Dissociation is tricky territory. As a form of inner organization it disintegrates our coherence and inner stability into diverse symptoms and expressions so that we struggle with life. Dissociation is in its nature immaterial, transient, and little understood. While unpathological forms of dissociation including focusing, daydreaming, fantasizing, or dis-engaging belong to every body's natural endowment pathological forms can be very inhibiting, frustrating, and exclude us from experienced and lived life.

The origin of chronic dissociation can often be found in very early imprints in implicit memory. In early developmental times discrete functions of coherent experiencing and forming regulation are not synthesized into a coherent, integrated flow of functioning that allows for the experience of a stable and integrated self.

Definitions of the term dissociation vary and different understandings lead to diverse therapeutic approaches and interventions. More often than not we cannot resonate with this incomprehensible way of experiencing and (non-)relating to the world. Dissociated people appear hypersensitive, withdrawn, blocked, and unresponsive. Our empathic therapeutic invitations for engagement do not yield the hoped for response as experiencing and utilizing human relationships becomes critical or even impossible. The inner connection of consciousness, memory, identity, and perception appears fragmented. Manifestations of the dissociated state range from subtle to blunt. Helplessness prevails and interaction remains delicate.

Therapists are expected to find access to this mysterious world of inner experience or inner absence of the other. We are facing someone who appears to be “gone” and language fails to serve as a meeting point. The required subtlety to establish connection is not easy to muster and professionals feel helpless or may even trivialize the symptom.

A different awareness of participation in inner and outer spaces of experience appears to be one element for the understanding of the phenomenon. The approach how to experience space and spaciousness, time, and slowness of interaction can be used and seems to be relevant for allowing integration of what has been unsynthesized and apart. Gentleness, consideration, differentiation, mindfulness and non-judgmental appreciation in combination with reigned-in intention bring us closer to connecting to the incomprehensible. Most of all, we need respect what only reveals itself to us slowly, and find a way to refine not only our perception but our way of being, and being present. A course in exploring the finer subtleties of human experience.

Requirements for the training:

• completed foundational trauma training
• You have done substantial self-exploration and have basic self-regulation skills.
• Understanding that this course is not a personal therapy, self-exploration or personal growth group but a professional training course that requires intellectual learning, practical experience, and personal engagement. This course cannot replace needed psychotherapeutic self-modification.

Date:

May 08 – 10, 2012

Working hours:
9.30h – 12:30h and 14.00h – 17.30h

Presenter:

Johannes B. Schmidt

Fee:

Euro 600,00 for private clients
Via Casperius (see below) you can apply for subventions (KMO-portefeuille)

Cancellation policy:
For cancellations up to 6 weeks prior the training a service fee of Euro 100,00 is charged. From 6 – 3 weeks prior the training a 50% and from 3 weeks prior the training 100% of the regular fee is charged for any cancellation reason.

Venue:

De Kluizerij
Aalsterse Dreef 1
1790 Affligem Belgium
Tel. ++32 (0)495 – 22 66 95
Web: www.dekluizerij.com

Information and Organization:

For further information about accommodation and schedule please contact:

Johannes B. Schmidt
Auerstr. 7a
83707 Bad Wiessee
Tel. ++49 (0)172 96 41 490
Email: info@aptitude-academy.com

or

Lea Schmidt-van Gurp
Boulevard Louis Schmidt 103
1040 Brussel
Tel. ++32 (0)2 894 55 50
Tel. ++32 (0)2 894 55 59
Email: l.vangurp@casperius.be

It is time for more depth. It is time for refinement in our relationships. It is time to meet our deepest needs, create more non-sexual, but deeply felt, intimacy in human contacts, and connect to the nourishing essence of our being-nature. We do not have time to do it quickly. We carefully need to develop mindfulness, gentleness and authentic friendliness to bring about a healing quality in our daily relationships, that can even overcome the common traumata of our daily life.
In essence, we need to heal our conditions of isolation, competition, distrust and fear. We need to look into our innermost perceptive patterns and reach into the inner structure of how we do ourselves, and relate to people around us. This requires an unknown gentleness, safety, and elicitation skills that we learn nowhere else in our education or career.

