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2019 Networker Symposium

2019 Networker Symposium

Join us for the 42nd annual celebration!

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Trauma

110 – Embodiment, Rhythm, Awareness, Play

A Day to Experience Attuned Self-Awareness
LICIA SKY

The latest research shows that our ability to be aware of our bodies impacts how we process sensations and memories, and heal from traumatic events. But therapists can’t guide clients to calm

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113 – Expressive Arts as Healing Engagement

Deepening the Therapeutic Experience
CATHY MALCHIODI

Expressive arts not only cultivate the healing powers of imagination, they also mobilize the social engagement system through play, improvisation, musicality, movement, and creativity. When integrated into therapy, they can revitalize and energize clients,

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115 – Using Ancient Practices for Today’s Ailments

Connecting the Body, Mind, and Spirit
SABRINA N’DIAYE

The long-term impact of trauma and stress are more than just mental health issues: they’re at the root of almost 80 percent of chronic illnesses in our modern culture. But ancient spiritual

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119 – The Challenge of Treating Complex PTSD

What to Do When Things Get Messy and Uncomfortable
MARY JO BARRETT & LINDA STONE FISH

When working with trauma cases do you see clients go into flight, fight, or freeze? Do they yell at you, insult you, or leave

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122 – Getting Creative with Parts

How to Use Expressive Modalities to Enhance Inner Work
Lisa Ferentz

It’s important to honor all of your client’s inner parts in therapy. But accessing them to fully engage in healing work isn’t always easy. In this workshop, we’ll consider

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201, 301 – Compassionate Inquiry

Therapy with a Bio-psycho-social Perspective on Mental and Physical Illness

Parts 1 & 2

GABOR MATÉ

By separating mind from body and the individual from the social environment, we limit our ability to address the roots of many of the

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202, 302 – Evoking Positive Emotional States

Uplifting Interventions to Heal the Heart

Parts 1 & 2

COURTNEY ARMSTRONG

Research from brain science and positive psychology shows that activating positive emotional states is the fastest route to instilling hope, stimulating creativity, spurring motivation, and empowering our clients.

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203, 303 – The Body Keeps the Score

When Talk Isn’t Enough

Part 1 (with Bessel van der Kolk) & Part 2 (with Janina Fisher)

BESSEL VAN DER KOLK & JANINA FISHER

Our field has made great advances in understanding the impact of trauma on developing brains and

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206, 306 – The Ethically Attuned Therapist

Managing the Hazards of Compassion Fatigue

Parts 1 & 2

MARY JO BARRETT & LINDA STONE FISH

Compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization are more than occupational hazards for those in the helping professions. Feeling too much of our clients’ emotions

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208, 308 – MDMA in Psychotherapy

New Horizons for Clinical Treatment

Parts 1 & 2

Michael Mithoefer

For millennia, cultures around the world have embraced mind-altering substances to catalyze healing. Although our field has generally resisted the use of such substances, the FDA has recently granted

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213, 313 – Polyvagal Theory in Action

Harnessing the Healing Potential of the Autonomic Nervous System

Parts 1 & 2

DEB DANA

At its most basic level, human communication is one nervous system responding to another, searching for signals that it’s safe to connect and flooding us

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214 – Helping Clients Who Can’t “Feel”

A Somatic Approach to Accessing Emotions
Janina Fisher

Nothing defeats a therapist more than a client who’s numb or disconnected. When you ask why they’ve come for help, they may say, “I’m depressed” or “I’ve lost all hope,” but they

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215 – Please Don’t Ask Me to Forgive You!

Healing from Infidelity and Other Interpersonal Wounds
JANIS ABRAHMS SPRING

Most of us have been taught that forgiveness is good for us and that good people forgive, even in the face of deep, interpersonal wounds. But hurt parties—whether injured by

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219 – Healing Trauma through Connection

An Interpersonal Approach
Kathryn Rheem & T. Leanne Campbell

Although trauma often has the greatest impact our most intimate relationships, research shows that finding comfort in loved ones has the potential to undo much of the damage trauma creates in

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315 – Microtraumas and the African American Client

Tools for Countering Racial Trauma  
CANDICE RICHARDSON DICKENS

African Americans regularly receive societal messages about their lack of value, powerlessness, and inability to ensure their personal safety. Perpetuated through media stories as well as common, everyday interactions, these microtraumas cause

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319 – The Collective Trauma of War

An Unaddressed Dimension of Work with Vets
PATRICK DOUGHERTY

Focusing on the symptoms of PTSD is not enough when working with veterans. We need to help them understand the larger society that wishes to forget the horrors of war and

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323 – Beyond the Borderline Label

Helping BPD Clients Without Bias
ANITA MANDLEY

Most therapists understand that the extreme behaviors of people with a borderline personality disorder diagnosis are often strategies for survival, self-management, and attachment. But their intense abandonment fears, inappropriate anger, and extreme reactions

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402, 502 – Relational EMDR as a Transformational Journey

The Power of Attunement

Parts 1 & 2

DEANY LALIOTIS

While EMDR is best known for the treatment of PTSD, it’s evolved into a comprehensive, attachment-based approach that addresses a broad range of clinical conditions. In this workshop, you’ll learn

