Constructed Awareness Level 2 - Huntsville, AL

In this two-part follow-up training, we will utilize an easy, safe, and effective way to process traumatic memories. We will expand on the awareness fundamentals you learned in level one by integrating concepts and methods that are new to level two. In this training, you will:

• Apply a step-by-step approach to processing traumatic memories based on memory reconsolidation

• Identify how earlier life experiences may be fueling present symptoms and demonstrate the ability to identify these memories using the Attachment Bridge technique

• Practice how and when to focus awareness on thoughts, sensations, and external cues to guide the client through the process of reconstructing developmental and single event traumas

• Predict ways clients may respond to processing based on their orientation type

• Explain to clients how to process traumatic experiences outside of sessions

Course Delivery Format

This event is a two-part live training that takes place in-person. Participants meet together for four days over the course of two weekends that are two weeks apart. Each session consists of lecture, live and/or video demonstrations, practicum, and group discussion.

Target Audience and Course Content Level

This training is considered an intermediate-level event. You cannot attend this training if you have not completed Constructed Awareness level one. To attend, you must be a licensed mental health therapist (psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, social workers, MFTs, or mental health counselors) pursuing a license, a practicum-level graduate student, or a mental health professional seeking continuing education credits. If you are uncertain whether you meet these requirements, please contact info@constructedawareness.com.

CE Information
Constructed Awareness Level Two qualifies for 30 CE Credit Hours.

Constructed Awareness Institute, [provider number], is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. [Provider name) maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: [dates]. Social workers completing this course receive 30 category 1 continuing education credits.

Certificates

In order to meet the requirements for course completion and CE credits, participants must attend the full duration of the training, participate in all sessions, and complete a course evaluation at the end of the last day. Certificates will be handed out at the end of the last day to all participants who meet the requirements for course completion. No partial credit is awarded.

Learning Objectives

• Define the three building blocks of the client’s conscious experience—thought, sensation, and external senses

• Differentiate the six orientation types of the CA typology

• Present a thought as a word, as a sound, and as a picture

• Distinguish two types of memories—explicit and implicit

• Identify two types of explicit memories—declarative and episodic

• Distinguish two types of implicit memories—emotional and procedural

• Use a scripted process called “Memory Reconstructing” to process traumatic memories

• Apply seven elements of memory reconsolidation research that enhance the processing of traumatic memories

• Practice seven sensation-oriented awareness techniques

• Practice 10 mentally-oriented awareness techniques

• Utilize seven externally-oriented awareness techniques

• Utilize three attachment-oriented awareness techniques

• Demonstrate two ways to use objects in the external environment to assist in regulating the client during processing

• Identify four attachment longings that may be fueling present symptoms

• Use a scripted process called the “Attachment Bridge” to discover memories that may be fueling traumatic symptoms

• Deduce two ways mentally-oriented clients may respond during processing

• Predict two ways sensation-oriented clients may respond during processing

• Predict two ways externally-oriented clients may respond during processing

• Explain the "Self-Processing Journal" to clients

Agenda
Day 1: Introduction to Constructed Awareness Processing

• 9:00-9:45 Check in and Review of CA Principles

• 9:45-10:15 Video Demonstration

• 10:15-10:30 Break

• 10:30-12:00 Basics of CA Processing

• 12:00-1:00 Video Demonstration

• 1:00-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-2:30 Group Discussion

• 2:30-3:30 Practicum

• 3:30-3:45 Break

• 3:45-5:30 Practicum

• 5:30-6:00 Group discussion

Day 2: Memory Reconstruction and Mentally-Oriented Processing 

• 9:00-9:30 Check in

• 9:30-10:15 Reconstructing Memories

• 10:15-10:45 More on CA Processing

• 10:45-11:00 Break

• 11:00-12:00 Video Demonstration

• 12:00-1:00 Expanding Awareness of Thoughts

• 1:00-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-2:30 Expanding Awareness of Thoughts

• 2:30-3:30 Practicum

• 3:30-3:45 Break

• 3:45-5:30 Practicum

• 5:30-6:00 Group discussion

 Day 3: Attachment and Externally-Oriented Processing

• 9:00-9:30 Check in

• 9:30-10:30 Attachment-Oriented Processing

• 10:30-10:45 Break

• 10:45-11:15 Expanding Awareness of Attachment

• 11:15-1:00 Video Demonstrations

• 1:00-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-2:30 Expanding Awareness of External Senses

• 2:30-3:30 Practicum

• 3:30-3:45 Break

• 3:45-5:30 Practicum

• 5:30-6:00 Group discussion

 Day 4: Sensation-Oriented Processing

• 9:00-9:30 Check in

• 9:30-10:30 Expanding Awareness of Sensation

• 10:30-10:45 Break

• 10:45-11:45 Expanding Awareness of Sensation

• 11:45-1:00 Video Demonstration

• 1:00-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-3:00 Practicum

• 3:00-3:15 Break

• 3:15-5:00 Practicum

• 5:00-5:30 Explaining the "Self-Processing Journal" to clients

• 5:30-6:00 Group discussion and closing

Presenter Bio
Tyler Orr is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC/MHSP), EMDRIA-approved consultant, creator of Constructed Awareness, and President of the Constructed Awareness Institute. He offers an interactive, here-and-now approach to counseling, consulting, and teaching that integrates mindfulness, nonviolence, nonduality, and process-oriented approaches.

Cancellation Policy
Full refunds, minus a $100 handling charge, are given until 14 days before the start of training. No refunds are available after that time, and no partial credit for CEUs is given. All cancelations must be requested in writing from the email used to register. If after thirty days you wish to transfer to a different training for any reason or need to make up a day at a different training, you may transfer for a $100 administration fee. Note: There will be no refunds, under any circumstances, for withdrawals after the beginning of the training program.

Disclosure Statement
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

Grievance Policy
All grievances must be submitted in writing on the Grievance Complaint Form. For questions or concerns, please contact info@constructedawarness.com

Requesting Accommodations for Disabilities

Constructed Awareness Institute strives to offer reasonable accommodations for disabled participants. To discuss your needs, please contact Tyler Orr, LPC-MHSP at info@constructedawareness.com or 423-244-5918.

Contact Information

Constructed Awareness Institute
110 Woodland Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37405
423-244-5918
info@constructedawareness.com