We think it is time for refined trauma-healing work to get into an ever deeper relationship with ourselves, be more connected, and deeply enjoy relating to people and life. Times are changing and trauma-healing is a gateway into changing the way how we change.
For that reason, in this training you will learn about the nature of shock and developmental trauma, consequences of traumatic impairment in everyday life, and basic body-based orientation to “meet” dysregulated people and make them “feel felt”. New possibilities of interaction feed back on ourselves and appease our own restlessness and widen our orientation about our self and nature.

Your benefit from this training will be extra skills in your professional “people business” tool box. Your understanding will open new possibilities of engaging your customers, clients, partners, children, and other relevant people in your life. You will add a new body-based perspective to your common communication concepts and notice the difference between being in touch with a concept or in touch with the situation in the here-and-now. This training opens the door into a future culture of connection, co-operation and reciprocity.

Besides, the training offers a substantial introduction into basics of somatically oriented traumahealing and includes relevant aspects of self-relationship. Traumawork is about developing a felt-sense of self and the lifeworld around you. It is about getting into coherent resonance with the fundamental rhythms of life and helps you to get in touch with who you are.

Requirements for the training:

• A job where you have some responsibility for people’s well-being, either in health profession, leadership function, emergency or rescue team, education, and others.
• You have done substantial self-exploration and have basic self-regulation skills.
• You are aware that this course is no therapy (group), no self-exploration or personal growth group but a professional training course that requires intellectual learning, practical experience, and personal engagement. Following this training requires substantial theoretical work, regular practice, and self-care. In this group we will teach and practice basic trauma-resolution approaches. Note that this course cannot replace needed psychotherapeutic self-modification.
• You are willing and aware that following this course may need that you take individual sessions, read literature, have a possibility to practically apply what you learned, and enlist additional resources for your personal process outside the training if needed.

Date

Training 2012/2013:
Presenter: Johannes B. Schmidt
Module 1: Sep. 06 – 09, 2012
Module 2: Oct. 08 – 11, 2012
Module 3: Nov. 22 – 25, 2012
Module 4: Januar 16 – 19, 2013

Information

For further information about prices, accommodation and schedule please contact:

NTI-NLP
Nederlands Traininginstituut voor Neuro-Linguistisch Programmeren
Oosterzijweg 8
1906 AX Limmen
Tel. ++31 - (0)72 - 505 35 01
Email: info@ntinlp.nl
Web: www.ntinlp.nl

Shame is a major challenge. It is a stumbling block on our quest to meet our deepest needs including felt contact and relationship. Shame is a hidden sabotage dynamic that locks us up in an inner prison of isolation, fear, and self-doubt. We do no longer "feel felt" and hide behind an adaptive self. We hope that no one will ever find out how defective, small, and incapable we are. Finally, we may even "think" that the face we present is our true nature.

However, our never-ending longing for connection cannot be silenced. The call for relationship, felt mutuality, and bonding stays with us all our life. We have needs that cannot be ignored forever. Self-regulation, happiness and satisfaction depend on the interaction with others. Turning shameful self-hatred into self-compassion, even self-love, is the "gold to be mined" when dealing with secretive inner shame dynamics.

It seems paradoxical but we cannot handle our withdrawal from contact on our own. Children who find a skeleton in the bush may be meeting the one who has "won" the hideand- seek game. Seeking out how to contact the hidden is essential in freeing us from our self-conscious detention camp. It is beyond imagination that our defective self can ever be met. At least isolation is safe and saves us being embarrassed when exposed to others. The hide-and-seek game becomes our life until we are being found.

In these three days we will give insight in the nature and dynamics of shame, toxic shame, and shame resolution. With patience, sensitivity, and flirtatious charm we hope to put back life into skeletons, invent funnier games, and turn the secrecy of bushes into the intimacy of felt contact. Anyone with some self-experience, introspection- and selfregulation skills is welcome – with or without skeleton.

Presenter: Johannes B. Schmidt and Andrea M. Wandel

Date

Sept. 28 – 30, 2012 (Presenter: Johannes B. Schmidt)

Costs

Euro 350,-

Venue, Subscription and Organization

NTI-NLP
Nederlands Traininginstituut voor Neuro-Linguistisch Programmeren
Oosterzijweg 8
1906 AX Limmen
Tel. ++31 - (0)72 - 505 35 01
Email: info@ntinlp.nl
Web: www.ntinlp.nl

This 2 x 4 day training-course builds on the basic trauma training and aims at deepening and refining the trauma treatment skills already acquired. Here we are working with trauma constellations, co-create healing fields and learn more about dealing with developmental trauma. The course is designed to meet the actual needs of the participants, offers space for personal processes and focuses on the non-verbal communication with inner embryos. Relating to your own health, working non-verbally and providing a safe and sometimes sacred space for deep change are constituent parts of the work. We aim at inviting healing processes and reconnection with our true self. Spirituality at that level can no longer be denied and more often than not leads you into a personal space of deep reunion with your own roots, your deepest source. Deep change, deep healing and a quiet equanimity ensue.

