Continuing Education (CE)
credits are available for many workshops listed below
Facilitator Training Workshops
TIR Workshop (TIRW)
This workshop covers the nature of trauma, the consequences of
traumatic incidents, and the Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) technique, a
one-on-one, highly structured, yet person-centered approach to resolving the
emotional charge contained in traumas and permanently eliminating their
negative aftereffects in a brief amount of time. It also contains data on
how past traumas may be triggered, and how unwanted feelings, emotions,
sensations, attitudes, and pains (“themes”) arising from past trauma may be
traced back to their origins and eliminated. The workshop also teaches
Unblocking, a technique that is highly useful in preparing a client for TIR and
for handling issues that are not directly trauma-related. Unblocking can
be applied to broad areas of life (e.g. “your marriage”, “your job”, etc.).
The TIR Workshop presents a new paradigm for helping another
person and valuable data on how to create a safe space in which healing can
occur.
Prerequisites:
None
Time: 4 days
Objectives:
· Comprehend
the theory of the traumatic incident network; how traumatic incidents link to
each other
· Comprehend
the nature and consequences of traumatic incidents
· Comprehend
the nature of restimulation (triggering) and destimulation
· Comprehend
unresolved traumatic incidents as incomplete activity cycles
· Understand
the procedural logic of Basic and Thematic TIR and Unblocking
· Comprehend
the difference between a secondary and a root incident
· Comprehend
the specific differences between the TIR session paradigm and other forms of
therapeutic practice
· Understand
how to apply TIR and Unblocking as highly directive techniques within a person
centered context
· Comprehend
and able to identify end points
· Able
to assess client readiness for TIR and know when to refer
· Able
to determine what to address with TIR and what to address with Unblocking
· Demonstrate
ability to employ TIR successfully in the rapid resolution of trauma related
conditions
(1) Outline:
I. Conditioned
Response Phenomena
A. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) with obvious flashbacks
2. The
nature of trauma
3. Pavlovian
theory of trauma and trauma resolution using TIR.
B. Related
conditioned response disorders with absent flashback
1. Conditioned
response chains
2. Primary
and secondary trauma
3. The
Traumatic Incident Network
4. The
mechanics of restimulation
II. Theory
of Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR)
A. How
TIR works
B. Basic
TIR
C. Thematic
TIR
D. Facilitation
and Viewing
III. Establishing a
Safe Environment
A. Rules
of Facilitation
B. Communication
Exercises (CE’s)
C. Facilitator
exercises
IV. Unblocking – an
adaptable TIR-related technique
V. TIR
Procedure
A. Steps
of the procedure
B. TIR
exercises
VI. Experiential –
supervised facilitation
A. Giving
one or more TIR sessions
B. Receiving
one or more TIR sessions
TIR Expanded Applications Workshop (TIR-EA)
This workshop was designed to complement and expand upon the
TIR Workshop. It was developed after extensive interviews with graduates
of the TIR Workshop, their trainers, and their viewers.
“TIR – Expanded Applications” consolidates knowledge and
skills gained in the first workshop and goes on from there to add an array of
new tools to the facilitator’s repertoire. New methods taught this
workshop will benefit a wide range of clients, from clients who, though not
psychotic, tend to be fragile and overwhelmed to very high-functioning people.
The new techniques presented can be used to prepare a client
for TIR, building up ego strength (ability to face life) and developing the
client’s capacity to successfully address specific areas of life. These
techniques also make for a case plan that is more varied and interesting to any
viewer than one containing only TIR and Unblocking. The saying, “If all
you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” applies at times to
enthusiastic graduates of the TIR Workshop, where “everything” tends to look
like a trauma. In addition to providing new tools, the TIR-EA Workshop
expands the use of TIR itself to fit more situations.
Sometimes life problems and distractions make it hard for
the client to settle comfortably into the role of a viewer. In this
workshop, the student learns:
v
· to
differentiate between
·
facilitation – applying the techniques of TIR
and metapsychology for the benefit of a viewer and
·
consultation – addressing practical problems and
handling them in real life
v
· to
remain within the person-centered context while doing either or both.
“TIR – Expanded Applications” serves as an ideal preparation
for the “Case Planning for TIR and Life Stress Reduction Workshop” (see below).
The “TIR – Expanded Applications Workshop” results in
greatly increased confidence and certainty in using TIR and related techniques
and provides for the facilitator the ability to address and resolve a much
wider range of human difficulties and preoccupations.
