2017 Professional Development Courses Sensorimotor
Psychotherapy ® Level I
Training in affect dysregulation, survival
defenses and traumatic memory
Course information – Sydney
childhood.org.au/training
Contents
Introduction 3
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Course participants and pre-requisites 4
Your questions answered
about the course 5
Course facilitator bios 6
Course content 7
Course timetable 8
Fees schedule and payment options
8
Course cancellation 9
Further information 9
Application form
10
Payment form 11
Introduction
The emerging knowledge about neurobiology is fast
becoming the basis for practice with traumatised
individuals of all ages. There is an increased
understanding that the body holds many cues and
reactions to abuse, violence and other relational
disruptions. These impacts often cannot be accessed
using traditional therapeutic methods which focus on
addressing the cognitive and emotional elements of
trauma.
The Australian Childhood Foundation is very pleased to
partner with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute of
the USA to offer this extensive and practical course for
welfare, education and health professionals interested
in enhancing their practice beyond talk-based
interventions.
This 80 hour course presents simple body oriented
interventions for tracking, naming and safely exploring
trauma-related somatic activation, creating new
competencies and restoring a somatic sense of self.
The focus of the course is on effective interventions able
to be transferred directly into practice. The course will
be facilitated by experienced professionals from the
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute, whose director is
Dr Pat Ogden.
This is the only opportunity to access this comprehensive and expansive level of
training in sensorimotor interventions in Australia.
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Course participants
and pre-requisites
This course has been developed for education, welfare
and health professionals working in the field, with previous
qualifications and significant experience.
It is expected that these participants are:
• seeking to enhance current practice
• creative and willing to be challenged
• looking for relevant information in a different
mode of intervention
• seeking inspiration, validation or energizing
• working with traumatized individuals and those
who support them
The course would suit psychotherapists, psychiatrists,
psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses, pastoral
care workers, family therapists, drug and alcohol workers,
sexual assault workers and creative arts therapists as well
as education professionals.
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To undertake this course, you will need to have a clear
interest in sensorimotor interventions, experience in
working with traumatized individuals and an
understanding that this course is targeted to a
postgraduate level audience.
To find out further information about your ability to
undertake this course:
•
Review the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute
website at www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org, or
• Contact the Australian Childhood Foundation on
03 9874 3922 or email [email protected]
All applications for this course will be reviewed by the course
trainers and you will be advised of the outcome of your
application.
Please note: This training alone will not qualify you as a
psychotherapist in Australia.
Your questions answered about the course
Has this course been run before?
This course has been run by the Sensorimotor
Psychotherapy® Institute in locations around the world,
including USA and the Netherlands.
The Australian Childhood Foundation and the
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute have partnered to
offer this course in Australia since 2010. This partnership
has stemmed from a successful speaking tour by the
Director of the SPI, Dr Pat Ogden in 2009. Pat Ogden
was also one of the keynote speakers at the Australian
Childhood Foundation’s Child Trauma Conference in
Melbourne in August 2014.
Will this course challenge me as I bring a good
depth of knowledge and experience?
This course enables those working with traumatized
children, young people and adults to challenge and
enhance their practice, accessing somatic interventions
based in an understanding of the neurobiology of
trauma. It does this by incorporating didactic and
experiential learning in equal measures over the 12 full
days of the course.
The expectation is that you will be challenged as the
course makes direct links to course participants’ current
practice and who they are in that practice.
Who are the
Institute
and
Foundation?
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy®
the
Australian
Childhood
The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute (SPI) is
an educational organisation dedicated to the
study and teaching of a somatic approach to
clinical psychotherapy practice. It was founded
by Pat Ogden. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® is a
body-oriented talking therapy that integrates verbal
techniques
with
body-centred
interventions
in
the
treatment
of
trauma,
attachment
and
developmental issues. For more information, visit
www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org
The Australian Childhood Foundation is a national
not-for-profit organisation working to support, treat
and advocate for children and young people who
have experienced abuse, violence and trauma. The
Foundation has a strong reputation for providing
innovative, cutting edge, quality services including
training programs. For more information, visit
www.childhood.org.au
I only work with children and adolescents. Will
the material in this course be relevant for me?
This training program is geared toward working with adults.
However, many previous participants in the course are in
roles where they work specifically with children because
trauma affects the body in the same ways for an adult
and a child. The interventions presented and practiced
are applicable and can be adjusted for specific work
with children and young people.
How will the course be delivered?
The course is delivered via 12 face to face training days
with an expectation that participants will complete
readings between each learning block to enhance the
experience.
The instructional methodology incorporates lecture,
audio/visual resources, discussion, demonstration,
experiential exercises and in the moment practice
of skills.
