Conferentieoord De Poort
Biesseltsebaan 34 Telefoon: +31(0)24 397 1204 E-mail: info@depoort.org
Events at this location
december
Event Details
Course Description Research shows that touch, even before the capacity for language develops, is an essential foundation of our earliest relational experiences - the fundamental
Event Details
Course Description
Research shows that touch, even before the capacity for language develops, is an essential foundation of our earliest relational experiences – the fundamental mode of relating between caregiver and child. Through touch, we develop an image of our body and its boundaries, a sense of embodiment that contains all of our experiences at neurophysiological, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive levels.
We will focus on the importance of conscious touch while learning self-regulation through co-regulation, working with implicit memory, and the challenges of early attachment experiences.
The seminar addresses emotional, relational, cognitive, and developmental maladaptations that cannot be addressed through verbal means alone. To work through these vulnerabilities, it is essential to encourage the intelligence of the body and the intelligence of the brain to work together in a collaborative way.
Course Objectives
This clinical training provides a specific hands-on approach to working with key patterns of “bracing” and “collapsing” in response to developmental trauma. Systematically deconstructing the somatic components of relational and emotional trauma is a powerful tool for those seeking to deepen their skills in somatic psychotherapy.
Psychotherapeutically trained NARM practitioners gradually learn to build their confidence in integrating body-oriented interventions, therapeutic touch, and patients‘ self-touch into their clinical practice.
NARM practitioners with a background in somatic therapy will expand their psychological skills and learn interventions and language applications that address developmental and emotional trauma with greater sensitivity and ease.
Topic Overview
Content and schedule are subject to change by the instructor.
- Simple body therapy techniques and patient-centered (self) touch to work „bottom up“ with implicit procedural behavior, posture, and movement, and „top down“ with thoughts, beliefs, and trauma-based identifications
- Being present in an embodied way and basic skills in providing supportive touch
- Touch that invites a sense of being held (and simultaneously) allows for space, to stabilize dysregulated emotional patterns
- Interpersonal neurobiology – supporting and strengthening the emotional center (heart area) to explore how relational stress affects early attachment and adult capacity for relating
- Embodied presence, orientation to the midline, healing through conscious reconnection to the life force
- Developmental process: attachment and separation/individuation
- (Somatic) resonance vs. transference dynamics
- A new orientation to resources and agency as a foundation for the development of the adult self
- Deepening understanding of the survival styles Connection and Attunement
- Somatic mindfulness and touch as a meaningful sensory dialogue
- “Feeling safe”: neuroception, interoception and proprioception and the implicit/procedural memory
Target Audience
Prerequisite for participation: Certified NARM Practitioner
Dates
Module 1: November 10 – 14, 2023
Module 2: February 7 – 11, 2024
The course will be taught in English. Some practice groups will be accompanied by dutch speaking assistants
Schedule
Day 1-4: 10.00-13.00 and 15.00-18.00
Day 5: 10.00-13.00 and 14.30-17.00
Cost
€1.810,-
Location
Conference center De Poort in Groesbeek (near Nijmegen)
Further information and booking
Date
November 10 (Friday) 10:00 - February 11 (Sunday) 17:00
Location
Conferentieoord De Poort
Biesseltsebaan 34 Telefoon: +31(0)24 397 1204 E-mail: info@depoort.org
Organizer
BODYMIND OPLEIDINGEN1e Pijnackerstraat 135-a 3035 GS Rotterdam IP en H&S: 06 - 476 931 91 || TH: 06-572 726 41 info@bodymindopleidingen.nl
january
Event Details
Course Description Research shows that touch, even before the capacity for language develops, is an essential foundation of our earliest relational experiences - the fundamental
Event Details
Course Description
Research shows that touch, even before the capacity for language develops, is an essential foundation of our earliest relational experiences – the fundamental mode of relating between caregiver and child. Through touch, we develop an image of our body and its boundaries, a sense of embodiment that contains all of our experiences at neurophysiological, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive levels.
We will focus on the importance of conscious touch while learning self-regulation through co-regulation, working with implicit memory, and the challenges of early attachment experiences.
The seminar addresses emotional, relational, cognitive, and developmental maladaptations that cannot be addressed through verbal means alone. To work through these vulnerabilities, it is essential to encourage the intelligence of the body and the intelligence of the brain to work together in a collaborative way.
Course Objectives
This clinical training provides a specific hands-on approach to working with key patterns of “bracing” and “collapsing” in response to developmental trauma. Systematically deconstructing the somatic components of relational and emotional trauma is a powerful tool for those seeking to deepen their skills in somatic psychotherapy.
