CA Level Two

Reconstructing and Reconsolidating Traumatic Memories

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

Live and video demonstrations will be observed throughout the training to highlight the procedure and structure of CA processing. The second half of each training day will be dedicated to practicum to ensure that you have the time you need to learn firsthand how to perform CA processing as a therapist, but also experience it firsthand.

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.

Upcoming Trainings

Learning Objectives

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

  • Demonstrate how the direct awareness of their own experience changes their experience

  • Differentiate the six orientation types

  • Conduct techniques for bringing direct awareness to each of the three building blocks of our conscious experience—thought, sensation, and external senses

  • Identify subtle ways the therapist may be acting or communicating violently with clients 

  • Apply nonviolence to working with sensations

  • Integrate nonviolence to working with thoughts

  • Apply nonviolence to working with external senses

  • Detect certain buffer words that indicate the client may be thinking about what they are feeling or might be feeling rather than directly connecting with sensation

  • Identify thoughts as words, sounds, and pictures

  • Describe the importance of dual awareness in the processing of traumatic memories

  • Integrate memory reconsolidation research to the processing of traumatic memories

  • Practice at least two sensation-oriented awareness techniques

  • Practice at least two mentally-oriented awareness techniques

  • Utilize at least two externally-oriented awareness techniques

  • Utilize at least two attachment-oriented awareness techniques

  • Summarize how to use objects in the external environment to assist in dual awareness

  • Determine how early life experiences may be fueling present symptoms

  • Demonstrate the ability to discover memories that may be fueling traumatic symptoms using the Attachment Bridge technique

  • Detect when a client’s mind and body are in agreement about a memory

  • Describe how mentally-oriented clients may respond during processing

  • Predict how sensation-oriented clients may respond during processing

  • Predict how externally-oriented clients may respond during processing

Agenda 

Session 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        

Session 2: Memory Reconstruction and Sensation-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 Sensation

  • 1:00-2:00      Lunch

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

  • 2:30-3:30      Practicum                              

  • 3:30-3:45      Break                                                                                      

  • 3:45-5:30      Practicum                              

  • 5:30-6:00      Group discussion                    

 Session 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 Cues

  • 2:30-3:30      Practicum                                          

  • 3:30-3:45      Break                                                                                      

  • 3:45-5:30      Practicum                                          

  • 5:30-6:00      Group discussion                            

 Session 4: Mentally-Oriented Processing

  • 9:00-9:30      Check in                                             

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

  • 10:30-10:45  Break

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

  • 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      Self-Processing

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