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Week 2 – Type B Courses – Mornings and Afternoons

Mornings (11:00 – 13:00) and Afternoons (14:30 – 16:30)

B601, Bitter, Jim – Genograms: A Journey into Reconnection
Genograms are family maps that are a foundation for exploring our family history, reconnecting to experiences from which we formed our style of living, and a process for reconnecting with the humans in our past and present. Genograms are also tools for experiential/spiritual learning about self and for forging much more intimate bonds with others.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Complete a personal family genogram as a roadmap into relational connection
  2. Use the genogram to create a wheel of influence and personal timeline
  3. Develop and share stories of meaning in one’s life with other participants
  4. Participate in a family reconstruction experience
  5. Develop a personal and spiritual meaning mandala for taking experiential learning with you
  6. Create a plan (if meaningful) for reconnecting with actual family members in a new way
  7. Describe the steps of integrating genograms and genogram work into educational or clinical settings, and the goals of using this approach in those settings
  8. Facilitate the development of preferred life stories through the use of genograms

B602, Millar, Anthea – Safe Trauma Therapy
This highly practical course draws on some of the latest trauma research and therapy approaches that integrate well with an Adlerian approach. It will focus particularly on developing the therapeutic skills of ensuring safety and stability, observing physiological arousal levels, enabling dual attention for managing flashbacks and trauma memories, and building on the person’s resilience and social connection.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

  1. Describe Adlerian principles in relation to trauma work
  2. Analyze the difference between Single Shock and Developmental/Complex Trauma
  3. Describe recent developments in Neurophysiology and Trauma including Polyvagal Theory (Porges 2011, 2017)
  4. Explain the phenomenon of dissociation and discuss the use of Internal Family Systems (Schwartz)
  5. Apply window of affect tolerance and Integration and ANS precision regulation (Rothschild 2017) to client assessment
  6. Identify 3 phases of trauma therapy (Janet 1898) Herman (1992)
  7. Assess differing types of client – identifying those with whom it is appropriate to process trauma memories and those with whom it is not
  8. Identify principles of safe trauma work and apply grounding processes, anchors, resources, safe place 9: Accurately observe differing levels of physiological arousal

 

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