Prerequisites:
TIR Workshop
Time: 4 days
Objectives:
v
· Resolving
problems or confusions on the use of TIR and Unblocking
v
· Reinforcing
special skills for success in applying TIR
v
· Increasing
facilitator confidence and command of the subject
v
· Clarifying
the difference between facilitation and consultation within the context of
person-centered work.
v
· Providing
new techniques to
·
prepare the viewer for TIR
·
handle difficulties or case conditions that can
get in the way of success with TIR.
v
· Introducing
new applications for TIR, such as
·
TIR on pleasant experiences
·
TIR on future experiences
·
TIR applied to addictions
·
TIR applied to long-term trauma
v
· A
simple model for case planning, using all the techniques learned up to this
point.
(1) Outline
I. Debugging
problems students may have had in applying TIR
A. reviewing
common areas of confusion
B. reinforcing
skills.
C. expanding
the student’s knowledge of End Point phenomena
D. engaging
the client in the work of the session.
II. Preparing
a fragile or overwhelmed client for TIR
A. TIR
on pleasant incidents as a morale booster.
B. The
use of short Unlayering procedures before or during TIR for case preparation
and improvement.
III. Special
applications of TIR to:
A. long
term trauma
B. addiction
C. other
case conditions.
IV. Future TIR – a
way to reduce charge from traumatic events before they happen, greatly
increasing the client’s resilience.
V. Remedial
actions to address difficulties in a session or general difficulties in
viewing. These actions increase the facilitator’s confidence and rate of
success with TIR.
VI. The Chart Method
– a simple model for case planning. Both client and facilitator benefit
from the structure of a well done plan to support the work they are doing from
session to session.
Case Planning for TIR and Life Stress Reduction (CP-LSR)
The TIR workshop teaches TIR and Unblocking only. This
workshop introduces participants to a much broader range of metapsychological
techniques and also has an extensive section on Case Planning..
All metapsychology techniques rely on adherence to the
Communication Exercises (CE’s) and the Rules of Facilitation , and are subtle,
highly effective, and client-empowering. With these new tools at their
disposal, facilitators can precisely address a great many more situations and
conditions than they could using only TIR and Unblocking.
Case planning makes use of extensive intake interviews that
serve not only to gather data but also to provide case improvement for the
client. Properly conducted, they will:
·
Be recognized by the client as beneficial in themselves
·
Motivate the client to come back for the next session.
One goal of this workshop is to provide participants with
skills and data that will enable them to conduct such interviews.
Depending on the needs and interests of the client, case
plans may incorporate both TIR and other techniques taught in this
workshop. In competent hands, a full case plan is capable of addressing
and resolving an enormous number of issues, including a host of unwanted mental
and emotional conditions.
Life Stress Reduction (LSR) often provides stable relief
from conditions that clients have for years attempted unsuccessfully to
resolve. And while LSR enables clients to reduce or eliminate current negative
emotional charge, it also contributes to their achieving enduring positive
states of mind, and can clear the way for increased awareness and
self-realization.
Like the TIR workshop, this workshop is intimate,
participatory and may be intensely rewarding. Come prepared to work and to be
delighted with the experience.
Prerequisites:
TIR Workshop
Time: 4 days
Objectives:
v
· Use
TIR to address such issues as complex traumas, depression, negative feelings,
anxiety disorders, and phobias.
v
· Select
and employ tools designed to systematically resolve issues around such areas as
self-esteem, body image, relationships, family, communication, education and
study, work and career, spirituality, life changes, and mid-life crises.
v
· Using
TIR and other metapsychology based tools, write a case plan that:
·
systematically addresses each of a client’s
specific presenting issues;
·
can be followed step by step from session to
session;
·
will enable most clients to achieve their stated
objectives in a small number of sessions;
·
furthers the goals of clients desiring personal
growth.
(2) Outline:
A. Life
Stress Reduction
1. Balancing
the negative with the positive
2. Thoroughness
in addressing charged items and issues
3. The
end point of Life Stress Reduction (LSR)
B. Intake
interviews
C. Metapsychology
LSR methods:
1. Wrong
indications
2. Unlayering
3. Exploration
D. Some
important notes on end points
E. A
simple grounding technique
F. Communication
Exercise 8 revisited and expanded
G. Withheld
communications
H. Case
planning
I. Additional
LSR techniques
Exploration and Enhanced Rapport Workshop (E&ER)
In this workshop you will gain a whole new perspective on
communication. In a series of exercises (occasionally challenging, often
amusing, and definitely informative) we reveal and examine those vital elements
necessary for full success as practitioners of any helping method, including
TIR.
