Training Schedule:

Sunday evening 7/17/22

7:30-9:30pm

Overview of Presence Psychotherapy Model

• Research showing multiple psychological benefits of mindfulness for depression and anxiety and sleep.
• Introduce Four Dimensions of Presence mindfulness practices.

ORBITS Process overview

• Define types of memory, multiple trauma terms, Parts of the Mind
• Common denominators of evidenced-based somatic trauma treatments

Define Four Dimensions of Presence.

• Presence as an ever-present Resource in trauma processing.
• Benefit of each dimension of Presence for regulation and processing.
• How clients can orient to Presence in every session
• Overview of three processes to easily facilitate Presence Awareness

Video session excerpts: Facilitating  Clients’ Awareness of each of Four  Dimension of Presence in session.  Shows clients self-report of psychological benefit for Four Dimensions Practices.

• Turn The View as an affect regulator and trauma healing agent.
• Define types of Turn the view.
• Video:  Session excerpts
• Reflective View,
• Presence viewing traumatized parts.
• Part of the mind viewing any of the Four Dimensions of Presence.

Monday 7/18/22

 Morning session:  9-12:30:  3 hour 15 minute program with 15 minute break

 9:00-10:15

• Grounded Presence
• Difference between Grounding techniques and Grounded Presence
• Grounded Presence as Embodied Presence
• Presence Prompts to facilitate Grounded Presence Awareness
• Techniques to attune to client’s unfolding practice in session to facilitate Presence Awareness
• Continuum of Grounded Presence

Video: Session Demonstration:  Facilitating Grounded Presence through Guided practice

• “Broaden and Zoom” for Presence to become aware of Part(s) of the mind, presenting problem
• Reflective View Concept for differentiation.
• Observing and Reflecting client’s reference to Presence while reporting or in non-verbal expression.
• Expanding on client’s organic Presence reference

10:15-10:30 Break

• 10:30-12:30  Small Group Practice with Guidance Facilitating Grounded Presence during session.

Lunch Break

• Afternoon Session: 2:00-5:30
• 3 hour +15 minute program with 15 minute break

2:00-3:15

• ORBITS Process Exploration
• Turn the View of Awareness to Process Trauma
• “What are you viewing From?”
• Various lens and views
• Relational Presence

Presence Psychotherapy’s definition includes love or compassion toward or from another person, animal, spiritual being, or object

Video:  Session Demonstration utilizing Relational Presence for regulation and trauma processing.

• Use of Turn the View utilizing Relational Presence
• Relational Trauma and Relational Presence
• Multiple Views with Relational Presence
• 2^nd Relational Presence Demonstration

Break: 3:15-3:30

3:30-5:30

Practice Groups:  Small Group Practice with Guidance: Facilitating Relational Presence within ORBITS process

Tuesday July 19

 Morning Session:  9-11:45:  2.75  hour program with 15 minute break

9:00-10:15:

Spacious Presence

• Use of Spacious Presence for clients who are uncomfortable with working with or bringing attention to their bodies.
• Benefits of Spacious Presence Awareness in session.
• Presence Prompts to facilitate Spacious Presence Awareness
• Techniques to attune to client’s unfolding practice in session to facilitate Spacious Awareness
• Video Session Demonstration:  Facilitating Spacious Presence throughout session for regulation and trauma processing.

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:45:

• Small-Group Practice with Guidance Facilitating Spacious Presence with ORBITS process.

Lunch Break:  12:30-2:00

Afternoon Session:  2:00-5:15

 2:00-3:15

• ORBITS Process Exploration
• 4 Turn the View of Awareness:  How and When to utilize.

Relational Presence

• Presence Psychotherapy’s definition includes love or compassion toward or from another person, animal, spiritual being, or object

Demonstration

• Use of Turn the View utilizing Relational Presence
• Relational Trauma and Relational Presence
• Multiple Views with Relational Presence
• 2^nd Relational Presence Demonstration

Break: 3:15-3:30

 3:30-5:15

Practice Groups:  Small Group Practice with Guidance: Facilitating Relational Presence within ORBITS process

 Wednesday July 20rd

Morning Session. 3 hour + 15-minute program with 15-minute break 

9-10:15

Transcendent Presence

• Define continuum of Transcendent Presence Awareness
• Spiritual bypass versus regulated processing
• Attachment Wounds – schizoid process and dissociation

Safe embodiment

• Video Session demonstrating Transcendent Awareness in ORBITS to facilitating trauma healing.

10:15-10:30  15 minute break

10:30-12:30 Practice groups

Practice Groups:  3:30-5:30 Small Group Practice with Guidance: Facilitating Transcendent  Presence within ORBITS process.

Evening Session

2 hour and 15 minute session

7:30-9:45

• Explore and Practice facilitating additional Four Dimension mindfulness practices in dyads and small groups.
• Technique to help therapists to bring awareness to their own subtle dysregulated states in session and identify impact on client.
• Role of facilitating therapists Presence in session for regulating client and healing clients’ attachment wounds.

Thursday July 21

2 hour + 30 minute program with 15 minute break

9:00-10:15:   “I – Illuminate”  ORBITS process

• Accessing and processing nuance of negative trauma induced beliefs
• Range of negative relational trauma induced beliefs.
• Assessment through Clients felt Sense and Therapists relational attunement.
• Identifying and working with attachment wounds as they emerge in session.
• Healing through felt sense juxtaposition.
• Awareness in trauma scene.
• Presence Psychotherapy techniques for healing attachment wounds and strategies.

Video:  Multiple session clips demonstrating reprocessing of negative trauma induced beliefs.

Break 10:15-10:30

10:30-11:45

• Accessing layers of sensory, procedural, semantic, and emotional implicit memory.
• Procedural Memory as an often overlooked aspect of trauma healing.
• Assessing and healing procedural memory.
• Video demonstrating identification of and healing of procedural memory

Lunch:  11:45-2:00

Afternoon:  2:00-5:15

• Group Practice with 15 minute break.  Longer sessions to access and process layers of memory utilizing any of the Four Dimensions of Presence.

Friday July 22

2 hour and 50 minute session with 3 hour session

9:00-10:20

• Assessing resilience – over and under attributing resilience and its consequences.
• Integrating other models
• Framework for thoughtful integration
• Felt Sense
• Fight flight Freeze
• Relational Concepts of: Irrational guilt, shame, idealization, grief, generalized anxiety, hopelessness
• Relational attunement:  words affect memory between the words
• Subtle often overlooked affect
• Integration and application of Presence Psychotherapy with specific populations and modalities
• “I” in ORBITS as a place for easy integration.
• “T” in ORBITS as a powerful tool to integrate into other models.

10:20-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00

• Explain how to teach clients mindfulness-based skills in between session to regulate, and broaden identification of how they are with ORB tool.
•  How to facilitate and integrate existing clients’ spirituality into trauma processing
• Termination in session and in training:  Use of Four Dimensions of Presence in termination.