Post-Traumatic Growth by Lisa Ferentz

Post-Traumatic Growth by Lisa Ferentz

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Become empowered as a trauma clinician! Learn from expert trauma clinician Lisa Ferentz how to shine a spotlight on your clients’ resiliency and creativity – while planting the seeds of hope and Post-Traumatic Growth even in the earliest stages of therapy!

When we work with traumatized clients we often feel compelled to stay focused on the inevitable byproducts of PTSD. As we look for the ways in which clients have been adversely affected by their trauma, it can inadvertently narrow our sense of who they are, and solidify their identities as “damaged” or “broken.”

Although helping clients to reconnect with and process their pain and grief is important, this workshop takes you further.

You will learn respectful and powerful ways to weave the concepts of Post-Traumatic Growth into the treatment process.

Using moving and inspiring case examples and videos made by clients we will identify the tangible markers of post-traumatic growth including:

• a new way of relating to others
• the capacity to believe in new possibilities
• the rediscovery of personal strengths
• a newfound appreciation for life

Participants will have many opportunities to practice creative strategies including: somatic resourcing; journaling; drawing; two – handed writing; and guided imagery and visualizations all designed to install and strengthen hope, growth, and healing in clients and therapists alike.

PROCESSING THE IMPACT OF TRAUMA

• Shifting from PTSD to Posttraumatic Growth (PTG)
• Define PTG- analogies for treatment
• Explore the Subjective Meaning of Trauma
• Writing Experiential

ASSESS FOR CLIENT RESILIENCY

• The Challenges of Achieving PTG
• Planting the Seeds of PTG in Therapy
• The Therapist’s Lens and Countertransference
• Case Study

THE POWER OF POSITIVE SELF-TALK

• The Strengths-based Perspective
• Introduce Self-Compassion
• Experiential: Remembered Resources
• Cognitive Re-framing: Going for Kindness

MOVE BEYOND A TRAUMA IDENTITY

• Notice Double Standards
• Highlighting Resiliency
• Indicators of Post-traumatic Growth

EXPLORING THE MANIFESTATIONS OF POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH

• Process the PTG Inventory
• Re-discover Personal Strengths
• Case Study and Video
• Experientials: Somatic resourcing, Visualization and Art
• Belief in New Possibilities
• Case Study and Video
• Experiential: PTSD and PTG Through Art

MOVING BEYOND THE TRAUMATIZED SELF

• Relating to Others
• Experiential: Two-handed Writing
• Exploring Spirituality
• Case Study and Video

HELP CLIENTS PAY IT FORWARD

• Newfound Appreciation of Life
• Case Study
• Experiential: Art and Gratitude
• PTG and Forgiveness

BUILDING ON THE SEEDS OF POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH

• Additional Creative Strategies to Promote PTG
• Guided Imagery, Documenting Healing Through Artwork, Journaling