About the Session
Session Description:
The workshop will introduce a collection of ego state therapy interventions from the Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS) for stabilizing dysregulated, dissociative, and attachment-wounded clients. It will describe ways to talk directly to triggered wounded child parts (1) to welcome them; (2) to, attune, validate, and empathize with them; (3) to get them bonded with loving internal resources; (4) to orient them to present time; and (5) to reassure them that their perception of “reliving” an old trauma is just a harmless recording playing back. When these interventions are provided together, in the right order, they have a profound stabilizing effect.
Learning Objective 1
Participants will be able to describe how to guide clients to mobilize a team of vetted Resources.
Learning Objective 2
Participants will be able to describe how to guide clients to establish a Special Safe Place where their wounded parts can rest and play.
Learning Objective 3
Participants will be able to describe how to directly dialogue with a wounded child part, to attune, validate, and empathize.
Learning Objective 4
Participants will be able to describe how to orient a wounded child part to the present time.
Learning Objective 5
Participants will be able to describe how to reassure a wounded child part that her perception of “reliving” an old trauma is just a harmless recording playing back.