TRAUMA AND THE BODY: Practical application of somatic interventions for emotion regulation and healing.

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Narelle McKenzie, Registered Psychologist, Certified Radix Practitioner and Trainer Related seminars and products

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Narelle McKenzie is the Director and a Senior trainer of the Australian Radix Body Centered Training Centre and the Radix Institute, North America, which offers a three-year training program in Radix Body Centered Psychotherapy. She is a registered psychologist with over forty years' experience working in private practice with adults, adolescents, families, couples and groups. She has a Masters in developmental psychology and extensive experience and training in psychotherapy and psychology. As part of her private consultancy Narelle has led experiential and training workshops on Embodied Psychotherapy throughout Australia, the USA and the UK. She is a Clinical Member of the  Australian Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (PACFA) Register, a PACFA accredited psychotherapy supervisor, an accredited supervisor for Psychology, a member of the United States Association of Body Psychotherapists as well as a member of Peer Review Committee for the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Narelle McKenzie has employment relationships with the Australian Radix Body Centered Training Centre and the Radix Institute. She receives royalties as a published author. Narelle McKenzie receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Narelle McKenzie is a member of the Australian Radix Body Centered Psychotherapy Association, the United States Body Psychotherapy Association, the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc, and the Radix Institute, USA.

Objectives

Learning objectives of this training:

1. Deepen their understanding of the impact of trauma on the body - structurally and energetically
2. Discover different ways to ‘read the body’
3. Identify signs that a client is not embodied
4. Broaden their ability to deepen client’s sense of embodiment and engagement
5. Apply some somatic interventions to enable clients to stay regulated
6. Discover how their own relationship with their somatic processes contributes to the processes of their clients. 

“The effect of trauma on the body is not a life sentence.”   Narelle McKenzie

How will you benefit from attending this training?

• Deepen their understanding of ways to bring the body into the therapy room.
• Broaden their range of practical somatic interventions that are effective and the differing therapeutic purpose underpinning them.
• Gain increased awareness of how their somatic processes influence the client therapeutic interaction and how to address this effectively in session.

Outline

Morning Session (includes a short break)

• Modes of Therapeutic Intervention
• Brief theoretical presentation of the impact of trauma on the body - energetically and physically.
• Aspects of body awareness
• Loss of self contact
• Reading body awareness or 'body reading'
• Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) pulsations, respiration, eye contact
• Grounding techniques and tracking
• ANS dysregulation and the trauma survival strategies: attach/cry for help, collapse/submit and please/appease.
• Use case studies and some simple experiential exercises to convey this aspects of body awareness and reading the body.
• Teach participants which significant aspects of the body functioning to pay attention to in their own and their client’s process to enable them to assess the appropriateness of interventions.

Afternoon Session (includes a short break)

Work in small groups or pairs with the specific aim of applying what was taught in the morning session so as to:

1. deepen client’s body awareness or mindfulness,
2. implement some somatic corrective experiences to different trauma experiences
3. work effectively with the here and now relationship based on what is being experienced by the ‘therapist’ and what is being observed.
4. apply some of the above to case examples brought forward by the group

Evaluation and quiz - your payment includes a quiz which when completed with a minimum of 80% correct answers, will enable you to download your Attendance Certificate.
To complete the quiz, please log into your account at pdp-catalogue.com.au and click the orange "Certificate" button under the program's title. 

Target Audience

This seminar has been designed to extend the clinical knowledge and applied skill of Psychologists, Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Coaches, Social Workers and Psychiatrists.

There will be a brief summary of the theories around Trauma and how they relate to the Body in the first session and reference will be made to them during the course of the day but full knowledge of at least some of these theories will be assumed. eg neurobiology, neuroscience and attachment as presented by Schore, Siegel, Van der Kolk, Badenoch Rotschild, Porges.

Webcast Schedule

Morning Session
  9:00am - 12:30pm (includes 15 minute break at 10:30am)

Lunch Break
  12:30pm - 1:00pm

Afternoon Session
  1:00pm - 4:30pm (includes 15 minute break at 2:45pm)