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DARe 3 – The Neurobiology of Loving Relationships · Boulder, CO. February 7– 9, 2017 
 Diane P. Heller, PhD

                                 

Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D., is an established expert in the field of Adult Attachment Theory and Models, trauma resolution, and integrative healing techniques. She is a trainer, presenter, and speaker offering workshops, teleseminars and educational materials on Trauma, Attachment Models and their dynamics in childhood and adult relationships, as well as many other topics. She has lectured and taught around the world as both a Somatic Experiencing trainer and Special topics presenter, most recently with her very popular DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning Experience) series on Adult Attachment.Diane is noted for her ability to communicate complex topics with humor and clarity. She is available for workshops, speaking engagements and private phone consultations. Dr. Heller began her work with Peter Levine, founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment (FHE, now Somatic Experiencing Training Institute – SETI) and the “Somatic Experiencing” (SE) method of trauma resolution in 1989.

Discover the latest research in Neuroscience that enhances our capacity for deepening intimacy.

The foundation for establishing healthy relationships relies on developing secure attachment skills, thus increasing your sensitivity for contingency and relational attunement.

According to Allan Schore, the regulatory function of the brain is experience-dependent and he says that, as an infant, our Mother IS our whole environment. In this module we will learn to understand how the early patterns of implicit memory – which is pre-verbal, sub-psychological, and non-conceptual – build pathways in our brain that affect our attachment styles. Clinically, we can shift such ingrained associative patterns in our established neural network by bringing in new and different “lived” experiences in the Here and Now.

The Role of the Therapist

Healing into wholeness takes the active participation of at least one other brain, mind, and body to repair past injuries – and that can be accomplished through a one-to-one therapeutic relationship, or one that is intimate and loving. In exploring the “age and stage” development of the right hemisphere and prefrontal cortex in childhood, we will discover how the presence of a loving caregiver can stimulate certain hormones, which will help support our growing capacity for social engagement and pleasure in all of our relationships. Brain integration leads to connection and love throughout our entire life span.

Healing with Neuroscience

In this training we will also bring deeper focus to the role of Neuroscience in restoring the brain’s natural attunement to Secure Attachment. Our brain is a social brain – it is primed for connection, not isolation, and its innate quality of plasticity gives it the ability to re-establish, reveal and expand one’s intrinsic healthy attachment system.

The training will approach topics specific to neuroscience, such as myelination, synaptogenesis, neuroplasticity, mirror neurons, brain pruning and priming, and implicit / explicit memory functions. You will gain useful knowledge that will greatly benefit precise clinical application in the relational field, facilitating actual brain integration.

You will learn to use valuable tools to identify the specific Attachment orientations of your clients, such as observing their Narrative styles, or using interactive resources like the ACE questionnaire and the Schemas questionnaire – an organized test and process revealing projections of expected outcomes that intensely affect our relationships and our perspective of the world.

Together we will look into the power of mastering Brain-to-Brain / Body-to-Body interactive regulation that starts with mother and infant, and evolves with partner-to-partner or therapist-and-client relationships.

We will also learn repair of mis-attunements, promoting safety and protection through healing techniques that facilitate true mutuality and help us cross the bridge back to Secure Attachment, including:

• intergenerational focus to counter the effects of role reversal
• the practice of mindfulness
• contact nutrition through nourishing gaze, prosody in the voice or safe touch.

Live or DVD demos will be used to illustrate these points, along with lecture and interactive experiential exercises, during this impactful 4-day workshop. Though open to all professionals who are interested in exploring their true nature and gaining new skills to use with their clients, this is not an introductory training, and participants should have an established practice for supporting their inner experience in depth.

Prerequisite: DARe 1 Module workshop, or DARe 1 overview including 5-DVD set on Attachment.

There will be opportunities to work one-on-one with experienced trauma therapists, who will be supporting the work of the group.

Based on the contributions of Mary Ainsworth, Ellyn Bader, John Bowlby, John Gottman, Louise Kaplan, Heinz Kohut, Mary Main, Dan Siegel, Marion Solomon, Daniel Stern, Stan Tatkin, Donald W. Winnicott, Jeff Young and countless others, this work embodies a compassionate, integrative understanding of how to help heal the dys-regulati:on of the Autonomic Nervous System as well as Attachment Disruptions.

Continuing Education credits: Continuing Education credit hours are available to professionals for an additional processing fee of $99. For more information about State-specific approvals, professions covered, and number of credits for this course, click here or contact your event organizer.

Cancellation and Refund policy:

Full refunds will be given if an applicant is denied acceptance into the program or in the rare event that the class is canceled. A refund, less a $100 administrative fee, will be issued if a participant chooses to withdraw 30 days prior to the workshop date.  After day 30, 50% of registration fee will be given up to two weeks prior to workshop date.

Late cancellation: when canceling within 14 days of the workshop date, no refund will be given.

NOTE: Paid fees can ALWAYS be transferred to another class (without paying the $100 administrative fee) even with late cancellation, or the full amount can be applied towards the purchase of educational resources from our webstore: http://dianepooleheller.com/products/

Course registration signifies agreement with the terms of the cancellation policy.

All refunds will be paid within thirty (30) days after receipt of cancellation. 

 

 

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