Online

13-15 November  2023

15h00 to 20h30 AEDT

15 CPD Hours

Postgraduate Intensive Training in Ego State Therapy.

Seminar 6: Becoming Whole Again: Re- establishing internal safety and facilitating integration, internal harmony and coherence.

The process of advancing wholeness in traumatised and dissociated clients is not an easy one. It requires a realisation that only one specific psychotherapeutic intervention strategy does not suffice to alleviate the long lasting effects of trauma and dissociation. Instead, it requires a multi-facetted intervention strategy with a primary focus on creating internal safety, stabilisation, strengthening and resource activation.

The latter has been emphasised by distinguished theorists such as Porges and van der Kolk in various scientific contributions. In fact, van der Kolk ( 2014) has reiterated that trauma may lead to disintegration and internal fragmentation of the personality. The latter results in aspects of the self to split off from the core self for the purpose of survival. 

John and Helen Watkins have already described this splitting off process in formulating their seminal model on Ego State therapy during the 1970’s. It is only in recent times that the neurobiological approach to trauma and dissociation have been highlighted in the Ego State Therapy approach, namely the coupling of autonomic nervous system responses to trauma with attachment theory and how reciprocal interactive co-regulation through the social engagement system may resolve internal fragmentation.

In this workshop the focus will primarily be placed on teaching therapists how to take on a position of strategic utilisation and how to execute it.

Additionally, Dr Hartman will demonstrate how to plan and execute a bottom-up and top-down corrective experience, in order to facilitate re-integration and transformation amongst split off ego states by means of inner corrective relearning experiences, re-establishing a sense of safety, attachment and relationship building.  The latter will inevitably create a sense of becoming whole again.

Dr Hartman will also focus on demonstrating how the eight levels of internal integration amongst ego states can be assessed and facilitated to advance wholeness, self-regulation, embodiment, emotional stability and flow. This will be demonstrated through live clinical demonstrations.

The training utilises a lecture-demonstration-practise format. Hence, the training is a stimulating blend of theoretical, vicarious, and experiential learning. This workshop is the sixth in a series of consecutive workshops which lead to internationally recognized certification as an ego state therapist by Ego State Therapy International (ESTI).

Educational Objectives

1. How to resolve internal fragmentation by facilitating inner corrective experiences through strategic utilisation
2. To learn how to effectively distinguish between and implement bottom-up and top-down corrective experiences to facilitate optimal self-regulation, coherence and flow
3. To learn how to assess and facilitate the eight stages of integration to re-establish self-regulation, emotional stability and flow
4. How to appropriately combine and integrate various psychotherapeutic intervention techniques from different paradigms with ego state therapy techniques
5. How to advance wholeness through reciprocal interactive co-regulation

Keywords: reciprocal interactive co-regulation, strategic utilization, Bottom-Up and Top-Down techniques, reciprocal interactive co-regulation

PLATFORM :    ZOOM

Presenter

Carl (Callie) Hattingh (MA Psych) 

Clinical Psychologist / Clinical Supervisor,Crisis and Intervention Committee International Society of Hypnosis, Vice-Chair COR International Society of Hypnosis (ISH), President Elect Ego State Therapy International (ESTI),President Australian Institute of Clinical Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (AICHP),Director Ericksonian Institute of Sydney Australia (EISA), Accredited trainer, presenter and keynote speaker.

Organiser

Carl (Callie) Hattingh 

Clinical Psychologist/ Clinical Supervisor

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