2019 Trauma Conference

2019 Trauma & Attachment Conference
Featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Rachel Yehuda
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
March 29 - April 2, 2019

Core Foundational Stream

Day 1 Foundational Stream: Foundations of Trauma and Attachment (core CTIP & CTIC training) March 29, 2019
Day 2 Foundational Stream: Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation March 30, 2019
with Lori Gill, MA, RP, CTS, Founder and Clinical Director of the Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing

The fields of attachment and trauma research and intervention are growing rapidly. It is apparent that this is an area all clinicians can benefit from training in as it crosses all sectors and populations in some manner. However, we know that it can be difficult to keep up with all of the readings and resources. As this is our area of specialization, let us share what we have learned through our literature and research reviews and what we have effectively put into practice with you in an engaging and practical manner. This comprehensive two-day training will provide insight into current trauma, attachment, and neuroscience research ensuring an understanding of critical information and best practice strategies for working with trauma. This training will also help you to enhance your clinical skills and learn how you can add trauma regulation and attachment healing strategies to your repertoire.

Day 2 will focus on putting it into practice. Through this training participants will learn how to make historical connections, complete initial assessments, formulate trauma-informed treatment planning, and engage in trauma-specific treatment. Participants will learn about phase-based treatment of complex trauma and review of best practice and evidence-based approaches will also be experienced. A wide variety of trauma-specific treatment approaches will be explored in a case, experiential, or visual or video demonstration manner.

Upon completion of training participants will have a strong understanding of:

Trauma-Informed Care

What it means to be trauma-informed at an organization, service system and societal level
Core principles, guiding values and common language of trauma-informed care
Understanding what is helpful vs. what is harmful
The difference between trauma-informed and trauma-specific services
Understanding top-down, bottom-up and integrative trauma treatment modalities

The Neuroscience of Trauma, Addictions, Mental Health and Violence

How stress and trauma affect the brain, body and behaviour
The role of attachment in self-regulation and the capacity for relationship
The impact of attachment injuries on child development and adult health outcomes
Attachment dynamics in health care and human services work
The connection between trauma, addictions and violence
The importance of worker self-regulation and self-care in providing attunement, therapeutic presence and co-regulation for clients and in mitigating the effects of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma

Sensory Regulation

Why trauma is a sensory experience
Recognizing the signs of emotional and physical dysregulation
Integration and how this relates to emotional and physiological regulation
The use of sensory approaches to promote regulation and integration

Boundaries, Self-Compassion, and Healthy Relationships

How trauma disrupts our boundaries and how we can learn to establish healthy boundaries
Addressing unmet needs
Shifting from false refuges to those that provide effective regulation
The importance of self-compassion for forming and maintaining healthy relationships
Differentiating intimacy from abuse

Trauma Processing

Participants’ will learn how to make historical connections, complete initial assessments, engage in phase-based trauma treatment, and complete trauma processing using various modalities. A review of best practice and evidence-based approaches will also be included.

Both days will be rich with research, practical examples, case studies, experiential activities, and opportunities for self-reflection.

Day 3 (9:00-4:00) March 31, 2019
Trauma Processing Experiential with Lori Gill, Clinical Director and Founder of ATTCH
Pre-requisite* completion of CTIC foundational 2-day training (Foundations of Trauma & Understanding the Foundations of Trauma & Attachment & Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation (Foundational Stream days 1 & 2).

This workshop takes participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live demonstration and the opportunity to practice techniques learned (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. This experiential days allows for discussion, questions, and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.

Advanced Stream - Ideal for those who have completed core foundational stream

Day 1 Advanced Stream March 29, 2019 (details to follow)

Kundalini Yoga, Breath-work, and Sound Healing to Rebalance the Brain and Nervous System with Lisa Scandolari ~ Devi Kirn Kaur

The purpose of many Kundalini Yoga kriyas is to help rewire our response to life, so that we can quit reacting to every outside influence and begin living in creative collaboration with our inner wisdom. The reason the kriyas are effective is because they balance and renew the brain. We now understand we can take a proactive role in improving our brain health. Meditation is being used as a therapy. It is being taught to individuals suffering with PTSD, ADHD, sensory processing disorders, to those with drug and alcohol addictions, to victims of abuse, and even to those who are incarcerated in our prisons. The scientific community is now talking a lot about pranayama, the ancient art of breath control. We are just beginning to really recognize how important the breath is in regards to our physical, emotional and mental health. Meditation works in a way that allows the brain and glands to relax and recharge. Repetition and rhythm are the soothing balms that repair the glands, which allow for a core-level shift in the body and consciousness. Over time, the applied discipline of meditation can unweave the traumas embedded in the physical and subtle anatomy to allow for a renewed sense of health, radiance, and balance.

