Stages of Post-Trauma Growth in The Age of Polarization | USABP Spotlight Event
Steven Hoskinson
Steve Hoskinson, MA, MAT, Founder of Organic Intelligence
This course will not include CEs. Our upcoming recorded live events will be available here, free for members and non-members who register for them, as is the case here. Members and event registrants can use their discount code to watch this event free.
Description
The realities of ever-larger traumas (e.g., climate, war, geo-politics, and other abuses) impinge daily on our lives—minds, bodies, and hearts. It so often feels like so much and is so heartbreaking. How can we find peace with these complex realities without turning away or burning out?
Wondering how to keep up? Hunker down, throw down, or give up? Discover some of the inevitable hurdles to expect and the strategies for overcoming the chaos—personal, professional, and societal.
No matter what your level of self-care, this workshop will provide strategies to grow longevity as a compassionate human. You have skills that are needed. Now add a few key science-based strategies to help guide your clients (and yourself) from trauma to Post-Trauma Growth (PTG).
As we know, our wellbeing has everything to do with timing: circadian, Basic Rest and Activity (BRAC), diurnal, ultradian. With a knowledge of sync, you can apply (or stop applying) the right tools at the right time to enhance your efficiency and grow your energy stores. We can’t ignore complexity science because it’s too “complex”. The world is more complex than ever, so let this be your ease-in introduction. Get the mapping to use the skills you already have (meditation, somatics, psychodynamics) to grow your ease, and catalyze Post-Trauma Growth.
The Main Points of This Workshop:
- How and why understanding allostasis easily shifts the frame on clinical work
- Small clinical adaptations to align with the brain’s primary predictive capacity
- The causes of widespread, unexpected, unwanted harm in treatment
- Foundations of Post-Trauma Growth (PTG)
- How to use somatics, when not to use somatics, to catalyze PTG
Participants will learn:
- To recognize clinical, observable signs that a client session will be catalytic, without unraveling in the next few days after a session
- How to begin to recognize, and work within describable phases of somatic organization
- Why working in the “window of enjoyment” is different than the window of tolerance—and how to work there and stay attuned
- Track dimensions of attunement that preserve an integrative somatic frame, and support what’s most essential: the relational container
- How attunement is co-regulation, and how to avoid the common transference pitfalls of developmentally fixated needs
Bibliography
Hoskinson, S., & Ho, B. (2022). A Non-Directive Positive Reinforcement Framework for Trauma and Addiction Treatment. International Body Psychotherapy Journal, 21(1).
Parry, G. D., Crawford, M. J., & Duggan, C. (2016). Iatrogenic harm from psychological therapies – time to move on. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 208(3), 210-212.
Porges, S. W. (2001). The polyvagal theory: phylogenetic substrates of a social nervous system. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 42(2), 123-146.
Seligman, M. E. (1970). On the generality of the laws of learning. Psychological Review, 77(5), 406-418.
Sterling, P. (2012). Allostasis: A model of predictive regulation. Physiology & Behavior, 106(1), 5–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.06.004
Your Instructor
Steve Hoskinson, M.A., M.A.T., is an internationally recognized trauma teacher and mentor. He has trained thousands in his approach over the past 20 years, teaches in Somatic Psychology at JFK University, and gives invited addresses at professional conferences worldwide. Steven founded Organic Intelligence® to support healing and harm reduction with OI Trauma Safe™ programs. Steve’s teachings have been sought out by Somatic Psychology department heads, Dr. Mark Hyman’s Broken Brain docu-series, for meditation teacher training at Spirit Rock, and as guest for the 2019 Plum Village Neuroscience Retreat in France. To empower healing communities, Steve created the OI Coaching Certification Course, the Clinical Mindfulness Series, The End of Trauma Course, and the End of Trauma™ Podcast.