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General information about the Training in Trauma-Focused Body-Psychotherapy YoPT®
The aim of the training in Trauma Focused Body Psychotherapy YoPT® is to enable the therapeut to use “body tools” and include body-work into psychotherapy especially for clients, who have experienced trauma and suffer from trauma-related disorders.
Especially with these trauma clients Trauma Focused Body Psychotherapy is needed to overcome PTSD and trauma releated disorders. Both phases of trauma psychotherapy must include body-work: (A) the phase of stabilization and (B) of trauma-confrontation & reprocessing. We need to involve the body and its states because “the body keeps the scar” (Bessel Van der Kolk) for a successful and transformativ healing process.
The training uses “body tools” for stabilization as well as for trauma confrontation and reprocessing. It teaches how to include body sensations, bodily felt emotions and body expression/action into the therapy process – because no trauma memory will heal without focusing on exactly those three dimensions.
To overcome and to heal trauma memories we have to finish in the safe therapeutic situation without emotional dissoziation or re-traumatisation, what could not be expressed and finished in the traumatic situation itself: We have to reprocess the overwhelming emotions in a huge “Window of Tolerance”, using the body as an anchor and always regulating the ANS. When it becomes possible to express and feel what should have been expressed and felt, but has been buried in terror, shock and pain, the healing process can start…
MODULE ONE
BODY FOCUS and BODY WORK for stabilization and self regulation of the ANS
MODULE ONE of the training lays the foundations and creates a body anchor for all following processes. By integrating yogic and other body techniques into one’s own psychotherapeutic work we teach our clients to regulate themselves even in difficult situations using Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory and combine it with the theory of the “sattvic” stage of yoga. In YoPT® we always work in a mirror-neuronal way – which leads both, client and therapists, in a state of “calm aliveness” or “alive calmness” (the “sattvik” or balanced state), what is the best prevention against secudary traumatisation.
Body regulation becomes the anchor for all following therapeutic processes: It is the basis for self-regulation, self-empowerment and self-confidence and leads to “inner child healing”, to creating power-resources and to a safe trauma confrontation (Module Two & Three). In Module One we start to include the “inner Child” (“little Me”) into the body for stabilizing and setting the focus inside. In Module Two we will deepen the healing work for this “little Me” becoming “inner heroes” and transforming fear/submission or explosion/anger with body techniques.
Details of Module One:
Course price: NIS 2000.- for four workshops.
Place: Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus, Jerusalem.
Dates: From 3 – 8 pm
- Workshop: Sunday 22. Feb.
- Workshop: Sunday 01. March
- Workshop: Sunday 12. April
- Workshop: Sunday 19. April
Lecturer:
Miriam Popper: Head of the YoPT® Institute Swizerland. Federally recognised psychotherapist, lic.phil.I/MAS psych. and certified yoga teacher AYA/SYV/EYU (more information here) and
Dr. Fortu Ben Haroch. Head of the Child Care Center at the Hadassah Hospital.. (The training will be thaught in English and can be translated into Hebrew if needed).
standing firmly and open myheart………looking inside and finding the path to my goal …….. finding balance also in difficult situations