Psychotherapeutically trained NARM practitioners gradually learn to build their confidence in integrating body-oriented interventions, therapeutic touch, and patients‘ self-touch into their clinical practice.
NARM practitioners with a background in somatic therapy will expand their psychological skills and learn interventions and language applications that address developmental and emotional trauma with greater sensitivity and ease.
Topic Overview
Content and schedule are subject to change by the instructor.
- Simple body therapy techniques and patient-centered (self) touch to work „bottom up“ with implicit procedural behavior, posture, and movement, and „top down“ with thoughts, beliefs, and trauma-based identifications
- Being present in an embodied way and basic skills in providing supportive touch
- Touch that invites a sense of being held (and simultaneously) allows for space, to stabilize dysregulated emotional patterns
- Interpersonal neurobiology – supporting and strengthening the emotional center (heart area) to explore how relational stress affects early attachment and adult capacity for relating
- Embodied presence, orientation to the midline, healing through conscious reconnection to the life force
- Developmental process: attachment and separation/individuation
- (Somatic) resonance vs. transference dynamics
- A new orientation to resources and agency as a foundation for the development of the adult self
- Deepening understanding of the survival styles Connection and Attunement
- Somatic mindfulness and touch as a meaningful sensory dialogue
- “Feeling safe”: neuroception, interoception and proprioception and the implicit/procedural memory
Target Audience
Prerequisite for participation: Certified NARM Practitioner
Dates
Module 1: November 10 – 14, 2023
Module 2: February 7 – 11, 2024
The course will be taught in English. Some practice groups will be accompanied by dutch speaking assistants
Schedule
Day 1-4: 10.00-13.00 and 15.00-18.00
Day 5: 10.00-13.00 and 14.30-17.00
Cost
€1.810,-
Location
Conference center De Poort in Groesbeek (near Nijmegen)
Further information and booking
Date
November 10 (Friday) 10:00 - February 11 (Sunday) 17:00
Location
Conferentieoord De Poort
Biesseltsebaan 34 Telefoon: +31(0)24 397 1204 E-mail: info@depoort.org
Organizer
BODYMIND OPLEIDINGEN1e Pijnackerstraat 135-a 3035 GS Rotterdam IP en H&S: 06 - 476 931 91 || TH: 06-572 726 41 info@bodymindopleidingen.nl
february
Event Details
Course Description Research shows that touch, even before the capacity for language develops, is an essential foundation of our earliest relational experiences - the fundamental
Event Details
Course Description
Research shows that touch, even before the capacity for language develops, is an essential foundation of our earliest relational experiences – the fundamental mode of relating between caregiver and child. Through touch, we develop an image of our body and its boundaries, a sense of embodiment that contains all of our experiences at neurophysiological, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive levels.
We will focus on the importance of conscious touch while learning self-regulation through co-regulation, working with implicit memory, and the challenges of early attachment experiences.
The seminar addresses emotional, relational, cognitive, and developmental maladaptations that cannot be addressed through verbal means alone. To work through these vulnerabilities, it is essential to encourage the intelligence of the body and the intelligence of the brain to work together in a collaborative way.
Course Objectives
This clinical training provides a specific hands-on approach to working with key patterns of “bracing” and “collapsing” in response to developmental trauma. Systematically deconstructing the somatic components of relational and emotional trauma is a powerful tool for those seeking to deepen their skills in somatic psychotherapy.
Psychotherapeutically trained NARM practitioners gradually learn to build their confidence in integrating body-oriented interventions, therapeutic touch, and patients‘ self-touch into their clinical practice.
NARM practitioners with a background in somatic therapy will expand their psychological skills and learn interventions and language applications that address developmental and emotional trauma with greater sensitivity and ease.
Topic Overview
Content and schedule are subject to change by the instructor.
