Emotional, physical and social distress can arise from unresolved attachment and trauma. Yet recovery is not about thinking our way out of the past. This training will teach you about the biology of recovery from the unique perspective of working directly with non-consciously encoded memory, also known as implicit memory. Several branches of implicit memory are involved with the autonomic nervous system, the threat response cycle, and primitive states of emotional regulation. Why can't your clients change the emotional and behavioral patterns they know are hurting themselves and others?

In this workshop, you will learn how interoception is used in therapy.  Learning how to observe and change ongoing states of distress, as well as learning how to guide clients to repair relational ruptures on an implicit level, can lead to long-lasting and deep states of change.  You will practice therapeutic exercises that you can use with your clients right away.  Implicit Psychotherapy distills science, theory, and practice with clarity.  The training is a combination of lectures, small break-out practices throughout with immediate skill building, and clinical deconstructions of live and prerecorded volunteer demonstrations. Working with implicit memory is a pathway to reinstate secure attachment, increase emotional and physiological regulation, and restore a person's sense of essential self.

UPDATE: Implicit Psychotherapy has a new framework, so more of you who want to attend can do so.

With our busy lives I am receiving countless emails saying people want to attend but would be missing one training in the set of three. Or they can only make one set of dates. So I have listened and have come up with a plan to support you!

Here is a new set up for the Idyllwild training.

  • Register for 2 Implicit Psychotherapy modules and get videos of all the content from what you missed. You’ll be certified in Implicit Psychotherapy and be eligible to run IP experiential groups in your communities yourself.

  • Register for one Implicit Psychotherapy module and get the videos for free. However to be certified or become a facilitator you’ll be required to attend an in-person 4 day experiential filled with IP dyad exercises. This will have a low accessible training fee.

The 4-day Experiential workshop is the template for what facilitators run. At first I will teach those throughout the US and any country that wants to invite me to provide the training. And then YOU all will take over!

I am applying for my own CEs and have expert help. My adviser is certain we will get them.

CEs will be available for the videos. So anyone taking this live class will automatically receive the videos and be eligible for those CEs when they are attached to the videos we send you. I am expecting to have video content early next year. We will be adding subtitles to make these videos available in multiple languages.

Of course you are encouraged to register for all 3 Implicit Psychotherapy modules.

  • Get in depth learning to broaden your expertise in working with implicit memory

  • Gain effectiveness as a therapist and leader

This is one of the few times I will teach the course in this format. And you’ll have close opportunities to work directly with me in demos and class exercises.

I hope this opens up options for those of you who cannot attend all 3 trainings. I hope you will join us. And I am looking forward to seeing those of you who are signed up!

And please - refer your colleagues to the workshop! Those with no somatic background need to attend these in sequence.

Here is a flyer to pass along to your colleagues and friends.

Module 1: Interoception, attachment repair and regulation.
Module 2: Implicit Memory’s role in biology, recovery, and the essential self.
Module 3: Healing transgenerational trauma, dreams, archetypes and the whole self.

See below for more detailed descriptions of each module.

Dates - 2024
Module 1 - June 8-11
Module 2 - July 20-23
Module 3 - August 31-September 3

Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Pacific time
Cost: $550 USD per module
Location: Tahquitz Pines Retreat, 55521 S. Circle Dr., Idyllwild, CA 92549

Schedule:
10:00 - 11:15 am
11:15 am - 11:30 am - Break
11:30 am -1:00 pm
1:00 - 2:30 pm Lunch
2:30 pm - 4:15 pm
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Break
4:30 - 6:00 pm

Registration spots are limited!

Save $150 by purchasing all three Modules together!
Please refer to our Cancellation policy.

Module 1

Core Topics: Memory Systems in Therapy, Pathways to lay down New Implicit Learning, Interoception, Predictive Appraisal, Secure Attachment Exercises, Fostering Implicit Reconnection to Essential Self.

In this workshop, participants will learn how interoception, or conscious awareness of bodily sensation, is used in therapy. Learning how to observe and change ongoing survival physiological states, as well as learning how to guide clients to repair relational ruptures on an implicit level, can lead to long-lasting and deep states of change. Participants will learn exercises that they can use for themselves and with their clients right away. Drawing on up-to-date science and memory research, this workshop distills theory and practice with clarity. Working with implicit memory is a pathway to reinstate secure attachment, increase regulation, and restore a person's sense of essential self.

Module 2

Core Topics: Restoring Action, Agency, and Organization, Survival Physiology, Procedural Movement Reorganization, Boundaries, Depotentiation of Fear Arousal, Dissociation, Implict and Explicit Timelines, Flexibility, Sustainment and Success.

In this model, we will explore how to use the branches of procedural and associative implicit memory to extinguish traumatic memories of threat and disorganized attachment. Multiple exercises involving involuntary and voluntary procedural memory will be shared to increase your client’s capacity toward Agency, Action, and Organization. You will learn several types of boundary and protector exercises to restore and empower your clients. The science of chronic stress, also known as allostatic load, and how to invoke new implicit learning to restore the biology of recovery will be explored. How to depotentiate fear physiology will be a central theme throughout the workshop. We will also expand on how to engage dissociation directly, which is an essential clinical interventions when working with trauma. You will learn how to map and work with explicit and implicit timelines for more effective treatment plans. We will use interoception to optimize resiliency and the kindling flexibility, sustainment, and success.

Module 3

Core Topics: Essential Self-Source, Purpose and disrupting Negative Core Self Beliefs, Relational Strategies and Exercises, Dreams, Archetypes, Transgenerational Trauma and Healing, Collective Trauma, Ecopsychology, Birth and Dying and Transitional states, Creativity, and Future Self.

In this model, we will explore transformative engagement with implicit memory.  We will begin by deepening work with essential self and incorporating exercises to engage Source, Purpose, and Essence as well as disrupt Negative core self-beliefs.  We will learn more about attachment and relational strategies using procedural exercises and embodied metaphor.  We will have a full day of working with dreams with your implicit psychotherapy tools.  The next part of this training brings us more into collective themes, such as working with Archetypes as a way to take history, set goals, and shift survival physiology with your clients.  Working with transgenerational trauma and healing, along with heritage and future self exercises, will be offered.  The other topics we will cover are collective healing, birth and dying as transitional states, ecopsychology, and creativity.  I hope it will be an inspirational module for you all to conclude our training together.