Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation


AGENDA
Thursday and Friday, November 9th and 10th, 2017
The Brattleboro Retreat
Brattleboro, Vermont
 
DAY ONE Thursday, November 9th, 2017 
   
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Coffee 
   
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Self-alienation as a trauma-related survival defense
The long-term consequences of self-alienation
 Fragmentation and splitting in the context of trauma
 Structural dissociation as a fragmentation model 
   
10:00 AM -10:15 AM Break & Refreshments
   
10:15 AM - 11:30  AM
Parts as ‘carriers’ of childhood survival strategies
Mindfulness and the language of ‘parts’
Learning to identify distressing thoughts, feelings and bodily                 reactions as communications from parts
   
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Break and Refreshments
   
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Internal Family Systems and the concept of ‘Self’ 
Learning to speak the language of parts                                      
 
   
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch (in the Retreat cafeteria and included with your registration)
   
1:45 PM - 3:45 PM
 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
 The role of curiosity and interest
 Cultivating somatic resources to self-regulate and self-soothe
   
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM  Questions and Answers
   
DAY TWO  Friday, November 10th, 2017 
   
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM  Registration and Coffee 
   
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM              The concept of “I”
            “Blending” with parts and its consequences
             Learning to “unblend” from parts
   
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Break and Refreshments
   
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM              The role of internal communication
            Helping clients learn internal dialogue techniques
            Befriending our ‘selves’            
   
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM  Break and Refreshments
   
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM             The concept of the ‘missing experience’
           Repair of early attachment wounding
           Using the Four Befriending Questions protocol
           Mentalization and integration
   
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM  Lunch (in the Retreat cafeteria and included with your registration)
   
1:45 PM - 3:45 PM             Earning’ secure attachment
            The social engagement system and attachment to one’s self
            Restoring what was lost
   
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Questions and Answers