Outline

The latest research on trauma.

• The impact of trauma on mental illness
• The impact of trauma on physical illness
• Outcomes of unresolved trauma

How and where trauma is stored.

• How to navigate the three memory systems
  • Semantic (narrative) memory
  • Event (autonomic) memory
  • Procedural (behavioral) memory
• Strategies for matching specific interventions to memory systems

The nervous system.

• 5 discrete autonomic nervous system states used to respond to trauma
• Mild stress to full dissociation
• Bottom-up processing

There are 4 essential phases of trauma therapy.

1. Resourcing
2. (Re)establishment of boundaries, trust and attachment
3. Containment through the autonomic nervous system
4. Integration

Mental health disorders that include trauma therapy.

• Addiction recovery
  • ​How trauma can complicate recovery
  • Integrating recovery and trauma therapy
• ​Differential Diagosis
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Depressive disorders
  • Anxiety-based disorders

There are strategies for traumatic transference.

• Working with transference is essential for processing trauma
• When and how to move away from and toward transference
• The 4 transferential “roles”: victim, perpetrator, bystander and savior

Thematic containment of stress and trauma is what the Experiential Lab I is about.

• Transform the theory into practice
• Traumatic change heals by sequencing through the body
• Mindfulness to track somatic process
• Viscerally feeling the 5 different nervous system states
• Empathy for where you’re leading clients
• An entirely new understanding of how to heal PTSD

The second Experiential Lab is called The Foundation of Resourcing.

• Resourcing as the first phase of most trauma, exposure therapies
• The skill of autonomic regulation
• Self-soothing techniques to develop new habitual coping responses
• Trauma management vs. over-resolution
• Guide clients out of trauma and stress into their own refuge