Omega Institute Presence Psychotherapy Level 1 Training 28 CE credit hours
Sunday evening
7:30-9:30pm: 2 hours
7:30-8:15. Didactic
7:30-8:00 Overview of Presence Psychotherapy Model
Resource, Regulation, Processing
Creating safety for client to talk about their spirituality in trauma treatment.
Introduction to Four Dimensions of Presence.
8:00-8:15 ORBITS Process overview
Types of memory, Parts of the Mind
Common denominators of evidenced-based trauma treatments
Course Objective:
Explain how to safely help clients access implicit traumatic memory.
Define implicit, explicit, procedural, semantic, emotional, and sensory traumatic memory.
8:15-8:45: Didactic Four Dimensions of Presence.
Presence as an ever-present Resource in trauma processing.
Benefit of each dimension of Presence for regulation and processing.
How clients can orient to Presence in every session
Overview of three processes to easily facilitate Presence Awareness
8:45-9:30 Experiential Learning Activity: Turn The View as an affect regulator and trauma healing agent.
Reflective View
Presence Aware of parts.
Part of the mind viewing any of the Four Dimensions of Presence.
Course Objective:
Identify and utilize the qualities and therapeutic aspects of Four Dimensions of Presence: Grounded Presence, Spacious Presence, Relational Presence, and Transcendent Presence
Monday 6.5 program hours + Two 15 minute breaks
Morning session: 9-12:30: 3.25 hours +15 minute break
9:00-9:45: Didactic
Safely processing trauma through Presence Awareness
Attachment wounds: definition & processing with Relational Presence
Presence Prompts to facilitate Relational Presence Awareness
Treating Attachment-related negative beliefs
“Broaden and Zoom” for Presence to become aware of Part(s) of the mind, presenting problem
9:45-10:15: Video: Session Demonstration: Facilitating Relational Presence through Guided practice
Reflective View Concept for differentiation.
Observing and Reflecting client’s reference to Presence while reporting or in non-verbal expression.
Expanding on client’s organic Presence reference
Course Objective:
Explain how Presence Awareness can help heal attachment wounds, provide regulation during trauma processing, and reprocess negative beliefs and emotions resulting from trauma
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30: Experiential Practice:
Facilitating Relational Presence Awareness during session.
Course Objective:
Practice how to facilitate client’s awareness of the Four Dimensions of Presence.
11:30-11:50 Didactic:
Protective Conscious
Zoom and Broaden Views
11:50-12:30 Live Demonstration: Utilizing Presence with Reflective View, broad & narrow lenses, and protective parts.
Course Objective:
Explain how to utilize the Four Dimensions of Presence while working protective with parts of the mind.
Afternoon Session: 2:00-5:30: 3 hour program + 15 minute program + 15 minute break
Experiential Practice Facilitating Relational Presence during trauma processing.
3:30 – 3:45: 15 minute break
Course Objective:
Demonstrate how to use the Reflective View technique to help clients regulate affect during trauma processing
Practice how to utilize Presence Awareness to heal attachment wounds.
Tuesday : 5.75 hour program + 15 minute break
Morning Session: 9:00-12:00 2.75 program hours + 15 minute break
9:00-10:15: Didactic: Spacious Presence and Expanded Relational Presence
Utilizing client’s spirituality in trauma processing
Presence Prompts to facilitate Grounded & Spacious Presence Awareness
Techniques to attune to client’s unfolding practice in session to facilitate Presence Awareness.
Course Objective:
Recognize and utilize client’s personal connections to spirituality in trauma treatment to heal trauma.
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30- 12:00 Live Demonstration: with Guidance Facilitating Spacious and Grounded Presence
Course Objective:
Apply Turn the View to regulate and facilitate processing.
Afternoon Session: 2:00-5:15 3 hour program +15 minute break
3:30-5:15 Experiential Practice
Facilitating Expanded Relational and Grounded Presence in trauma processing.
Course Objective:
Practice the skill of listening for and facilitating client’s Presence Awareness through client’s narrative.
Demonstrate how to use the Reflective View technique to help clients regulate affect during trauma processing.
Wednesday. 5.75 program hours +2 fifteen minute breaks
Morning Session. 9:00-12:15 3 hour and 15 minute program +15-minute break
9:00 -10:30 Didactic: Transcendent Presence
Define continuum of Transcendent Presence Awareness
Spiritual bypass versus regulated processing
Use of Transcendent Presence for regulation in trauma processing
Attachment Wounds – schizoid process and dissociation
Course Objective:
Differentiate Trauma consciousness and Presence consciousness.
Name 3 specific Turn the View options and describe how each is useful in trauma processing.
10:30-10:45 15 minute break
10:45-12:15 Live Demonstration: Live session demonstrating utilizing Transcendent awareness to heal trauma
Course Objective:
Evaluate when to utilize Broad and Zoom lenses to regulate or facilitate processing
Afternoon Session: 2.75 hours + 15 minute break
2:30-5:30 Experiential Practice:
Facilitating Transcendent Presence within ORBITS process to treat trauma.
Break: 4:00-4:15
Course Objective:
Facilitate Transcendent Presence awareness to regulate trauma processing without creating spiritual bypass
Thursday 5.25 Program hours + Two 15 minute breaks
Morning Session: 9:00-11:45 2.5 hour program + 15 minute break
9:00-10:15: Didactic:
I – Illuminate” ORBITS process
Accessing and processing nuance of negative trauma induced beliefs
Range of negative relational trauma induced beliefs.
Healing through felt sense juxtaposition of negative trauma induced beliefs.
Presence Psychotherapy techniques for healing attachment wounds and strategies.
Course Objective:
Explain how the “I” of ORBITS process can Invite, Inquire, & Illuminate can facilitate trauma processing and resolution.
Break 10:15-10:30
10:30-11:45. Live Demonstration
Demonstrating Assessing and healing procedural memory. (Flight Flight, Freeze, Submit & Attach)
Course Objective:
Identify how to attune the client’s non-verbal communication to access implicit procedural, semantic, emotional and sensory trauma memory.
Afternoon Session: 2:30-5:30. 2.75 hours + 15 minute break
Experiential Practice: Accessing and processing layers of memory utilizing any of the Four Dimensions of Presence.
Course Objective:
Specify how to work with fight, flight, freeze, submit and attach utilizing Presence Awareness,
Evaluate when to utilize Broad and Zoom lenses to regulate or facilitate processing.
Friday 2.75 program hours + 15 minute break
9:00-10:30: Didactic:
Assessing resilience – over and under attributing resilience and its consequences.
Treating Panic Attacks with Presence Awareness
Relational Concepts of: Irrational guilt, shame, idealization, grief, generalized anxiety, hopelessness
Relational attunement: words affect memory between the words
Course Objective:Discuss how Presence Awareness can be utilized during panic attacks and dissociation.
Evaluate which Dimension of Presence to utilize at various points of a session
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00- Didactic
Explain how to teach clients mindfulness-based skills in between session to regulate, and broaden identification of how they are with ORBIT tool.
Integrate existing clients’ spirituality into trauma processing
Termination: in session in the training: Use of Four Dimensions of Presence in termination.
Course Objective:
Describe how to help clients regulate affect between sessions utilizing Four Dimensions of Presence techniques.
Presence Psychotherapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing
Clover Educational Consulting Group is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Clover Educational Consulting Group maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Presence Psychotherapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7994. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Presence Psychotherapy Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.