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Super Resourcing: An Integrative Protocol for Healing Attachment Wounds

Super Resourcing (SR) is an innovative and effective protocol for healing attachment wounds. It offers a new way of thinking about and healing attachment trauma that is both creative and grounded in the current research on the neurobiology trauma and attachment repair.

Accelerated Information Processing (AIP)is a key factor in the understanding the efficacy of EMDR. All three negative neural networks (sensation, emotion and cognition) are activated with bilateral stimulation; the consequence is a more complete and time-efficient resolution. Super Resourcing is based on my discovery that the AIP model is just as effective in activating and neurologically installing a positive target along with a positive matrix of sensations, emotions and cognitions.

While based on the theoretical underpinings of EMDR, SR differs in that it focuses on the person who experienced a trauma rather than the trauma itself. The neurological integration of positive resources facilitates an enhanced present-time experience of self. It maximizes the development of new and more positive neural networks. Drawing upon Attachment and Ego State theories, wounded parts are invited into and healed within the neurologically potentiated resourced field. Resolving the attachment wounds interwoven in a trauma unfixes it in the client’s psyche and it processes more easily; less resistance, dissociation and looping occurs. When attachment wounds are addressed and resolved, there is a corresponding decrease in the disturbance associated with the trauma. A systematic experience of well-being allows dissociation and fragmentation to heal and an experience of present-time wholeness becomes possible. SR challenges the assumption that reprocessing traumatic memories is necessary for their resolution. SR frequently takes the trauma out of trauma processing. Consequently, it is applicable to a wider range of clients for whom EMDR may not have been indicated.

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This course offers 6.5CE

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
 

Presenter


Alison Teal, MFT

Alison is a licensed psychotherapist since 1986 as well as an Internationally Certified EMDR Consultant and Therapist. She is skilled in a variety of therapeutic modalities including expressive arts, dream work, and somatic psychology. As a long-term meditator, her work is informed by mindfulness practices. She has led numerous workshops and presented in conferences. Alison is a Life Balance Strategist. She offers private sessions (in person and remotely,) and workshops designed to help individuals navigate personal and professional changes and transitions. Alison taught graduate school psychology for 13 years and founded and directed Creative Explorations – a school in which students explored identity issues through the making of art. As an artist, Alison’s approach to life is creative. She believes in the indomitability of the human spirit and that we are all capable of transforming old patterns and self-limiting beliefs in order to live our lives more fully with authenticity and purpose.

 

Target Audience:

Psychologists (Introductory Level), Psychiatrists, Social Workers (Beginning Level), MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Nurses

 

Course Objectives:

1) Define Super Resourcing and its roots in the EMDR tradition

2) Contrast similarities and differences between EMDR and SR

3) Review seven applications of SR

4) Discuss integration of attachment and ego state theories with SR

5) Integrate attachment wound healing with SR

6) Explore SR’s four phases and procedural steps

7) Exemplify SR through client videos

 

Agenda

AGENDA:

 

9:00 - 9:15 Introduction of course and overview of day

 

9:15 – 9:16 Quote

 

9:16 – 9:22 Historical Perspective of EMDR Resourcing

Attributions starting with Shapiro

 

9:22 – 9:25 Goal of SR – Secure Attachment

 

9:25 – 9:30 Two Case Histories

 

9:30 - 9:40 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND PART I

1) Ego State Psychology

2) Developmental Trauma

3) Attachment Wounding

 

9:40 - 9:45 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND PART 2

1) Neural Plasticity

2) The Power of Positive Ideation

 

9:45 -10:05 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND PART 3

1) Basic review of EMDR

2) Accelerated Information Processing of negative matrix

3) Rapid Free Association

3) How Information is stored in the brain

4) Bilateral Stimulation

 

10:05-10:09 THE INQUIRY QUESTIONS

VIDEO CLIP LILY: END OF SESSION CHECK-IN

 