- Simple body therapy techniques and patient-centered (self) touch to work „bottom up“ with implicit procedural behavior, posture, and movement, and „top down“ with thoughts, beliefs, and trauma-based identifications
- Being present in an embodied way and basic skills in providing supportive touch
- Touch that invites a sense of being held (and simultaneously) allows for space, to stabilize dysregulated emotional patterns
- Interpersonal neurobiology – supporting and strengthening the emotional center (heart area) to explore how relational stress affects early attachment and adult capacity for relating
- Embodied presence, orientation to the midline, healing through conscious reconnection to the life force
- Developmental process: attachment and separation/individuation
- (Somatic) resonance vs. transference dynamics
- A new orientation to resources and agency as a foundation for the development of the adult self
- Deepening understanding of the survival styles Connection and Attunement
- Somatic mindfulness and touch as a meaningful sensory dialogue
- “Feeling safe”: neuroception, interoception and proprioception and the implicit/procedural memory
Target Audience
Prerequisite for participation: Certified NARM Practitioner
Dates
Module 1: November 10 – 14, 2023
Module 2: February 7 – 11, 2024
The course will be taught in English. Some practice groups will be accompanied by dutch speaking assistants
Schedule
Day 1-4: 10.00-13.00 and 15.00-18.00
Day 5: 10.00-13.00 and 14.30-17.00
Cost
€1.810,-
Location
Conference center De Poort in Groesbeek (near Nijmegen)
Further information and booking
Date
November 10 (Friday) 10:00 - February 11 (Sunday) 17:00
Location
Conferentieoord De Poort
Biesseltsebaan 34 Telefoon: +31(0)24 397 1204 E-mail: info@depoort.org
Organizer
BODYMIND OPLEIDINGEN1e Pijnackerstraat 135-a 3035 GS Rotterdam IP en H&S: 06 - 476 931 91 || TH: 06-572 726 41 info@bodymindopleidingen.nl
Event Details
Course Description The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARMTM) is an advanced clinical training for mental health and somatic practitioners who work with developmental
Event Details
Course Description
The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARMTM) is an advanced clinical training for mental health and somatic practitioners who work with developmental trauma. NARM addresses relational and attachment trauma by working with early, unconscious patterns of disconnection that deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships. Integrating a psychodynamic, humanistic and body centered approach, 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; whenand why shock trauma interventions may be contraindicated in working withdevelopmental trauma.
- How to address the complex interplay between nervous system dysregulation andidentity 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 oncelife-saving, distort clients’ current life experience.
- When to work ‘bottom-up’, when to work ‘top-down’, and how to work with bothsimultaneously to meet the special challenges of developmental trauma.
- How to support clients with a mindful and progressive process of disidentificationfrom identity distortions.
- A new, coherent theory for working with affect and emotions, which aims to supporttheir psychobiological completion.
Course Structure
The NARM Practitioner Training consists of 120 CEU hours divided into 4 live modules. The 4 live modules will be held for a total of 20 days over the period of the training. The live modules are typically spaced 4 – 6 months apart to allow time for continued study, practice and peer meetings 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 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.
• Please note that this training presents highly advanced psychological learning that involves complex, often evocative and transformative material on trauma.
2. Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role- plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.
• Please note that this training presents an opportunity for clinical development based on direct personal experience that involves complex, often evocative and transformative material on trauma.
NARM Practitioner Training Curriculum Topic Overview
The order of content may be subject to change.
Module 1 includes:
- NARM Organizing Principles
- NARM Theoretical Orientation
- Differentiating Interventions for working with Shock vs. Developmental Trauma
- Working with Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integrative Approach
- Tracking Connection & Disconnection
- Developmental Process: Attachment & Separation-Individuation
- Reframing Attachment and Attachment Loss
- Distortions of Life Force Model
- Distress and Healing Cycles
- Overview of 5 Adaptive Survival Styles
- Connection Survival Style
- Clinical Model: NARM 4 Pillars
- NARM Pillar 1: Establishing a Therapeutic “Contract”
- NARM Pillar 2: Asking Exploratory Questions (Including: Deconstruction of Experience in the function of Disidentification)
- NARM Relational Model
Module 2 includes:
- Working Hypothesis
- Identifying Core Dilemma: Core Themes vs Survival Strategies (Behaviors, Symptoms, etc.)
- Attunement Survival Style
- Autonomy Survival Style
- Dual Awareness: Working in Present Time with Developemental Themes
- NARM Pillar 3: Supporting Agency (Agency as the Foundation for the Development of the Adult Self)
- NARM Pillar 4: Reflecting Psychobiological Shifts towards increasing Connection
- NARM Languaging
- NARM and the Body
Module 3 includes:
- NARM-Model for Working with Affect
- Primary vs Default Emotions
- Emotional Completion
- The Psychobiological Process of Shame (“Shame as a Verb”, “Shame as a Process not a State”)
- Working with Anger/Aggression & Sadness/Grief
- Working with Shame, Guilt & Self-Hatred
- Countertransference Dynamics in NARM
- Unmanaged Empathy and Therapist Efforting
- Narcissism and Objectification of Self
- Narcissistic vs Sadistic Abuse
- Trust Survival Style
- Love-Sexuality Survival Style
- NARM Personality Spectrum: Organized Self – Adaptive Self – Disorganized Self
Module 4 includes:
- 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
- Working with Identity
- Transgenerational Trauma
- Disidentification Process
- Freedom from Identity
- Post-Traumatic Growth
- Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
- Addressing Identity from both a Psychological, Non-Western and Spiritual Perspective
- Integrating NARM Effectively into Our Clinical Practice
Target Group and Prerequisites for Participation
Professional background of participants: completion of a psychotherapy or somatic psychotherapy education and at least 2 years of clinical experience as a practitioner working with patients/clients on a regular basis.
