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: February 9th – 13th, 2022

The training 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.

Please note: the 1st Module will be taught online due to the current Covid-19 situation.

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

Topics and schedule subject to change by instructor

Module 1

• NARM Organizing Principles
• NARM Theoretical Orientation
• Differentiating Interventions for working with Shock vs. Developmental Trauma
• Working Top-Down and Bottom-Up
• Tracking Connection & Disconnection
• Developmental Process: Attachment & Separation-Individuation
• Reframing Attachment and Attachment Loss
• The Distortion of the Life Force Model
• Distress and Healing Cycles
• 5 Adaptive Survival Styles
• Pride and Shame-Based Identifications
• Connection Survival Style
• Attunement Survival Style
• NARM 4 Pillars: Clinical Model
• NARM Pillar 1: Establishing a Therapeutic “Contract”
• NARM Pillar 2: Asking Exploratory Questions
• Deconstruction of Experience (in the function of Disidentification)
• “Drilling Down”: A Process of Challenging Assumptions & Clarifying Experience

Module 2

• The NARM Relational Model
• Working Hypothesis
• Identifying Core Dilemma: Core Themes vs Survival Strategies (Behaviors, symptoms, etc.)
• Trust Survival Style
• Autonomy Survival Style
• Love-Sexuality Survival Style
• NARM Pillar 3: Supporting Agency (Agency as the Foundation for the Development of the Adult Self)
• NARM Pillar 4: Reflecting Positive Shifts
• NARM Languaging
• Shame & Guilt

Module 3

• NARM Model for Working with Affect
• Primary vs Default Emotions
• Emotional Completion
• The Psychobiological Process of Shame (“Shame as a Verb not a Noun”; “Shame as a Process not a State”)
• Shame, Guilt & Self-Hatred
• Working with Anger & Aggression
• Countertransference in NARM
• Unmanaged Empathy and Therapist Efforting
• Narcissism and Objectification of Self
• Narcissistic vs Sadistic Abuse
• NARM Personality Spectrum

Module 4

• Deepening Study into the Connection Survival Style Issues, Symptoms and Related Disorders
• The Interplay of the Survival Styles: Primary and Secondary Patterns
• Revisiting the Dynamics of Attachment, Separation-Individuation, Attachment Loss and the Core Dilemma
• Relationships, Couples, Intimacy and Sexuality
• Survival Styles & the Polyvagal Theory
• NARM & the Body
• Working with Identity
• Transgenerational Trauma
• Disidentification Process
• “Cutting the Cord”: Freedom from Identity
• Post-Traumatic Growth
• Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
• Integrating NARM Effectively Into Our Clinical Practice

Dates

Modul 1: 26. – 30. May 2021

Modul 2: 17. – 21. November 2021

Modul 3: 23. – 27. April 2022

Modul 4: 12. – 16. October 2022

The training will be taught in English with Polish translation.

For further information and booking, please click here

Kursdaten, Zeiten und Ort

Kursdaten, Zeit, Ort

04. – 05. Dezember 2021

Beginn am 1. Tag um 10.00 Uhr

Kosten

280,- €

Jetzt online buchen oder Kontaktanfrage.

Dieser Kurs wird online über Zoom angeboten. Du kannst die Zoom-Software hier kostenfrei herunterladen.

Kursdaten, Zeit, Ort

08. – 09. Dezember 2021

Beginn am 1. Tag um 10.00 Uhr

Kosten

500,- CHF

Jetzt online buchen oder Kontaktanfrage.

Dieser Kurs wird online über Zoom angeboten. Du kannst die Zoom-Software hier kostenfrei herunterladen.

In diesem Seminar werden wir die Entwicklung von Scham- und Schuldgefühlen aus neurowissenschaftlicher und entwicklungspsychologischer Perspektive, ihre Auswirkungen in erwachsenen Beziehungen sowie generationsübergreifend erforschen.

Die Wurzeln lebenslanger Gefühle von Scham und Schuld sind oft in durch frühe Entwicklungs- oder Schocktraumen ausgelösten Stresszuständen zu finden. Scham- und Schuldgefühle entwickeln sich als Reaktion auf Stress und Desorganisation im Körper und erzeugen in Folge wiederum weiteren Stress und Desorganisation.

Negative Glaubenssätze über uns selbst, wie etwa „Ich bin schlecht“ und die zahlreichen Varianten dieser Überzeugung basieren auf der frühen Erfahrung von „Ich fühle mich schlecht“. Auf der Ebene der Identität werden Scham- und Schuldgefühle zur Basis stark verzerrter Identifikationen und Selbstverurteilungen, die lebenslang andauern können.

Wenn wir verstehen, dass Scham- und Schuldgefühle mehr mit der Unzulänglichkeit der Umgebung als mit eigenem Versagen zu tun hat, hilft es uns dabei, uns selbst auf eine neue mitfühlendere Art zu sehen. Wir kommen mehr in Verbindung mit unserer Kraft, haben mehr Möglichkeiten im Verhalten und verzerrte Selbstbilder lösen sich auf.

Wir werden uns sowohl theoretisch wie praktisch mit der Thematik auseinandersetzen, so dass die Teilnehmer ihre eigenen authentischen Erfahrungen erkunden können.

Körper- und Psychotherapeuten werden für die zentrale Bedeutung dieser Dynamik in der Arbeit mit Menschen sensibilisiert und erhalten zusätzliche Werkzeuge im Umgang damit.

Seminarinhalte

• Affektentwicklung und -regulation:
  • Wie entstehen Scham-und Schuldgefühle?
  • Angemessener Umgang mit Scham- und Schuldgefühlen und dem daraus resultierenden Verhalten
• Natürliche Scham- und Schuldgefühle und solche in Folge von überwältigenden Erfahrungen
• Scham-/Schuldgefühle
  • als identitätsstiftende Kräfte
  • als generationsübergreifendes Thema
  • aus der Perspektive der Neurophysiologie und Entwicklungspsychologie
• Schamgefühle und das implizite Gedächtnis
• Auflösen des Teufelskreises von chronischem Stress, Scham-, Schuldgefühlen und verzerrter Identität
• Praktische, das Thema erforschende Übungen der Teilnehmer miteinander
• Umgang mit Scham-/ Schuldgefühlen während des therapeutischen Prozesses

Zielgruppe

Die Inhalte und Struktur des Seminars eignen sich sowohl als Fortbildung für Menschen in therapeutischen oder pädagogischen Berufen, wie auch als Selbsterfahrung für diejenigen, die diese Thematik für sich selbst erforschen möchten.

Kursdaten, Zeiten und Ort

20. – 23. März 2022, Beginn um 10.00 Uhr, Köln

Kosten

580,- €

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Topics include

• Overview of the theoretical and clinical approach to the treatment of developmental trauma
• The reciprocal relationship of nervous system dysregulation and identity distortions
• The five organizing themes in NARM and their significance from a developmental psychological point of view
• The emergence and function of the five basic adaptive strategies, the resulting identity distortions, and its implications in adult life
• Working in present time, the importance of dual awareness and somatic mindfulness
• The four pillars of process work
• The NARM healing cycle and top-down and bottom-up integration
• Demonstration of the approach
• Orientation: the NARM training

Target group

People in psycho- and related trauma-therapeutic professions who are interested in getting to know and experience the conceptual and methodological understanding of NARM to a greater extent.

Costs

€ 295 excl. boarding and stay. Day stay (obligatory) incl. lunch about € 85,- for a 2-day arrangement.

The workshop will be taught in English.

Further information and booking.