The intention of this course is to take you beyond “techniques” and to help your treatment skills deepen into your own truth, your own personal experience and your own presence with the “client” at an ever subtler level. This course is not about doing anything but about healing in silence. The course is about inviting the change and healing in a respectful way. The course is about your attitude so that the healing can arise by itself out of emptiness, nothingness and silence. This course is a great challenge for the practitioner/facilitator to stay out of the way and regulate his awareness and presence in a non-invasive, supportive, beneficial way. This course is about trusting your health more than anything else and is therefore about surrender. This course is no course – it is about your deepest self.

Date

Training 2011/2012:
Module 1: November 01 – 04, 2011 (Andrea M. Wandel)
Module 2: February 06 – 09, 2012 (Johannes B. Schmidt)

Information

For further information about venue, price, accommodation, etc. please contact:

NTI-NLP
Nederlands Traininginstituut voor Neuro-Linguistisch Programmeren
Oosterzijweg 8
1906 AX Limmen
Tel. ++31 - (0)72 - 505 35 01
Email: info@ntinlp.nl
Web: www.ntinlp.nl

Trauma is much more common than most people think. One of its major impacts on our life is the breakdown of felt contact and connection to ourselves, the world, to others around us. We are often left in a feeling of distress, isolation, or immobilization and helplessness.

Therefore, it is time for more depth. It is time for refinement in our relationships. It is time to meet our deepest needs, create more deeply felt intimacy in human contacts, and connect to the nourishing essence of our being-nature.

We do not have time anymore to do it quickly or superficially. We carefully need to develop mindfulness, gentleness, tenderness, and authentic friendliness to bring about a healing quality in our daily relationships that can overcome the common and multilevel traumata and disconnections of our daily life.

In essence, we need to heal our conditions of isolation, competition, distrust and fear. We need to look into our innermost perceptive patterns and reach into the inner structure of how we do ourselves, and relate to people around us. This requires an unknown gentleness, safety, and elicitation skills that we do not learn in our education or career.

We think it is time for refined trauma-healing work to get into an ever deeper rela-tionship with ourselves, be more connected, and deeply enjoy relating to people and life. Times are changing and trauma-healing is a gateway into changing the way how we change. Overcoming undue over-psychologization of life is relevant for getting in touch with life itself. Resacralization of life opens gateways into participation of deeper levels of being alive.

To this end, you will learn in this training about the nature of shock and develop-mental trauma, consequences of traumatic impairment in everyday life, and basic body-based orientation to “meet” dysregulated people and make them “feel felt”. New possibilities of self-referential interaction feed back on ourselves and appease our own restlessness and widen our orientation about our self and nature.

Your benefit from this training will be extra skills in your professional “people business” tool box. Your understanding will open new possibilities of engaging your customers, clients, partners, children, and other relevant people in your life. You will add a new body-based perspective to your common communication concepts and notice the difference between being in touch with a concept or in touch with the situation in the here-and-now. The training opens the door into a future of connection, co-operation and reciprocity.

Besides, the training offers a substantial introduction into basics of somatically oriented traumahealing and includes relevant aspects of self-relationship. Traumawork is about developing a felt-sense of self and the lifeworld around you. It is about getting into coherent resonance with the fundamental rhythms of being and helps you to get in touch with who you are.

Requirements for the training:

• A job where you have some responsibility for people's well-being, either in health profession, leadership function, emergency or rescue team, education, and others.
• You have done substantial self-exploration and have basic self-regulation skills.
• You are aware that this course is no therapy (group), no self-exploration or personal growth group but a professional training course that requires intellectual learning, practical experience, and personal engagement. Following this training requires substantial theoretical work, regular practice, and self-care. In this group we will teach and practice basic trauma-resolution approaches. Note that this course cannot replace needed psychotherapeutic self-modification.
• You are willing and aware that following this course may need that you take individual sessions, read literature, have a possibility to practically apply what you learned, and enlist additional resources for your personal process outside the training if needed.