NARM Training Certificate
A certificate of completion is issued upon completion of all requirements for the NARM Therapist Training (prerequisite: full attendance plus 10 supervised sessions and 10 individual sessions with NARM accredited therapists).
Dates, Location, Cost
- Module 1: February 15- 19, 2024
- Module 2: June 15 – 19, 2024
- Module 3: Sept. 30 – Oct. 4, 2024
- Module 4: February 4 – 8, 2025
De Poort, Groesbeek
€ 3950,- plus Plenair room, lunch & coffee/tea € 215,-*
Optional: Dining & overnight stay Per module: ±€ 500,-*
*Costs are based on former years and can change.
Register online or contact
Date
15 (Thursday) 10:00 - 8 (Saturday) 17:00
Location
Conferentieoord De Poort
Biesseltsebaan 34 Telefoon: +31(0)24 397 1204 E-mail: info@depoort.org
Organizer
BODYMIND OPLEIDINGEN1e Pijnackerstraat 135-a 3035 GS Rotterdam IP en H&S: 06 - 476 931 91 || TH: 06-572 726 41 info@bodymindopleidingen.nl
march
Event Details
Course Description The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARMTM) is an advanced clinical training for mental health and somatic practitioners who work with developmental
Event Details
Course Description
The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARMTM) is an advanced clinical training for mental health and somatic practitioners who work with developmental trauma. NARM addresses relational and attachment trauma by working with early, unconscious patterns of disconnection that deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships. Integrating a psychodynamic, humanistic and body centered approach, 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; whenand why shock trauma interventions may be contraindicated in working withdevelopmental trauma.
- How to address the complex interplay between nervous system dysregulation andidentity 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 oncelife-saving, distort clients’ current life experience.
- When to work ‘bottom-up’, when to work ‘top-down’, and how to work with bothsimultaneously to meet the special challenges of developmental trauma.
- How to support clients with a mindful and progressive process of disidentificationfrom identity distortions.
- A new, coherent theory for working with affect and emotions, which aims to supporttheir psychobiological completion.
Course Structure
The NARM Practitioner Training consists of 120 CEU hours divided into 4 live modules. The 4 live modules will be held for a total of 20 days over the period of the training. The live modules are typically spaced 4 – 6 months apart to allow time for continued study, practice and peer meetings 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 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.
• Please note that this training presents highly advanced psychological learning that involves complex, often evocative and transformative material on trauma.
2. Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role- plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.
• Please note that this training presents an opportunity for clinical development based on direct personal experience that involves complex, often evocative and transformative material on trauma.
NARM Practitioner Training Curriculum Topic Overview
The order of content may be subject to change.
Module 1 includes:
- NARM Organizing Principles
- NARM Theoretical Orientation
- Differentiating Interventions for working with Shock vs. Developmental Trauma
- Working with Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integrative Approach
- Tracking Connection & Disconnection
- Developmental Process: Attachment & Separation-Individuation
- Reframing Attachment and Attachment Loss
- Distortions of Life Force Model
- Distress and Healing Cycles
- Overview of 5 Adaptive Survival Styles
- Connection Survival Style
- Clinical Model: NARM 4 Pillars
- NARM Pillar 1: Establishing a Therapeutic “Contract”
- NARM Pillar 2: Asking Exploratory Questions (Including: Deconstruction of Experience in the function of Disidentification)
- NARM Relational Model
Module 2 includes:
- Working Hypothesis
- Identifying Core Dilemma: Core Themes vs Survival Strategies (Behaviors, Symptoms, etc.)
