A three day workshop with Johannes B. Schmidt

Shame is a major challenge for many people. It is a stumbling block on the 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 no longer "feel felt" by others and so hide behind an adaptive self, hoping that no one will ever find out how defective, small and incapable we think and feel we are. Finally, we may even "think" that the face we present is our true nature.

Fortunately, 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. However, self-regulation, happiness and satisfaction depend on our 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 hide and- seek game. Seeking out how to contact the hidden is essential in freeing us from our self-conscious detention camp. It seems beyond imagination that our defective self can ever be met by another human. At least isolation is safe and saves us from being embarrassed when exposed to others. The hide-and-seek game becomes our life until we are found.

In this workshop, we will gain insight into the nature and dynamics of shame, toxic shame and shame resolution. With patience, sensitivity and flirtatious charm, we will put life back into skeletons, invent funnier games and turn the hidden secrets of the bushes into the intimacy of felt contact. Anyone with some self-awareness and ability to reflect and self regulate is welcome – with or without a skeleton (or two!).

Presenter: Johannes Benedikt Schmidt

Dates

April 13 – 15, 2010
9:30 am – 5:30 pm

Location/Cost

will be announced shortly

Information and Registration

Ellie Hallman, M. Ed. (Couns. Psy.), BN, RN
Psychotherapist
Box 275, Duncan, BC V9L 3X3
Canada
Phone: +1 866-701-5951
E-mail: elliehallman@hotmail.com

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 1:
Module 1: March 24 – 27, 2010
Module 2: June 10 – 13, 2010
Module 3: August 26 – 29, 2010
Module 4: December 16 – 19, 2010

Training 2:
Module 1: September 16 – 19, 2010
Module 2: November 25 – 28, 2010
Module 3: January 07 – 10, 2011
Module 4: March 17 – 20, 2011

Training 3:
Module 1: February 06 – 09, 2011
Module 2: April 04 – 07, 2011
Module 3: June 25 – 28, 2011
Module 4: September 19 – 22, 2011

Training 4:
Module 1: August 25 – 28, 2011
Module 2: October 10 – 13, 2011
Module 3: December 12 – 15, 2011
Module 4: February 2012

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

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 1:
Module 1: April 15 – 18, 2011
Module 2: July 07 – 10, 2011
Module 3: November 10 – 13, 2011
Module 4: March 29 – April 01, 2012

Fee

to be announced shortly

Venue

to be announced shortly

Information

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

Charonne Karingten
Tel. 403 - 236-3268
Email: charonnek@msn.com

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

October 04 – 06, 2010

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 1:
Module 1: January 08 – 11, 2010
Module 2: April 26 – 29, 2010

Training 2:
Module 1: March 03 – 06, 2011
Module 2: June 06 – 09, 2011

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

This 2 x 4 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, co-create healing fields, deepen into qualities of presence, stillness, explore sound healing, and the innate healing plan of the body.

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 deeping of our self-relationship can open inner spaciousness that participants describe as spaciousness or 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.

Presenters: Andrea M. Wandel (Modul 1) and Johannes B. Schmidt (Module 2)

Date

Module 1: March 17 – 20, 2011   (Andrea M. Wandel)
Module 2: June 15 – 18, 2011   (Johannes B. Schmidt)

Costs

1.700 Euro
For further specification and conditons and special reduced prices for Belgium participants please contact the organizer below.

Venue

www.dekluizerij.com,
in case of residential participating overnight stay has to be settled with the venue

Organisation

Please contact Josephine Overeem for signing-up:

Cell Phone: +32 - 486 582 499
or
Email: cv@cv.telenet.be

Cursus over de mens als embryo - embryo in beweging

met Jaap van der Wal

April 08 – 10, 2011

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

In all of us lives a deep longing for contact, connection, and feeling felt. Often this need for contact and relationship drives us into romance or dreams of being nutured, seen, and held. Our most intimate couple relationships become the place to play out most basic needs, and indeed, the contact we could injoy after birth and around the first year of life becomes the nodal point of all relational longing later in life.