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403, 503 – Issues for Therapists of Color

Reclaiming Our Voices
Kenneth Hardy

Parts 1 & 2

Despite the progressive political attitude prevalent in our field, clinicians of color often still face certain challenges around issues of race in our work with clients, and they struggle to find

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405, 505 – The Breakthrough Experience

How to Produce Transformation in Couples Therapy

Parts 1 & 2

TERRY REAL

This workshop teaches participants how to quickly get to the heart of the matter in a couple’s relationship and with each individual partner. We start by articulating

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406, 506 – Treating the Traumatized Child and Family

A Family Systems and Community Collaboration Approach

PARTS 1 & 2

Scott Sells

Trauma affects not just children, but often entire families, who can remain stuck for years. While the literature on systemic trauma treatment is scarce, bringing family and

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408, 508 – Enhancing Your Therapeutic Presence

Playful Activities to Harness the Social Engagement System

Parts 1 & 2

DAFNA LENDER

While we all know that success in therapy depends on the therapist–client relationship, building that positive rapport hinges on behaviors many therapists aren’t even aware of.

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410, 510 – Engaging the Brain’s Process of Profound Change

A Primer on Memory Reconsolidation

Parts 1 & 2

Bruce Ecker

It may seem too good to be true, but brain science has given us an empirically proven path to transformational change through the process of memory reconsolidation. This is

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413, 513 – Addressing Narcissism in the Era of #MeToo

Healing the Wounds of Betrayal Trauma and Hypersexuality

Parts 1 & 2

Paul DelGrosso

The #MeToo movement has given countless survivors of sexual abuse and misconduct the validation they needed to seek treatment. But it’s also brought attention to the

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414, 514 – The Missing Ingredient in Trauma Work

Making Family Members Partners in Healing

Parts 1 & 2

MARY JO BARRETT & LINDA STONE FISH

Our field has come a long way in addressing the challenges of complex development trauma. Unfortunately, no matter how much progress clients make

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421 – Cultural and Historical Traumas

Invisible Barriers to Healing and Change
ANITA MANDLEY

If you work with African Americans, Native Americans, holocaust survivors and their descendants, intergenerational poverty, or refugees, then whether you realize it or not, your work is being influenced by the legacies

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516 – Advances in Working with Schizophrenia

An Alternative to the Pathology Model
DICK SCHWARTZ

The dominant paradigm for schizophrenia is that it’s a chronic brain disease with genetic origins, the signs of which are hearing voices and having hallucinations or delusional thought processes. Based on this

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518 – Catalyzing Brain Change

How to Transform Any Adversity into Learning and Growth
LINDA GRAHAM

Helping clients develop strategies for coping with both everyday disappointments and extraordinary disaster is at the heart of the therapeutic process, regardless of your clinical approach. In this workshop,

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519 – Complex Trauma Clients at the Edge

How Brain Science Can Inform Interventions
Frank Anderson

Therapists often get shaken and lose confidence in their approach when a client’s trauma response edges into seemingly uncontrollable extremes of rage, panic, or suicidal desperation. This workshop provides an essential road

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521 – Therapy and the Lessons of War

How Stories from Veterans Can Help Clients  
Elizabeth Heaney

Many ancient cultures plumbed the stories of their warriors for wisdom in the face of unbearable pain and hardship. Today’s combat veterans continue to traverse harrowing landscapes of the heart and

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524 – Chronic Suicidality and Self-Destructive Behavior

Creating Safety and Collaboration
Janina Fisher

Chronically suicidal clients present a special kind of stress for therapists: there’s not only the emotional stress of working with their pain, but the additional burden of risk, responsibility, and anxiety. When should we

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602 – Rethinking Personality Disorders

The Search for Secure Attachment
Courtney Armstrong

What’s going on when your best efforts to establish a secure therapeutic alliance with a personality-disordered client aren’t working? Before you proclaim a “bad fit” and refer them out, consider changing your approach.

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603 – #MeToo and Men

What Does It Mean to Cross the Line?
David Wexler

The #MeToo movement has shone a light on the pervasive damage done by sexual harassment and assault. But the scope of behaviors that fall within this category is wide and

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605 – The Craft of Treating Trauma

Three Core Skills
Deany Laliotis

Regardless of your specific methodology for treating trauma, there’s a core set of fundamental skills that determine a therapist’s effectiveness in this challenging arena of practice. This workshop will explore these underlying clinical skills in

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606 – Sexual Health and the Trauma Survivor

How the Therapist Can Help
JOE KORT

Clients with sexual abuse histories often come to therapy with questions about their sexual expression and the obstacles they encounter in intimate relationships. They may find themselves engaging in trauma reenactment rather than

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616 – Working with Traumatized Teens

Weathering Your Own Triggers
Martha Straus

Working with traumatized adolescents requires that the therapist be a master of self-discipline, acutely aware of their own triggers and able to respond to extreme reactions at a moment’s notice. From angry arousal to

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619 – Transform Trauma with AEDP

Use of the Therapist’s Self
SueAnne Piliero

Working with trauma and attachment wounds requires a strong therapeutic presence. When clients see and feel only darkness, it’s up to us to lead boldly, attune closely, and fiercely champion their capacity to

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