Natural Processing Part Two – Six Days Online over 3 weekends
Developmental Trauma • Attachment Dynamics • Subtle Dissociation
This follow-up 6-day course expands the training from Part One. We continue to explore tracking, holding dilemmas, and working with dissociation. This somatic and process-oriented view of developmental trauma and attachment dynamics opens up the work of meeting developmental needs on a non-verbal level.
We will begin with questions from participants work with their clients since Part I. There will be daily practicums, along with some short skill building and experiential segments. The focus will be on developing sensitivity to tracking all the dynamics from Part I, plus new ones.
Live demonstrations and video sessions will be studied to highlight the nature of process, the power of sustained somatic awareness, and the value of full engagement while “not knowing.”
Further focus on tracking resiliency will provide participants with a greater sense of presence and engagement with their clients. This is fundamental for truly “trusting the process.”
This work builds skills for the full engagement called for in working with developmental trauma and attachment dynamics. We will identify the moment-by-moment dynamics of separation from self, and the emergence of self. Close tracking of mobilization/immobilization through the body and nervous system aids the therapist’s interventions in co-creating non-verbal experiences of titrated contact, and development of resiliency.
Daily Agenda Click for daily schedule
Day One
Discussion of participants’ clinical experience using this approach since taking Part I
Collaboratively framing the therapy, honing in on tracking, and working dilemmas
Signs of struggle and disconnection as guides for the therapist
Fine tuning of tracking to reveal “process,” dynamics
Nuances of dissociation, and further details on “working the dissociative moment”
Practicums, live demonstration/video sessions
Day Two
Questions and discussion
Dynamics of Developmental Trauma through the lens of somatic resilience
Teasing out “non-presenting problems” and making agreements for working with them
Meeting the challenges of working nuances of developmental trauma
Practicums, live demonstration/video sessions.
Day Three
Questions and discussion
Dynamics of Self - disconnection with early trauma and long term manifestations
Inherent dilemmas and the difficulty of having needs
Signs of re-emergence of self, and gaining traction through complaints and protests
Practicums, live demonstration/video sessions.
Day Four
Challenges to sustaining awareness, the cycle of experience, and somatic interventions
Use of bilateral stimulation and tracking resiliency
Live demonstration, with detailed unpacking of the session
Further exploration of nuances of tracking and pacing well with developmental trauma
Demonstration session, extended practicum sessions, with personalized feedback
Day Five
Treatment considerations with developmental trauma
Nurturing resilience in the context of a narrow window of tolerance/presence
Relational dynamics in this work and pacing emerging “process resources”
Demonstration and Practicum
Day Six
Attachment dynamics from a somatic, process-oriented and relational lens
Acknowledgement as a key step and a “thing to do”
Grief and disappointment
Challenges for the client and the therapist
Assessing how to bring this work into your daily practice