10:09-10:11 Turning EMDR Upside Down

Basic Review of Super Resourcing

1) Accelerated Information Processing of positive matrix

2) Rapid Free Association

 

10:11-10:13 Similarities and differences of EMDR and SR Resourcing

 

10:13-10:17 SEVEN APPLICATIONS OF SUPER RESOURCING

1) Preparation for EMDR

2) Potentiating Positive Cognition

3) Neurological integration of any positive moment

4) Resolution of a disturbance as a stand-alone protocol

5) Enhancing performance or empowerment

6) Resourcing ego states

7) Super Resourcing for special populations (Addiction, Insomnia, etc.)

 

10:17-10:18 PROCEDURAL STEPS OVERVIEW

 

10:18-10:20 PHASE ONE: PREPARATION

1) Develop therapeutic alliance

2) Take a thorough History

3) Introduce SR

4) Encourage active participation

5) Establish hand signals for stop and continue

6) Provide psycho-education as necessary

7) Determine form of Bilateral Stimulation

 

 

10:20-10:30 BATHROOM / STRETCH BREAK

 

10:30-10:55 PHASE TWO:

PART ONE: DEVELOPING RESOURCES WITH BILATERAL STIMULATION

1) Peaceful Place

a) Positive Sensation

b) Positive emotion

c) Positive cognition

Video Clip: Lily – Developing Peaceful Place

 

2) Nurturing Figure

a) Positive sensation

b) Positive emotion

c) Positive cognition

d) Link with Peaceful Place

Video Clip: Ana Marie – Resourcing Young Sad Part That Emerged In The Nurturing Field

 

3) Protective Figure

a) Positive sensation

b) Positive emotion

c) Positive cognition

d) Link with Peaceful Place and Nurturing Figure

Video Clip: Ana Marie – Developing Protector Figure and

linking to prior resources

 

4) Wise Figure

a) Positive sensation

b) Positive emotion

c) Positive cognition

d) Link with all other resources

Video Clip: Tiera – Developing Wise Figure

 

5) Additional Resource Figures

‘ a) Most Common: adult version of self

b) Other common resources

Video Clip: Randy – Resourcing compromised young

self with adult present time self

 

6) Working with resourced challenged clients

 

10:55-11:05 PHASE TWO:

PART TWO: WORKING WITH PARTS

1) Abreactions

2) Attachment healing within SR

3) Parts flow chart

 

11:05-12:30 PHASE THREE: INTEGRATION

Step One: Creating a Meta Field

1) Link together the positive cognitions from the four resources

2) Create Meta-field (combination of the previous four)

a) Positive sensation

b) Positive emotion

c) Positive Cognition

d) Identify a single word, color or image that represents the entire resourced meta-field

Video Clip: Tiera – Developing Meta Field and key word

or image

 

12:30-1:30 LUNCH BREAK

 

1:30 -1:45 Step Two: Inviting in distressed parts for integration and healing

Video Clip: Lily – Creating key word for Meta Field, inviting in distressed part and checking in with original disturbance

 

1:45-1:50 PHASE FOUR: CLOSURE

Step One:

a) Closing an incomplete session

b) Scan body, mind and emotions

c) Reprocessing remaining disturbance

 

1:50-2:00 Step Two: Expressive arts and IRP / Collage Assignment

Video Clip: Ana Marie – Developing Meta Field key word

and collage assignment

 

2:00-3:05 VIDEO – ALISA – WHOLE SESSION

 

3:05-3:20 Question and Answer

 

3:20 -3:35 BREAK

 

3:35-3:40 Introduction to guided practice of SR

Video Clip: Ana Marie – Unexpected moments

 

3:45- 4:30 Guided Practicum of SR

 

4:30-4:45 Group Debriefing and Q and A

Refer to handout of the Fourteen Benefits of Super Resourcing

 

4:45– 5:00 Course evaluations and closing

a) Bilateral Stimulation Devices

b) Where to go from here