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Relational Rupture & Repair Work: A Somatic-Developmental Approach


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Speakers:
Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD |  Dave Berger, MFT, LCMHC, PT, MA, SEP
Duration:
1 Hour 31 Minutes
Copyright:
Oct 06, 2021
Product Code:
POS058700
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Description

If you work with COUPLES, FAMILIES, in RELATIONAL psychodynamic work or ATTACHMENT oriented bodywork this somatic workshop is designed especially for YOU. The session will have a brief introduction of the core concepts of Relational Rupture and Repair Work, developed by SE faculty Dave Berger and Abi Blakeslee. The next part of the session will be an interactive demonstration where a conference participant will present a couple or dyad they are working with. They will role-play one of the dyad and choose another person from the audience to role-play the other. Abi and Dave will demonstrate the work and deconstruct interventions based on the model. 

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This online program is worth 1.75 hours CPD.



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Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD's Profile

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Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD, is an international expert in the field of trauma recovery and the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy. She is senior faculty at the Somatic Experiencing International and additionally legacy faculty for Dr. Peter Levine’s Ergos Institute for Somatic Education. She is the Director of Training and Education for the Neuro-Consulting Group.

Dr. Blakeslee holds a PhD in clinical and somatic psychology and an MA in counseling and depth psychology. Her dissertation generated original research on the role of implicit memory in healing trauma. Dr. Blakeslee integrates the study of implicit memory and psychophysiology in clinical research, secondary trauma interventions, and the psychobiological principles of attachment and shock trauma.

Dr. Blakeslee teaches and consults worldwide. She lives in Bozeman, Montana with her husband and enjoys the snow, mountains, and rivers with their three children.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Abi Blakeslee is the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy, co-founder of Relationship Repair and maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with Somatic Experiencing International and Ergos Institute for Somatic Education. Dr. Blakeslee receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Abi Blakeslee is a member of the American Association for Marriage Family Therapists, the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, the Women in Neuroscience, and the Society for Neuroscience.

 


Dave Berger, MFT, LCMHC, PT, MA, SEP's Profile

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Dave Berger, MFT, LCMHC, PT, MA, SEP Somatic Psychotherapist Physical Therapist, Integrative Bodyworker, Developer of Bodywork and Somatic Education™ for Trauma Therapists (BASE™)

Dave has been in the field of Somatics for almost 40 years having first found his way into it by developing his own undergraduate program, somatopsychology, at the University of Maryland. He went on to obtain graduate degrees in physical therapy at Stanford and somatic psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies. He has been significantly influenced by Peter Levine and Somatic Experiencing®, Marion Rosen and Rosen Method® bodywork, Paul Linden's Being In Movement® and other somatics practices, as well as family systems, psychodynamic psychotherapy, manual physical therapy, visceral manipulation, and craniosacral therapy.

Dave is a faculty member of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute teaching the Somatic Experiencing Professional Training and has developed BASE™: Bodywork and Somatic Education™ for trauma therapists. His clinical work spans work with PTSD, couples, individuals, anxiety, chronic pain, medical syndromes/chronic distress, and acute musculoskeletal problems. His professional passion is working along the continuum of behavioral and physical health and teaching other practitioners to do the same. His personal passions are his family and spending time outdoors.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dave Berger maintains a private practice. Dave is on faculty with the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and Ergos Institute. He consults internationally with Somatic Experiencing and BASE students and practitioners as well as others interested in the field of Somatics.
Non-financial: Dave Berger has no relevant financial relationships.


Objectives

  1. Demonstrate how to work with cycles of relational rupture and repair through embodied interventions.  
  2. Organize somatic repair interventions with classical attachment styles. 
  3. Develop a process of embodied relational repair work with couples.
  4. Evaluate how relational affect physiologically and kinesthetically can be applied to dyadic repair.

Outline

  • Cycles of relational rupture and repair 
  • Somatic-based interventions based on attachment styles 
  • Specific couple-based work 
  • Relational affect in dyadic repair 

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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