Growing Up with Addiction, Part II: Treating Adult Children & C-PTSD
Growing Up with Addiction, Part II: Treating Adult Children & C-PTSD
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Part Two: Deepening the Work invites participants to move more fully into understanding the lived, moment-to-moment experience of healing. Building on the foundations of Part One, this workshop focuses on how trauma shapes nervous system states—and how those states quietly organize perception, emotion, and relationship. Through Relational Trauma Repair (RTR), participants learn to recognize shifts between shutdown, activation, and connection as they occur, and to work with these states rather than against them.
Using Polyvagal-informed sequencing, sociometry, and trauma-attuned experiential processes, RTR supports gentle movement from vigilance toward safety, and from reflexive survival responses toward choice and perspective-taking. Participants explore how early adaptations—common among Adult Children of Addiction and those living with C-PTSD—continue to shape present-day relationships, and how new experiences of co-regulation and role flexibility can open space for authenticity and connection. This is a training in helping insight land in the body and in relationship, where lasting change becomes possible.
Educational Goal
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Differentiate between narrative insight and embodied resolution. Identify how unresolved trauma continues to live in the nervous system and relational field even after cognitive understanding, and articulate why bottom-up experiential processes are necessary for durable change in PTSD, C-PTSD, and ACA populations.
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Assess nervous system states in real time using relational cues. Recognize indicators of shutdown, hyperarousal, and mixed states as they emerge in individuals and groups, and respond with RTR-informed sequencing that supports regulation rather than retraumatization.
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Apply RTR sequencing to prevent overwhelm and dissociation. Demonstrate how to titrate experiential work using sociometry, pacing, and choice so that participants remain within their window of tolerance while engaging meaningful emotional material..
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Use sociometric processes to transform relational threat into safety. Facilitate advanced sociometric interventions that externalize internal states, normalize adaptive survival strategies, and create co-regulation through shared experience rather than interpretation.
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Integrate trauma-informed psychodramatic elements without full enactment. Utilize contained role-based processes (e.g., doubling, role clarification, structured role reflection) that deepen empathy and self-leadership while remaining appropriate for early recovery and mixed-readiness groups.
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Identify and interrupt inherited relational patterns in the present moment. Help participants recognize how early family-of-origin adaptations (common in ACAs) are reenacted in adult intimacy, parenting, and professional relationships—and guide experiential reorganization toward choice and authenticity.
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Translate Polyvagal theory into practical, observable interventions. Move beyond theory to apply Polyvagal-informed cues, language, and structure that support ventral engagement, relational safety, and embodied trust during experiential work.
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Integrate RTR processes into existing clinical or psychoeducational models. Develop a personalized plan for incorporating RTR tools into participants’ current practices (individual, group, virtual, or in-person), with attention to ethical scope, readiness assessment, and clinical judgment.
Target Audience
- Addiction Professional
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
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Financially Sponsored By
- The Meadows