Date

Module 1: May 27 – 30, 2012
Module 2: Aug. 21 – 24, 2012
Module 3: Oct. 01 – 04, 2012
Module 4: Jan. 07 – 10, 2013

Presenter:

Johannes B. Schmidt

Fee:

Euro 3.500,00 for private clients
Euro 4.300,00 for business clients

Via Casperius (see below) you can apply for subventions (KMO-portefeuille)

Cancellation policy:
For cancellations up to 6 weeks prior the training a service fee of Euro 100,00 is charged. From 6 – 3 weeks prior the training a 50% and from 3 weeks prior the training 100% of the regular fee is charged for any cancellation reason.

Venue:

De Kluizerij
Aalsterse Dreef 1
1790 Affligem Belgium
Tel. ++32 (0)495 – 22 66 95
Web: www.dekluizerij.com

Information and Registration:

Johannes B. Schmidt
Auerstr. 7a
83707 Bad Wiessee
Tel. ++49 (0)172 96 41 490
Email: info@aptitude-academy.com

or

Lea Schmidt-van Gurp
Boulevard Louis Schmidt 103
1040 Brussel
Tel. ++32 (0)2 894 55 50
Tel. ++32 (0)2 894 55 59
Email: l.vangurp@casperius.be

This 2 x four day training course builds on the Foundational Trauma Training of Aptitude Academy. It aims at deepening and refining the trauma treatment skills already acquired. Here we are working with trauma constellations, refinement of perception, deepen into qualities of presence, stillness, explore the use of tones, and use non-dual being qualities to let the process guide us.

The course is designed to meet the actual needs of the participants, offers space for personal processes and focuses on touching the untouchable in us. The deepening of our self-relationship can open inner spaciousness that participants describe as sacredness. Spirituality at that level can no longer be denied and more often than not leads you into a personal space of deep reunion with your own roots, your deepest source.

The intention of this course is to take you beyond 'techniques' and to help your treatment skills deepen into your own truth, your own personal experience and your own presence with the 'client' at an ever subtler level. This course is not about doing anything but about inviting what wants to present itself at a particular moment in time. The course is about attitude so that healing can arise by itself out of emptiness, nothingness and silence.

Participants are expected to apply this work in their daily practice and should be ready to submit supervision questions or cases.

Presenters: Andrea Martha Wande and Johannes Benedikt Schmidt

Date

Training 2013:
Module 1: February 21 – 24, 2013 (Andrea M. Wandel)
Module 2: June 04 – 06, 2013 (Johannes B. Schmidt)

Fee

The price for the 8-day training is:
Euro 1.700,00 for private clients
Euro 2.200,00 for business clients

Via Casperius (see below) you can apply for subventions (KMO-portefeuille)

Cancellation policy:
For cancellations up to 6 weeks prior the training a service fee of Euro 100,00 is charged. From 6 – 3 weeks prior the training a 50% and from 3 weeks prior the training 100% of the regular fee is charged for any cancellation reason.

Venue:

De Kluizerij
Aalsterse Dreef 1
1790 Affligem Belgium
Tel. ++32 (0)495 – 22 66 95
Web: www.dekluizerij.com

In case of residential participating overnight stay has to be settled directly with the venue.

Information and Registration:

Johannes B. Schmidt
Auerstr. 7a
83707 Bad Wiessee
Tel. ++49 (0)172 96 41 490
Email: info@aptitude-academy.com

or

Lea Schmidt-van Gurp
Boulevard Louis Schmidt 103
1040 Brussel
Tel. ++32 (0)2 894 55 50
Tel. ++32 (0)2 894 55 59
Email: l.vangurp@casperius.be

PDF-Document: Advanced Trauma-Training-Belgium 2013

Cursus over de mens als embryo - embryo in beweging

met Jaap van der Wal

April 12 – 14, 2013

For dutch-speaking people we highly recommend this seminar.

