Dissociation Training
Regular training can be offered by the centre which can be tailored for individual requirements.
Current Training
Affect Regulation, The Use & Abuse of Self.
Working with Complex Trauma & Dissociation
This course starts from the premise that it is us, as therapists, more than any theoretical orientation or techniques that marks the progress and digress of treatment.
This course is both self explorative, experiential and challenging. Its focus is on you, the therapist, and the impact that you will consciously and unconsciously have on your clients or patients. Though the tutor comes from an analytical background and will use that orientation to underpin the course, your own therapeutic orientation is not in question.
This is very much 'hands on' training where the tutor will be sharing his 20 years experience in the field. Extensive use of case presentation with some role play and videoing will be made. Reading references will be given but do not constitute an obligatory part of the course. A representative from First Person Plural, a survivor led organisation, will join us for part of one day to contribute from the perspective of someone living with dissociation.
The participants will form an integral part of this contained environment in order to explore sensitively and confidentially this difficult area of work. The appropriate use of humour is mandatory!
Course format: A 4 day course to be held at The King of Hearts, 7-15 Fye Bridge Street, Norwich NR3 1LJ
Dates: Thursday & Friday, November 8th & 9th and 22nd & 23rd 2012.
Prior to the start of the course, participants will be expected to send to the tutor an A4 resume of their work with one client/patient with suspected significant dissociative symptoms and to outline the areas of difficulties and what they would want to learn from the course. Each day is divided into 2 halves.
Part 1:
The first session (assessment session or first working session)
Affect modulation in action
The differences between parenting, re-parenting, modelling, & attachment. What works, what doesn't work.
Verbal and non verbal communication
Body language to include:
The holding environment
Eye contact
Use of touch
Sexuality
Memory and neuroscience.
Treating recovered memory
Time line and historical autobiography
Limits and realistic targets
Educational Aspect of treatment
Intervention in the outside world by the therapist and the client: where other professionals fit in.
Bonding and anti-bonding alters.
Part 2:
The whole of the second half will be put aside for each participant in turn during the 2 days to present a detailed process recording of their client with active involvement and help from the other participants.
Tutor: Remy Aquarone is an Accredited Analytical Psychotherapist and a member of the UKCP (UK Council of Psychotherapists) and BCP (British Psychoanalytic Council). He is past International Director of the ISSTD (International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation), past Chair of the UKSSD and currently President of the ESTD (European Society for Trauma and Dissociation). He is the Centre Director of the Pottergate Centre for Dissociation and Trauma.
Remy has over 25 years experience working in the field of Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders during which time he has run numerous supervision and training groups as well as worked as a consultant psychotherapist to a number of psychiatric services across the country.
Cost: £595 to include food/drinks during the day but not accommodation, also included within the price will be the Introductory DVD and one years’ membership to the ESTD. One bursary will be offered. A reduced rate of £560.00 will be offered to members of ESTD.
Who will benefit from applying: For the most part, clinicians and other professionals who can demonstrate some background experience in dissociation.
To book the course please download the Booking Form or if you would like to discuss this further, please contact:-
Remy Aquarone or telephone No: 01603 660029
