Trauma without Drama: 

Four Innovative Respectful Ways of Treating Trauma

A Day Long Conference with Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT

People with post-traumatic stress often suffer for years and develop a variety of troubling and often crippling problems.  This workshop will detail a philosophy and methods of working briefly and effectively with people who have been traumatized.

An array of new methods have shown that previous conceptions and methods of working with trauma are unnecessarily long-term and re-traumatizing.  These new approaches, rather than being based on the past and deterministic models, are oriented towards the present and future and a sense of possibilities.  You will leave equipped with a different understanding of how to treat trauma and four specific methods you can use right away in your work.

Through lecture, videotaped examples and handouts, participants will be equipped with new tools and ideas to work briefly, effectively and respectfully with even severe and long-standing traumas. In addition to learning new models and methods, come prepared to be entertained.  Bill is a lively speaker whose humor and engagement with the audience makes his presentations fun and enlivening!

Participants will learn:

• Four rapid methods for resolving trauma
• Three methods of creating hopeful futures for trauma survivors
• To design therapeutic rituals  

6.0 CEU credits available for full attendance at no additional charge.  Continuing education credits are Category A as approved by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists (covering MFTs, LCPCs, and A&Ds).  If you are with another board, we advise you to call your state licensing board and inquire if they will accept CEUs offered by our conference sponsors: MAD-AAMFT, the University of Maryland's Couple & Family Therapy Program, and the Maryland Council on Family Relations. 

Conference Day Program

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.               Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.             Part I

Inclusive therapy: Reclaiming devalued experience

• The Inclusive Self as a means to melting the frozen, repetitive trauma
• Permission, validation and inclusion

Future Pull: Did you know that the future can cause the present?

• The Viktor Frankl Strategy
• Future pull methods

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.            Lunch

On-site lunch available for $10.00 (See below for menu items)

or 

On your own (List of local restaurants will be provided)

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.              Part II

In the shape of a bottle: Changing patterns that were shaped by the trauma

• Neurology: The fast track out of trauma
• Neurological and perceptual methods for rapidly and painlessly resolving trauma
• Pattern intervention: Patterns vs. set realities
• The doing of traumatic patterns
• De-patterning:  Challenging repetitive patterns
• Solution-oriented methods

Re-connection: Challenging dissociation and disconnection in the wake of trauma

• Seven pathways to connection
• Connective and stability rituals
• The writing cure: Transition and dis-connective rituals

Registration

Registration ends on February 17th, 2012.  Please use the link above to register.  Accepted payment methods include:

• Credit Card
• Check (Click “Show other payment options” and “Pay offline”)

Registration fee includes conference parking, continental breakfast, conference day program, and CEUs.  (Please note: Parking not included in student registration fee, but may be purchased on-site.)  For your convenience, registrants have the option of purchasing a ticket to our on-site luncheon for an additional $10.00.  Available menu items include:

• Sliced tortilla wraps: Chicken Caesar, Vegetarian/Italian, Roast Beef, Swiss
• Seasonal fresh fruit
• Iced tea, Water

Presented by:

In partnership with:

The University of Maryland's Couple & Family Therapy Program 

(Dept of Family Science)

&

The Maryland Council on Family Relations (MCFR)