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.