Facilitators and other members of the helping professions
tend to be communicative people, or they wouldn’t have been attracted to this
line of work. While recognizing and validating your existing ability to
have good rapport with clients and to communicate well, this workshop will show
you how to make further improvements in your level of communication and
rapport, leading to better and faster results.
In the second half of the workshop we take a detailed look
at the art of Exploration, a technique that, unlike TIR, has no predetermined
questions. You will learn how to remain person-centered while using this
relatively unstructured technique. Your mastery of Exploration in all its
various applications ensures smoother progress for your clients and greater
satisfaction for both client and facilitator.
During the course of the workshop you will have the
opportunity to try out this material by co-facilitating (exchanging sessions)
with another student.
Prerequisite:
TIR Workshop
Time: 2 days
Objectives:
· Understand the basis of all rapport and how to put
this understanding to good use.
· Understand the effects of presence, intention, and
interest on the quality of communication
· Understand each part of the communication cycle in
depth, leading to greater quality of communication, both in session and in
life.
· Understand and be able to apply the differences
between social communication and session communication
· Understand and be able to accurately observe and
repair the factors that cause communication to fail
· Use the method of Exploration in all of its
applications to deepen rapport and to increase the effective use of session
time.
Outline:
I. Philosophical
underpinnings of the Communication Exercises: how and why they support
the work of both facilitator and viewer.
A. What
is presence?
B. How
the facilitator can act so as to:
1. Engage
the viewer in the work of the session
2. Maintain
and deepen the client’s engagement.
II. Facilitator
Exercises to focus and deepen the following:
A. Presence
B. Intention
C. Interest
III. Parts of
communication
A. The
many factors that add up to successful communication.
B. The
communication cycle that occurs when a question is asked and answered.
C. Differentiation
between the social communication cycle and the viewing communication cycle.
D. “Not
Getting It” exercises.
IV. Listening
A. The
profound effects of fully present listening
B. Listening
Exercises
V. Exploration
A. Clarification
of viewing
1. Exploration
compared to techniques using prescribed viewing instructions
2. Staying
person-centered while doing Exploration
B. Exploration
as a tool to maintain engagement: theory and practice
C. Exploration
for case information
1. Inquiry
to gather general case information
2. Exploration
to find items to address with TIR or other techniques
3. Case
examples and exercises
D. Exploration
as a lead-in to TIR and other techniques
1. Better
results from TIR by Exploring complex incidents first
2. Exploration
to find a more specific issue to address in viewing.
E. Exploration
for case progress – how Exploration:
1. Dissipates
charge
2. Helps
viewer sort out her experience and perceptions
3. Improves
viewer’s ability to find and follow down sources of charge
4. Works
as a light gradient technique as well as one suited for very able, high
functioning clients
F. Exercise:
practicing the writing of detailed Exploration questions
G. Co-facilitation
of Exploration
H. Exploration
and end points
I. Keeping
Exploration on track and productive
This workshop does not teach techniques of
facilitation. It teaches consultation techniques, done in a session that
follows the Rules of Consultation, similar to but not the same as the Rules of
Facilitation.
In viewing we address the mental life of the viewer,
reducing the effects of past traumas, resolving conflicts, etc. Often,
however, the viewer needs to take steps in real life to resolve difficulties in
the physical universe that cannot be resolved in viewing. One of these
difficulties is a simple lack of organization. The viewer hasn’t thought
about what she wants to do in life, or she hasn’t considered just how she is
going to bring her goals to fruition. Constructing a life plan, or
“schema” will enable her to sort all this out and to get moving in a
constructive way in her life.
The Schema Workshop gives the metapsychology practitioner
tools which, as a “consultant” to the client, he can pass on to her.
Consultant and client examine the client’s policies, customary behavior (modus
operandi’s), goals, then construct an action program, a sequence of in-life
steps the client can follow to move herself from her current, less than ideal
situation, to the more ideal one envisaged in her goals.
Prerequisite: The TIR Workshop or other
facilitator training.
Time: 4 days
Objectives:
v
· To
understand the basics of Schema Work
·
The six Domains of human experience
·
The components of a Schema:
§
Goals
§
Purposes
§
Policies
§
Modus operandi’s
§
Action Programs
v
· To
learn the techniques of Schema Work
v
· To help
a client (possibly a fellow student) construct a Schema for himself or for a
group.
v
· To
get the client started on the task of carrying out the steps of his action
program.
