Paying Attention to Trauma - The Storied and The Somatic - 29-30 March 2023 - ZOOM

About Your Speaker

Dr. Ian Percy MSW PhD is a therapist, supervisor, consultant, trainer and published author in narrative and mindfulness approaches.
He is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, a Clinical Member of the Australian Association of Family Therapy and an Accredited Psychotherapy Supervisor with The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Ian teaches professional development courses in counselling and psychotherapy for social service agencies, universities and private organisations. He has specialised in training colleagues in Narrative Therapy since 1997. Ian has taught internationally and given workshops and papers at state, national and global conferences. He was an invited Plenary Speaker on spiritualities at the 8th Social Work in Health and Mental Health Conference in Singapore. He has received two university awards for academic excellence. As well, Ian has studies and practiced various forms of meditation, including mindfulness approaches, for 40 years. His PhD thesis researched the similarities and differences between therapeutic mindfulness in Australia and Bhutan.

Course Brief

The stories people tell themselves and others about traumatic events do affect how they live their present and future lives. While the actual events and their effects can be helpfully explored, a narrative approach also seeks to bring forth and richly describe people’s responses to traumas. Often these responses have been, and still may be, of value to the person. Typically, these response stories are undeveloped or completely invisible.

In bringing together therapeutic skills that focus on story, body, affect and power, this workshop will give participants many practical methods and conversational approaches to assist people in moving beyond trauma. Keeping this in mind, we will consider four therapeutic dimensions:

Storied:
• Identify and name resistance to trauma events: thoughts, feelings or actions taken that reduced the negative effects at the time and/or later
• Assist people in telling unsaid stories: noticing details, asking helpful questions, and bringing forth a valued sense of self in spite of the effects of trauma

Embodied:
• Befriending bodied distress and becoming familiar with beneficial bodied sensations

Affect:
• Using mindfulness for strong adverse emotions and attending to and increasing desirable emotions

Power:
• Identifying and unpacking the social contexts and relations of power in traumatic incidents

We will also think about how we might bring these constructive responses to trauma, the actual incident/s, and the effects of trauma, into a fuller storied life. This practical and interactive workshop will explore the importance of asking different kinds of questions while creating a felt-sense of compassion. Participants will be introduced to a variety of ways of working with people including some mindfulness and somatic awareness skills as complementary to narrative question-asking. Brief and extended examples from participant’s clinical work will also help illustrate narrative approaches.

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