05/17/2022-05/12/2023: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Developmental Injury
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Developmental Injury
Statement of need: Research reveals the powerful impact that early childhood adversity, attachment disruption, and chronic stress play in our clients’ current lives. Early attachment experiences and the environment shape biology, brain development, somatic structures, perception, meaning making, and patterns of relating. This learning sits deep within, in our implicit and procedural memory. Difficulty managing relationships, depression, anxiety, somatic complaints, and addiction have roots in these early experiences and the resulting adaptations.
Presented by: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
Contact: SPI Admissions 303.447.3290
Email address: admissions@sensorimotor.org
Event web site: https://account.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/s109200022/detail
Location: online
Session dates:
17-18 June 2022
22-24 July 2022
19-20 August 2022
16-17 September 2022
14-15 October 2022
4-5 November 2022
20-21 January 2023
24-25 February 2023
31 March-01 April 2023
12-13 May 2023
Session times: TBA
Prerequisites: Candidates must fulfill each of the following criteria to be considered for enrollment: successful completion of either Level 1 course: SP for the Treatment of Trauma or SP for Trauma Themes, recommendation from trainers of the Level 1 course completed, and completion of the Training Application & Questionnaire found within the course listing. For additional admission and application information, see https://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/admissions/
Instructional level of this activity:
Course credit hours: This training is co-sponsored by The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and The Institute for Continuing Education. The training offers a total of 113.50 credited contact hours. For additional information, see https://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/admissions/continuing-education/
Price: $5,500.00 USD; A non-refundable registration fee of $25.00. A deposit of $500.00 is due to provisionally secure a place in the training – deposit is not due at time of application. For additional information about tuition, fees, payments, discounts, and financial aid, see https://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/admissions/
Course description: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Developmental Injury addresses the interaction between traumatic, attachment, and developmental issues and how to provide effective treatment given their inevitable intertwining. In this training, research from the attachment and neuroscience fields provides the theoretical foundation for Sensorimotor Psychotherapy℠ interventions and practices that address the effects of suboptimal and/or traumatic early attachment.
Experiences in early childhood leave a legacy of conscious and nonverbal learning reflected in relational habits, affect tolerance and expression, meaning making and cognitive schemas that limit development, patterns of body structure, and the ability to connect deeply to one’s own emotions. In the training, participants will learn to track and name developmental and attachment patterns, help clients make meaning from the bottom up, manage consciousness, assess resources for relationship and full participation in life, connect to early memories and unresolved grief and loss, and transform painful emotions held by young child states.
Topics:
Trauma, Traumatic Attachment, and Development: The legacy of attachment; developmental and traumatic wounds, somatic treatment approaches for secure, ambivalent, avoidant and disorganized/disoriented attachment patterns
Body Reading for Attachment History: Track how body structure, posture, gesture and movement reflects and sustains early childhood experience; interventions to alter the legacy of early attachment
Changing Procedural Learning: Identify and work with the emotional, cognitive, and physical action patterns that reflect early attachment history
Translating the Body’s Language: Understand how meaning is encoded in the body, and work with posture, expression and movement to change meanings conditions from early attachment interactions
Therapeutic Techniques for Developmental Themes: Learn body-oriented interventions that address procedurally learned habits and early attachment patterns
Verbal and Physical Experiments: Apply embedded relational mindfulness™ to introduce verbal and somatic experiments that address the legacy of attachment
Somatic Resources for Developmental Injury: Capitalize on the body’s resources for transforming painful unresolved attachment patterns
Re-working Limiting Beliefs and their Somatic Components: Identify manifestations of cognitive schemas in the body, connect meaning making to early attachment interactions, and learn interventions to transform limiting beliefs
Action Systems and Action Tendencies: Learn how motivational, or action, systems are disrupted by trauma and attachment failure, and discriminate maladaptive action tendencies from adaptive ones related to these systems
Befriending Adaptive Strategies: Explore how adaptive strategies form in childhood, how they affect us as adults, and how the can be a useful avenue toward healing
Therapeutic Enactments: Use a bottom-up approach to understanding and negotiating therapeutic enactments
The “Child” State of Consciousness: The connection between early memories and the child part that holds the pain reflected in limiting beliefs and procedural learning
Integration of Treatment Techniques for Developmental Injury and Trauma: How to work with clients who present with both attachment-related issues and unresolved trauma
Format: SP for the Treatment of Developmental Injury consists of approximately 126 contact hours divided into 7 multi-day modules, for a total of 21 days. Modules are typically spaced 4-8 weeks apart; trainings typically complete within 9-12 months.
