Time: 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Trainers: Amanda Goldstein and Kiara D’Ademo, Relationships Australia Victoria
The workshop will create interactive opportunities to learn about the effects of relational and attachment trauma on the brain and body on the developing brain and how this impacts adults. Strategies to identify motivation for change and tapping into appropriate ways to engage resistance, creating safety and ways to counteract shame, and dissociation / shut down will be explored. Strategies include applying the window of tolerance, mindfulness and grounding, the importance of dialogue and exploring cognitive dissonance to promote values, insight, emotional regulation, and expression.