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While pockets of good training, practice and support certainly do exist, in general as a profession we tend to be confused and have limited understanding of trauma-sensitive therapy and treatment planning. Few therapists are trained to work confidently with trauma or understand how to orient themselves towards the traumatised individuals who come through their door. It is not uncommon for therapy to seem to make little progress or to end prematurely, and at worst it can become inadvertently retraumatising. Fortunately this is a situation we can do something to prevent. The neuroscience on which contemporary trauma practice rests points to working with the body, and this is another gap in many core trainings. This informative and practical workshop will therefore offer a mix of theory, technique and process to shed light on what is going on. Of particular importance is understanding how to reframe the ways in which a person may have learnt to survive. By keeping the needs of the individual at the heart the work, a more nuanced approach can be developed. Some basic principles of neuroscience will provide a framework for the day, and ways of applying this knowledge will be suggested. The use of clinical examples, reflective and experiential exercises will help to bring the material to life. We will reconsider the meaning of impasse, resistance, and of risky or self-injurious behaviours. Taking a phenomenological approach will lead towards a fresh application of mindfulness techniques appropriate to traumatised people. The implications of trauma-sensitive work for the therapist will be explored, on both personal and professional levels. The importance of working safely within our capacity highlights how the dynamics of trauma may be recreated within the therapeutic relationship, and can be seen as one possible way of understanding some of the challenges we encounter along the way.
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