Presented by Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems [CIMBS™] NeuroPhysioPsychoTherapy™
Discovering & Developing the Therapist’s Conscious Emotional Brain Systems
Harnessing the Power of Your A Team
The four presenters in this course will provide the participants with some new skills and exercises to enhance their abilities to harness the power of the therapist’s A-team. The therapist’s A-team plays major roles in facilitating and achieving a synergistic emergent complex alliance with their patients. Each presenter will share their special expertise to give the participants new perspectives on their own capabilities. Each day there will be opportunities for the participants to put into practice all the members of their own A-team.
Terry [Albert] will explore in depth the distinctions between each of the conscious brain systems. Although they often work together in concert, it makes a big difference to discern their relative strengths and weaknesses. Utilization of the therapist’s authority, autonomy and agency brain systems will enable you to better engage your patient’s ability to collaborate with you. They will come away with greater confidence in making adaptive choices in their everyday lives.
Therapists and patients sometimes have trouble understanding and managing the emotions of anger. Beatriz will present and illustrate how to discern the emotions of anger in different brain systems. For example, anger may arise from constraints with the Play or Assertive brain systems. Or it may be elicited by fearful or shameful previous emotional learning. Her presentation will help the participants utilize their own A-team to distinguish between proactive and reactive anger. Looking through the lenses of the A-team, you will be able to harness the adaptive and proactive anger of your patients that is typically hidden under the surface and overlooked. These competencies will enable you to avoid being mis attuned with or misperceiving your patient’s anger.
Therapists often are hesitant to mobilize all five members of their own A-team. They are used to focusing on their patients rather than being fully present to themselves. There are several ways in which we can choose to take charge of our own experiences. Zandra will explore the competencies that enable authentic choices. With that knowledge, you can more precisely activate your patient’s competencies for choice.
Patients who have suffered preverbal trauma have special challenges in activating and differentiating the members of their A-team. They learned growing up that having their own authority and autonomy was threatening to their care providers. Consequently, they have trouble taking in the care and connection with their therapist. Janel will discuss and illustrate approaches and interventions to help you fine-tune your treatments to restructure the patient’s emotional learning from infancy. These capabilities will also enable the therapist to better address the constraints of preverbal trauma.
Presentation Objectives:
Participants will be able to
- Name and define each member of the A-team.
- Have a felt sense of 3 or more of your own A-team.
- Describe and give an example of proactive anger.
- Describe and give an example of reactive anger.
- Identify 3 competencies needed to be able to exercise choice.
- Identify 3 opportunities where therapist can elicit the patient’s autonomous choice.
- How to Exercise the therapist’s awareness and attention brain systems when working with preverbal trauma.
- How to Embody your authority and autonomy systems when working with preverbal trauma.
This course has been designed for therapists who are new to CIMBS and will provide many novel learning opportunities for therapists who have studied CIMBS for years.
Therapeutic Outcomes:
Our goal is to enable our patients/clients to become the author of their own lives, capable of making the best of any situation, continuously learning, and growing to the full extent of the neuroplasticity of their brains and fulfilling their lives.
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