An extensive video library of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy®
sessions with traumatised individuals is provided for
participants to access online.
The delivery model is one that reinforces participant’s
skills, acknowledges their expertise and seeks to extend
their engagement throughout the course.
How many hours of work are expected outside
the 12 facilitated days?
As outlined above, participants will be invited to complete
reading between each of the learning blocks. This work
is not compulsory. There are no external assignments
associated with the program.
What professional recognition does this course
have?
This course enables participants to access further levels
of training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® if they meet
additional eligibility criteria for Levels 2 and 3 training
programs. Professionals who are not currently registered
counsellors or psychotherapists can complete the
Level 1 training for their professional development but
this does not enable them to register as psychotherapists
on completion.
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What is the application process?
Step 1: Submit your application, with a copy of your
current resume, to Australian Childhood
Foundation. Please complete the payment
details but Australian Childhood Foundation will
not process payment until your application
is successful.
Step 2:
Australian
Childhood
Foundation
and
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute review
and assess the application.
Step 3: You are advised of the success, or rejection, of
your application and payment will then be
processed- as full payment or instalment.
Course facilitator bios
Rochelle Sharpe Lohrasbe, PhD, RCC
Rochelle Sharpe Lohrasbe, PhD, RCC holds a PhD in Child and Youth Care (UVIC).
Beginning with a career in forensic psychiatric nursing, she has had 25 years of
clinical experience in the areas of post-traumatic stress and developmental issues.
In her private clinical practice Rochelle sees both children and adults who have
experienced abuse, neglect and other traumatic experiences. She is an EMDRIAapproved consultant in EMDR, facilitates for the DNMS Institute, and has presented at
numerous conferences on these issues.
Andy Harkin MD
Andrew Harkin, MD is a registered Medical Doctor (University College Dublin), and
Psychotherapist. He has been interested in the relationship between psyche and soma
for many years, and has a special fascination with the emerging rapprochement
between neuroscience and psychotherapy. Andrew has completed a teacher
trainer programme in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) organized by the
Centre of Mindfulness Research and Practice, University of Bangor in North Wales. He
currently teaches in Ireland, Canada, the UK, Europe, and Australia and maintains a
private practice in the County Mayo in the West of Ireland.
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Course content
This course focuses on specific techniques and those
techniques are taught within a phase-oriented treatment
approach, focusing first on stabilisation and symptom
reduction.
• Self-regulation – how to stabilise traumatic activation
and restore autonomic equilibrium
The content of this course will include:
• Somatic resources – identification of missing somatic
resources and interventions to help clients develop
new resources
• Incorporating the body in practice – how to track
and name somatic experience and work with
physical action
• Boundaries – how trauma affects boundary styles
and techniques to restore healthy somatic and
psychological boundaries
• Trauma and the body – the role of the body in
perpetuating trauma based symptoms
• Orienting and defensive responses – interventions to
reinstate effective orienting and defensive responses
truncated in the wake of trauma
• Developmental and attachment issues – the effects
of trauma, attachment difficulties and developmental
impacts on mind and body
•
Hierarchical information processing – somatic
interventions that expand the capacity to integrate
traumatic experience
• The use of mindfulness – the role of mindfulness in
the treatment of trauma and how to teach
mindfulness to clients
•
Treatment of traumatic memory – somatic
approaches to overcoming the fear of traumatic
memory and interventions to process and integrate
memories
• Dissociation – interventions to work with alterations
of consciousness and structural dissociation of the
personality
The course has a practical focus and will enable participants to learn and apply
specific techniques and strategies. The course may also require participants to
engage with the material at both a personal and professional level.
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Course timetable
The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Level 1 course requires attendance on 12 facilitated days, divided into 4 x 3 day
blocks. All training days will run from 9.00am – 5.00pm, unless otherwise advised.
The Sydney course will be held at: A CBD or inner metropolitan venue to be advised on registration.
The Sydney course dates are:
Block 1
Monday 5/12/16 - Wednesday 7/12/16
Block 2
Friday 10/2/17 - Sunday 12/2/17
Block 3
Monday 27/3/17 - Wednesday 29/3/17
Block 4
Friday 26/5/17 - Sunday 28/5/17
Fee schedule and payment options
This cost includes 12 days of training, individual student support, all course materials and refreshments. Lunch is not
included in the course fee.
To provide a range of opportunities to enable you to access the course,
the following payment options are available:
Early bird payment - full course payment on registrations received on or prior to 1/11/16
$4,800
Standard payment - full course payment on registrations received after 1/11/16
$5,200
Early bird - installment payments (payment by 2 instalments of $2,400 each)
see below
Standard payment - installment payments (payment by 2 instalments of $2,600 each)
see below
Installment payment dates are:
Instalment 1
Instalment 2
Early bird
First payment received on or prior to 1/11/16
Payment on 1/3/17
Standard payment
First payment received after 1/11/16
Payment on 1/3/17
Please note: Anyone who has attended the 1 day Sensorimotor Psychotherapy®, Trauma and the Body workshop held
in 2016 is eligible for a $200 discount on whichever payment option they choose.