In addition to the introduction above this integrative workshop will blend science and practice to teach the learner:

Breathing techniques to regulate, stimulate, rebalance the brain and body and increase insight
How to implement change and create new habits
How to activate the Vegas nerve using Kundalini Yoga

Day 2 Advanced Stream (9:00 - 4:00) March 29, 2019
Fostering Post-Traumatic Growth Following Trauma with Sarah Connolly, RSW, MSW, Adventure Therapist, Yoga Instructor

This workshop focuses on cultivating post-traumatic growth following trauma. This workshop is ideal for those of you who have completed our core training and are established the foundational trauma processing . This workshop will introduce participants to research and a variety of effective techniques for promoting post-traumatic growth and healing. Some of the topics that will be covered include:

The neurobiology of post traumatic growth
Reframing techniques to shift clients out of self-blame and shame
The role of relational connection in fostering post-traumatic growth
Powerful strategies to reframe, form new associations, and form new meaning.

Day 3 Advanced Stream (9:00-4:00):
DBT Skills to Promote Grounding, Shift Trauma States and Enhance Relationships with Adriana King B.A Psy. MACP., RP., CTIC, Intensively Trained DBT Therapist

This workshop is based on the DBT(Dialectical behavioural Therapy)treatment model and DBT skills developed by Marsha Linehan. The DBT skills presented in this workshop will provide participants with practical exercises and will show them how to target emotional vulnerability after trauma, this workshop is specifically designed to treat clients that have developed difficulty-regulating emotions that interfere with their everyday life and their relationships.

The workshop will also explore the importance of establishing primary and secondary targets in sessions. These targets are designed to support clients in reducing traumatic stress and building capacities in safety, life-interfering behaviours, quality of life, avoidance of emotional experience and behaviours, and increasing personal goals and meaning.

The DBT skills will include some Mindfulness skills, Distress Tolerance skills, Interpersonal Effectiveness skills, Emotional Regulation skills and a basic understanding of Dialectical thinking and acting.

Day 4 AM (9:00-12:00) All Streams:
Music-Based Interventions in Trauma Work April 1, 2019 with Aksana Kavaliova-Moussi, Music Therapist (MTA-Accredited Music Therapist), Neurologic Music Therapist-Fellow, an d International Presenter

In this interactive presentation participants will learn about:

Neuroscience of music
Benefits of music in therapy for a broad range of ages and populations, with a particular focus on trauma
Use of movement for moving through restriction or immobilization
Appropriate ways of using music interventions, and understanding how music can become a trigger
Learn from audio and video excerpts of music therapy and trauma work.

Participants will get a hands-on experience playing various instruments individually and in a group, using their voices, and moving to music. No previous music experience is required! This workshop will provide you with a variety of new tools and techniques to help clients move from a state of immobilization to empowerment in a non-intrusive manner.

Day 4 PM (1:00-4:00) All Streams:
Sandtray Therapy Across the Lifespan April 1, 2019 with Kelly Smith

This interactive workshop will introduce participants to how sandtray can be used in therapy across the lifespan.
Sand tray is a sensory experience that promotes integration and helps resolve inner conflicts. It allows for the subconscious or things that we have no words for to be expressed in a manner that is titrated and regulating through the sensory aspects of the sand. When we are able to share and have others bear witness this aids with integration. It also allows us to reflect and resolve inner conflicts, unlinked, or dichotomous aspects of ourselves.
Participants will:

Learn about key elements of sand tray therapy and the types of sand trays that can be created
Bear witness to narratives of how individual figures have been used in the sand
Gain insights as to how sand tray can be used to work with all ages, and with groups, couples, and families
case study using the sand tray and figures
The group witnessing the building of a tray by a workshop participant
An opportunity to participate in a group sand tray experience either as a “builder” or as a “witness”

Day 5 (9:00 - 4:00) All Streams ~ Keynote Presentation
Intergenerational Effects of Trauma and Resilience: How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations with Dr. Rachel Yehuda

Recent advances in molecular biology, genomics, and epigenomics, has now provided paradigms for understanding long term effects of stress. This presentation will focus on intergenerational transmission of trauma as a particularly enduring effect of stress. Most of the research has been conducted on adult children of Holocaust survivors, but has now generalized to include children of other trauma survivors such as children born to pregnant women who survived the world trade center attack on 9/11. The research has evolved into one that explains the contribution of early environmental experiences-including parenting-on highly conserved molecular and genomic processes. These changes in and of themselves do not signify pathology, but provide a paradigm for understanding long term effects of profoundly important events. The work has already led to a better understanding of biological risk factors for PTSD, and predictors of outcome in response to trauma.

Rachel Yehuda PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Psychiatry Professor of Neuroscience at the
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Mental Health Patient Care Center Director James J. Peters VA Medical Center

Full 5-Day Conference - Trauma and Attachment Conference - Core Stream

CA$875.00

Full 5-Day conference core stream.

$850.00 +HST

*Price is inclusive of morning and afternoon refreshment breaks and lunch.

*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees ($25.00 for full conference). There is no fee to complete an etransfer through online banking or to pay by cheque.

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Full 5-Day Conference - 2019 Trauma and Attachment Conference - Advanced Stream (recommended for those who have completed foundational training)

CA$825.00

Full 5-Day conference advanced stream (recommended for those who have completed foundational training). Early registration: $700 + HST. After March 01, $800.00+ HST

*Price is inclusive of morning and afternoon refreshment breaks.

*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees ($25.00 for full conference). There is no fee to complete an etransfer through online banking or to pay by cheque.

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