Course Information

 

 

Target Audience:

Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists (←only partial credit for MDs via APA), Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Dentists

 

Course Objectives:

  • Recognize similarities and differences between post concussive symptoms and PTSD

  • Learn strategies and interventions to treat Post Concussive trauma and PTSD

  • Therapeutic Attunement

  • Clinically and ethically appropriate use of touch

  • Polyvagal theory and clinical application related to concussions

  • Bodywork/touch as a relational process

Learning Objectives:

- Define what a concussion is
- Describe how a concussion occurs
- Describe the symptoms of a concussion
- Identify the methods used to diagnose a concussion
- Describe the symptoms of PTSD
- Explain cases of PTSD
- Identify the overlap between post concussive and post traumatic stress syndromes
- Define a high impact injury/failure of physical defense
- Define Global High Intensity Activation trauma
- List the elements that need to be treated for mild TBI and PTSD
- Describe the Survival Response Cycle
- Define Kineshphere
- Demonstrate 3 boundary ruptures and repair interventions
- Describe basic Polyvagal theory and structures of the polyvagal system
- Explain the basic elements of BASE™ touch work
- Implement BASE™ touch with bone
- Apply BASE™ concepts to working with structures of the cranium
- Describe 3 motor reflexes affected by concussive injuries
- Demonstrate 2 sounds used to renegotiate cranium dysregulation

 

Agenda

Concussions and PTSD

One three-day workshop, 18 CE’s

Teaching methods will include lecture, video, demo’s, experiential exercises and practice

Friday 9:30-5:30  (6 hours)
9:30-11 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Defining and describing causes of a Concussion, Defining and describing causes of PTSD, basic cranium anatomy, Introduction to Polyvagal Theory
11-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 Practice Time: Polyvagal exercises
12:30-2 Lunch
2-3:30 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Survival Response cycle, PTSD, Kinesphere and Boundaries, High Impact Trauma, Global High Intensity Trauma
3:30- 3:45 Break
3:45-5:15 Kinesphere and Boundary Assessment and Repair, touch without physical contact
5:15-5:30 Q & A, wrap up, review
Saturday 9:30-5:30 (6 hours)
9:30-11 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Basics of BASE, Introduction to therapeutic attunement and touch, Using touch to support stabilization.
11-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 Practice Time: Touch readiness exercises,
12:30-2 Lunch
2-3:30 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Using attuned touch to shift brain ‘freeze’, Bone/skull and it’s role in protecting the brain
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:15 Practice Time: Strategies and Intervention with bone/skull
5:15-5:30 Q & A, wrap up, review
Sunday 9:30-5:30 (6 hours)
9:30-11 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Motor reflexes supporting survival responses, Concussion and PTSD,
11-11:15 Break
11:15-12:30 Practice Time: Strategies related to motor reflexes
12:30-2 Lunch
2-3:30 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Sounds to support neurological stabilization after a concussion
3:30-3:45 Break
5:15-5:30 Q & A, wrap up, review