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Brain In Action: The Neurobiology of Trauma

When:
February 15, 2019 @ 9:00 am – February 21, 2019 @ 5:00 pm
2019-02-15T09:00:00-01:00
2019-02-21T17:00:00-01:00
Where:
Vedadrama.com Training Centre, near NIMHANS
Bangalore
Karnataka
Contact:
Dr. Steven Durost

Brain In Action: The Neurobiology of Trauma

Bangalore: February 15-17, 2019

People who have experienced traumatic events can have significant changes in the neurobiology of their brain. The right brain holds emotions, relationship information, and unprocessed trauma, often in the form of flashbacks, body memories, intrusive thoughts and dissociated feelings. It is always turned on by an overactive amygdala. The left brain’s coherent function, which provides meaning to stay in the here and now, is interrupted by stress hormones as the result of danger signals from the amygdala.

Participants will learn to use the Body Double (bd) intervention to work with the energetic body and the ‘rhythmic rupture’ it suffers, along with the physical body and the brain, due to traumatic events. The brain-in-action, along with attachment structures, are taught through demonstration and live supervised practice and can be used immediately following the workshop in individual, couples and family therapy, as well as by educators and community organizers. This workshop expands the repertoire of students and practitioners of emdr, eft, sensory motor integration, as well as drama therapy and psychodrama. 

STEVEN DUROST, PhD, LCMHC, REAT, is the Founder and Director of C.R.E.A.T.E! The Center for Expressive Arts, Therapy and Education in Manchester, NH. He teaches psychodrama courses at Springfield College-Manchester and Lesley University- Cambridge; his work was nationally recognized in 2014 with an award from the American Society of Group Psychotherapy & Psychodrama.

Place: Vedadrama.com Training Centre, near NIMHANS. 

Organizer: Vedadrama India Pvt. Ltd. together with PIB-Zentrum, Germany

Registration: ceo@vedadrama.com

 

Containment: The Key to Safety with Action Methods

New Delhi, India: February 18-21, 2019

Our brains are hardwired to Fight, Flight or Freeze from danger. Unfortunately, long after many traumatic experiences happened, the survivor continues to use those survival defenses, forming rigid patterns that shut down or overwhelm the system with unexpressed emotion. This is especially true of grief. For many survivors, it would have been dangerous to cry out while neglect, violence or abuse was happening, while many associate grief with being a victim. So, deep pain and grief from abuse is often hidden or repressed for years, becoming the proverbial ‘elephant-in-the-room.’

However, TSM has a special Prescriptive Role, the Containing Double (cd), that helps clients work through dissociation and other defenses to access these intense feelings of grief and mourning—safely and without retraumatization. The cd was one of the first roles to be developed by TSM. Its efficacy has  been researched and it is used throughout the world, across cultures and languages. In this workshop, participants will learn and practice the Containing Double in triads, participate in full TSM psychodramas, and learn TSM’s Action Safety Structures that enhance group cohesion and provide the overarching container for deep work.

Place: Asha Training Centre, Krishna Colony.

Organizer: Vedadrama India Pvt. Ltd., PIB-Zentrum, Germany, and

Asha, a project of CHILD, Coimbatore.

Registration: ceo@vedadrama.com

 

Event Flyers:

Feb 15-17 BraininAction21519v4

Feb 18-21 Containment2182119v4