Constructed Awareness Level 2: Reconstructing Traumatic Memories - September and October - Virtual

Course Description

In this two-part follow-up training, we will utilize an easy, safe, and effective way to process traumatic memories. We will expand on the awareness fundamentals you learned in level one by integrating concepts and methods that are new to level two. In this training, you will:

• Apply a step-by-step approach to processing traumatic memories based on memory reconsolidation

• Identify how earlier life experiences may be fueling present symptoms and demonstrate the ability to identify these memories using the Attachment Bridge technique

• Practice how and when to focus awareness on thoughts, sensations, and external cues to guide the client through the process of reconstructing developmental and single event traumas

• Predict ways clients may respond to processing based on their orientation style

• Explain to clients how to process traumatic experiences outside of sessions

This training is a live webinar where participants and the instructor interact together online. Participants meet together on Zoom for four days over the course of two weekends that are usually two weeks apart. Each live session consists of lecture, live and/or video demonstrations, practicum, and group discussion.

Target Audience and Course Content Level

This training is considered an intermediate-level event. You cannot attend this training if you have not completed Constructed Awareness level one. To attend, you must be a licensed mental health therapist (psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, social workers, MFTs, or mental health counselors) pursuing a license, a practicum-level graduate student, or a mental health professional seeking continuing education credits. If you are uncertain whether you meet these requirements, please contact info@constructedawareness.com.

CE Information
CUE Management Solutions, LLC will award 30 CEs to participants who attend all 30 hours. No partial credit will be awarded. An evaluation will be emailed to attendees at the end of the event and CE certificates will be issued thereafter. CUE Management Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CUE Management Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0242.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the program, participants will be able to:

• Define the three building blocks of the client’s conscious experience—thought, sensation, and external senses

• Differentiate the six orientation styles of the CA typology

• Present a thought as a word, as a sound, and as a picture

• Distinguish two styles of memories—explicit and implicit

• Identify two styles of explicit memories—declarative and episodic

• Distinguish two styles of implicit memories—emotional and procedural

• Use a scripted process called “Memory Reconstructing” to process traumatic memories

• Apply seven elements of memory reconsolidation research that enhance the processing of traumatic memories

• Practice seven sensation-oriented awareness techniques

• Practice 10 mentally-oriented awareness techniques

• Utilize seven externally-oriented awareness techniques

• Utilize three attachment-oriented awareness techniques

• Demonstrate two ways to use objects in the external environment to assist in regulating the client during processing

• Identify four attachment longings that may be fueling present symptoms

• Use a scripted process called the “Attachment Bridge” to discover memories that may be fueling traumatic symptoms

• Deduce two ways mentally-oriented clients may respond during processing

• Predict two ways sensation-oriented clients may respond during processing

• Predict two ways externally-oriented clients may respond during processing

• Explain the "Self-Processing Journal" to clients

Day 1: Introduction to Constructed Awareness Processing

• 9:00-9:45 Check in and Review of CA Principles

• 9:45-10:15 Video Demonstration

• 10:15-10:30 Break

• 10:30-12:00 Basics of CA Processing

• 12:00-1:00 Video Demonstration

• 1:00-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-2:30 Group Discussion

• 2:30-3:30 Practicum

• 3:30-3:45 Break

• 3:45-5:30 Practicum

• 5:30-6:00 Group discussion

Day 2: Memory Reconstruction and Mentally-Oriented Processing 

• 9:00-9:30 Check in

• 9:30-10:15 Reconstructing Memories

• 10:15-10:45 More on CA Processing

• 10:45-11:00 Break

• 11:00-12:00 Video Demonstration

• 12:00-1:00 Expanding Awareness of Thoughts

• 1:00-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-2:30 Expanding Awareness of Thoughts

• 2:30-3:30 Practicum

• 3:30-3:45 Break

• 3:45-5:30 Practicum

• 5:30-6:00 Group discussion

 Day 3: Attachment and Externally-Oriented Processing

• 9:00-9:30 Check in

• 9:30-10:30 Attachment-Oriented Processing

• 10:30-10:45 Break

• 10:45-11:15 Expanding Awareness of Attachment

• 11:15-1:00 Video Demonstrations

• 1:00-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-2:30 Expanding Awareness of External Senses

• 2:30-3:30 Practicum

• 3:30-3:45 Break

• 3:45-5:30 Practicum

• 5:30-6:00 Group discussion

 Day 4: Sensation-Oriented Processing

• 9:00-9:30 Check in

• 9:30-10:30 Expanding Awareness of Sensation

• 10:30-10:45 Break

• 10:45-11:45 Expanding Awareness of Sensation

• 11:45-1:00 Video Demonstration

• 1:00-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-3:00 Practicum

• 3:00-3:15 Break

• 3:15-5:00 Practicum

• 5:00-5:30 Explaining the "Self-Processing Journal" to clients

• 5:30-6:00 Group discussion and closing

Payment Plan
To enroll in this training, you can pay a one-time fee of $647 or three payments of $220. If you want to make three payments, use the code PAYMENTPLAN when you checkout. This will reduce the price to $0, and we will contact you with an invoice. Please note no discount codes can be applied to this training if you use the payment plan.

Presenter Bio
Tyler Orr is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC/MHSP), EMDRIA-approved consultant, creator of Constructed Awareness, and President of the Constructed Awareness Institute. He offers an interactive, here-and-now approach to counseling, consulting, and teaching that integrates mindfulness, nonviolence, nonduality, and process-oriented approaches.

Cancellation Policy
Full refunds, minus a $100 handling charge, are given until 14 days before the start of training. No refunds are available after that time, and no partial credit for CEs is given. All cancelations must be requested in writing from the email used to register. If after thirty days you wish to transfer to a different training for any reason or need to make up a day at a different training, you may transfer for a $100 administration fee. Note: There will be no refunds, under any circumstances, for withdrawals after the beginning of the training program.

Disclosure Statement
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

Grievance Policy
All grievances must be submitted in writing on the Complaint/Grievance Policy Form. For questions or concerns, please contact info@constructedawarness.com.

Requesting Accommodations for Disabilities

Constructed Awareness Institute strives to offer reasonable accommodations for disabled participants. To discuss your needs, please contact Tyler Orr, LPC-MHSP at info@constructedawareness.com or 423-244-5918.

Contact Information

Constructed Awareness Institute
P. O. Box 14
Georgetown, TN 37336
423-244-5918
info@constructedawareness.com