Daily Schedule

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
  • 2nd 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
  • 2nd 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.