The Boulder Psychotherapy Institute Presents a Distinguished Guest Workshop:
Affect Regulation, Attachment and Trauma
With Pat Ogden, Ph.D.
February 23, 2008
The Workshop: In recent years, psychotherapy has begun to shift its emphasis from models of cognitive development to the significance of “affect” in an inter-subjective context. Psychotherapy is redefined as the “affect communicating cure” rather than the “talking cure” (Schore, 2005).
Mother-infant studies highlight the importance of body-based, inter-subjective communication that shapes procedural memory and affect regulation capacities. This communication serves as a template for future relational interaction. Many recent interdisciplinary studies have emphasized the importance of affect regulation in the formation of psychopathology - and the healing of psychopathology.
This workshop will explore the nature of procedural learning, trauma- and attachment-related issues, and the interface between affect regulation, emotions, and the body. It will introduce and clarify non-verbal interventions that promote adaptive intimacy and affect regulation. It will highlight the use of directed mindfulness to enhance affect regulation and allow traumatized patients to address past events without becoming dysregulated.
The presenter will explore theory and technique for working at the regulatory boundaries of the window of tolerance as the patient’s arousal begins to challenge his or her integrative capacity. Interventions and concepts will be discussed and illustrated through lecture, video excerpts of sessions with patients, brief experiential exercises, and handouts.
Where: 1140 Lehigh Street, Boulder, CO 80305
When: February 23, 2008, 10 to 5:30
Eligibility: Mental Health Professionals and Graduate Students
Cost: $120 for the day
The Workshop Leader: Pat Ogden, Ph.D., is the founder and director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an internationally recognized school that specializes in training psychotherapists in somatic/cognitive approaches for the treatment of trauma, developmental and attachment issues. She is a co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, served on the faculty of The Naropa University in the Somatic Psychology and Contemplative Psychology departments from 1985 to 2005, and lectures internationally. Dr. Ogden is trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches and has worked with a diversity of populations, including prison inmates, psychiatric inpatients and survivors of trauma. As a pioneer in somatic psychotherapy and the treatment of trauma, she has 34 years' experience working with individuals and groups. She is the first author of the groundbreaking book, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy, which was published in the fall of 2006 in the interpersonal neurobiology series of W.W.Norton and is in its second printing.
To register or if you have questions, contact the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute at 303 494 0393 or e-mail us at bpi.training@boulderpsych.com.