Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Developmental & Attachment Training

THIS TRAINING IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy identifies two general kinds of interrelated psychological issues: developmental and traumatic. Developmental issues result from disturbed early attachment relationships that lead to limiting beliefs about oneself and the world, while post-traumatic stress disorder results from overwhelming experience that remains unintegrated. When combined with unresolved trauma, early attachment disturbances can lead to a wide variety of adult relational problems. Level II of the SPI training program builds on the curriculum of Level I, emphasizing how traumatic, attachment, and developmental issues influence one another, and how to provide effective treatment given their inevitable intertwining. The length of this training is approximately 175 hours.

Curriculum (Level II)

  • Translating the Language of the Body
  • Working with the Organization of Experience
  • Working with State-Specific Memory
  • Attachment Issues: Dependency and Differentiation
  • Therapeutic Use of States of Consciousness
  • Body Reading
  • Characterological Barriers to Adaptive Action
  • Somatic Transference and Countertransference
  • Working with Physical and Mental Action Tendencies
  • Psychobiological Action Systems
  • Character Strategies and their Interactions with Trauma
  • Modulation Patterns and Correlation with Trauma
  • Somatic Resources for Character and Attachment Issues
  • Character and Structural Dissociation
  • Working with Regressed Ego States
  • The Therapeutic Relationship, Attunement, and the Body
  • Systems Theory: Developmental and Traumatic
  • Restoring a Somatic Sense of Self

Training Application (will take you to the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy website)

Training Dates:

  1. November 18-20, 2011
  2. January 6-7, 2012
  3. March 9-10, 2012
  4. May 4-5, 2012
  5. June 15-16, 2012
  6. July 13-14, 2012
  7. September 7-8, 2012
  8. November 2-3, 2012
  9. January 4-5, 2013
  10. February 1-2, 2013
  11. March 15-17, 2013
Times: Fridays: 9:00am-6:00pm; Saturdays 9:00am-6:00pm; Sundays 9:00am-3:30pm (Sundays on first and last modules only)
Location: Marlboro College Graduate Center, Room 2 East, 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301. Map
Trainers: Anne Westcott, Joseph Gillan
Tuition: 5,500 USD. A non-refundable registration fee of $25. A deposit of $500 is due to hold your place in the training. 5% discount if deposit is received with application by 09/12/2011. 5% discount if paid in full by 10/12/2011. 5% Groups of 3 or more discount.
Prerequisites: Completion of Level I: Training for the Treatment of Trauma
SPI Contact: Nate P. Mariotti, trainings@sensorimotor.org.
Please note that this is a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI) training program, locally organized by InnerWell.  All questions regarding registration, discounts and payment should be directed to SPI at the information listed above.

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