Workshop Schedule
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012
Radisson Paper Valley Hotel, 333 West College Avenue, Appleton, Wis.
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8:30 a.m. Registration
9 a.m. Robert Scaer
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Marcus Kurek
12:15 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:45 p.m. Robert Scaer
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Emotional armoring, somatic tracking, attachment and bonding
5 p.m. Question and Answer Session
9 a.m.–10:30 Robert Scaer
I. Trauma neurophysiology and the freeze response
a. Fighting/fleeing/freezing
b. The critical importance of freeze discharge
c. Endorphins, memory and kindling
d. Brain pathways in trauma
II. Makeup of the traumatic experience
a. PTSD: the tip of the trauma iceberg
b. Complex trauma and DESNOS
III. The role of developmental neurobiology in resilience
a. The experience-based development of the infant brain
b. Unrecognized sources of trauma
i. Fetal/newborn sentience
ii. Animal studies
10:45 a.m. Marcus Kurek
Therapeutic considerations from neurophysiology
1:45 p.m. Robert Scaer
IV. The role of neuroplasticity in trauma, addiction and healing
a. Nature via nurture: The role of the epigenome
b. Hippocampal neurogenesis
c. The plasticity of brain maps
d. Learned disuse
e. Neuroplasticity in addiction, trauma and healing
V. Autonomic dysregulation and dissociation
a. The polyvagal theory
b. The history of dissociation in trauma
c. The dissociation capsule
Friday, Nov. 9, 2012
Radisson Paper Valley Hotel, 333 West College Avenue, Appleton, Wis.
8:30 a.m. Registration
9 a.m. Robert Scaer
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Marcus Kurek
12:15 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:45 p.m. Robert Scaer
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Marcus Kurek
5 p.m. Question and Answer Session
9 a.m. Robert Scaer
VI. The diseases of trauma
a. The whiplash syndrome: diseases of procedural memory
b. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy and syndromes of somatic dissociation
c. Diseases of kindling
d. Diseases of the freeze response
e. Diseases of the immune system and sleep disturbances
1:45 p.m. Robert Scaer
VII. Traumatic reenactment
a. Traumatic attachment
b. Endorphins in reenactment
c. Gender issues
d. Self-mutilation
VIII. Trauma therapy
a. Theoretical considerations: the essential ingredients
b. Pharmacotherapy and its intrinsic dilemmas
c. Adjunctive techniques, reconnecting with the body
d. Guided imagery
e. Somatic experiencing
f. EMDR
g. Brainspotting
h. Energy psychology
i. Neurofeedback
j. Transformation and wisdom
3:30 p.m. Marcus Kurek
Personal organizational patterns: Somatic resonance, bonding, transference and neurofeedback
