$120.00
Empowerment through Connection: The Role of External Regulators in Trauma Integration
Training conducted by:
Lisa Dion, Founder & President of Synergetic Play Therapy Institute
Ludmila Golovine, President & CEO of MasterWord Services, Inc.
Due to Hurricane Beryl this event will now occur via zoom on October 18th.
Type of Event: Virtual only via Zoom
Date & Time: Friday, October 18th- 9:00AM – 4:30PM CDT
Research in neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology underscores the critical role of the professional as the external regulator, necessary not only to support the client in navigating the intensity of their experiences for integration but also to mitigate the impact of secondary traumatization. This workshop delves into this imperative during trauma integration for two primary reasons: Firstly, the child (or adult) relies on borrowing the professional’s regulatory capacity to confront their traumatic thoughts, feelings, and sensations in a session. Secondly, the professionals’ adeptness in self-regulation amidst intensity enhances their presence and attunement with the client, simultaneously safeguarding the health and longevity of their own nervous system. Thirdly, the role interpreters play when facilitating communication for Limited English Proficient and Deaf and Hard of hearing patients and the interpreter’s role in external regulation dynamic during the encounters.
Without the professional’s capability to act as the external regulator for the intensity arising during trauma integration, both the client and professional face risks of emotional flooding and high levels of dysregulation in their nervous systems. Over time, this can significantly impact a professional’s endurance in the field, as well as their ability to remain attuned and present with clients.
This engaging and informative workshop equips participants with an understanding of the essential components of becoming an external regulator for trauma integration, including what the client’s brain seeks in the environment to signal safety, a deeper comprehension of autonomic nervous system activation, and strategies for professionals to develop their capacity as external regulators while mitigating the risk of secondary traumatization. This workshop will also explore an in-depth understanding of the complex dynamic of a therapeutic encounter and strategies for managing difficult interpreting encounters when working with survivors of trauma. This workshop is for social workers, therapists, interpreters etc.
Learning Objectives:
The Participant will:
1. Examine what it means to become an external regulator for trauma integration.
2. Define what regulation is and how this understanding impacts the professional’s ability to co-regulate during intense play and stories.
3. Identify 2 things a professional can do to develop their capacity to become an external regulator.
4. Identify what the client’s brain is scanning for in the environment to indicate a neuroception of safety, allowing the client to feel safe enough to do trauma work.
5. Explore how a client borrows the professional’s regulatory system in a session.
6. Examine what emotional flooding is and what to do when it happens in a session.
7. Formulate actionable strategies to navigate challenging scenarios that may arise in the context of trauma-informed, multicultural, and multilingual therapy.
6 CEU hours are available for the following:
Synergetic Play Therapy Institute and Masterword, Inc are cosponsors of this program. This co-sponsorship has been approved by NBCC. Synergetic Play Therapy Institute is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7450. The ACEP is solely responsible for this program, including the awarding of NBCC credit.
Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S, is an international teacher, creator of Synergetic Play Therapy, founder and President of the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute, co-founder of the Synergetic Education Institute, creator of the Business of Therapy and host of the Lessons from the Playroom podcast. She is the author of Aggression in Play Therapy: A Neurobiological Approach for Integrating Intensity and is the 2015 recipient of the Association for Play Therapy’s Professional Education and Training Award of Excellence.
Ludmila Golovine, President & CEO of MasterWord, a top-ranked language services company. Ludmila supports various projects to develop solutions to end sexual abuse, exploitation, and violence against children. Golovine actively participates as a member of the United Against Human Trafficking Coalition and is part of the Coalition survivor services committee. She helps survivors through her support of the UAHT, the World Childhood Foundation, Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking, TBAT (Texas Business Against Trafficking), Nomi Network and redM. In 2023 MasterWord became the first Vicarious Trauma-Informed language services company in accordance with the guidelines of the US Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime.
As a professional interpreter with over 30 years of experience, Golovine is familiar with the toll interpreting for survivors of trauma may have on the interpreters themselves. For the past 16 years, She has applied her experience in Trust-Based Relational Intervention therapy, Synergetic Play Therapy and Trauma Informed Care, and skills as Master Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, and Certified Demartini Method Facilitator to develop training and tools for language professionals as well as trauma-informed providers who work with language professionals to foster a partnership that creates an environment conducive to healing and avoiding re-traumatization. Her work has been recognized by numerous awards.
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