Please note: Eligibility for early bird payment is based on date of receipt of application, not on notification of successful
application.
Terms and Conditions for the SPI Courses 2017: The Australian Childhood Foundation (ACF) requires payment of fees for this course to be made by the dates according to the payment option
chosen above by you unless otherwise agreed in writing by ACF. ACF will not register your attendance until full or part payment of the course fees has been received in accordance with
the payment option chosen above. In the event that full or part payment is not received by at least 14 days prior to the first date of the course you have nominated, you will not be eligible
to participate in the course, until the amount due is paid. In the event that the part payment is received but the second part payment is not received by the instalment date nominated on
the payment form in this booklet, you will not be eligible to participate in the course. The course is comprised of 12 days; 4 blocks for each nominated location. You are required to attend
all blocks and dates, if you can only attend part thereof, you are still required to pay the complete course fees. ACF reserves the right to cancel or reschedule all or part of a course if
circumstances beyond its control make it necessary to do so, or if there are insufficient registrations within ten (10) days prior to the course commencement date. If ACF is required to cancel
or reschedule all or part of a course for whatever reason, you will receive prior notification and at your choice, either (a) a full refund or partial refund for the balance of any part of the course
that you do not attend as a result of the cancellation or change in scheduling, or (b) the option to transfer your registration to another course or series of seminars organised by ACF. You
must notify ACF in writing or by email if you wish to cancel your registration for the course. If you cancel your registration within twenty (20) days prior to the course commencement date you
will receive a full refund of all fees paid, minus a $500 administration fee. If this amount has not been received by ACF the participant will pay this fee due. Cancellations on or after the first
scheduled day of the Course will not be refunded and your registration cannot be transferred into another course or series of workshops or seminars organised by ACF. If you wish to cancel
your registration more than twenty (20) days prior to the commencement of the first date of the course in the nominated location, unless otherwise agreed in writing by ACF, you may either
(a) receive a full refund or (b)transfer the registration to another course or series of workshops organised by ACF. All cancellations initiated by you, except as described above will result in
forfeiture of your payment upon cancellation unless otherwise agreed in writing by ACF.
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Course cancellation
Cancellation by Australian Childhood Foundation
The Australian Childhood Foundation reserves the right
to cancel this course if there are insufficient registrations
within twenty (20) business days prior to the course
commencement date. The Australian Childhood
Foundation may also substitute the scheduled course
facilitators at any time.
If the Australian Childhood Foundation is required to
cancel the course for whatever reason, all Registered
Participants will be notified and will receive a full refund
of all fees paid.
Cancellation by Registered Participant
If a Registered Participant cancels their registration for this
course for any reason, the following refund process will
apply:
• Cancellation at least twenty (20) business days prior to
course commencement - full refund
• Cancellation less than twenty (20) business days prior to
course commencement - refund of all fees paid minus
a $500 administration fee
•
Cancellation on or after the first day of the Course no refund will be given, unless in exceptional
circumstances as negotiated with the Australian
Childhood Foundation.
Further information
For further information about the Sensorimotor
Psychotherapy® course please contact the team at:
[email protected] or 03 9874 3922
You can also obtain further information about the
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute or the Australian
Childhood Foundation at:
www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org
www.childhood.org.au
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Application form
2017 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Level 1 training course Melbourne
Name: Role:
Organisation/ Agency:
Postal address:
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Application questions
1.How did you hear about the SPI training program in affect regulation, attachment, and trauma?
2.Why do you want to participate in this SPI training program- Level I: affect dysregulation, survival defenses,
and traumatic memory?
3.What are your qualifications?
4.Please describe the type of practice and clientele you work with and methods used.
5.Please describe your degree of satisfaction with and/or success you receive from your current work.
6.Please describe whatever might be important for SPI to know about you (such as personal information or history,
learning style, group participation style, etc.) that is pertinent to your participation in an experiential,
body-oriented training.
7.Do you have any additional needs that may affect your ability to participate in this training? If so, please describe.
Please return your completed application form, payment form and a copy of your resume to Australian Childhood
Foundation via email: [email protected] or fax: 03 9879 7388 (You can provide your responses to these
questions as an additional document)
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Early bird payment
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$4,800
Standard payment - full course payment on registrations received after 1/11/16
$5,200
I attended attended the 1 day Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® workshop held in 2016.
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I attended the 1 day Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® workshop held in 2016. I will have
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