Course Description

The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM™) is an advanced clinical training for mental health and somatic practitioners who work with developmental trauma.  NARM addresses relational and attachment traumaby working with early, unconscious patterns of disconnection that deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships.  Integrating a psychodynamicand body centeredapproach, NARM offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for working with developmental trauma.

NARM draws on psychodynamic models such as attachment and object relations theory, and somatic and character structure approaches, in addressing the link between psychological issues and the body.  Working relationally in the present moment, and within a context of interpersonal neurobiology, NARM offers a new approach of working relationally that is a resource-oriented, non-regressive, non-cathartic, and ultimately non-pathologizing model. Grounded in what NARM calls somatic mindfulness, NARM is influenced by a non-western orientation to the nature of the identity. Learning how to work simultaneously with these diverse elements represents a radical shift that has profound clinical implications for healing complex trauma and supporting personal and relational growth.

Course Objectives

In the NARM Practitioner Training you will learn:

• • The different skills needed to work with developmental versus shock trauma; when and why shock trauma interventions may be contraindicated in working with developmental trauma.
  • How to address the complex interplay between nervous system dysregulation and identity distortions, such as toxic shame and guilt, low self-esteem, chronic self-judgment, and other psychobiological symptoms.
  • How to work moment-by-moment with early adaptive survival styles that, while once life-saving, distort clients’ current life experience.
  • When to work ‘bottom-up’, when to work ‘top-down’, and how to work with both simultaneously to meet the special challenges of developmental trauma.
  • How to support clients with a mindful and progressive process of disidentification from identity distortions.
  • A new, coherent theory for working with affect and emotions, which aims to support their psychobiological completion.

Course Structure

The NARM Practitioner Training consists of 120 contact hours divided into 4 live modules. The 4 live modules will be held for a total of 20 days over the 2-year period of the training. The live modules are typically spaced 4 – 6 months apart, or 2 per year, to allow time for continued study, practice, peer meetings, and the webinars, in support of greater integration of the NARM clinical approach.

Supplementary learning opportunities include: study and practice groups, individual and group consultation, individual NARM sessions, access to library of demonstration videos, and other learning intensives.

Teaching Methods

All modules include a combination of 2 complimentary instruction approaches:

1. Didactic and theoretical learning: including lecture, question and answer periods, class-wide discussion, case consultation, and deconstruction of live-demonstrations and videos.
2. Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role-plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.

2-Year NARM Practitioner Training Curriculum Topic Overview

The order of content may be subject to change.

Module 1

• • NARM Theoretical Orientation
  • Differentiating Interventions for working with Shock vs. Developmental Trauma
  • Working with Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integrative Approach
  • NARM Organizing Principles
  • Overview of 5 Adaptive Survival Styles
  • Distortions of Life Force Model
  • Distress and Healing Cycles
  • Pride and Shame-Based Identifications
  • Reframing Attachment and Attachment Loss
  • Foreclosure of Aspects of Self in Order to Protect Attachment Relationship
  • Introducing the 4 Pillars of NARM
  • NARM Pillar 1: Establishing a Therapeutic “Contract”
  • The NARM Relational Model
  • Connection Survival Style
  • Clients Whose Access to Sensations and Feelings are Compromised

  Module 2

  • Developmental Process: Attachment & Separation-Individuation
  • The NARM Relational Model
  • NARM Pillar 2: Asking Exploratory Questions
  • Somatic Mindfulness
  • Attunement Survival Style
  • A New Orientation to Resourcing Clients
  • Dual Awareness: Working in Present Time with Developemental Themes
  • Agency as the Foundation for the Development of the Adult Self
  • NARM Pillar 4: Reflecting Psychobiological Shifts towards increasing connection
  • Autonomy Survival Style
  • A New Model for Working with Emotions
  • Primary vs Default Emotions
  • Working with Anger & Aggression
  • Working with Shame & Guilt

  Module 3

  • Trust Survival Style
  • Working with Anger & Aggression
  • Working with Shame & Guilt
  • Narcissism and Objectification of Self
  • Narcissistic vs Sadistic Abuse
  • NARM Pillar 3: Supporting Agency
  • Love-Sexuality Survival Style
  • The Psychobiological Process of Shame (“Shame as a Verb”, “Shame as a Process not a State”
  • Tracking Expansion & Contraction, Connection & Disconnection
  • “Drilling Down”: A Process of Challenging Assumptions & Clarifying Experience
  • Deconstruction of Experience (in the function of Disidentification)
  • NARM Languaging
  • Deepening Study into the Connection Survival Style Issues, Symptoms and Related Disorders
  • Integrating the Polyvagal Theory
  • Trait-Survival Style-Personality Disorder Continuum
  • Identifying Core Dilemma: Core Themes vs Survival Strategies (Behaviors, Symptoms, etc.)
  • Countertransference & the Traps of Goal-Oriented, Solution-Focused Psychotherapy

