TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL WOUND AND THE MISSING LINK
WORKSHOP FOR PROFESSIONALS
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Workshop contains three main themes:
* Transforming Relational Wounds
Many people live in or grow up in unsafe relationships which leaves an imprint on their sense of self and their way of being in the world. This impacts their ability to form a secure relationship with others, including their therapists. To this extent, it is helpful to think in terms of relational trauma. In this workshop we will be looking at some of the relational patterns that typically emerge in the therapeutic relationship. These can include some of the most challenging elements of our work as therapists, as well as the most rewarding. Firstly we will make sense of some of the adaptations that reinforce relational difficulties into adulthood, and this thinking will be grounded in interpersonal neurobiology. Secondly we will examine the push and pull of clients’ relational needs as they present in the therapeutic relationship. Finally, we will consider effective interventions to help clients transform their relational wounds.
* The Well-Resourced Therapist
There is considerable interest in the subject of trauma, and increasing attention is being paid to the impact this work has on therapists. This workshop looks at trauma from a relational field perspective, with a view to understanding and preventing vicarious trauma. We can apply some basic principles of neuroscience not only to trauma clients but also to the therapist and the therapeutic relationship. The first principle of trauma work is the necessity for therapist self-care – it is not a luxury but an integral part of the work - and the ethics involved in that. Focusing on the resources available to the therapist we will consider how we can increase our resilience so that we can more comfortably bear witness without either dissociating or being pulled into trauma contagion. Effective trauma work involves paying close attention to the therapist’s own history of trauma and caretaking, both of which can emerge in the therapeutic relational dance. Because trauma is fundamentally experienced in the body, it is necessary for both therapist and client to develop body-based resources related to safety, grounding and resilience. Reflective practice includes a wide focus on different aspects of trauma and the therapeutic relationship, including the gains of the work which might include mutual healing.
* The Missing Link
Because trauma is fundamentally and implicitly stored in the body, major contemporary therapeutic approaches advocate somatic interventions. It is often the case that the body tells the story for which words cannot be found, and we need to find ways to listen to the story behind the symptoms. For many therapists trained to work verbally or from the ‘top-down’, working with the body is unfamiliar and this workshop aims to encourage therapists to work from the ‘bottom-up’ as well. This workshop will introduce some of the ideas and techniques which can lead to understanding and resolving some of the somatic markers of trauma.
At this practical and clinically oriented workshop which would be relevant for all practitioners working with Trauma (including PTSD, Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders), Miriam Taylor highlights the case for therapists to adopt a body-sensitive approach to trauma. Starting from a theoretical base developed both from neuroscience and existential phenomenology, the body will be considered as the primary organiser and integrator of traumatic experience. A particular focus will be on experiential aspects of working with arousal, sensation and movement, and consideration will be given to trauma-based fears associated with connecting with the bodily self.
LEADER
Miriam Taylor is a British Gestalt psychotherapist (UKCP registered), supervisor and trainer who has been in private practice since 1995. Her background was in adult education before training as a counsellor and psychotherapist. She was clinical lead of a young peoples’ service and for several years worked in a specialist trauma service. Miriam’s particular interest is in the integration of trauma and the role of the body from a wide relational field perspective. She supports her work in part through her deep connection to the natural world, and has undertaken a Wilderness Experience in the USA. She teaches in the UK and internationally, has been a trainer, Academic Consultant and examiner for Metanoia Institute, London, and is on the Leadership Team of Relational Change. Publications include ‘Trauma Therapy and Clinical Practice: Neuroscience, Gestalt and the Body’ 2014, and several peer reviewed and invited articles. Her second book ‘Deepening Trauma Practice’ is due out in mid-2021.
FORMAL INFORMATION
MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 25.
VENUE: Krakow, Poland
TRANSLATION: The workshop will be held in English with translation into Polish
DATES:
9th-11th April 2021
HOURS:
Friday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m and
Sunday: 10 p.m.- 5 p.m.
COSTS : 375 EUR (1500 PLN). First installment (175 EUR) needs to be paid within 7 days from the moment of receiving confirmed registration email. Second installment (200 EUR) needs to be paid till 20th of March 2021.
Additionally one has to fill in the registration form (link below).
Please pay above amount to the account:
Szkolenia Gestalt sp. z o.o.
Bank: Pekao S.A.
Address: 82/21 Wielicka Street,
30-552 Krakow, Poland
Kod SWIFT/BIC Bank Pekao: PKOPPLPW
PL69 1240 4432 1978 0011 0328 6180
INFORMATION: kontakt@szkoleniagestalt.pl or +48 798447118.
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