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Relational Trauma Repair (RTR): Virtual Training Course

Module 4: Timelines: Tracing the Developmental Path of Relational Trauma and Resilience

Tian Dayton MA, PhD, TEP
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Explain an Attachment Trauma Timeline as a visual context through which to identify the developmental progression of trauma.

  • Utilize an Attachment Trauma Timeline to explain where traumas may have clustered in life or where there was little to no trauma.

  • Utilize an Attachment Trauma Timeline to identify where development may have been arrested or gone off track

  • Utilize an Attachment Trauma Timeline to put life experience back into a context and place traumatic experiences into real rather than imagined time.

  • Utilize a Resilience Timeline to identify and celebrate strengths and good choices.

  • Utilize a Resilience Timeline to identify times in life that felt good and went smoothly.

  • Utilize a Resilience Timeline to identify people who were supportive and showed us what love felt like and to thank them or express gratitude.

  • Utilize an Attachment Trauma Timeline to talk to parts of the self at different ages along the developmental continuum.

  • Utilize both Timelines to provide a way of focusing small dramas in which the protagonist can talk to parts of the self along their developmental continuum.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this module is for participants to understand better how to use Trauma Times with clients in order to better understand the scope of lived experiences and identify strengths/supports.

Description

The Attachment Trauma Timeline: Those who have experienced relational trauma can lack a clear “who, what, when, and where” when they try to talk about their experiences. Because we may shut down or dissociate when we’re overwhelmed during painful exchanges, we may foreclose on our emotional reactions in those moments. Then later, when we want to examine them, our feelings can be unavailable to us.. Timelines offer a user-friendly way to bring order and clarity to this inner silence or chaos. The attachment trauma timeline helps clients to place experiences that they may have pushed out of consciousness into the overall framework of their lives and to identify reenactment patterns and attachment/developmental issues.

 

The Resilience Timeline: We often forget to celebrate our strengths and the good choices and positive relationships we have made that have helped us to get to where we are today. The Resilience Timeline is a way of taking stock of accomplishments, celebrating good choices, consolidating gains, and identifying times that felt good and people who felt supportive.

 

Simply writing and sharing timelines is a complete experience. If you wish to add role plays, they are focused through the developmental progression of timeline process and give clients a chance to talk to themselves at whatever point along their developmental continuum that they are drawn to.

Presenters

Tian Dayton MA, PhD, TEP
For more than thirty years, Dr. Dayton has been a leading voice in the fields of trauma healing, addiction recovery and experiential, embodied therapy. A clinical psychologist, licensed creative arts therapist, and certified trainer in psychodrama and sociometry, with a master’s in educational psychology she is a Senior Fellow at The Meadows and the author of over fifteen acclaimed books including Growing Up with Addiction, Treating Adult Children of Relational Trauma, The ACoA Trauma Syndrome, Sociometrics, Emotional Sobriety, Forgiving and Moving On, and Trauma and Addiction.

Her pioneering work integrates psychodrama, sociometry, and nervous system-informed approaches into a cohesive model Relational Trauma Repair (RTR) used by therapists and treatment centers across the world. As a Fellow of the American Society of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy, she has received their highest honors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, the Scholar’s Award, President’s Award and Gratitude Award. She also served for eight years as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. She is on the scientific board of The National Association of Children of Alcoholics, (NACoA). In the addiction’s field, her contributions have been recognized with The Martie Mann Award The Mona Mansell Award and The Ackermann Black Award.

Dr. Dayton’s work is widely respected in both academic and clinical settings, as well as in the public sphere. She has been a guest expert on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and other national platforms, and is a frequent speaker at leading conferences on trauma, mental health, and recovery.

To learn more about her work, visit www.tiandayton.com.

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  • Relational Trauma Repair (RTR)