Trauma Center Workshops
The Trauma Center at JRI offers a variety of workshops and clinical consultation groups designed to provide professional support and advanced, hands-on learning opportunities for clinicians and other providers working with children and adults who have experienced trauma. Workshops provide state-of-the-art information about key topics in the field of traumatic stress, integrating innovative and well-established practices and areas of exploration. Consultation groups are organized around key thematic areas, and are space-limited to maximize participants experience.
Fostering Resilience in Trauma-Impacted Youth and Families: The Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) Treatment Framework
Presenter: Margaret Blaustein, Ph.D.
Dates: Thursday-Friday, October 28-29, 2010
Times: 9:30 A.M.-4:30 P.M.
Location: 1019 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Cost: $370.00 Full, $350.00 Early Bird, $333.00 Group/Student, $315.00 Group/Student Early Bird
As many as one in four youth will experience a potentially traumatic exposure, and many of these will be multiple or prolonged. The impact of these stressors is far-reaching, and often repeats across generations as yesterday’s impacted children become tomorrow’s parents and caregivers. Establishing effective practice for this population is a priority, but is challenging, given their diverse histories, their varied presentations, the multifaceted contextual, cultural, and developmental influences which shape them, and the wide range of systems within which they seek care.
In this workshop, we will examine the theoretical foundations underpinning this framework; build skills and knowledge in each identified treatment domain; and discuss case applications and considerations across contexts.
Trauma- Sensitive Yoga Teaching Certificate Program at Kripalu
*For Yoga Instructors*
Presenters: Dave Emerson, E-RYT, Jenn Turner, RYT, Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Dates: October 31- November 5, 2010
Location: Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
The Training Institute of JRI is pleased to announce a special presentation of the Trauma- Sensitive Yoga Teaching Certificate Program, sponsored by the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, on October 31- November 5, 2010. This program will take place on the peaceful grounds of the Kripalu retreat center in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.
Yoga and the Traumatized Body
*For Mental Health Clinicians*
Presenters: Dave Emerson, E-RYT, Elizabeth Hopper, Ph.D.
Dates: November 11- 12, 2010
Location: 1019 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Cost: $370.00 Full, $350.00 Early Bird, $333.00 Group/Student, $315.00 Group/Student Early Bird
Yoga is an ancient practice that combines physical movement and posture with special attention to breath. For the past 4 years, the Trauma Center JRI has conducted some first of its kind research looking at how Hatha Yoga affects some common symptomatology of PTSD. Along with some very compelling subjective feedback from trauma survivors such as, "I feel like I can use my body again," we have shown for the first time that yoga effects core physiology, namely Heart Rate Variability (HRV), which is associated with PTSD.
Yoga and Body-Oriented Treatment Strategies with Children and Adolescents
Presenter: Dave Emerson, E-RYT, Ilya Yacevich, LAMFT
Dates: Spring, 2011 (Date to be determined)
Times: To be determined
Location: 1019 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Cost: $185.00 Full, $166.50 Group/Student
Children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic stress often struggle to connect to, organize, tolerate, and modulate somatic and physiological experiences. Recognition of the impact of complex trauma on a physiological level has led clinicians to explore alternative methods of working with children to explore and regulate experience in their bodies.
The TC-JRI Yoga Program is pleased to build upon previous training offerings on the clinical applications of yoga with this new one-day workshop on the application of yoga and other body-oriented strategies with children and adolescents. This workshop will focus on the application of yoga-based skills with individual children and adolescents who have experienced significant trauma. Techniques discussed in this workshop can also be applied to small groups. We will discuss and practice how to modify yoga exercises including some breath work in order to meet the needs of children and teens effectively.
From MindFlight to MindSight: Overcoming the Phobia of Inner Experience
Presenter: Kathy Steele, MN, CS
Dates: April 14 - 15, 2011
Times: 9:30 A.M.-4:30 P.M.
Location: Boston, MA
Cost: $370.00 Full, $350.00 Early Bird, $333.00 Group/Student, $315.00 Group/Student Early Bird
The essential capacity to empathically reflect on one’s own experience and that of others is called MindSight (Siegel, 1999, 2010). However, many clients, particularly those who have been traumatized in childhood and have complex developmental trauma disorders, are terrified, ashamed, disgusted, or baffled about many of their inner experiences (emotions, needs, thoughts, fantasies, desires, bodily feelings, etc.). They develop MindFlight (Steele, 2009), a phobia of inner experience. Too often, therapists fail to recognize this central phobia of inner experience in survivors and are at a loss when standard therapeutic interventions fail time after time. This entrenched phobia of both mental actions and physical behaviors is maintained by chronic avoidance and escape strategies, such as dissociation, denial, projection, busyness, substance abuse, workaholism, and results in a diminished capacity for reflective functioning. Paced acceptance, understanding, and integration of inner experiences are thus primary interventions. Elements of mindflight, and the maladaptive mental and physical actions that maintain it will be discussed. Paced therapeutic approaches, including somatic interventions, will be described to cultivate the capacity for reflective functioning, perspective, pacing, and integration.
Trauma Sensitive Yoga Teaching Certificate Program
*For Yoga Instructors*
Presenters: Dave Emerson, E-RYT, Jenn Turner, M.A., RYT
Dates: June 2011 (Dates to be determined)
Times: To be determined
Location: 1019 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Cost: $680.00 Full, $612.00 Group/Student
At the Trauma Center at JRI, we have begun to establish empirically that yoga may be helpful for people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (van der Kolk, 2006). Along with feedback such as, “I feel like I can use my body again,” the groundbreaking study that the Trauma Center conducted in 2004 showed that yoga changes core physiology related to PTSD. Since that time, the Trauma Center Yoga Program team has taught hundreds of classes to thousands of students from survivors of rape and childhood incest to Iraq war veterans. We are now offering a 40-hour certificate to certified yoga teachers who would like to teach trauma-sensitive classes in their communities.
In addition, participants may have the opportunity to apply skills by practice teaching a yoga class under the guidance of members of the TC Yoga Program. Participants in past programs who have had the opportunity to apply these skills in their own work will be invited to share with current participants their experience of the use of yoga as a part of healing the wounds of PTSD. Participants will hear from a panel of yoga teachers who have been teaching a variety of trauma-sensitive yoga classes, from Veterans to children and adolescents to women at a domestic violence shelter and more.
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