Full Course Description
Intergenerational Resonance
Learn how to channel the intergenerational resonance of embodied memories of vulnerability and resilience in your clinical and community work with those who have endured individual and collective trauma.
Program Information
Objectives
- Demonstrate knowledge of examples of resonance
- Develop treatment planning strategies to use with survivors of trauma
- Inspect visual art representation of trauma
Outline
Resonance
- Passed from generation
- Cultural approaches to trauma
Holocaust trauma survivors
- Identify adaptive mechanisms
- Continuity of self identity
- Place of marriage and family
Developing community
- Speaking about speaking
- Types of protectiveness / coping
Art as visual expression of trauma
Target Audience
- Psychotherapists
- Counsellors
- IAPT practitioners
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Nurses
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/07/2021
Making the Invisible, Visible: From Hauntings to Wholeness
Hear directly from world-renowned therapist and innovator Dr Peter Levine on how to heal transgenerational trauma with a demonstration of his Somatic Experiencing method.
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply the concept of energy fields.
- Distinguish the difference in tools used for healing transgenerational trauma.
- Supports clients with results of thwarted orders of love.
Outline
- Transgenerational Trauma
- Discovering the connection
- What it looks like in therapy
- How it effects clients
- Session
- Talking through feelings
- Drawing exercise
- Voo exercise
- Working with the ancestors
- Questions
Target Audience
- Psychotherapists
- Counsellors
- IAPT practitioners
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Nurses
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/07/2021
Curses and Collective Wounds: The Healing of Transgenerational Trauma
Learn how to use the Generative Psychotherapy approach to connect with and heal your clients collective wounds stemming from multi-generational trauma using somatic and field-based methods.
Program Information
Objectives
- Integrate getting therapeutic feedback in individual therapy treatment into practice with clients.
- Determine ways to identify transgenerational patterns when conducting therapy with clients.
- Apply the general sequence for welcoming ancestors into the healing journey to increase the client’s capacity to understand transgenerational presence.
Outline
- How reality is created and change occurs
- Successful therapeutic components of change
- Getting therapeutic feedback
- Transgenerational presence and trauma considerations
- Ways to identify transgenerational patterns
- General sequence for welcoming ancestors into healing journey
Target Audience
- Psychotherapists
- Counsellors
- IAPT practitioners
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Nurses
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/07/2021
The effects of trauma on the next generation
World renowned researcher Dr Rachel Yehuda takes you through her presentation, bringing molecule and mind together and enabling you to understand how trauma and resilience spread across generations.
Program Information
Objectives
- Investigate how trauma and resilience biologically cross the generations and can have a transformative effect of subsequent generations.
- Evaluate how epigenetics and experience leads to alterations that change the way people and organisms respond to their environment.
- Demonstrate that differentially expressed genes related to parental exposure, offspring childhood trauma, parental PTSD, and parental age of exposure has an effect on the second generation’s experience of PTSD, anxiety, and depression.
Outline
- Introduction to Content & Questions to Explore
- PTSD & the Long Lasting Effects of Extreme Stress
- PTSD vs. Fight or Flight
- Biological Findings: Low Cortisol Levels in PTSD Trauma Survivors
- Treatment Program for Holocaust Survivors
- Offspring of Holocaust Survivors
- Academic Literature Regarding PTSD & the Second Generation
- Research Program for Holocaust Offspring
- Low Cortisol Levels Due to Epigenetic Changes
- Epigenetics in Intergenerational Trauma
- Genetics vs. Epigenetics
- Parental PTSD as Contributor to Intergenerational Effects
- Origins of Epigenetic Effects
- Maternal vs. Paternal PTSD
- Interpreting Intergenerational Effects
Target Audience
- Psychotherapists
- Counsellors
- IAPT practitioners
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Nurses
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/07/2021
Transgenerational Trauma and People of Color: Essential Information
Dr Dwight Turner explores transgenerational trauma specifically for persons of color, and shares how common transpersonal creative techniques can be applied to working with transgenerational trauma.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the use of dreams as an intervention to explore intergenerational trauma
- Catalogue symptoms of racial trauma and Post-traumatic Slave Syndrome
- Analyze adaptations that people of color have used to conform in order to be accepted
Outline
Transgenerational trauma and people of color: essential information:
- The impact of racism and colonialism on people of color
- Symptoms of intergenerational trauma
- Race as a social and cultural construct
- Post-traumatic Slave Syndrome
- Racial trauma
- The power of dreams
- Code-switching and other adaptive behaviors
Target Audience
- Psychotherapists
- Counsellors
- IAPT practitioners
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Nurses
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/07/2021
Healing transgenerational trauma with Internal Family Systems - Legacy and Cultural Burdens
View transgenerational trauma from an IFS perspective and discover how Legacy and Cultural burdens can keep people stuck in old, unproductive patterns and how you can heal them using an energetic process.
Program Information
Objectives
- Build an understanding of IFS (Internal Family Systems) and each part of IFS (self, exile, managers, and firefighters).
- Build an understanding of how legacy and cultural burdens develop across generations.
- Differentiate and build an understanding of the role oneself and ancestors play in legacy and cultural burdens.
