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Uncoupling: Distinguishing Past from Present

Session #: 710-610
Presenter(s): Nancy Napier
Session Length: 5 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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The quote "Neurons that fire together, wire together, and neurons that fire apart, wire apart" sums up why traumatic experiences can create neurological havoc, associating or dissociating responses and leading clients to overreact to current-life situations or not respond adequately to actual danger. In effect, the bodies of people who've been traumatized are set on "high alert" or "shut down," and haven't caught up with their present reality, leading to stereotyped, conditioned responses. Research and experience show that talk therapy alone can't reregulate our nervous systems. In this workshop, you'll learn how to use elements of Somatic Experiencing, a body-awareness approach, to help clients attend to their body sensations and learn to discriminate between physical and psychological reactions activated by the memory of difficult events, including traumas, and responses related to and emerging in the here and now. You'll learn about and experience for yourself a method of carefully shifting between past and present mind-body experiences, which helps clients' brains "update the file," releasing them from the somatic associations of the past and generating a new, lived experiences in the present.

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