Shock Trauma

Shock Trauma Training

30 days of training focused on shock and developmental trauma and the treatment of these. Based on a clearly bodily integrated perspective, this training is offered for professional therapists who want to know and be able to do more about resolving shock trauma and building new resources.

Bodily and Cognitive Resources in Dealing with Shock Trauma

The continuing education in shock trauma therapy can be carried out separately from the other continuing education in the Bodynamic system – or may be part of a longer Bodynamic education.

The target audience is people who have to deal with shock and high stress in their profession – and thus need to learn to understand and master these states themselves.

The training conveys both a theoretical understanding of what Shock trauma is – as well as a precise bodily, emotional and cognitive exercises in being able to master the resources and patterns that are called in humans under the influence of shock.

Our approach is resource-oriented – we are approaching serious trauma with focus on the strong resources that are triggered in humans when we are threatened with our existence. We are looking to heal the shock trauma in a way that increases quality of life and access to deep resources. It is this attitude – and the associated methods that are conveyed in the training.

The education consists of 6 modules of 5 days each. The teaching is divided into 6 modules, of which the first 3×5 days will concentrate on their own process and the last 3×5 days will cover the professional treatment work. It is our experience from previous teams that students who focus alone on the professional treatment of shock, do not get the job done with their own shock trauma to a sufficient extent.

Content of the Training

The education includes the dissemination of theories and knowledge as well as skills training. The following topics are presented:

• Consciousness of resources in shock reactions, including the relationship between peak experiences and shock experiences.
• Training in approaching shock trauma resource-oriented.
• Understanding what shock trauma is and what separates it from (and overlaps with) characterological trauma, as well as the theory of brain function.
• The interaction between character expressions, the strength in the ego, and shock reactions.
• Exercise in bodily coping strategies and body sensation, and how to increase a person's ability to respond appropriately in shock situations.
• Phases in the processing of shock trauma and tools that can be used in different phases — from emergency aid to more long-term crisis aid, to work that increases resources and relieves long-term PTSD reactions woven into character patterns.
• Training in Bodynamic's method of healing the core of a shock, including work with flight reflexes, attack reflexes, tonic immobility, safe place, bodily locks, out-of-body and other dissociative conditions, as well as promoting the parasympathetic condition.
• The changing of decisions taken in a traumatic state of consciousness — forming "new decisions" and reorientation, including how to use recycled life energy.
• Focus on guilt and forgiveness, as well as rituals and spirituality associated with shock trauma.
• The importance of culture for the development of mastering capacity in relation to stress and shock.
• Transference and counter-transference in work with shock trauma, including secondary traumatization, stress traumatization, and identification with the trauma victim (mirroring).
• Resource-oriented pedagogy as part of the therapeutic method.
• How PTSD symptoms appear, including somatic symptoms.
• The different types of shock.