Outline
- IFS (Internal Family Systems
- Self
- Exiles
- Managers
- Firefighters
- Legacy and Cultural Burdens
- How these burdens develop
- Examples of burdens
- Role ancestors play
- Releasing the burden exercise
- Q&A
Target Audience
- Psychotherapists
- Counsellors
- IAPT practitioners
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Nurses
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/08/2021
Intergenerational trauma through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory
Use Polyvagal Theory to learn how our nervous systems detect risk and embrace safety, and then how Polyvagal Theory be used to heal intergenerational trauma by promoting states of social engagement and trust in your clients.
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply polyvagal concepts to transgenerational trauma.
- Develop plan to implement two phases of co-regulation.
- Evaluate pros/ cons of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
Outline
- Transgenerational trauma defined
- Polyvagal theory related to transgenerational trauma
- Need for connectedness
- Two phases of co-regulation
- What trauma disrupts
- Three neural circuits and three phylogenetic stages
- Evolution through polyvagal lens
- Social engagement system
- Neuroception
- Trauma impacts
Target Audience
- Psychotherapists
- Counsellors
- IAPT practitioners
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Nurses
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/08/2021
Transforming the Impacts of Intergenerational Trauma with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy, although most widely used for couple intervention, has wide ranging effects and applications to understand and treat intergenerational trauma. Learn how to make use of its techniques.
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply the EFIT tango to current practice
- Utilize the C.A.R.E model
- Develop strategies to implement the key elements of EFIT
Outline
- Overview
- Understanding the impacts of trauma through the lens of attachment
- 3 Stage Process
- Tuning-in and finding focus
- EFIT Tango
- Questions
Target Audience
- Psychotherapists
- Counsellors
- IAPT practitioners
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Nurses
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/08/2021
The Essential Role of the Body in Healing Transgenerational Trauma
Transgenerational trauma impacts people of all levels of privilege. Dr Pat Ogden takes us through a presentation on the importance of contextualising treatment taking into account the clients historical and political contexts and any ongoing systemic trauma, and how the effects of these can be seen in the body and behaviourally.
Program Information
Objectives
- Modify aspects of current practice to ensure appropriate body language that does not perpetuate past trauma.
- Apply the practice of mirroring clients posture and stance to create equality within relationship.
- Determine your own bias and prejudice towards issues you may face when working with clients.
Outline
- Transgenerational Trauma
- Healing transgenerational trauma required facing the truth of history
- Transgenerational trauma and western psychology models
- Transgenerational Trauma is Reenacted through Somatic Narratives and Body-Body Interactions
- Somatic Narrative from personal, sociocultural and transgenerational lenses
- Behaviors passed down that perpetuate transgenerational trauma
- Dominant Actions
- Subordinate Actions
- Transgenerational Trauma of perpetrator and victim can be transmitted via imitation
- Breaking the Cycle
- Transgenerational Trauma impacts perpetrators or oppressors and oppressed or victimized
- A shift is required to challenge the cycle of transgenerational trauma
- Cultural Memory
- Challenging the Ahistorical Approach
- Contextualize
- Linking actions
- Transgenerational Resilience
Target Audience
- Psychotherapists
- Counsellors
- IAPT practitioners
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Nurses
- Psychiatrists
- GPs
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/08/2021
Q&A with Dr Dwight Turner
Copyright :
05/10/2022
Q&A with Dr Stephen Gilligan
Copyright :
06/21/2022
Q&A - Breaking Inherited Trauma of Adult Children Refugees with Linda Thai
Copyright :
06/09/2022
Making the Invisible, Visible: Healing Transgenerational Trauma with Dr Peter Levine
What if your client’s current suffering is rooted in trauma their ancestors experienced decades, or even centuries, in the past?
Recent trauma studies reveal that suffering and unhappiness are often passed on to future generations…
…and can hold a powerful influence over our emotions and behaviours today – usually without us ever knowing why.
Fortunately, internationally renowned trauma expert Dr Peter Levine, developer of the widely popular Somatic Experiencing approach, has uncovered effective methods to help separate clients from the transgenerational pain that’s inhibiting their future growth.
Join Dr Levine in this transformative CPD recording and discover how to not only help your clients connect to their ancestors’ suffering with healing reverence…
…but also learn to guide your clients to reclaiming their destinies, so they can experience authentic freedom.  
Program Information
Objectives
- Discuss transgenerational transmission of trauma-based patterns over time.
- Demonstrate how to bring ancestral awareness into our therapeutic practices.
- Analyse the possible role of epigenetics in trauma transmission.
- Identify behaviours and emotions which may have transgenerational components.
- Analyse a demonstration session working with transgenerational trauma in therapeutic practice.
Outline
Aspects of understanding transgenerational trauma and healing
- Connections
- Energy Fields
- Epigenetics
Healing Transgenerational Trauma
Orders of Love
- Belonging
- Reverencing those who came before us
- Balance between receiving and giving
- How the orders can be thwarted
- Common results of thwarted orders of love
From Haunting to Wholeness
Questions
Session
- Applying principles to sessions with clients
Conclusion
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Case Managers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
06/25/2021