Information

For further information about venue, price, accommodation, etc. please contact:

NTI-NLP
Nederlands Traininginstituut voor Neuro-Linguistisch Programmeren
Oosterzijweg 8
1906 AX Limmen
Tel. ++31 - (0)72 - 505 35 01
Fax ++31 - (0)72 - 505 22 94
Email: info@ntinlp.nl
Web: www.ntinlp.nl

What is trauma
This workshop presents an overview of the theory of structural dissociation and a psychology of action, and their application in the various treatment phases of chronically traumatized individuals. The theory hypothesizes that traumatization divides the biopsychosocial system that constitutes an individual’s personality. The basic division is between biopychosocial action systems that direct us in functions of daily life (e.g., attachment, play, exploration) and reproduction (i.e., survival of the species), and in a psychobiological action system that directs us in animal-defense like reactions to major threat (i.e., survival of the individual). In chronic traumatization structural dissociation becomes ever more complex and fixed. The workshop highlights the breakdown of integrative actions during traumatization that causes structural dissociation, describes mental and behavioral actions that maintain structural dissociation, and emphasize integrative actions needed to resolve structural dissociation and become more adaptive in meeting daily life challenges. Phase-oriented treatment is framed in terms of overcoming specific trauma-related phobias. Phase 1 is geared toward overcoming phobias of trauma-derived mental and behavioral actions, of dissociative parts of the personality, and of attachment and attachment loss with the therapist. Phase 2 is directed toward overcoming the phobia of traumatic memories, and phobias related to insecure attachment to perpetrator(s). In Phase 3, treatment is focused on overcoming phobias of normal life, healthy risk-taking and change, and intimacy. In clinical practice, these phases are flexible and recursive. The presentation includes didactics on theory and demonstration of some techniques for each treatment phase using live demonstrations and practical exercises.

Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis, Ph.D.,
is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and researcher. He received his Ph.D. (cum laude – the highest degree possible in the Netherlands) at the Medical Department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for his book: Somatoform dissociation: Phenomena, measurement, and theoretical issues [reprint: W.W. Norton, New York/London]. In 1998 the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) granted him the Morton Prince Award for Scientific Excellence for his scientific contributions; in 2000 the Pierre Janet Writing Award; in 2002 the status of Fellow for his outstanding contributions to the diagnosis, treatment, research, and education in dissociative disorders; and in 2005, together with several of his colleagues, the David Caul Memorial Award for a paper on an innovative PET study of dissociative identiy disorder. He works at the Outpatient Department of Psychiatry of Mental Health Care Drenthe, Assen, The Netherlands, where he engages in the diagnosis and treatment of severely traumatized patients. He performs his innovating scientific research at this hospital, and collaborates with the University of Groningen (Netherlands), the University of Zürich (Switzerland), and several clinics. His empirical and experimental research addresses the psychology and psychobiology of chronic traumatization and dissociation. He has written many clinical and scientific articles, book chapters, and some books. He is also a reviewer of several professional journals and provides presentations and workshops at many international conferences. In 2003, he was granted the closing plenary at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (Chicago) addressing the emerging psychobiology of trauma-related dissociation and dissociative disorders. He is a former Director of the Executive Council of the ISSTD. In 2004 Queen Beatrix from the Netherlands appointed him Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion for his outstanding contributions to the study and treatment of chronically traumatized individuals. In 2005, together with Helga Matthess, he founded Psychotraumatology Institute Europe. PIE organizes workshops and courses with leaders in the field regarding the assessment and treatment of chronic traumatization. November 2006 witnessed the release of the book The haunted self: Structural dissociation and the treatment of chronic traumatization, authored by Onno van der Hart, Ellert Nijenhuis and Kathy Steele, and published by W.W. Norton, New York/London. The authors were awarded ISSTD’s Media Award for this work. According to Prof. Dr. Chris Brewin, the book is “brilliant,” and Dr. Richard Kluft regards it as “ …. a landmark contribution to the study of trauma and an instant classic in the study of dissociation and dissociative disorders.”

Date

May 17 – 18, 2013

Language: This workshop will be presented in Dutch

Facilitator:

Ellert Nijenhuis, Ph.D.

Costs:

Euro 320,00

Venue:

NTI-NLP
Nederlands Traininginstituut voor Neuro-Linguistisch Programmeren
Oosterzijweg 8
1906 AX Limmen

Information

For further information about prices, accommodation and schedule please contact:

Johannes B. Schmidt

Auerstraße 7a
83707 Bad Wiessee
Germany

Mobil: ++49 – (0)172 – 96 41 490
Email: info@aptitude-academy.com