Traumatic Incident Reduction – Expanded Applications Workshop

Prerequisite: Traumatic Incident Reduction Workshop
Time: (Standard) 3 – 4 Days

The TIR – Expanded Applications Workshop consolidates knowledge and skills gained in the first TIR Workshop and goes on from there to add an array of new tools to the facilitator’s (practitioner’s) repertoire. New methods taught in this workshop will benefit a wide range of clients, from those who are fragile/low ego strength to very high-functioning people.

The new techniques learned in this workshop can be used to prepare a client for TIR, to build up ego strength (ability to face life) and develop the client’s capacity to successfully address specific areas of life. These techniques also allow a practitioner to write a case plan that is more varied and interesting to a client than one containing only TIR and Unblocking. In addition to providing new tools, this workshop expands the use of TIR itself to fit more situations, such as:

• Long-term trauma
• Complex post-traumatic stress disorder
• Dreaded future events
• Trauma experienced by children
• Addictions, as influenced and impacted by traumatic events

The TIR – Expanded Applications Workshop results in greatly increased confidence and certainty in using TIR, and related Applied Metapsychology techniques, and provides the practitioner with the ability to address and resolve a much wider range of human difficulties and preoccupations, including distractions that make it hard for the client to settle comfortably into the role of a viewer (client).

Objectives:

As demonstrated through examination and supervised activities, the student will be able to:

• Describe engagement and how the skills practiced in the Communication Exercises relate to it
• Analyze the theory and demonstrate the use of techniques to prepare a client who is not yet ready for TIR
• Compare the “Exploration” style to that of Unlayering and TIR and practice it in dyads
• Explain the different types of endpoints expected with different viewing techniques and with different degrees of chronic or acute viewer reactivation.
• Show how Unblocking and other viewing techniques such as the “repeating technique” and additional TIR .viewing instructions can help to debug a difficult TIR session.
• Describe and practice Fine-tuned Unblocking.
• Describe and practice Comprehensive Upset Handling
• Explain the theory of “wrong indication” handling and practice it in dyads.
• Explain when you would use “Unfinished Business” and practice it in dyads
• Describe and practice in dyads the more detailed disturbance handlings.
• Practice consultation exercises in dyads
• Describe how TIR is used to address addiction and complex trauma
• List techniques useful in addressing relationship issues
• Apply Future TIR to a successful result
• Create a basic case plan using the “chart method”

Complete list of objectives

Outline:

1. Reviewing basics and reinforcing skills
2. Case Preparation and Case Progress
   1. Facilitation, Consultation, and Technical Direction explained
   2. Building up a client’s ability and ego strength in preparation for using TIR
   3. A variety of techniques to address different client issues with precision
3. Further Applications for TIR and Related Techniques
   1. Future TIR
   2. Long term trauma handling
   3. Using TIR to address complex trauma, depression, anxiety disorders, and phobias
   4. Use TIR with children
4. Remedial Actions
   1. Techniques to repair TIR
   2. Wrong Indications
   3. Addictions Program
5. Case Planning
   1. Theory
   2. Case Planning using the Chart Method
   3. Practical Case Planning exercise

This workshop is appropriate for all levels of practicing social workers, psychologists, therapists, counselors, and clergy. See also Continuing Education

While appropriate for use in a therapeutic setting, and while its results may be viewed as therapeutic in nature, Applied Metapsychology, its methods, and techniques, are a form of highly disciplined and structured integrative education, which results in personal improvement. The structure and safety built into the subject make it well suited for community mental health and peer co-counseling. See also Applied Metapsychology: Therapy or Personal Growth? by Frank A. Gerbode, MD, and A Psychologist Addresses Potential Concerns of the Mental Health Community by John Durkin, PhD.

(Last updated: 03/06/23)

Traumatic Incident Reduction - Expanded Applications Workshop
Date & Location	Registration
May 6,7 & 13,14, 2023 Toronto, ON, Canada	Trainer: Daniel Ferguson danielfergusontir@gmail.com 416-209-1264 Register Now! In-Person or Online
May 8 - 11, 2023 Ann Arbor, MI, USA	Trainer: Marian Volkman Contact: Ability Enhancement Services marian@tir.org 734-662-6864 Online Only       Register Now! 10 - 4 each day, New Yoork time
October 19, 20, 26, 27, 2023 Fairfax, VA, USA	Trainer: Michelle Booth michellebooth.lcsw@gmail.com 571-477-0096 Online Only       9 - 5 US Eastern time
November 20 - 23, 2023 George, Western Cape, South Africa	Trainer: Louis Hough louishough@telkomsa.net 082-7725559 Online Only

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