Outline:
I. Theory of Schemas
A. The
Six Domains
B. The
Structure of a Schema
C. Theory
of having
1. Having
as a subjective state
2. Problems
as having
II. Rules
of Consultation
III. The Modus
Operandi
IV. The Schema
Procedure
A. Goals
and ideal situations
B. Modus
operandi and policies
C. Action
programs
D. Exchange
V. Schema
Exercises
Other Facilitator Trainings
Metapsychology Workshops
These include a number of workshops covering the delivery of
the metapsychology viewing Curriculum. The Curriculum is designed to help
a viewer conduct an in-depth examination of those important areas of life that
need to be addressed en route to full self-realization. These workshops
also provide additional ways of handling difficult situations that may arise in
viewing or in life.
Effective Communication for Facilitators Course (ECF)
Similar to the ECW below, this workshop thoroughly covers
the basics of communication, from the point of view of a facilitator.
Prerequisite: None. Time: Approximately
20 hours.
Basic Facilitator Course (BFC)
Teaches the fundamental principles of metapsychology and
basic techniques of beginning facilitation. Prerequisite:
ECW. Time: 100 hours.
Biomonitoring Course (BMC)
Teaches the facilitator how to use an electrodermometer
(EDM) (Galvanic skin response meter) in a viewing session to help in locating
areas of charge. Prerequisite: BFC or TIRW. Time:
20 hours.
TIR Course (TIRC)
Teaches TIR and other related techniques that can be used to
prepare a viewer for TIR. This course covers approximately the same
ground as the TIRW and parts of the TIR-EA and CP-LSR workshops. It also
teaches the use of an electrodermometer (EDM) as an adjunct to many viewing
techniques. Prerequisites: BFC and Biomonitoring
Course. Time: 150 hours.
Metapsychology Facilitator Course (MFC)
Covers both the theory and practice of applied
metapsychology in detail. This course can substitute for the
Metapsychology Workshops mentioned above. Prerequisites: BFC
and TIRC. Time: 250 hours.
Other Workshops
Effective Communication Workshop (ECW)
This workshop uses simple but powerful communication
exercises that magnify and clarify the components of communication. While
practicing these exercises, students discover the means to improve their
ability to communicate effectively and achieve more satisfying
relationships. This workshop is the Communication Exercises
for use in life. Prerequisite: None. Time:
Two days.
Enhanced Rapport In Life Workshop (ERLW)
This one day builds
upon the ECW (see above) and takes the participant’s abilities to build rapport
to a new level. Guaranteed enhanced quality of communication and hence of
relationships from this workshop!
Prerequisite: The Effective Communication
Workshop. Time: One day.
Empathy Workshop (EWS)
Provides a definition of empathy, then teaches the students
the communication skills they will need to become effective and empathic in
life. Prerequisite: None. Time: 2 days.
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Internships
A newly trained
TIR facilitator goes into session with the steps of the procedure, the Rules of
Facilitation, improved communication skills, and a basic understanding of how
and why TIR works, but she is still a novice. She lacks supervision and
extensive experience with the technique.
Having had some
supervision by a TIR trainer, some technical direction, and a fair amount of experience,
the novice TIR facilitator may quickly move from novice to advanced
beginner, where she begins to use overall strategies instead of just
rules. For example, she may become good at assessing ego strength,
environmental distractions, and knowing when to get more data before proceeding
with a viewing program. At this level, a TIR facilitator delivers
consistently successful TIR and Unblocking sessions.
Internships are a
good way for a TIR facilitator to quickly advance from novice to advanced
beginner, and then, with further experience, to become competent,
proficient, and, finally, expert. Compassion fatigue is not an issue for
an expert facilitator, because she can deliver consistently successful
sessions.
Internships are
offered by most certified trainers. An internship includes
session-by-session technical direction as needed and enhances a facilitator’s
ability to follow the structured session protocol that is essential in the
success of TIR sessions. A technical director can rapidly repair a
difficult session, while at the same time giving the facilitator any additional
data he might need in order to be successful in future sessions. This
arrangement benefits the facilitator, who learns from his mistakes, and the
viewer, whose difficulty is eliminated.
Certification
Certification
occurs upon completion of a TIR internship. Certified facilitators enjoy
the following benefits:
·
Recognition for TIR and
metapsychology skills
·
TIR website listing as a
Certified TIR Facilitator
·
Client referrals from AMI
·
Authorization to use the TIRA
and AMI logo in promoting TIR-related services
·
Invitations to participate in
TIR research when such opportunities are available
·
Eligibility to enroll on a
TIR Instructor Program
For more information on
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