- Attunement Survival Style
- Autonomy Survival Style
- Dual Awareness: Working in Present Time with Developemental Themes
- NARM Pillar 3: Supporting Agency (Agency as the Foundation for the Development of the Adult Self)
- NARM Pillar 4: Reflecting Psychobiological Shifts towards increasing Connection
- NARM Languaging
- NARM and the Body
Module 3 includes:
- NARM-Model for Working with Affect
- Primary vs Default Emotions
- Emotional Completion
- The Psychobiological Process of Shame (“Shame as a Verb”, “Shame as a Process not a State”)
- Working with Anger/Aggression & Sadness/Grief
- Working with Shame, Guilt & Self-Hatred
- Countertransference Dynamics in NARM
- Unmanaged Empathy and Therapist Efforting
- Narcissism and Objectification of Self
- Narcissistic vs Sadistic Abuse
- Trust Survival Style
- Love-Sexuality Survival Style
- NARM Personality Spectrum: Organized Self – Adaptive Self – Disorganized Self
Module 4 includes:
- 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
- Working with Identity
- Transgenerational Trauma
- Disidentification Process
- Freedom from Identity
- Post-Traumatic Growth
- Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
- Addressing Identity from both a Psychological, Non-Western and Spiritual Perspective
- Integrating NARM Effectively into Our Clinical Practice
Target Group and Prerequisites for Participation
Professional background of participants: completion of a psychotherapy or somatic psychotherapy education and at least 2 years of clinical experience as a practitioner working with patients/clients on a regular basis.
NARM Training Certificate
A certificate of completion is issued upon completion of all requirements for the NARM Therapist Training (prerequisite: full attendance plus 10 supervised sessions and 10 individual sessions with NARM accredited therapists).
Dates, Location, Cost
- Module 1: February 15- 19, 2024
- Module 2: June 15 – 19, 2024
- Module 3: Sept. 30 – Oct. 4, 2024
- Module 4: February 4 – 8, 2025
De Poort, Groesbeek
€ 3950,- plus Plenair room, lunch & coffee/tea € 215,-*
Optional: Dining & overnight stay Per module: ±€ 500,-*
*Costs are based on former years and can change.
Register online or contact
Date
15 (Thursday) 10:00 - 8 (Saturday) 17:00
Location
Conferentieoord De Poort
Biesseltsebaan 34 Telefoon: +31(0)24 397 1204 E-mail: info@depoort.org
Organizer
BODYMIND OPLEIDINGEN1e Pijnackerstraat 135-a 3035 GS Rotterdam IP en H&S: 06 - 476 931 91 || TH: 06-572 726 41 info@bodymindopleidingen.nl
Event Details
Learning Objektives Review and deepening of the core principles organizing the clinical model Time
Event Details
Learning Objektives
- Review and deepening of the core principles organizing the clinical model
- Time and space for clarification of supervision issues, questions/answers, and discussions
- Deconstructing one or more demo sessions and collaboratively exploring the various options for intervention
- A deeper look at the role of agency and its importance in the relational process with your clients (3rd pillar)
- Identfication/desidentification processes and the „organizing self“
- Body-oriented psychotherapy – embodyment in NARM (4th pillar)
- Emotional Completion
Target Audience
NARM Students who completed Modul 4 and NARM-Practioners
This workshop credits for 2 hours of NARM supervision regarding certification for those, who still need it.
Date, Times, Venue
10. – 11. March 2024
10.00 am – 18.00 pm
De Poort, Groesbeek, NL
Price
€ 375,-
Plenair Room, Lunch & Coffee/Tea for 2 Days
€ 90,-
Optional Overnight Stay
€ 77,-
Register Online or Contact
Date
10 (Sunday) 10:00 - 11 (Monday) 17:00
Location
Conferentieoord De Poort
Biesseltsebaan 34 Telefoon: +31(0)24 397 1204 E-mail: info@depoort.org
Organizer
BODYMIND OPLEIDINGEN1e Pijnackerstraat 135-a 3035 GS Rotterdam IP en H&S: 06 - 476 931 91 || TH: 06-572 726 41 info@bodymindopleidingen.nl
april
Event Details
Course Description The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARMTM) is an advanced clinical training for mental health and somatic practitioners who work with developmental
Event Details
Course Description
The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARMTM) is an advanced clinical training for mental health and somatic practitioners who work with developmental trauma. NARM addresses relational and attachment trauma by working with early, unconscious patterns of disconnection that deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships. Integrating a psychodynamic, humanistic and body centered approach, 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; whenand why shock trauma interventions may be contraindicated in working withdevelopmental trauma.
- How to address the complex interplay between nervous system dysregulation andidentity 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 oncelife-saving, distort clients’ current life experience.