  Module 4

  • How to Develop a Working Hypothesis
  • Freeze & Intrapsychic Conflict
  • Self-Hatred & Self-Rejection
  • Splitting
  • An overview of NARM’s different orientation to working with personality disorders
  • Therapist’s Countertransference Acting-Out & Re-Enactment
  • Unmanaged Empathy and Therapist Efforting
  • The Interplay of the Survival Styles: Primary and Secondary Patterns
  • Survival Styles as they relate to Intimacy and Sexuality
  • Developing Capacity for Pleasure
  • Working with Survival Style Dynamics as they relate to Couples
  • Working with Identity
  • Addressing Identity from both a Psychological, Non-Western and Spiritual Perspective
  • Freedom from Personal History
  • Separation/Individuation: Abandonment/Loneliness to Aloneness to Freedom
  • Personal Freedom as a pre-requisite for Real Intimacy
  • Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
  • Addressing the Physical Structure of the Adaptive Survival Styles
  • Working with the Social Engagement Channels: Eyes, Ears, Face and Touch
  • Integrating NARM Effectively Into Our Clinical Practice

Module 4: to be announced

The training will be taught in English.

For further information and booking, please click here

Das NeuroAffektive Beziehungsmodell (NARM™) ist eine Weiterbildung für Psycho- und KörperpsychotherapeutInnen. NARM thematisiert Beziehungs- und Bindungstraumata und arbeitet mit frühen, unbewussten Mustern von Verbindungsabbruch, die unsere Identität, Emotionen, Physiologie, Verhalten und Beziehungen tief beeinflussen. NARM integriert sowohl einen psychodynamischen und als auch körperzentrierten Ansatz und ist ein umfassendes theoretisches und klinisches Modell für die Arbeit mit Entwicklungstraumata.

NARM basiert auf psychodynamischen Modellen wie der Bindungs- und Objektbeziehungstheorie, somatischen Modellen und Charakterstrukturansätzen, um das wechselseitige Zusammenwirken von psychologischen Themen und dem Körper zu untersuchen. NARM beschreibt einen neuen Ansatz beziehungsorientierter Arbeit im gegenwärtigen Moment im Kontext interpersoneller Neurobiologie. Es handelt sich dabei um ein ressourcenorientiertes, nicht-regressives, nicht-kathartisches und letztlich nicht-pathologisierendes Modell. Basierend auf Achtsamkeit, Reflektion und Akzeptanz unterstützt NARM eine nicht-westliche Ausrichtung im Hinblick auf die Natur der Persönlichkeit. Zu lernen, wie man gleichzeitig mit diesen verschiedenen Elementen arbeitet, ist ein grundlegender Wandel, der tiefgreifende klinische Auswirkungen auf die Heilung komplexer Traumata und die Unterstützung des persönlichen und beziehungsmäßigen Wachstums hat.

Daten, Zeiten, Ort

Modul 1: 20. – 24. Oktober 2020
Modul 2: 17. – 21. Februar 2021
Modul 3: 25. – 29. August 2021
Modul 4: 26. – 30 November 2021
Kurszeiten: 10.00 – 13.00 Uhr und 14.30 – 17.30 Uhr
Kursort: Zürich
Kosten: CHF 5050.– für 4 Module / Das Training kann in 4 Raten gezahlt werden.

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Kursdaten, Zeiten und Ort

The deconstruction of experience and dissolution of old identifications (beliefs and adaptation strategies etc.) describes a transformational process that is an essential part of any personal development. Furthermore, it represents an important strategy in regard to self- and affect regulation.

To disidentify involves the exploration of the observer and the observed. This is done in close contact with embodied feelings and other qualities of experience, without losing them as in dissociation for example. It enables people to remember the emergence of their (survival) strategies and at the same time to gain some distance from them, while reestablishing closeness to themselves in the here-and-now. Physically it means dissolving the pattern of contraction, tension and collapse.

Identifications and adaptation strategies, although they were intelligent, useful and often life-saving in the past, become the obstacles for further growth and more often than not contribute to the many symptoms today that go hand in hand with unresolved traumatic energies.

In this seminar, which takes the form of a retreat, the lectures will alternate with mindfulness based exercises, neuroaffective regulation, (dialogic) self-exploration and in-depth debriefing with space for individual guidance.

Topics covered:

• Developmental view regarding the process of healthy identification/disidentification
• Exploring and deconstructing identification/disidentification-processes on all levels (physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, relational, spiritual)
• Reconnecting to our profound aliveness and feel our willingness to face our potential and inner wisdom in a fresh and open way with all its possibilities and consequences
• Practicing compassion for ourself and others
• Embodying and living our capacity and courage for increased agency and dignity
• Strengthening an embodied presence in a therapeutic setting

The seminar is aimed both at psycho- and bodytherapists who would like to expand on this approach to developmental therapeutic processes, and at people who would like to approach this topic for personal reasons.

The course will be taught in English.

