IC19 Workshop 28 - Mind Body Healing Approaches to Trauma: Navigating Chaos, Complexity and Resiliency - Ronald Alexander, PhD

Description:

This workshop will address the treatment of trauma by utilizing Ericksonian Hypnosis, Somatic Experiencing and Mindfulness practices for accessing the unconscious and activating inner resources with somatic experiencing, mindfulness and trance. These three unique orientations emphasize a unified mind body healing approach that appreciates utilization as an orientation that understands the importance of the symptom as a pathway to inner healing. We will review the clinical tracking skills for: orientation, resourcing states, titration, pendulation, containment and the witnessing awareness as well as learning to pace and follow the patient's nervous system. A step by step model will be taught how to navigate the complexity and chaos of energy wells through containment and resourcing. Participants will learn tools for tracking coherency and creating comfort, safety and resiliency within the body and nervous systems. Clinical Hypnosis, Neuroscience and Polyvagal theory for clinical adaptions for working with an activated nervous system and shuttling towards trauma deactivation and integration and settling of experience will be demonstrated.

The course will highlight both Milton Erickson's use of metaphor and rapid trance induction as well as the work of Peter Levine's models of Trauma and Healing Vortex states of experiences, including mindfulness practice for framing, re-framing and de-framing the immediate reorganization of transforming somatic-affective experience into new healing rhythms in the body. These methods allow the body to open healthier pathways for rapid new somatic recoveries. We will also emphasize the use of naturalistic hypnotic trance, guided mindfulness practice, and somatic breath tools for generating new therapeutic skills in fostering trauma healing, coherency and Resiliency.

Educational Objectives:

1. Identify the two styles of trance induction used in the demonstration.
2. Explain Guided Mindfulness meditations which will be demonstrated for clinical use in the treatment of trauma.
3. Utilize new clinical skills from Ericksonian Hypnosis and Somatic Experiencing for tracking, pacing and reframing somatic symptoms into healing pathways for trauma healing and mind-body resolution.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*