July 18, 2010
Professional Ethics and Boundaries
Mary Wilkes, MSW, LCSW, CEAP
This workshop is designed to provide the practicing professional with learning opportunities to explore, address, and test their personal/professional ethical values. Participation in this course will enable students to review their concept of and commitment to their professional, ethical practice. Experiential teaching techniques employed will capitalize on the participant’s perception, knowledge, and experience through provocative situational exercises, case studies, discussion analysis, and readings.
- Participants will explore, refocus, and evaluate time-tested definition of ETHICS.
- Participants will be given the opportunity to explore and test a variety of ethics guides.
- Participants will be challenged to assess their professional ethical standards and personal practice.
- Participants will be afforded an opportunity to test ethical perceptions/questions in an analogous contemporary environment.
Trauma Release Exercise (TRE)
Sherry Mills, MSW, LCSW
The Trauma Release Process (TRP) seminar offers an understanding of how the body, brain and emotions are affected by trauma and/or chronic stress. Unlike most teaching on this subject I’ll be giving a solution not just information re: "what happens". I’ll teach the Trauma Release Exercises (TRE). This is a self-healing technique the participants can take home to use for their own healing and they can take the TREs back to work to teach their clients. This set of exercises are based on neurological, biological and anatomical functioning following trauma and are designed to aid the body in naturally releasing the held tension within the body and returning to the body homeostasis. These exercises are drawn from non-traditional therapeutic approaches such as bioenergetics, tai chi, yoga and other eastern practices. The TRE is designed to tap into the body’s natural functioning to process the internalized effects of trauma. This approach emerged out of Dr. David Berceli’s work with communities while living in Africa and the Middle East and is based on the fundamental belief, backed up by recent research, that trauma is first and foremost a physical experience.
These exercises are based on seven physical stances and movements that facilitate and promote the physical body’s return to homeostasis through the release function of neurogenic tremors. Since the TRE’s are based on natural bodily responses, these exercises can cross all cultural and language barriers. Once the body discharges then the brain gets the message that "all is safe again" and it can return to functioning in a relaxed way (ie: not charging the body with stress hormones).
The training is designed to introduce the fundamentals of this process and to teach the actual Trauma Release Exercises to participants. The didactic portion of the program will explain how the emotional self is adversely affected by the trauma response of the physical body and how physical and emotional healing follows the body’s return to balance.
Thousands of people in 27 countries have already been trained in the Trauma Release Process. This revolutionary self-healing approach has mainly been spread internationally by word-of-mouth based on its remarkable effectiveness. In fact, Dr. Berceli, author of the book, The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process; Transcend Your Toughest Times, was invited in 2008 by the Chinese government to teach TRP for use with their traumatized earthquake survivors with the goal of training one million people in this self-healing technique within the next year. This approach is evidencing great effectiveness due to the universality and simplicity of application for large populations. This approach is already proving itself to be a valuable tool for clinicians in working with traumatized clients and integrates well with traditional treatment modalities.
This simple technique allows addiction counselors to aid recovery for those that might otherwise be considered "to complicated" for them to provide treatment. This is a wonderful "tool" to have in the clinician toolbox.
- Participants will have a working understanding of the diagnostic criteria related to trauma.
- Participants will understand the meaning of trauma.
- Participants will be able to summarize basic knowledge of trauma’s affect on neurological, biological and the anatomical functioning.
- Participants will be able to explain the importance of neurogenic tremors and their role in the restoration of homeostasis to the body following trauma.
- Participants will be able to complete the Trauma Release Exercises (TREs).
- Participants will be able to demonstrate and guide others in the use of Trauma Release Exercises (TREs).