defense (fight/flight) and/or numbing (freeze). Those with PTSD become overly attentive to interoceptive reminders of the past danger, while losing their connection to extroceptive cues (the five senses) that appraise the present environment. Known risks with traumatised clients - dissociation, flashbacks, abreaction and retraumatization - are, in part, the result of hyper-arousal in the autonomic nervous system (ANS). This course will equip participants with psychophysical theory, principles and tools for reducing, containing and halting traumatic hyper-arousal. It is consistent with and a useful adjunct to all methods of psychotherapy and specialised trauma therapies (e.g. analytical, dynamic and somatic approaches, cognitive-behaviourial and EMDR).
1) Comprehension of the functioning of ANS and hyper-arousal, stress, trauma, and post-traumatic stress disorder
2) Ability to observe and gauge the state of the ANS
3) Acquisition of tools for stopping, containing and reducing hyper-arousal
psychotherapists
counsellors
psychiatrists
social workers
alternative & complementary practioners
students of counselling and psychotherapy
and those working in caring professions
Participants will learn through lecture, written materials, experiential exercises and video tapes of actual clinical sessions.
DAY ONE
9.00 - 11.00 Introduction Introductory video Glossary of terms: stress, trauma, PTSD11.00 - 11.15 Morning coffee/tea
11.15 - 1.00 Risks of trauma therapy Putting on the Brakes Body awareness: a tool in trauma therapy
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 - 3.45 Video: Neurobiology of emotion & PTSD Psychophysiology of stress & trauma
3.45 - 4.00 Afternoon Coffee/Tea
4.00 - 5.30 Video: application of techniques Role-play practice of techniques End of day discussion
DAY TWO
9.00 -11.00 Questions and review from the first day; Hyperarousal ; Regulating the autonomic nervous system
11.00 -11.15 Morning Coffee/Tea
11.15 - 1.00 Dual awareness: perceived versus actual danger; Body integrity & boundaries - reclaiming the skin
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 - 3.45 Video: application of techniques
3.45 - 4.00 Afternoon Coffee/Tea
4.00 - 5.30 Role-play practice of techniques; End of course discussion, evaluation
| BABETTE ROTHSCHILD, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. is the author of the best-selling book "The Body Remembers: the Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment" (W.W. Norton, October 2000), |
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| and "The Body Remembers Casebook: Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD" (W.W. Norton, March 2003). |
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| She also has written the chapter Body Psychotherapy without touch: applications for trauma therapy in "Body Psychotherapy" (Brunner-Routledge 2002, edited by Tree Staunton). |
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A psychotherapist since 1976, Babette has authored several articles on trauma and PTSD and is a member of the Association for Traumatic Stress Specialists, the International and European Societies for Traumatic Stress Studies, and the US Association of Body Psychotherapy. After living in Denmark for 9 years, she returned to her home town Los Angeles, California, where she maintains a private practice while continuing to offer professional training, consultation and supervision throughout the world.