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The TIR Training Team
INTRODUCTION: TIR Trainers must complete a rigorous certification process to qualify for certification, and re-certification is required every three years. Additional strength arises from the diversity of backgrounds and dedication to principles that these people represent.
Certified TIR trainers deliver the basic TIR workshop and some also deliver second-level TIR-related workshops and advanced workshops and courses. The TIR workshop is currently being presented in several languages in more than a dozen countries, from Australia to Russia. Please browse the Trainer Q&A below and be sure to check the TIR Calendar to sign up for workshop dates and locations.
Quick Index
| Name: | Nancy Day |
| Location: | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Email: | 21ce@msn.com |
Nancy: Since 1991
Nancy: I wanted to create a group of TIR facilitators in the greater Kansas City area so that we could network with each other.
Nancy: Now I not only have successes of my own using TIR and TIR-related techniques, but I share in others' successes.
Nancy: While I am open to traveling to a city where there is no certified trainer for TIR and Metapsychology, I prefer to deliver workshops in Kansas City and have participants come here.
Nancy: Yes, I deliver one-on-one facilitation and also professional skills workshops on Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and the full range of metapsychology facilitation and training. I also supervise post-workshop internships for practitioners who wish to improve their facilitation skills and/or wish to become certified facilitators and trainers.
Nancy: I am interested in the changes taking place in the mental health community. It is exciting to see how alternative methods for addressing traumatic stress are being used along with traditional methods. I am also interested in ways to keep the body healthy and fit, as a person without physical problems can more easily address problems of the mind and spirit.
Nancy: My personal background has greatly influenced my professional background. I was fortunate to grow up in a family where Mom and Dad's main focus was to raise four children in a safe, happy household where each of us could develop our individual interests. This provided me with a sound foundation from which I could set my goals for life.
When my younger brother, David, was diagnosed with brain damage and mental retardation due to the trauma he experienced from standard medical procedures used to straighten his club feet, my interest turned to mental health and I searched for ways to help individuals who had been traumatized and also for ways to prevent such traumatization. I was eleven years old when my search began.
Later on, I explored what psychology had to offer by taking classes at a local college. As that did not provide what I was looking for, I searched for other methods; and eventually I came into contact with Dr. Frank Gerbode and the Institute for Research in Metapsychology (IRM) in Menlo Park, California.
The Institute provided training in TIR and other Metapsychology techniques, which was just what I had been searching for so long. I have been studying with Dr. Gerbode since 1991 and I continue to study as new procedures and workshops are developed. I serve on the Board of Directors of Applied Metapsychology International (formerly IRM) and I am the former Executive Director.
Nancy: I teach all the workshops that are available for TIR and Metapsychology. This will include a workshop on communication, empathy, basic TIR training, and advanced TIR and Metapsychology training. Updated: 03/04/2004
| Name: | Gerald French |
| Location: | Miami, Florida |
| Email: | gerald.french@post.harvard.edu |
| Website: | http://www.TIRtraining.com |
Gerald: The first formal workshop I gave was in May of 1990. There were a grand total of two students in the training, Chris Christensen -- to whom I later dedicated a book -- and LoriBeth Bisbey. It's quite possible that I learned more than they did during the five days we were together in Menlo Park, though both were kind enough to suggest otherwise, and each went on to do great work with the material.
Gerald: The astonishing power and...teachability (for lack of a better word)...of the tool itself, as well as the elegant simplicity of the approach that surrounds it.
Gerald: The after-the-fact validation of the confidence I feel in my being able to provide those in training with something much more valuable than, typically, they had hoped or even imagined they would get when they enrolled.
Gerald: I can best answer that by observing that it sometimes feels as it it's all I do. I've given trainings in the US in perhaps 12 states, from Alaska to Florida to San Juan, where I've now taught five or six times and serve as a member of the faculty of the Traumatology Center for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. I gave one of the first Operation Green Cross trainings in Oklahoma City to therapists in the aftermath of the 1995 bombing there.
I'm still waiting for an invitation to Hawaii, but console myself with the thought that I have been privaleged to date have taught and/or lectured in Australia, Japan, South Africa, Israel, Egypt, England, Norway, Switzerland, Brasil, Argentina. To that list, I hope to add Portugal, N. Ireland, and perhaps Croatia within the coming year.
Gerald: A small one.
Gerald: Writing. I recently co-authored a to-be-published case study suggesting a causal connection between life-long stuttering and a specific childhood trauma, and am currently engaged in co-authoring a second book on TIR which we hope to see published within the year. I also love travel, and music, and Prairie Home Companion, and large dogs and small cats and spectacular sunsets and interacting with human beings ... most especially including my wife, Bia.
Gerald: Checkered, I believe, is the term that would spring to most lips.... Many years ago, I spent a few months (well, two) working at an iron mine in Malaya (now Malasia). I did not become an architect, the subject in which I majored at Harvard. Having come of age as a native of San Francisco during the 1960's, I did other strange and wonderful things. At one point, I taught in Project HeadStart and drove a bright yellow school bus in East Menlo Park, where I also taught for two years in a research-based preschool. Awarded a Fellowship in a Master's program in Early Childhood Education, spent a year traveling in Europe and N. Africa upon graduation, after which I set up and directed a parent co-op children's center for the Unitarian church in Palo Alto, California. In 1984, the year of its formation, I became the administrative Director (under founder Dr. Frank Gerbode) of the Institute for Research in Metapsychology, subsequently AMI, of which TIRA is a part. For the past 20 years, I have been involved with Gerbode and others in the development and promulgation of this work, taking time off between 1997 and 2000 to obtain a second Master's in Counseling Psychology at Palo Alto's Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
Gerald: Case Planning for TIR and Life Stress Reduction, a follow-up to the TIR training.
| Name: | Jim Hussey |
| Location: | Portland, Oregon |
| Email: | jimhussey@traumarelief.org |
| Website: | http://www.traumarelief.org |
Jim: I've been a trainer in TIR since Feb. 2001
Jim: I loved the simplicity of TIR and the amazing success rate. I am a trainer by nature and want to share what works for me. TIR met that requirement.
