2010 Workshop Schedule
Stress, Trauma, and Somatic Psychotherapy
Saturday Jan 16th, 2010, 9:30am – 5:30pm
6.5 CEs for MFTs, LCSWs and Psychologists.
Rosen Center, 825 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA
**New: Now Offering CEs for Psychologists**
This workshop explores, from a somatic psychotherapy perspective, the relationship of developmental stress patterns and the conditioning their influence has on later traumatic stress experiences and resulting resource limitations. Developmental stress arises when the learning of natural developmental tasks is interrupted or restricted. The resulting characterological patterns become deeply marked in the body and thus become part of a person’s felt sense of self. Traumatic wounding overwhelms existing resources and sets into motion many psychological, emotional, and physical survival patterns.
A client’s stress related issues present in therapy along a continuum (the stress continuum). At one end of this continuum are the minor activations associated with responses to increases in daily stress. At the other end of this continuum are the un-modulated activations associated with dysregulated traumatic stress. Where and how a person organizes along the stress continuum is strongly conditioned by earlier characterological patterns. In this workshop we will explore identifying where a client is on the stress continuum, ways to modulate the stress response threshold, and somatic resourcing approaches that support a client in their process of transforming unmodulated stress arousal.
This experiential class is designed to be clinically useful for both new and experienced psychotherapists who want to work somatically with client’s stress activation levels. The workshop will include lecture, demonstration, and practice.
$135 tuition if paid in full by Dec 15th, 2009, $155 thereafter
6.5 CE’S for MFTs, LCSWs and Psychologists.
Location: 825 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94710
2010 Workshop Cancellation Policy:
Credit towards a future workshop or refund (minus $50) will be provided when notice of cancellation is received by the organizer 30 days prior to the workshop. Credit, but no refund is available if less then 30days notice is provided. No refunds or credit without prior notification. Course registration signifies agreement with the terms of the cancellation policy.
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CE'S: Continuing education credits are available. Bill Bowen Trainings is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences as a Continuing Education Provider for LCSW's and MFT in the state of CA. PCE #2731. Cal Poly Pomona's Counselling and Psychological Services is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Cal Poly Pomona CAPS maintains full responsibility for this program and its content. The facilities are handicapped accessible. If you have a disability and may require accommodation in order to fully participate in this activity, please inform us of your accommodation needs by the registration deadline. We will make a good faith effort to meet your accommodation requests after this deadline.