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Event Name

Calming the Inner Critic: Working with Punitive Introjects, Ego States and Dissociative Parts in Trauma
Course/Workshop
For: Professionals
Provided by: Solutions On Site

Date and Time

Fri May 8, 2020 (This event is over)
9:00 - 4:00pm

Location

1922 Highland Heights, London, ON, N6C 2T4

Event Description

Facilitated by Kathy Steele, MN, CS, APRN
This workshop will offer a practical, integrative approach to understanding and working with a wide range of inner criticism, punishment, and harshness in the chronically traumatized individual. Everyone experiences an inner critic, based on negative messages from authority figures and from ourselves, in reaction to feeling inadequate in some way. In complex trauma this natural phenomenon can become more intense, overwhelming, and sometimes more dissociated.

We will explore how these inner aspects develop, and understand their several functions of protection, avoidance, and attempts to cope with everyday life. Participants will have an opportunity to explore their own inner critic and befriend it as a step toward helping clients learn to deal with their own. Our ability to reflect on our own tendencies toward self-criticism and punishment will support our capacity to work with these experiences in our clients. The roles of chronic shame and reenactments of trauma will be emphasized in maintaining inner critical parts.

Participants will learn specific approaches to work with ego states and dissociative parts that have these punitive functions, employing compassion and curiosity. We will explore a continuum of inner critics, ranging from natural introjects, ego states, to more separate dissociative parts, and from mild inner critics to more sadistic and destructive ones.

Early bird rate (Before April 22nd): $200+hst
Includes a continental breakfast and lunch. Free parking

For details or to register, visit www.SOSWorkshops.ca

More Info

226-268-2307

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Addictions (including Drugs, Alcohol and Gambling)
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Trauma and Abuse
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Stress
Grief and Bereavement
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
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