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The Love and Trauma Center

Containment and Resolution (CAR)

  • When: February through May, 2012 (3rd weekend of each month)

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  • Training Format: 4 weekends (61 hours)

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  • Location: Denver, CO

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  • Tuition: $1,000 for professionals, $900 for students
  • Registration for this course will be closed after the class limit of 30 students is reached

    • This is a technical body-based trauma training intended for mental health professionals and graduate students. First and foremost, the primary purpose of the training is to develop highly skilled trauma therapists. To do this, we focus on integrating theory, research, and strategic thinking with very experiential, hands-on, skill development. In fact, a full 50% of the training is dedicated to skills practice. Many students find the training to be demanding insofar as it requires a high level of intellectual engagement, working with one’s own personal history of stress and trauma, and mastering a set of skills that are beyond the scope of what is taught in traditional counseling programs.

    The Containment and Resolution model draws on information from neuropsychological research which includes an understanding of how traumatic experiences are stored and accessed through different memory systems. We also draw from Peter Levine’s modeling of the stressed autonomic nervous system and his emphasis on working precisely and slowly with body sensations and impulses. We’ve researched and developed an in-depth trauma protocol that many students chose to combine with their pre-existing therapeutic framework.

    When you finish the class, you will have the information and skills to work with highly stressed and traumatized clients; this training can stand alone or the skill sets developed within it can be effectively paired with our Trauma and Transference training.

    What others have said about this training:

    The Love and Trauma Center actively solicits frank and anonymous feedback from our students in order to continually improve our trainings. Of the students and professional therapists that were part of our last Containment and Resolution course, 95% would recommend the training to a friend.

    What you will learn in this 64-hour training:

  • Theory and practical implications of memory systems: procedural, event, and semantic memory
  • How to release traumatic charge (containment and cresting nervous system waves)
  • How to determine, work within, and grow your competence as a trauma therapist
  • How to utilize trauma symptoms as part of the healing process
  • How to support the growth of developmental ego functions disturbed in trauma (boundaries; saying “no” or “yes” effectively without charge)
  • Resource establishment (how to create positive, calm, resting places for yourself and your client)
  • How to develop self-soothing (auto-regulation) in yourself and your clients
  • How to strengthen the capacity for self-observation, including body sensations, emotions, and cognitions
  • How to take a trauma history and develop strategic treatment plans

    • Detailed training outline:

    Weekend 1: Overview Containment and Resolution & Resourcing
    Lecture Topics: Memory, Containment, Tracking body sensations, Resourcing
    Associated Readings: Ch. 5 (Resourcing), Ch 3 (Memory), Optional Ch 11 (Levine)
    Homework Practice Skills: Resourcing

    Part 2: Resourcing continued., Accessing Relational Abilities
    Lecture Topics: Procedural memory, Accessing Relational Abilities: No to therapist, Resourced No.
    Associated Readings: Ch 6 (No) & optional Ch 4 (Mindfulness)
    Homework Practice Skills: Easy no (resourced), Therapist easy no, Therapist hard no

    Weekend 2: Strengthening Relational Abilities
    Lecture Topics: Containment, Scales of difficulty/Working Window, No, Yes, Persistence, Review of state symptoms
    Associated Readings: Ch 7 (Persistence, Yes) Optional Ch 8 (Hierarchy), Optional Ch 19 (Self-soothing)
    Homework Practice Skills: No with containment, Yes, Persistence

    Part 2: Taking a trauma-resource history & strategy
    Lecture Topic: History Form, Strategizing principles
    Associated Readings: Ch. 11 (Levine), Ch. 13 (History), Optional 10 (Event memory), Optional Ch. 12 (Simple vs. Complex Trauma)
    Homework Practice Skills: Take a trauma-resource history, Therapeutic Strategy

    Weekend 3: Stress Event Containment
    Lecture Topics: Stress Events: Initial Conditions, Physical containment
    Associated Readings: Ch. 14 (Stress)
    Homework Practice Skills: Containment of states 1 & 2.

    Part 2: Resolving State 3 Traumas
    Lecture Topics: Review of “Cold” Symptoms & Containment, defensive responses, chronology, and coherence; identifying solutions
    Associated Readings: Ch 15 (State 3)
    Homework Practice Skills: State 3 Trauma Containment

    Weekend 4: Resolving State 4 Traumas, Review and Practice (Focus on Phase I & II):
    Lecture Topics: Plugging Leaks, Culling, Counter-transference, Hard Solutions, Protocol & choice-points (through history & strategy), practice, Q & A
    Associated Readings: Ch 16 (States 3/4), Ch. 17 (Delinking), Ch. 18 (Trauma Clusters)
    Homework Practice Skills: State 3 Trauma Containment – events that are linked

    Part 2: Review and Practice (Focus on Phase III)
    Lecture Topics: Dipping, solutions, Protocol & choice-points (containment,) practice, Q &A, Further areas of practice
    Associated Readings: Repeat Ch. 16 (States 3/ 4), Ch. 20 (Life in state 4), Optional Ch 22 (DeMause)

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