Jim: The speed, the simplicity, the honoring of the client and the lack of judgment or evaluation.
Jim: I love to travel, please contact me for details.
Jim: Yes. I work in a mental health clinic three days a week, and do private practice two days a week.
Jim: Mindfulness, Nonviolent communication, borderline personality & DBT
Jim: 5 years in a grief center, 10 years with Hypnosis and Neurolinguistic programming, 5 years at chronic mental health clinic
Jim: Transcendental Meditation, Basics of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), NVC and Couples, Psychobiology of Trauma, Intro Hypnosis, Hypnosis and Trauma, Energy Psychology
| Name: | Aerial Long |
| Location: | Portland, Oregon |
| Email: | aerial.long@verizon.net |
| Website: | http://aeriallong.com |
Aerial: Since 1989.
Aerial: My own personal trauma work and the totally person-centered method.
Aerial: My clients get results and attain their goals for our sessions.
Aerial: Yes, I'm available to travel, please contact me for details.
Aerial: Yes, I have a full time private practice.
Aerial: I use the full spectrum of applied Metapsychology procedures that are included in the Curriculum.
Aerial: I have my masters in counseling/psychology and certification as an Advanced Metapsychology Facilitator and Trainer. I also have certification in other methods of counseling, and healing with including various methods of Energy Psychology and Pranic Healing.
Aerial: If you would like more information on these courses, please see my website at www.AerialLong.com
PROFESSIONAL COURSES: (3 days to week long courses)Traumatic Incident Reduction TIR - Expanded Applications Case Planning for TIR and Life Stress Reduction Biomonitor Course Basic Facilitator Course General Facilitator Course Unstacking Basics of Energy Psychology LIFE SKILLS COURSES FOR ANYONE: (These courses are about 2 hours each and are addressed to the public. I have put these courses in booklet form as part of a personal growth series)
The Effects of Trauma Basic Communication Changing Conditions in Your Life Healthy Boundaries and Energy Clearing Your Energy Field Spiritual First Aid Attaining Goals
| Name: | Ragnhild Malnati |
| Location: | Washington, DC metro area |
| Email: | raggi@comcast.net |
| Website: | http://www.healing-arts.org/tir/raggi |
Ragnhild: I have been a trainer for about 10 years.
Ragnhild: Seeing Gerald French doing a good job training others and wanting the AMI techniques to be more widely used, so more people could benefit.
Ragnhild: It is very rewarding to see therapists and other students that I have trained be successful in helping their clients resolve and overcome past trauma, as well as gain insight and personal gains.
Ragnhild: Yes, as long as the location is safe and I am paid a reasonable amount.
Ragnhild: Yes, I do.
Ragnhild: I am interested and use all the different other Metaspychology techniques that we have. I am also interested in studying and practicing other spiritual paths, mostly Buddhism and Hinduism. For fun I like to dance, walk in nature and spend time at the beach walking, swimming and snorkeling.
Ragnhild: I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Maryland and Washington, DC. I have been part of Metapsychology since it's beginnings.
Ragnhild: Case Planning for TIR and Life Stress Reduction and the Communication Workshop. I plan to also teach Expanded applications of TIR and Enhanced Rapport.
| Name: | Marian Volkman |
| Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Email: | marian@tir.org |
| Website: | http://www.tir.org/MarianVolkman |
Marian: For nearly as long as TIR training has been available (since the mid-1980's)
Marian: I find the technique, (and Applied Metapsychology, the larger subject that supports it), to be so rewarding and effective that I wanted to share it with other people who are helping people and who could use these excellent tools with great benefit.
Marian: First of all I get to meet so many wonderful people. I never get tired of introducing people to TIR and then sharing with them the array of techniques that support and expand the use of TIR (offered in the two following workshops). With this effective training line-up we are seeing graduates of the workshops not just facilitate resolution of individual traumas with their clients, but also help to bring about substantial life improvements.
Marian: Yes, I am. My schedule is fairly busy, so we definitely have to plan ahead. I will certainly travel to deliver a workshop to a group of six to eight students. Smaller numbers may be negotiated. Actually I love to train a number of people in one area on TIR at one time. There are advantages to everyone that way. I have delivered courses in several cities in the US as well as in Canada,Italy, England and Russia.
Marian: Yes. Much as I love doing the training I would not want to give up practicing. I never get tired of doing this work. I experience it as an honor and a priveledge to be allowed to assist
Marian: Human potential, our spiritual nature, ecology, botany, great fiction, practical philosophy, morphic resonance, great films, cooking, gardening, sewing and design, and Landmark Education.
Marian: After an eclectic education and after practicing trauma resolution work for many years I was able to document my education and experience and earn the Certified Trauma Specialist (CTS) certificate from the Association for Traumatic Stress Specialists (ATSS).
Bach in the early 1980's I met Dr. Gerbode and have worked with him ever since, including helping to write and edit several of our training manuals. I have now worked in the fields of personal growth and trauma resolution for 34 years and it continues to be the most rewarding thing I could imagine doing.
Marian: Besides the first level TIR Workshop, I teach "TIR - Expanded Applications", "Case Planning for TIR & Life Stress Reduction", "Exploration and Enhanced Rapport", and also train people in the wider subject of which TIR is a subset, Applied Metapsychology.