with Deirdre Fay, LICSW

City of Music Studio, Glasgow 

2 Day workshop for mental health professionals

 Saturday & Sunday, September 8 & 9, 2018

Ever wonder about this?

This two-day experiential workshop/retreat arises from Deirdre’s newest book which Chris Germer called “a radically positive approach to heal trauma”. Knowing that developmental trauma happened in relational connection we’ll consciously create together an “Intersubjective Matrix” (Daniel Stern) to integrate the seven core attachment qualities that build a solid, secure self. Using gentle body-based explorations we’ll listen under our fears for the compassionate energy that has no story or content and carries hope.  

Cultivating a listening space, we’ll attune to this gentle, uncompromising compassionate guidance that wants to move us toward a more fulfilling life. This life force, called prana in yoga, is consistently and persistently pressing us to listen and hear that life can be kinder and easier; we can be more content despite what happens externally. It does require, though, that we let the pain clean our hearts, clearing the internal debris so we can find the direction. And it’s on this nascent song, carried in the body, that a melody of compassionate hope arises, letting us know that the healing path doesn’t have to be as hard as it is.  

Our bodies, minds, and hearts are innately wired to connect. Many of us, though, aren’t lucky enough to have that wiring functioning smoothly. Instead when our implicit connections are broken, or betrayed, especially in an affectively intense manner, we become disorganized inside. We split off the unresolved bits, functioning as best we can on top of the disorganization. These underlying, unresolved attachment patterns are the main reasons PTSD doesn’t clear.  

This experiential workshop gives mental health professionals the basics to support clients in transforming stuck attachment patterns into more life-affirming and nourishing connections

Attachment patterns are laid down before there is narrative understanding

Relational Episodes, when chronic and unrepaired, create a template for future relationships

Input your text in this Despite the ruptures we can repair and shift those patterns. It’s especially possible when gentle, compassionate body-based approaches reach below the attachment imprints and help people remember and cultivate their true nature. 

Learning to listen to the deep compassionate rhythms of life can provide a path through, making life a more fulfilling experience, providing gentle comfort, easing the mind, calming the body, and softly opening the heart. This provides the needed antidote to the pain of life, the burden that at times can feel unbearable, promoting neuroplastic change at the deepest level.  

Instead of continuing to steel ourselves against what did happen or might happen the art of body-based compassion opens the soft door to our body. This is the heart of a Modern-Day Compassionate Trauma Training where we cultivate the field of kindness and compassion, providing community for each other, so that that field of goodness provides safe harbor for our bodies, hearts, and souls.  

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You will learn:  

• Identification of the 7 Components of a Secure Attachment  

• An overview of The Theory of Constructed Emotion (Feldman Barrett) 

• The Developmental Needs of a Child and the Developmental Tasks of an Adult 

• The integration of the Embodied Movements of Attachment 

• The highlights of the Transformational Map that comes from yogic psychology 

• The use of yoga postures to move from PROTEST to Nourishing Opposites 

• How to make life more granular so it’s easier to integrate what you want in your life 

• How to ground the core of the body to shift the fight/flight pattern 

• How to experience the wonder and the importance of the Intersubjective matrix (Stern) 

Open to professionals working with emotional/psychological trauma  

Venue: City of Music Studio, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3Y  

Registration fee: £250 

Organizer: Trauma Psychotherapy Scotland, 15 Newton Terrace, first floor, Glasgow G3 7PJ  

Workshop Leader

Deirdre Fay, LICSW has decades of experience exploring the intersection of trauma, attachment, yoga and meditation. Having meditated since the 70’s and lived in a yoga ashram for six years in the 80’s and 90s Deirdre brings a unique perspective to being in the body. In the 90’s Deirdre was asked to teach yoga and meditation to those on the dissociative unit at McLean Hospital. Having amassed skill sets in trauma treatment (as a supervisor under the guidance of Bessel van der Kolk at the Trauma Center), attachment theory (13 years of training with Daniel Brown), body therapy (as a trainer in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy) Deirdre now teaches an integrative approach which Chris Germer calls “a radically positive approach to healing trauma.” Deirdre founded the Becoming Safely Embodied skills groups and is the author of Attachment-Based Yoga & Meditation for Trauma Recovery (W.W. Norton, 2017), Becoming Safely Embodied Skills Manual (2007), and co-author of Attachment Disturbances for Adults (W.W. Norton, 2016) as well as the co-author of chapters in Neurobiological Treatments of Traumatic Dissociation. 

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