Constructed Awareness Level 3: Advanced Trauma Processing in Practice - August and November- Virtual
Location
This training takes place completely online using Zoom.
Dates and Time
Session 1: August 22 & 23
Session 2: November 7 & 8
Time: 9:00-6:00 EST
Location
This training takes place completely online using Zoom.
Dates and Time
Session 1: August 22 & 23
Session 2: November 7 & 8
Time: 9:00-6:00 EST
Location
This training takes place completely online using Zoom.
Dates and Time
Session 1: August 22 & 23
Session 2: November 7 & 8
Time: 9:00-6:00 EST
Course Description
The Constructed Awareness Level 3: Advanced Trauma Processing in Practice training is a comprehensive, four-day workshop designed to equip mental health professionals with advanced trauma therapy techniques using the Constructed Awareness (CA) model. This advanced training builds upon knowledge from Levels One and Two, guiding therapists on integrating CA resources and interventions into a cohesive and fluid style of therapy where trauma processing arises naturally within therapy sessions.
This course is ideal for experienced mental health professionals who want to deepen their skills in trauma therapy, apply CA principles in complex cases, and master approaches for integrating trauma processing into their practice. Through a mix of lectures, live and video demonstrations, and hands-on practicum sessions, participants refine their therapeutic approach, fully integrating CA into their work for a comprehensive, client-centered trauma therapy model.
Prerequisite: Completion of Constructed Awareness Levels One and Two is required to attend this training.
In this training, you will learn:
·Responsive Trauma Processing: Engage in methods that support the natural emergence of trauma responses during therapy, with active attunement to clients' trauma responses while maintaining flexibility and presence.
Advanced Trauma Processing: Deepen your understanding of single-event trauma, developmental trauma, and complex trauma, and learn to differentiate between them in clinical practice.
Orientation and Trauma: Discover how client orientation—mental, sensation, and external—affects trauma processing, and understand how clients with fixed or fragmented orientations may respond in therapy.
Nervous System Dynamics: Gain insights into integrating polyvagal theory to work with sympathetic and parasympathetic responses and trauma-related reactions, including fight, flight, freeze, and dissociation.
Practical Application: Through demonstrations and practicum sessions, participants apply CA theory, resources, and trauma processing techniques to real-world cases, integrating them into a cohesive therapeutic approach.
Training Schedule
Day 1
9:00-9:30 Group Discussion
9:30-10:30 Understanding CA as a Therapeutic Model for Treating Trauma
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Responsive Trauma Processing
11:15-11:45 Single-Event, Developmental, and Complex Trauma
11:45-1:00 Demo Video
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Group Discussion
2:30-3:30 Practicum
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:45 Practicum
5:45-6:00 Group Discussion
Day 2
9:00-9:30 Group Discussion
9:30-10:00 Trauma and the Fight Response
10:00-10:30 Trauma and the Flight Response
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Trauma and the Freeze Response
11:15-11:45 Trauma and Dissociation
11:45-1:00 Demo Video
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Group Discussion
2:30-3:30 Practicum
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:45 Practicum
5:45-6:00 Group Discussion
Day 3
9:00-9:30 Group Discussion
9:30-10:00 CA Orientation Theory and Trauma
10:00-10:30 Trauma and Mental Orientation
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Trauma and External Orientation
11:15-11:45 Trauma and Sensation Orientation
11:45-1:00 Demo Video
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Group Discussion
2:30-3:30 Practicum
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:45 Practicum
5:45-6:00 Group Discussion
Day 4
9:00-9:30 Group Discussion
9:30-10:30 Trauma and Fixed Orientation
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Trauma and Fragmented Orientation
11:45-1:00 Demo Video
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-2:30 Group Discussion
2:30-3:30 Practicum
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:45 Practicum
5:45-6:00 Group Discussion
Learning Objectives
At the completion of the program, participants will be able to:
Describe the three building blocks of the client’s conscious experience—thought, sensation, and external senses.
List the six orientation styles of the CA typology.
Explain a single-event trauma.
Describe developmental trauma.
Explain complex trauma.
Demonstrate two ways to use objects in the external environment to assist in regulating the client during processing.
Explain tuning to process trauma in session.
Identify two ways to initiate spontaneous trauma processing during sessions.
Recite two ways mentally-oriented clients may respond during processing.
Assess two ways sensation-oriented clients may respond during processing.
Assess two ways externally-oriented clients may respond during processing.
Assess two ways clients with fixed orientations may respond to trauma processing.
Analyze two ways clients with fragmented orientations may respond during trauma processing.
Describe the principles of polyvagal theory and its application in understanding client responses during trauma processing.
Compare sympathetic and parasympathetic responses during trauma processing.
Recite two ways to tell if clients are transitioning from sympathetic to parasympathetic responses during trauma processing.
Identify two signs of a client exhibiting a fight response during trauma processing.
Identify two behaviors that indicate a flight response in clients during trauma processing.
List two signs of a freeze response during trauma processing.
Describe two signs of dissociation during trauma processing.
Identify two methods to help clients reorient after dissociation during trauma processing.
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, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC/MHSP), is the creator of Constructed Awareness and President of the Constructed Awareness Institute. Tyler integrates mindfulness, nonviolence, nonduality, and process-oriented approaches in his counseling, consulting, and teaching, offering mental health professionals a unique approach to advanced trauma processing.
Continuing Education 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.
Target Audience
This training is considered an advanced-level event. Constructed Awareness Levels One and Two are prerequisites. Licensed mental health therapists (e.g., psychologists, social workers, MFTs, or counselors) and graduate students in practicum are eligible to attend. For eligibility questions, contact info@constructedawareness.com.
Cancellation Policy
Full refunds (minus a $100 handling fee) are available up to 14 days before the event. No refunds are available after that time. Cancellation requests must be submitted in writing. Participants can transfer to a different training for a $100 administration fee, provided the request is made 30 days in advance.
Disclosure Statement
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
Grievance Policy
Grievances should be submitted in writing. For questions or concerns, please contact info@constructedawareness.com.
Accommodations for Disabilities
Constructed Awareness Institute strives to provide reasonable accommodations for disabled participants. To discuss specific needs, please contact Tyler Orr, LPC-MHSP at info@constructedawareness.com.