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Linda Curran, Betsy Polatin – Touch & Movement in Trauma Therapy

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When you think about your most traumatized clients, do you ask yourself “why are my clients stuck?” or “why aren’t they getting better?”

Trauma affects the mind, brain and body. Successful therapy requires interventions that address all three – interventions that heal the autonomic nervous system and those that address the body and internal organs as well. How many of these are you using with your clients?

Join movement specialist and author of The Actor’s Secret, Betsy Polatin MFA, SEP, and trauma specialist Linda Curran BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD, and learn to address trauma in a bottom-up fashion. You will gain techniques and resources that address sensory, motoric and somatic issues and encourage clients to turn their attention towards the internal sensations of position and movement, bodily pain, and sensing one’s internal state. You will be able to implement sensorimotor and somatic interventions, including those adapted from the Alexander Technique and the Feldenkrais Method, Gestalt therapy, Yoga, sensory integration methods, therapeutic touch and breathwork.

This workshop teaches a plethora of relatively simple, yet theoretically sound, body-based techniques for healing simple, complex, and developmental trauma.

Are you ready to take your trauma intervention toolbox to the next level? Register today and start on your journey to more positive outcomes for your most traumatized clients.

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Outline

Introduction to Betsy Polatin & Performance Training
Do Our Intentions Match the Results?
Entrenched Patterns
Performance & Trauma
Somatic Experiencing

Allowing Our Bodies to Complete a Response
Understanding Our Patterns
Letting Go of a “Character”

The Actor’s Secret: A New Approach to Performance Training
The Alexander Technique

The Importance of Support

Breathing Coordination

3 Dimensional Breathing

Somatic Experiencing

The Importance of Movement
How Do We “Use” Ourselves
Effort & Energy

Can You Do Less?
Toned But Not Tense

Client Demonstration

Touch & Movement
The Roles We Play
Changing Habitual Patterns through Touch & Movement
Resourcing

Internal Resources
External Resources

Experiential Exercise: “Resources” & Discussion

Trauma 101
“What Happened to You” vs. “What is Wrong With You”
Peter Levine’s View of Trauma
The Brain in the Palm of Your Hand (Dan Siegel)

Interpersonal Neurobiology

Overwhelm/Shutting Down
Gestalt Therapy

The Arousal Cycle
Experiential Exercise: “Startle Exercise”

Reset Breath

Orienting: Betsy Polatin

Living in the Present vs. the Past
Experiential Exercise: “Orienting”
Orienting Demonstration
Differentiating

The Autonomic Nervous System: Linda Curran

Stephen Porges: Polyvagal Theory
- Tend/Befriend
- Fight/Fright/Freeze
- Collapse (Dorsal Vagal Response)
The Levels of Physiological Arousal
Experiential Exercise: “Tracking”
- Reptilian Brain (Sensations)
- Limbic (Feelings)
- Cognitive (Thinking)
- Containment & Support
Tracking Demonstration

Stress Response

Stress Event/Reaction
Discharge Energy
Equilibrium/Baseline

Freeze Response

Sympathetic vs. Parasympathetic
Defense Cascade
Tonic Immobility
Robert Scaer M.D. Interview

Regulation

Interpersonal Regulation
Self-Regulation

Experiential Exercise: Interoceptors & Discussion

Use of Self
“How” vs. “What” You Do
Definition of “Use”
Two Concepts

Support
Suspension

Demonstration: “Support”
Wrap Up & Conclusion

Awareness through Movement Feldenkrais Method
Hands on Method
Awareness through Movement Lessons
Human Brains Organized Towards Efficiency, Healing, and Functional Organization
Trauma & Awareness through Movement

Shift Self-Awareness in the Body
Effect on Nervous System

Experiential Exercise

Touch “When & Why”
Harry Harlow Study

Neglect & Attachment
Importance of Touch

Touch & Resonance

Asking Permission Before Touching

Experiential Exercise: “Energetic Boundaries” & Discussion

Two Types of Touch

Practitioner Hands on “to fix”
Non-Fixing Touch

3 Ways of Approaching Touch

Merging Touch
Barely Touching
Agency Touch

Experiential Exercise: “Hands On” & Discussion
Touch & Trauma Treatment

Support

Communication about Touch
Experiential Exercise: “Get a Pen” & Ethical Decision Making Worksheet & Explanation
How to Communicate When We Don’t Want to be Touched
How Essential Touch is to Our Well-Being

