About Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) Training Workshops
Led by Gerald French, MA, MACP, CTS

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"It's hard to avoid superlatives over this workshop. The four days were perfectly structured, with clear content. I found what I was taught to be totally applicable to the population I work with. The instructors [French & Malnati] were a superb team; and I would unquestionably recommend the workshop." David Greenberg, MD, MRCPsych Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry Hebrew University - Hadassah School of Medicine Editor, Israel Journal of Psychiatry Director, Herzog Hospital's Community Out-Patient Services Jerusalem, Israel

"It's hard to avoid superlatives over this workshop ..."

"One of the best trainings I have ever attended. [TIR] works, and after this training, I feel prepared to use it.... Learned many new skills. If I had been trained in TIR when I worked with crime victims and witnesses, I would never have left that field." Laura K. DeCorte, LCSW

"...[TIR] works, and after this training, I feel prepared to use it ..."

"The results I have obtained... with this innovative therapy are nothing short of miraculous..." "... More than worth every bit of time and expense of traveling to America for the training."

"In the early 90's, my practice involved 70 hours/week of face-to-face therapy in which the number of my clients/patients with trauma related matters was growing alarmingly. Through increasing medical referrals, my practice was progressively becoming unmanageable, and I began to seek more efficient ways of dealing with trauma. By chance, I came across an article written by Dr. Robert Moore of Florida, extolling the virtues of a new approach to resolving trauma known as Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR). I went to Menlo Park in 1994 to train at Moore's recommendation with Gerald French, the most experienced trainer in and - along with Frank Gerbode, MD, and others - one of the developers of this new method. The results I have obtained since returning to Australia with this innovative therapy are nothing short of miraculous. TIR has done nothing to reduce my workload, but it has increased my efficiency enormously. My trauma-related patients now number something like 45/week, up from the 20 or so that I was seeing at the time I went to California, and at the same time TIR has, in fact, enabled me to produce better, faster, and much more thorough results in dealing with trauma and related matters than have any other techniques at my disposal. Quite fantastic, really. More than worth every bit of time and expense of traveling to America for the training." Alex D. Frater, CTS Certified Trauma Specialist Sydney, Australia

"Gerald French is a superb teacher, and took us through the process with patience, care, and wisdom. TIR is a powerful tool and provided a rich experience, both in facilitation and as a reviewer of my own [issue]." Paul Roy, PhD Academic Dean Institute of Transpersonal Psychology Palo Alto, California

" ... Gerald French is a superb teacher ... ... TIR is a powerful tool and provided a rich experience ...."

"I have found TIR to be an effective and simply elegant intervention - one that gets results ... ... I am unable In good conscience to have [interns] work here without their first being trained in TIR."

"I am a therapist at The Greenville Sexual Trauma Center in Greenville, South Carolina. I work predominantly with women 18 years and older who are either adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse or survivors of assault in adulthood. Most can be diagnosed with PTSD. Those who cannot have many of the symptoms. I had been introduced to Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) some time earlier but had not received training. Within days of beginning work with this population, I determined that I must get trained in TIR as quickly as possible. Within a month I began my training. I have found TIR to be an effective and simply elegant intervention - one that gets results. It has become the primary intervention I employ in my work. At the end of treatment I always have my clients write about their experience. Each one mentions TIR as having been instrumental in her recovery. I have interns who want to work under my supervision at the agency. At this point, I am unable In good conscience to have them work here without their first being trained in TIR." Joyce Callis, LMFT Greenville, South Carolina

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I have been doing TIR treatments for the last two years, since I was trained by Gerald French. I employ it on a regular basis, and I find it very, very useful. Although I'm also trained in EMDR (as well as TFT), I find TIR more user friendly, especially when people need to understand what happened to them and why. The protocol is easy and simple, and people take advantage of this approach. TIR permits patients to achieve stable relief from their suffering, to arrive at useful insights, and to leave the past in the past." Eduardo Cazabat Clinical Psychologist Director, Centro de Estudios del Trauma Psicologico y el Stress Buenos Aires, Argentina

"... TIR permits patients to achieve stable relief from their suffering, to arrive at useful insights, and to leave the past in the past."

"This was a powerful workshop from my professional and personal perspective. I have already used this approach with several severe PTSD vets, and have seen major changes in their lives..." "... It was a revelation ..."

"This was a powerful workshop from my professional and personal perspective. I have already used this approach with several severe PTSD vets, and have seen major changes in their lives. The components of TIR are not new, are well-validated in research, and practiced by clinicians everywhere daily. TIR has taken what we know as scientists that works, and provided us with a method to apply this knowledge systematically. It is a combination of Rogerian therapy and imaginal exposure therapy that is well-supported in the field. The beauty of it is that it is a self-directed flooding technique that is well-tolerated by Vietnam vets with authority problems. I was burned out. I'd been the Team Leader of a Vet Center in Alaska for 8 years! I was seeing lots of vets with PTSD and I was telling them what they should do. I was facing a tidal wave, and bracing myself for it. Then I completed the four day Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) Workshop given by Gerald French. It was a revelation. Empowerment to the veteran!" Ken Green, PhD Vet Center Team Leader Fairbanks, Alaska

"This feels like the risen Atlantis of PTSD work, and far, far exceeds other subject-related workshops I've attended. Also, the techniques offered are applicable to a number of other problems presented in psychotherapy. Gerald French both delights and teaches, which is to say, his workshop can be experienced as a work of art." Howard Frankl, LCSW, MFT Santa Cruz, California

"... the risen Atlantis of PTSD work ... far, far exceeds other subject-related workshops I've attended."

