Zoe Paradomenaki
Dipl.-Psych., Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist
z.paradomenaki@gmail.com, Phone +30 210 9625585
Daskaroli 4, Glyfada, 16675 Athens
Events by this organizer
june
Event Details
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
Event Details
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 psychodynamic and body centered approach, NARM offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and resolving complex trauma (CPTSD).
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 in 4 live modules ((format may vary depending on training location). 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 3-4 months apart to allow time for continued study, practice, 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.
Teaching Methods
All modules include a combination of 2 complimentary instruction approaches:
- Didactic and theoretical learning: including lecture, question and answer periods, class-wide discussion, case consultation, and deconstruction of live-demonstrations and videos.
- Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role-plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.
NARM Practitioner Training Curriculum Topic Overview
Topics and schedule subject to change by trainer .
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
- 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 Psychobiological Shifts towards Increasing Connection
- NARM Languaging
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
- Freedom from Identity
- Post-Traumatic Growth
- Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
- Integrating NARM Effectively Into Our Clinical Practice
Target Group
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
Dates
- 1st Module: 1-5 February 2023 (will be held live)
- 2nd Module: 21-25 June 2023 (will be held live)
- 3rd Module: 1-5 November 2023 (will be held virtually)
- 4th Module: 17–21 April 2024 (will be held live)
Starting the 1st day at 10 a.m.
Venue
Moduls 1 and 4 will be held centrally in Athen in Amalia Hotel, 10 Amalias Avenue, Syntagma Square, Athens 105 57, Greece https://amaliahotelathens.gr
Cost
- Early Bird registration until 16 May 2022: € 3.200
- Registration from 17 May 2022: € 3.500
Language
English with consecutive interpretation in Greek.
Further information and booking.
Date
February 1 (Wednesday) 10:00 - April 21 (Sunday) 16:00
Organizer
Zoe Paradomenakiz.paradomenaki@gmail.com, Phone +30 210 9625585 Daskaroli 4, Glyfada, 16675 Athens
july
Event Details
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
Event Details
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 psychodynamic and body centered approach, NARM offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and resolving complex trauma (CPTSD).
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 in 4 live modules ((format may vary depending on training location). 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 3-4 months apart to allow time for continued study, practice, 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.
Teaching Methods
All modules include a combination of 2 complimentary instruction approaches:
- Didactic and theoretical learning: including lecture, question and answer periods, class-wide discussion, case consultation, and deconstruction of live-demonstrations and videos.
- Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role-plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.
NARM Practitioner Training Curriculum Topic Overview
Topics and schedule subject to change by trainer .
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
- 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 Psychobiological Shifts towards Increasing Connection
- NARM Languaging
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
- Freedom from Identity
- Post-Traumatic Growth
- Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
- Integrating NARM Effectively Into Our Clinical Practice
Target Group
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
Dates
- 1st Module: 1-5 February 2023 (will be held live)
- 2nd Module: 21-25 June 2023 (will be held live)
- 3rd Module: 1-5 November 2023 (will be held virtually)
- 4th Module: 17–21 April 2024 (will be held live)
Starting the 1st day at 10 a.m.
Venue
Moduls 1 and 4 will be held centrally in Athen in Amalia Hotel, 10 Amalias Avenue, Syntagma Square, Athens 105 57, Greece https://amaliahotelathens.gr
Cost
- Early Bird registration until 16 May 2022: € 3.200
- Registration from 17 May 2022: € 3.500
Language
English with consecutive interpretation in Greek.
Further information and booking.
Date
February 1 (Wednesday) 10:00 - April 21 (Sunday) 16:00
Organizer
Zoe Paradomenakiz.paradomenaki@gmail.com, Phone +30 210 9625585 Daskaroli 4, Glyfada, 16675 Athens
august
Event Details
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
Event Details
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 psychodynamic and body centered approach, NARM offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and resolving complex trauma (CPTSD).
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 in 4 live modules ((format may vary depending on training location). 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 3-4 months apart to allow time for continued study, practice, 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.
Teaching Methods
All modules include a combination of 2 complimentary instruction approaches:
- Didactic and theoretical learning: including lecture, question and answer periods, class-wide discussion, case consultation, and deconstruction of live-demonstrations and videos.
- Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role-plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.
NARM Practitioner Training Curriculum Topic Overview
Topics and schedule subject to change by trainer .