Skin Hunger

Boundaries

Letters to Body Workers Regarding Touch

Suspension
Suspended From Above
Two Systems

Compression System (Building Blocks)
Suspension System (Expansion)

Body Alignment: Suspension System
Tensegrity
Experiential Exercise: “Suspension” & Discussion
Grounding

Introduction
Review of Ethical Decision-Making Worksheet
Follow-up: Letter to Body Workers

Working with Flashbacks
Guided Imagery is the Opposite of Flashbacks
Experiential Exercise: Guided Imagery: “Lemon Experiment” & Discussion

Breathing
Review of Suspension & Support
Carl Stough “Breathing Coordination”

Proper Breathing Requires Attention
Breathing Coordination Used to Reverse Emphysema

Different Models of Breathing

Diaphragm Breathing
Belly Breathing
3 Dimensional Breathing
- Sideways
- Up & Down
- Front to Back

Experiential Exercise: “3 Dimensional Breathing” & Discussion

Collapsed vs. Empowered Stance
Experiential Exercise: “Collapsed vs. Empowered Stance”
Dual Awareness

Helping Clients be Aware of their Stance
Helping Clients be Aware of their Emotions

Autonomic Nervous System

Volitional Control

Dissociation

Goal: Become Embodied & Present

Mentor: Mary Lou Schack, Ph.D.
Problems Have a Traumatic Base
Experiential Psychotherapy Session with Dr. Schack
Processing the Session

Four Reactions to Trauma
- Fight
- Flight
- Freeze
- Find a Friend (Basic Human Instinct)
  - We’re Traumatized Because We Don’t Believe we Can Get Help

Awareness & Alexander Technique: Betsy Polatin
Experiential Exercise: “50/50 Awareness”

50% Awareness in on the Inside
50% Awareness in on the Outside

Experiential Exercise: “The Chair” with Betsy Polatin
Alexander Technique

Experiential Exercise: “Can I Do Less?” & Discussion
Knowing our Own Patterns
Being Able to Shift Your Patterns

Embodied Self: Linda Curran

More about Betsy Polatin’s Background

Dance
Vocal Coach
Movement, Trauma & Experience
Working with Peter Levine

Wrap Up & Conclusion
Relationships before Touch
The Language of Trauma is Sensor

Faculty

Linda Curran, BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD Related seminars and products: 14

Linda A. Curran, BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD, EMDR Level II Trained, is president of Integrative Trauma Treatment, LLC in Havertown, PA. She provides clients an integrative approach to trauma, and treats PTSD in adolescent and adult populations, including clients with eating disorders, sexual trauma, and self-injury. An international speaker on the treatment of trauma, Linda has developed, produced, and presents multi-media workshops on all aspects of psychological trauma.

Linda is the author of the best-selling Trauma Competency: A Clinician’s Guide (PESI, 2010) and 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions: Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward (PESI, 2013). She is the producer of the best-selling Interview Trauma DVD series in which she collaborated with the world’s leaders in Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.; Peter Levine, Ph.D.; Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCS; Stephen Porges, Ph.D.; Janina Fisher, Ph.D.; and many more.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Linda Curran maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Nonfinancial: Linda Curran has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.

Betsy Polatin Related seminars and products: 1

Betsy Polatin maintains private practices in Brookline, Massachusetts and the Berkshires, and often teaches in New York and London.

She pioneered a four-year Alexander Technique curriculum for the acting conservatory students at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, where she continues to teach today.

In addition to Boston University, Betsy is on the faculty at the Opera Institute of Boston. She has also taught at: The Tanglewood Summer Music Program, Berklee College of Music, The Muscular Therapy Institute, New Hampshire Music Teachers Association, The Kushi Institute, and Boston Ballet through the Dance and Sports Medicine Clinic at Children’s Hospital run by renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. Lyle Micheli, M.D.

Betsy has taught master classes to The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Children’s Hospital Physical Therapists, Cambridge Choir of England, Northeastern Society for Group Psychotherapy, The American Red Cross, Saint Francis Friary and Yoga and Meditation centers. She has taught throughout the U.S., and the world, including India, Japan, England, Germany, Spain, and Korea.

Articles that Betsy has written about the technique have been published in Direction Magazine, and in 2009, she presented her work at the 7th International Conference for the Alexander Technique at Oxford University.

Betsy recently did Alexander Technique and vocal coaching for jazz singer and saxophonist Grace Kelly on her new CD, “Man with the Hat”, recorded with Phil Woods.