How Relational Trauma Repair Helps to Heal Adult Relational Trauma in Group and One-to-One Settings
Information
Date & Time
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Discuss the basic theory behind how we use RTR-S to heal adult relational trauma.
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Explain the basic techniques of an embodied role play.
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Identify 3 or more ways to incorporate simple, focused role plays into various forms of therapy.
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Define and explain how to use timelines, social atoms, doubling, and role reversal.
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Explain how to use Floor Checks to engage, bond, heal, and educate groups.
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Describe how to incorporate simple, focused role plays into floor check processes.
Description
Words alone do not treat cPTSD. We need embodied and experiential methods like those in RTR to access the full social engagement system whether in one-to-one, couples or group therapy. In this module, Dr. Dayton will discuss the theory behind how RTR heals adult relational trauma and how RTR can be used in healing adult relational trauma and fostering social-emotional learning.
We will discuss the following:
- • The healing power of social engagement
- • Good self-regulation grows out of successful co-regulation
- • Warming up memory, emotion and recall through moving the body/the limbic system
- • Reconnecting with the inner parts of self that may have shut down and become unavailable
- • Naming, experiencing and sharing feelings then listening as others do the same
- • Elevating split off emotion to a conscious level through language so that feelings can be reflected on and understood, shared and used as a way of self-regulating both internally and relationally
The Core processes of RTR-Sociometrics are:
- • Step-in-Circles
- • Spectrogram
- • Locogram
- • Floor Checks: Feeling, Resilience, cPTSD, Anxiety, Anger, Depression, Post Traumatic Growth
- • Experiential Letter Writing
- • Timelines: Resilience/Attachment Trauma
- • Social Atoms
- • Role Play Basics
Floor Checks are Dr. Dayton’s core sociometric process. Created by Dr. Dayton to fit easily into treatment, outpatient programs, and groups, floor checks take the guesswork out of incorporating experiential work into treatment. They incorporate evidence-based research that turns dry lecture material into spontaneous and dynamic case studies that both teach and heal.
Floor Checks feel welcoming and safe. Clients are out of their seats, on their feet, grounded in the room, and engaging with each other. They are research-based experiential processes that are psycho-educational and help clients to move organically from states of dysregulation to co-regulation and self-regulation.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Tian Dayton, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at The Meadows and a nationally renowned speaker, expert, and consultant in trauma, addiction, and psychodrama. Dr. Dayton is the director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute and author of 15 books, including the soon-to-be-released Treating Adult Children of Relational Trauma, Sociometrics, Emotional Sobriety, The ACoA Trauma Syndrome, and others. A board-certified trainer in psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy, she’s spent her decades-long career adapting psychodrama and sociometry for work specifically with relational trauma and addictions. Her trademarked processes, Relational Trauma Repair/RTR-SOCIOMETRICS, are used nationally and worldwide. Dr. Dayton is a fellow of the American Society of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy ASGPP, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, their Scholar’s Award, the President’s Award, and former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She also won The Marty Mann Award, The Mona Mansell Award, and The Ackermann Black Award. Dr. Dayton earned her masters in educational psychology and Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She served on the faculty at NYU for eight years and has appeared as a guest expert on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and other major media outlets.
Financially Sponsored By
- Relational Trauma Repair (RTR)