2025 Sydney ACT Two-Day Trauma-Focused ACT Workshop

2025 Sydney ACT Two-Day Trauma-Focused ACT Workshop is organized by Act Mindfully and will be held from Apr 08 - 09, 2025 at State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Description:
This course will help you become more flexible, fluent and creative in ACT, so you can work effectively not just with PTSD but with the entire spectrum of trauma-related issues: simple, complex, acute or chronic.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• The neurobiology of trauma, including Polyvagal theory and Attachment theory
• How to work effectively with the limbic system
• How to bring a numb body back to life
• Why and how “talk therapy” and “supportive counselling” can keep clients stuck in trauma
• How to use movement and mindfulness to help a client’s body unlearn old adaptive responses to trauma
• How to work with a freeze response
• How to help clients find a sense of safety and security in their body
• Simple psychoeducation to help clients understand their trauma symptoms

And you’ll also learn about:

• How to reverse hopelessness and build optimism from the word ‘go’
• How to rapidly ground and centre your clients
• How to use values for post-traumatic growth
• Epigenetic aspects of trauma, and how to ameliorate them
• How to recognise and reverse emotional dysregulation
• Powerful new tools, techniques and metaphors for working with trauma
• When and where ‘mindfulness meditation’ is contraindicated in trauma work
• How to use mindfulness processes flexibly and safely (without meditation)

And this too:

• The art and science of compassionate, flexible exposure
• How to keep exposure safe by ‘Dipping in’ and ‘Dipping out’
• How to develop self-compassion, step-by-step, in the face of self-hatred
• How to revisit traumatic memories safely, without getting trapped in them
• How to use self-as-context naturalistically to help clients transcend past trauma
• How to deconstruct and overcome shame, step-by-step

And, as if that wasn’t enough, you’ll also discover:

• Inner child imagery and rescripting
• Nightmare rehearsal and rescripting
• Working with body memory
• Defusion from self-hatred, self-criticism, self-blame
• Mindfulness and defusion as antidotes to worrying, rumination, catastrophising
• How to overcome common barriers to change
• Working with comorbidity
• Shifting paradigms: from the “window of tolerance” to the “window of flexibility”
• Making “homework” simple, desirable, and likely to be successful
• And much, much more!