"I've used TIR in my private psychiatric practice for about a year. I've had outcomes which I cannot describe as other than brilliant ... I strongly recommend TIR..."

"Since Gerald French taught the workshop here, I've used TIR in my private psychiatric practice for about a year. I've had outcomes which I cannot describe as other than brilliant. I've had patients with a history of little apparent benefit from years of psychotherapy, in whom TIR sessions ... led to major changes in their level of functioning and quality of life experience. I've found TIR a useful adjunct to other psychotherapies, with its power to effectively resolve painful memories.... I strongly recommend TIR as a useful new strategy to add to one's therapeutic armamentarium. Michael S. Armstrong, MD President, Institute of Australasian Psychiatrists Sydney, Australia

"TIR has been invaluable. We have been amazed at the successes we have had with it. Re-Entry is using TIR with both veterans and spouses, and ninety percent of the clients we have used it with have experienced an overwhelming sense of relief." Margaret Melotti, CTS Director, Re-Entry Associates, Inc. Cumberland, Maryland

"... ninety percent of the clients we have used it with have experienced an overwhelming sense of relief."

"... I've been to a lot of trainings in my life, but I've never invested four days which were worth so much to me ..."

" I wanted to thank you again, Gerald. I can finally look suffering people in the eye and tell them that I know something we can try that stands a good chance of liberating them from their suffering. I've been to a lot of trainings in my life, but I've never invested four days which were worth so much to me as that basic TIR class with you." Elizabeth Ruegg, LCSW Director, Counseling Works! Port Richey, Florida

"Great balance of material, content, and methods. This was the most informative and well-presented workshop I have ever attended. One of the 'practice' sessions I did was easily the single most productive 'therapy' hour I ever received." Father Sean O'Laoire, PhD San Francisco, California

" ... This was the most informative and well-presented workshop I have ever attended ..."

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Calendar of TIR Training Workshops  

For workshops indicated in blue, see our section on the new Case Planning for TIR and Life Stress Reduction workshop.

Date	Location	Instructor(s)	Contact
Mar 18-21, 2004	San Antonio, TX	Gerald French	Lori Christensen
Apr 28-May 1, 2004	Johannesburg, South Africa	Gerald French Peter Jones	Traumatology Services International
May 3-5, 2004	Johannesburg, South Africa	Gerald French Peter Jones	Traumatology Services International
June 18-21, 2004	Palo Alto, CA ( ITP )	Gerald French	Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
June 24-27, 2004	Palo Alto, CA ( ITP )	Gerald French	Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
July 8-11, 2004	Vancouver BC, Canada	Gerald French	Gerry Bock
July 15-18, 2004	Greer, SC	Gerald French	Chrys Harris
Aug 6-9, 2004	San Juan, Puerto Rico ( CTPR )	Gerald French	Carlos Velazquez
Aug 26-29, 2004	Vancouver BC, Canada	Gerald French	Gerry Bock
Sep 9-12, 2004	Dallas, TX	Gerald French	Mike Halligan
Sep 18-21, 2004	Ascot, England	Gerald French	Jane Heywood
Sep 29-Oct 2, 2004	Johannesburg, South Africa	Gerald French	Wendy Kruger
Oct 4-6, 2004	Johannesburg, South Africa	Gerald French	Wendy Kruger
Oct 21-24, 2004	Vancouver BC, Canada	Gerald French	Gerry Bock
Nov 17-20, 2004	Johannesburg, South Africa	Gerald French	Wendy Kruger
Jan 17-19, 2005	Palo Alto, CA ( ITP )	Gerald French	Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Jan 20-23, 2005	Palo Alto, CA ( ITP )	Gerald French	Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Jan 27-30, 2005	Vancouver BC, Canada	Gerald French	Gerry Bock
Apr 14-17, 2005	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Gerald French	Eduardo Cazabat
May 21-24, 2005	Ascot, England	Gerald French	Jane Heywood
Jun 15-18, 2005	Johannesburg, South Africa	Gerald French	Gerald French
July TBA, 2005	Palo Alto, CA ( ITP )	Gerald French	Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Jul 21-24, 2005	Greer, SC	Gerald French	Chrys Harris
Nov 5-8, 2005	Sydney, Australia	Gerald French	Alex Frater
TBA, 2005	Schongau, Germany	Gerald French	Astrid Thierbach

For additional training workshops co-sponsored by TIRA please also see this web page.