- When to work ‘bottom-up’, when to work ‘top-down’, and how to work with bothsimultaneously to meet the special challenges of developmental trauma.
- How to support clients with a mindful and progressive process of disidentificationfrom identity distortions.
- A new, coherent theory for working with affect and emotions, which aims to supporttheir psychobiological completion.
Course Structure
The NARM Practitioner Training consists of 120 CEU hours divided into 4 live modules. The 4 live modules will be held for a total of 20 days over the period of the training. The live modules are typically spaced 4 – 6 months apart to allow time for continued study, practice and peer meetings 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 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.
• Please note that this training presents highly advanced psychological learning that involves complex, often evocative and transformative material on trauma.
2. Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role- plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.
• Please note that this training presents an opportunity for clinical development based on direct personal experience that involves complex, often evocative and transformative material on trauma.
NARM Practitioner Training Curriculum Topic Overview
The order of content may be subject to change.
Module 1 includes:
- NARM Organizing Principles
- NARM Theoretical Orientation
- Differentiating Interventions for working with Shock vs. Developmental Trauma
- Working with Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integrative Approach
- Tracking Connection & Disconnection
- Developmental Process: Attachment & Separation-Individuation
- Reframing Attachment and Attachment Loss
- Distortions of Life Force Model
- Distress and Healing Cycles
- Overview of 5 Adaptive Survival Styles
- Connection Survival Style
- Clinical Model: NARM 4 Pillars
- NARM Pillar 1: Establishing a Therapeutic “Contract”
- NARM Pillar 2: Asking Exploratory Questions (Including: Deconstruction of Experience in the function of Disidentification)
- NARM Relational Model
Module 2 includes:
- Working Hypothesis
- Identifying Core Dilemma: Core Themes vs Survival Strategies (Behaviors, Symptoms, etc.)
- Attunement Survival Style
- Autonomy Survival Style
- Dual Awareness: Working in Present Time with Developemental Themes
- NARM Pillar 3: Supporting Agency (Agency as the Foundation for the Development of the Adult Self)
- NARM Pillar 4: Reflecting Psychobiological Shifts towards increasing Connection
- NARM Languaging
- NARM and the Body
Module 3 includes:
- NARM-Model for Working with Affect
- Primary vs Default Emotions
- Emotional Completion
- The Psychobiological Process of Shame (“Shame as a Verb”, “Shame as a Process not a State”)
- Working with Anger/Aggression & Sadness/Grief
- Working with Shame, Guilt & Self-Hatred
- Countertransference Dynamics in NARM
- Unmanaged Empathy and Therapist Efforting
- Narcissism and Objectification of Self
- Narcissistic vs Sadistic Abuse
- Trust Survival Style
- Love-Sexuality Survival Style
- NARM Personality Spectrum: Organized Self – Adaptive Self – Disorganized Self
Module 4 includes:
- 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
- Working with Identity
- Transgenerational Trauma
- Disidentification Process
- Freedom from Identity
- Post-Traumatic Growth
- Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
- Addressing Identity from both a Psychological, Non-Western and Spiritual Perspective
- Integrating NARM Effectively into Our Clinical Practice
Target Group and Prerequisites for Participation
Professional background of participants: completion of a psychotherapy or somatic psychotherapy education and at least 2 years of clinical experience as a practitioner working with patients/clients on a regular basis.
NARM Training Certificate
A certificate of completion is issued upon completion of all requirements for the NARM Therapist Training (prerequisite: full attendance plus 10 supervised sessions and 10 individual sessions with NARM accredited therapists).
Dates, Location, Cost
- Module 1: February 15- 19, 2024
- Module 2: June 15 – 19, 2024
- Module 3: Sept. 30 – Oct. 4, 2024
- Module 4: February 4 – 8, 2025
De Poort, Groesbeek
€ 3950,- plus Plenair room, lunch & coffee/tea € 215,-*
Optional: Dining & overnight stay Per module: ±€ 500,-*
*Costs are based on former years and can change.
Register online or contact
Date
15 (Thursday) 10:00 - 8 (Saturday) 17:00
Location
Conferentieoord De Poort
Biesseltsebaan 34 Telefoon: +31(0)24 397 1204 E-mail: info@depoort.org
Organizer
BODYMIND OPLEIDINGEN1e Pijnackerstraat 135-a 3035 GS Rotterdam IP en H&S: 06 - 476 931 91 || TH: 06-572 726 41 info@bodymindopleidingen.nl