For further information and booking, please click here

Course Description

The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM™) is an advanced clinical training for mental health and somatic practitioners who work with developmental trauma.  NARM addresses relational and attachment traumaby working with early, unconscious patterns of disconnection that deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships.  Integrating a psychodynamicand body centeredapproach, NARM offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for working with developmental trauma.

NARM draws on psychodynamic models such as attachment and object relations theory, and somatic and character structure approaches, in addressing the link between psychological issues and the body.  Working relationally in the present moment, and within a context of interpersonal neurobiology, NARM offers a new approach of working relationally that is a resource-oriented, non-regressive, non-cathartic, and ultimately non-pathologizing model. Grounded in what NARM calls somatic mindfulness, NARM is influenced by a non-western orientation to the nature of the identity. Learning how to work simultaneously with these diverse elements represents a radical shift that has profound clinical implications for healing complex trauma and supporting personal and relational growth.

Course Objectives

In the NARM Practitioner Training you will learn:

• • The different skills needed to work with developmental versus shock trauma; when and why shock trauma interventions may be contraindicated in working with developmental trauma.
  • How to address the complex interplay between nervous system dysregulation and identity distortions, such as toxic shame and guilt, low self-esteem, chronic self-judgment, and other psychobiological symptoms.
  • How to work moment-by-moment with early adaptive survival styles that, while once life-saving, distort clients’ current life experience.
  • When to work ‘bottom-up’, when to work ‘top-down’, and how to work with both simultaneously to meet the special challenges of developmental trauma.
  • How to support clients with a mindful and progressive process of disidentification from identity distortions.
  • A new, coherent theory for working with affect and emotions, which aims to support their psychobiological completion.

Course Structure

The NARM Practitioner Training consists of 120 contact hours divided into 4 live modules. The 4 live modules will be held for a total of 20 days over the 2-year period of the training. The live modules are typically spaced 4 – 6 months apart, or 2 per year, to allow time for continued study, practice, peer meetings, and the webinars, in support of greater integration of the NARM clinical approach.

Supplementary learning opportunities include: study and practice groups, individual and group consultation, individual NARM sessions, access to library of demonstration videos, and other learning intensives.

Teaching Methods

All modules include a combination of 2 complimentary instruction approaches:

1. Didactic and theoretical learning: including lecture, question and answer periods, class-wide discussion, case consultation, and deconstruction of live-demonstrations and videos.
2. Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role-plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.

2-Year NARM Practitioner Training Curriculum Topic Overview

Dates

Cost

€ 2.680

The training will be taught in English with Greek translation.

For further information and booking, please click here

In diesem Seminar werden wir untersuchen, wie vergangene, oft schwierige Bindungserfahrungen unser Verhalten heute bestimmen und wie wir uns dadurch in leidvolle Beziehungsdynamiken verstricken. Die gewonnenen Einsichten ermöglichen ein Verständnis dafür, auf welche Weise unser Umgang mit den Stressreaktionen des Körpers, fehlender Einstimmung uns selbst und anderen gegenüber, unseren Umgang mit Bedürfniskonflikten erschweren.

In Beziehungen werden häufig eigene Empfindlichkeiten und Verletzungen durch das Verhalten des anderen unbewusst berührt. Dies kann zu starren Rollenfestschreibungen und zu unangemessen heftigen Reaktionen bei uns selbst führen, die wiederum die schmerzlichen Erfahrungen des anderen auslösen. Hierzu gehören starke emotionale Reaktionen wie Aggressionen oder auch Gefühllosigkeit, Rückzug und andere Verhaltensweisen. Im schlimmsten Fall kommt es zu einem reaktiven Teufelskreis von Anklagen, Abwehr, Schuldzuweisungen etc., der keine authentische Begegnung mehr möglich macht.

Das Anliegen des Workshops ist es, Mitgefühl und Verständnis für die Dynamiken und Trigger zu entwickeln, die dabei eine Rolle spielen. So können wir lernen, uns treu zu bleiben ohne die Verbindung zu anderen zu verlieren und weder uns selbst noch andere immer wieder aufs Neue zu verletzen. Wir werden neue Handlungsmöglichkeiten kennenlernen, um klare Rahmenbedingungen zu schaffen, die einen respektvollen Umgang ohne Urteil und Scham, miteinander ermöglichen. Hierzu werden wir lernen, kindliche Bindungs- und Überlebensstrategien im Hier-und-Jetzt auf ihre Wahrheit hin zu untersuchen und den Umgang mit Bedürfnissen in erwachsenen Beziehungen einzuüben.

Das Seminar eignet sich für alle Menschen in Beziehungen, besonders für Menschen, die mit Menschen arbeiten und für Paare, die sich Verständnis und Werkzeuge aneignen möchten, um ihre Beziehungsdynamiken wirkungsvoller gestalten zu können.

Daten, Zeiten, Ort

20 – 22 September 2020, Beginn am 1. Tag um 10.00 Uhr, Leitung gemeinsam mit Anando Ursula Würzburger, Köln

Kosten

375,00 €