W ORKSHOP SENSORIMOTOR PSYCHOTHERAPY: Working with Implicit Communication, Attachment & Trauma

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1 W ORKSHOP SENSORIMOTOR PSYCHOTHERAPY: Working with Implicit Communication, Attachment & Trauma PAT OGDEN, Ph.D. Per il Progresso nella Pratica e nella Ricerca in Psicoterapia MILAN 12 / 13 of NOVEMBER 2016

2 WORKSHOP SENSORIMOTOR PSYCHOTHERAPY WORKING WITH IMPLICIT COMMUNICATION, ATTACHMENT & TRAUMA Implicit, non-conscious communication - gesture, stance, posture, prosody, facial expressions, and movement patterns - is the heartbeat of all relationships. Ethologists have long described particular non-verbal behaviors among animals that communicate an invitation for particular activities, such as to play, to be sexual or to fight. Similarly, infant researchers have highlighted the significance of implicit bodily-based communication between infants and their attachment figures that shapes procedural memory and affect regulation capacities. This communication serves as a template for future relational interaction, and is reflected in the nonverbal dialogue of the therapist/patient dyad. This conversation that takes place beneath the words during the therapy hour is often more significant than the explicit narrative. The ongoing process of bodily-based, non-verbal behavior serves to regulate affect and is fundamental for conveying information. In large part, this implicit communication determines not only the affective nature of the dyad but the content that is explicitly expressed. Relational trauma and early attachment dynamics shape non-verbal communication, reflecting and sustaining

3 unconscious beliefs and affects that have anticipatory and predictive functions. This workshop explores the legacy of trauma and attachment in determining affect regulatory capacities, procedural learning and implicit communication, and thus in large part, the quality of one s relationships with others and one s relationship with the self. The presenter addresses implicit knowing of the other as well as implicit knowing of the self - how our sense of self depends not only on the verbal story we tell ourselves, but also on the non-verbal story we tell ourselves. This somatic narrative is typically beyond the understanding of the rational mind, yet implicitly anticipates the future, and is a powerful determinant of behavior. The presenter will emphasize embedded relational mindfulness interventions to alter the somatic narrative and achieve therapeutic gains, and teach a variety of techniques from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. This workshop also explores how patient and therapist, through their complex, multi-layered relationship, may non-verbally enact aspects of their immediate experience that are excluded from cognitive representation. The interface of what is being communicated consciously and explicitly with what is being expressed implicitly between therapist and patient is explored and the negotiation of therapeutic enactments is demonstrated. Concepts and specific techniques from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy will be illustrated through excerpts of videotaped consultation sessions with children, adolescents, families, adults, couples, group, and brief experiential exercises.

4 CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES: Participants will be able to: 1. Summarize the concept of the somatic narrative. 2. Discuss the importance of non-verbal communication in therapy. 3. Discuss affect regulation and the implicit self. 4. Define neuroception. 5. Discuss embedded relational mindfulness interventions. 6. Describe how attachment-related beliefs can affect the body. 7. Describe somatic components of attachment categories. 8. Discuss affect regulation as central to therapeutic change. 9. Explain therapeutic enactments from a somatic perspective. 10. Explain the concept of safe but not too safe as it applies to both therapist and patient.

5 BIO PAT OGDEN, PH.D. Pat Ogden, PhD, is a pioneer in somatic psychology and the Founder and Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an internationally recognized school specializing in somatic cognitive approaches for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and attachment disturbances. She is cofounder of the Hakomi Institute, past faculty of Naropa University ( ), a clinician, consultant, international lecturer and trainer, and first author of the groundbreaking books, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (Tr. it., Il trauma e il corpo. Manuale di psicoterapia sensomotoria, ISC Editore, 2013) e Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment. Attualmente sta lavorando al suo terzo libro, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents.

6 PROGRAM Saturday, november 12 DAY ONE 9.00 am-10:30am Affect Regulation and Neuroregulatory Interventions Procedural Tendencies Phase 1 Treatment: Stabilization 10:50am-12:00pm Neuroception and the Polyvagal Hierarchy Harnessing Neuroplasticity: The Use of Mindfulness Directed Mindfulness Interventions 01:15pm-2:30pm Phase 2 Treatment: Traumatic Memory The Modulation Model and the Window of Tolerance Restoring Acts of Triumph 02:50-4:15pm Psychobiological Action Systems Structural Dissociation of the Personality Interventions for Working with Dissociative Parts Sunday, november 13 DAY TWO 09:00am-10:30am Trauma, Attachment, and Attachment Trauma How Attachment Shapes Implicit communication Phase 3 Treatment 10:50am-12:00am Implicit Relational Knowing and the Somatic Sense of Self Proximity Seeking Actions Attachment Categories and their Non-verbal Patterns 01:15pm-02:30pm Attachment Related Emotions Expanding Affect Array and Intensity Working at the Regulatory Boundaries of the Window of Tolerance 02:50pm-4:15pm Explicit and Implicit Therapeutic Journeys Lack of Recognition: Collusions, Collisions, and Therapeutic Enactments, Negotiating Enactments between Patient and Therapist

7 LANGUAGE English LOCATION Enterprise Hotel, Corso Sempione 91, Milan, Italy FEE 244,00 euros (VAT included) REGISTRATION Please ask the application form to: To complete registration, please fill in the application form and send it back, together with a copy of the bank transfer receipt, to our address: isc@istitutodiscienzecognitive.it Please find below all the necessary information for bank transfer to be made: Banca Nazionale del Lavoro - Sassari Payee: Istituto di Scienze Cognitive srl IBAN IT 84 D BIC/SWIFT: BNLIITRR Per il Progresso nella Pratica e nella Ricerca in Psicoterapia ISTITUTO DI SCIENZE COGNITIVE Via Rolando 16, Sassari Tel. 079/ Fax. 079/