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Restoring Acts of Triumph: A Sensorimotor Approach to the Treatment of Traumatic Memory.
Speaker: Pat Ogden, Ph. D.
Date: Friday, March 24, 2006
Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Place: The Portland Hilton, 921 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR
For hotel reservations, please call 1-800-HILTONS, or online at www.hilton.com.
Pat Ogden, Ph. D.
Dr. Ogden is the Founder and Director of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, co-founder of the Hakomi
Institute, adjunct faculty of The Naropa University, and international trainer of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.
Dr. Ogden has worked with a diversity of populations, including psychiatric inpatients, survivors of trauma and
prison inmates. A pioneer in somatic psychotherapy and in the treatment of trauma, she has over 30 years experience
working with individuals and groups. Dr. Ogden is the author of Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to
Psychotherapy (2006).
Pat Ogden’s work is an outstanding example of an effective somatically focused psychotherapy that
integrates current advances in psychodynamic, neurobiological, trauma, and developmental knowledge. Her creative
therapeutic approaches resonate well with current research on the essential role of the right brain in emotional
communication, attachment trauma, bodily processes and affect regulation.
Allan N. Schore, Ph. D. Author of
Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self.
Pat Ogden… is the undisputed master of teaching clinicians how to work with physical sensation to help
people beyond their trauma. For me, her work has opened up a whole new dimension of effective therapy.
Bessel van der Kolk, MD Author of Traumatic Stress.
Who Should Attend:
Mental Health Providers, Victim Advocates, Crisis Response Workers, Providers of Social Services,
Teachers & Educators, Graduate Students, Researchers, Addiction Counselors & Criminal Justice Staff.
Workshop Description:
This seminar presents the nature of traumatic memories and effective somatic techniques which help to resolve
trauma. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy exposes procedural components of clients’ traumatic memories gradually to
maximize treatment effects and reduces the stress inherent in processing trauma. Dissociated elements of traumatic
memories are often inaccessible to verbal recall, but the memory fragments intrude, unaltered by the course of
time and often terrifying the person. Traumatized clients often present with symptoms rather than with coherent
verbal stories placed in time. Videotaped excerpts of work with traumatic memory will be shown to illustrate how
past traumatic responses are activated, but then processed in such a way that new “acts of triumph”
are
evoked. The traumatic memory becomes associated with empowering actions and their corresponding emotions and
cognitions, which are dramatically different from those evoked by the original event.
Workshop Learning Objectives:
* Identify the various defensive subsystems, such as fight, flight and freeze responses.
* Learn the difference between “normal”
autobiographical memory and traumatic memory.
* Know the importance of addressing procedural memory in the treatment of traumatic memory and
dysregulated affect.
* Understand the role of somatic resources in working with traumatic memory and mitigating violence
in inmate populations.
* Learn body techniques for regulating autonomic arousal and working with defensive subsystems.
* Know the importance of teaching mindfulness in diverse environments.
Workshop Sponsors:
Voices Set Free
Washington County Department of Community Corrections
Washington County Department of Juvenile Services
Hilton- Portland & Executive Tower