Timelines: Attachment, Trauma and Resilience
Information
Date & Time
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Explain how timelines provide a context and help to identify the developmental progression of trauma.
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Identify where traumas may have clustered in life or where there was little to no trauma.
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Identify, describe, and compare Attachment Trauma Timelines and Resilience Timelines.
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Identify reenactment patterns that may have their origin in early relational trauma.
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Describe how to use timelines in individual and group sessions.
Description
Timelines help clients place experiences they may have pushed out of consciousness into the overall framework of their lives and identify reenactment patterns and attachment/developmental issues. They allow clients to gain a sense of the who, what, when and where involved in attachment trauma. Timelines can be used as a worksheet and springboard for sharing or an embodied role play in which a client can talk to themselves or significant relationships as well at any point along their developmental continuum.
Two-chair roleplays allow clients to embody and talk to parts of themselves or others who are part of the development, from their relational network. Role reversal gives clients a visceral experience of standing in the shoes of the “other” or parts of themselves, building empathy, insight, flexibility and strength. Because psychodrama and sociometry are so vast in their potential applications, therapists can feel ill-equipped to use them.
The Attachment Timeline, The Trauma Timeline and The Resilience Timeline are paper and pencil activities that can be complete processes in individual or group work. They can also be moved into a group process and/or role plays. They can be adapted easily to virtual therapy.
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)