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Anchored Relational Foundational Training

Intensive Training on Complex PTSD, Developmental Trauma and

The Continuum of Neuro-Dissociative States

Presented by:  Patti Miller, MA, LP and Phyllis C. Solon, PsyD, LP

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This workshop presents an integrative theory of psychology as it pertains to both normal development and the impact of complex trauma on individuals throughout the lifespan. This theory underlies the practice of the Anchored Relational model for working with CPTSD and Dissociation, with interconnected considerations of neurology, development, dignity and competence, resilience, vulnerability, and intersectionality. People traumatized across multiple dimensions; familial, cultural, societal, and historical are seen in the context of their strengths and vulnerabilities, embedded in systems of oppression and control as well as privilege and resource. Stepping out of harmful relationships and systems of power and control into paradigms of integrity, dignity, and freedom, defined by individuals and communities, puts whole people at the center of their stories. 

 

Understanding neurology, development, dignity, resilience, and vulnerability inherent in all human beings facilitates stepping free from trauma to find one’s center, supporting life giving actions in line with values. The advanced resourcing and interventions taught are consistent with strengthening a person’s multi-directional attention which underlies the ability to manage neuro-dissociative states, regulate emotionally and physically, reduce c-ptsd symptoms and build compassionate relationships internally and externally. 

 

The Anchored Relational model is heavily based in developmental neurology, work that has exploded in the last 20 years, and is a feminist, multicultural, competency and dignity based model.  We focus on the person rather than the problem and do not hold the traumatic memory as the most important focus of the work but rather, building the internal relational network and the resourcing of each persons dignity and most present self to rewire the brain from traumatic responses/loops to present time thinking, relating, choosing and behaving.  We cover the continuum of programming and conditioning, which includes what happens in families through what happens in organized systems of violence and ongoing systems of oppression, and the underlying neurological and learning theory that explains why it is possible to program and condition people in these ways.

Anchored Relational is a theory grounded in feminist and multicultural pedagogies, philosophies, perspectives, and research.  It is not, as such, a culturally specific theory or treatment model.  It is a model for understanding who people are and how they get that way from a complex interconnected set of considerations and factors which include neurological, developmental, experiential, familial, cultural, and societal dimensions.  AIR therapy is a model of seeing people who have been traumatized across multiple dimensions – individual, family, cultural, societal, historical - in the context of systems of domination that are ascendant in the world and have been for millennia. This is a feminist and multicultural lens on the world explicating how people, all people within their different settings and systems, are impacted by the systems in which we live. The theoretical perspective and the therapy take into account both adverse/risk and protective/resilience factors and assume that we are wired to connect, repair and heal, which happens best and most fully in the context of compassion, care and community.  Those assumptions are based in an understanding of the cross-cultural reality that neurodevelopment and childhood sequences of development happen in the same way across the world. 

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Learning Objectives and Projected Competencies

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  • ·       Theoretical underpinnings of the Anchored Relational Model

  • ·       Neurology of development, attachment, and information processing

  • ·       Neurological and epigenetic impact of trauma

  • ·       Developmental impact of trauma

  • ·       Core Survival Networks and the continuum of Neuro-dissociative States

  • ·       Continuum of Present Orientation and the neurological underpinnings in therapy and relationships

  • ·       Interventions for self-relational, somatic, and neurological regulation and interactional skills

  • ·       Anchored Resourcing Strategies for all phases of therapy

  • ·       Integrated memory processing interventions for people with complex neuro-dissociative states

  • ·       The impact of traumatic bonding on clients, therapists, and the therapeutic relationship

  • ·       Compassion fatigue, Compassion satisfaction, Self Compassion and Therapist self-care

  • ·       Patterning and Programming in families and organized systems to control people

  • ·       Programming and conditioning embedded in societal systems such as: racism, misogyny, religious persecution

  • ·       Intersectional Contexts within which all people develop and live

Instructional Methods:

  • Lecture including multimedia presentations

  • Experiential exercises to enhance practice and understanding of concepts

  • Interactive consultation which includes conceptualizing and developing treatment strategies for 1-2 of your clients over the course of the 4 month training

  • Interactive practicum for building skills around intervention and relational therapeutic stance

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