Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR): Case Planning for TIR & Life Stress Reduction [ 4-Day Professional Training Workshop ]

Workshop Prerequisite Overview of the Workshop Continuing Education Credits Course Outline Program Objectives How to Enroll

Prerequisite

Successful completion of the TIRA-approved Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) Workshop

Overview of the Workshop

Whereas the TIR workshop teaches TIR and Unblocking, two techniques to be found among many practical applications of a subject called by its principal developer, psychiatrist Frank Gerbode - after Freud - "Metapsychology", this workshop introduces participants to a much broader range of metapsychological techniques.

Like those learned in the first workshop, however, they rely on adherence to the Communication Exercises (CE's) and the Rules of Facilitation, and are subtle, powerful, and client-empowering. With these new tools at their disposal, therapists/facilitators gain the ability to address with precision a great many more presenting situations and conditions than those with which they could easily work given only the techniques in the TIR Workshop.

Case planning makes use of extensive intake interviews, and these need not serve simply to gather data. Properly conducted intake interviews in and of themselves can be extremely therapeutic and will:

• be recognized by the client as such
• bring the client back

One goal of this workshop is to provide participants with skills a data that will enable them to conduct such interviews.

Depending on the needs and interests of the client with whom one is working, case plans may incorporate the use of TIR as well as other techniques participants will learn in this workshop. In competent hands, a full case plan is capable of addressing and resolving an enormous number of non-psychotic presenting problems, including virtually all adjustment disorders and a host of unwanted mental and emotional conditions.

It is not at all unusual for Life Stress Reduction (LSR) to produce stable relief from conditions that clients have attempted unsuccessfully for years to resolve. And while LSR enables clients to reduce or eliminate current negative emotional charge, it also contributes to their achieving enduring positive states of mind, and can open paths towards increased awareness and self-realization.

Like the TIR workshop, this workshop is intimate, participatory and potentially intense. Come prepared to work and to be delighted with the experience.

Continuing Education Credits

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Traumatic Incident Reduction Association (TIRA). TIRA is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists, and by the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists (ATSS) to offer credit hours towards certification. TIRA maintains responsibility for the program and participants in all professional disciplines will be provided with documentation of 21 credit hours for use in securing CE credits from their respective licensure boards and/or professional associations.

Course Outline

The workshop will include the following discussions and practices:

• Life Stress Reduction
  
  
• Balancing the Negative with the Positive
  
  
• Thoroughness in Addressing Charged Items and Issues
  
  
• The End Point of Life Stress Reduction
  
  
• Intake Interviews
  
  
• Metapsychology LSR Techniques:
  
  
  • Wrong Indications
    
    
  • Unlayering
    
    
  • Exploration
    
    
• Some Important Notes on Endpoints
  
  
• A Simple Grounding Technique
  
  
• Communication Exercise #8 Revisited and Expanded
  
  
• Withheld Communication
  
  
• Case Planning
  
  
• Additional Stress Reduction Procedures

Program Objectives

By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

• Use TIR to address complex trauma, depression and dysphoria, anxiety disorders and phobias, etc.
  
  
• Select and employ tools designed to systematically resolve issues around self-esteem, body image, relationships, family, communication, education and study, work and career, spirituality, life changes, mid-life crises, etc.
  
  
• Write a case plan employing TIR and other metapsychology based tools that:
  
  
  • systematically addresses each of a client's specific presenting issues;
    
    
  • can be followed step by step from session to session;
    
    
  • will enable most non-psychotic clients to achieve their stated objectives in the course of brief therapy;
    
    
  • employ TIR and other stress reduction techniques in furthering the goals of clients desiring personal growth.

How to Enroll

For information on dates and venues, please see the Calendar of TIRA-Approved Workshops taught by Gerald Fench or use the Clickable Map.

To enroll in in this workshop please contact Gerald French by E-mail a or send a message to the contact link listed after each date and venue in the Calendar of TIRA-Approved Workshops.

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