In this workshop we want to learn from Thomas Harms how intense relationships are building and how they are playing out in the course of life. Thomas, an expert on working with cry-babies and on establishing felt-contact between caretaker and childen, will take us into his world of nurturing, attachment, bonding, and safe soothing. He will share his psychological experience, practical wisdom, and first-hand expert knowledge about this delicate phase in our life where engaging in contact is literally a matter of life or death.

In this workshop you will learn about:

• how Thomas’ work helps cry-babies to reconnect to their secure base
• the neurophysiological foundations for health and thriving in life
• basic concepts about (self-)regulation of your psychophysiological integrity
• resonance exercises to understand how caretakers or (inner) babies feel
• simple steps for interactive repair and resonant mutuality
• what breaks early contact and how to continue rather than discontinue connection
• how to break vicious, stress-inducing interaction cycles to bring about ease, feeling, and connection
• how to involve your own body as a reference for secure self-relationship

Target group:
People from all walks of life who have understood how much anybody needs deeply felt contact – everybody. Health and educational professionals may as much benefit as you, me and our partners. Can you feel that you are welcome?

Presenter:
Thomas Harms, psychologist and body therapist, has been working for more than 20 years in the field of preventive psychotherapy and facilitation of bonding between parents, babies, and toddlers. He is the founding director of a cry-baby facility in Bremen/Germany (Zentrum für primäre Prävention, ZEPP), a regional centre for education, training of parents and professionals alike. As editior and author of seminal books. Thomas spreads his ideas about prevention rather than belated intervention nationwide in Germany. Naturally, his practical qualification also stems from his marriage and the joint upbringing of two beautiful sons.

Notice:
Thomas will present the course in English or German according to what proves to be most effective for the training.

Date

April 06 – 07, 2010

Costs

Euro 245,00

Organisation and subscription

For further information 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
Trauma is much more common than we think. Sometimes it goes along with the recall of a specific overwhelming event. Very often, it is related to early misattuned caretaking that has an impact on our maturing nervous system. Frequently, we have no recollection of any traumatic event but experience the world in an uneasy or scary way. No matter whether the cause is shock or developmental trauma, the habitual dysregulation in our nervous system (trauma) impairs the quality of our life in many different ways.

Intention of the training
This training course aims to learn you at the building of health, resiliency and the recovery of vitality. It offers a substantial introduction into basics of somatically oriented traumahealing and includes relevant aspects of self-relationship. Traumawork is about connecting with our own being nature and with resources in life. It is about developing a felt-sense of yourself and the lifeworld around you. It is about getting into coherent resonance with the fundamental rhythms in life and helps you to get in touch with who you are.

Target group
People who work with people. Requirement to join this training group is a certain skill in introspection, a basic capacity of self regulation skills and preferable previous experience in psychotherapeutic methods. If you are in doubt about your background, please contact Anne Wuyts or Josephine Overeem.

Date

Module 1: March 10 – 13, 2011
Module 2: May 19 – 22, 2011
Module 3: July 14 – 17, 2011
Module 4: Oct. 20 – 23, 2011

Working hours training: 09.30 – 13.00 h, 14.30 – 17.30 h.
The training will be held in english.

Facilitator:

Johannes B. Schmidt

Fee:

Euro 3.500 for 16 days include lunches
fee discount available through KMO-Portfeullie

Venue:

to be announced

Information and Organization:

For further information about accommodation and schedule please contact:

Josephine Overeem
Tel. ++32 (0)486 582 499
Email: cv@cv.telenet.be

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

Sept. 23 – 24, 2011

Language: This workshop will be presented in Dutch

Facilitator:

Ellert Nijenhuis, PhD

Costs:

Euro 275,00

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

A 16 day workshop (4 Modules) in Trauma Training and Trauma Resolution

In this workshop, by combining the experience of constellation work with that of trauma work, we go one step further. We apply systemic constellations to inner, non-verbal processes and trauma resolution. We will explore our inner realities and find new ways of relating to ourselves and thus to life and the world around us.
Presenter: Johannes B. Schmidt

For detailed information look at menu "SYSTEMIC CONSTELLATION" or CLICK HERE.

Dates 2010 – 2011

4 Modules   Apr. 09, 2010 – Jan. 22, 2010

Location

Wockner Hospice Center
12822 124th Lane NE Kirkland,
WA. 98034