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
- 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 Psychobiological Shifts towards Increasing Connection
- NARM Languaging
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
- Freedom from Identity
- Post-Traumatic Growth
- Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
- Integrating NARM Effectively Into Our Clinical Practice
Target Group
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
Dates
- 1st Module: 1-5 February 2023 (will be held live)
- 2nd Module: 21-25 June 2023 (will be held live)
- 3rd Module: 1-5 November 2023 (will be held virtually)
- 4th Module: 17–21 April 2024 (will be held live)
Starting the 1st day at 10 a.m.
Venue
Moduls 1 and 4 will be held centrally in Athen in Amalia Hotel, 10 Amalias Avenue, Syntagma Square, Athens 105 57, Greece https://amaliahotelathens.gr
Cost
- Early Bird registration until 16 May 2022: € 3.200
- Registration from 17 May 2022: € 3.500
Language
English with consecutive interpretation in Greek.
Further information and booking.
Date
February 1 (Wednesday) 10:00 - April 21 (Sunday) 16:00
Organizer
Zoe Paradomenakiz.paradomenaki@gmail.com, Phone +30 210 9625585 Daskaroli 4, Glyfada, 16675 Athens
september
Event Details
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
Event Details
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 psychodynamic and body centered approach, NARM offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and resolving complex trauma (CPTSD).
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 in 4 live modules ((format may vary depending on training location). 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 3-4 months apart to allow time for continued study, practice, 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.
Teaching Methods
All modules include a combination of 2 complimentary instruction approaches:
- Didactic and theoretical learning: including lecture, question and answer periods, class-wide discussion, case consultation, and deconstruction of live-demonstrations and videos.
- Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role-plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.
NARM Practitioner Training Curriculum Topic Overview
Topics and schedule subject to change by trainer .
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
- 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 Psychobiological Shifts towards Increasing Connection
- NARM Languaging
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
- Freedom from Identity
- Post-Traumatic Growth
- Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
- Integrating NARM Effectively Into Our Clinical Practice
Target Group
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
Dates
- 1st Module: 1-5 February 2023 (will be held live)
- 2nd Module: 21-25 June 2023 (will be held live)
- 3rd Module: 1-5 November 2023 (will be held virtually)
- 4th Module: 17–21 April 2024 (will be held live)
Starting the 1st day at 10 a.m.
Venue
Moduls 1 and 4 will be held centrally in Athen in Amalia Hotel, 10 Amalias Avenue, Syntagma Square, Athens 105 57, Greece https://amaliahotelathens.gr
Cost
- Early Bird registration until 16 May 2022: € 3.200
- Registration from 17 May 2022: € 3.500
Language
English with consecutive interpretation in Greek.
Further information and booking.
Date
February 1 (Wednesday) 10:00 - April 21 (Sunday) 16:00
Organizer
Zoe Paradomenakiz.paradomenaki@gmail.com, Phone +30 210 9625585 Daskaroli 4, Glyfada, 16675 Athens
october
Event Details
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
Event Details
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 psychodynamic and body centered approach, NARM offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and resolving complex trauma (CPTSD).
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 in 4 live modules ((format may vary depending on training location). 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 3-4 months apart to allow time for continued study, practice, 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.
Teaching Methods
All modules include a combination of 2 complimentary instruction approaches:
- Didactic and theoretical learning: including lecture, question and answer periods, class-wide discussion, case consultation, and deconstruction of live-demonstrations and videos.
- Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role-plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.
NARM Practitioner Training Curriculum Topic Overview
Topics and schedule subject to change by trainer .
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
- 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 Psychobiological Shifts towards Increasing Connection
- NARM Languaging
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
- Freedom from Identity
- Post-Traumatic Growth
- Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity
- Integrating NARM Effectively Into Our Clinical Practice
Target Group
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
Dates
- 1st Module: 1-5 February 2023 (will be held live)
- 2nd Module: 21-25 June 2023 (will be held live)
- 3rd Module: 1-5 November 2023 (will be held virtually)
- 4th Module: 17–21 April 2024 (will be held live)
Starting the 1st day at 10 a.m.
Venue
Moduls 1 and 4 will be held centrally in Athen in Amalia Hotel, 10 Amalias Avenue, Syntagma Square, Athens 105 57, Greece https://amaliahotelathens.gr
Cost
- Early Bird registration until 16 May 2022: € 3.200
- Registration from 17 May 2022: € 3.500
Language
English with consecutive interpretation in Greek.
Further information and booking.
Date
February 1 (Wednesday) 10:00 - April 21 (Sunday) 16:00
Organizer
Zoe Paradomenakiz.paradomenaki@gmail.com, Phone +30 210 9625585 Daskaroli 4, Glyfada, 16675 Athens