NEW 6 month Constellations & Trauma Specialty Training

Healing Traumatized Hearts

In looking at trauma, we are looking at loss of connection, connection to ourselves, to our family soul, to our surroundings and to embodied presence.

Six months commitment beginning Jan 7 - 8, 2012

January 7-8
February 4-5
March 3-4
April 14-15
May 26-27
June 23-24

Training includes:

- Somatic Experiencing Trauma Work
- Developmental Trauma, Relational Trauma & Incidental Trauma
- Relational Somatic Psychology: Self-Regulation & Co-Regulation
- Resourcing, Titrating, Resiliency, Biological Completion, Attunement
- Avoid Retraumatization, Trauma structural constellations
- Support the Creation of new Healthy Neural Pathways

Location: Family Therapy Institute: 111 E. Arrellaga St, Santa Barbara, 93101
Learning Program Participant Fee: $400 per weekend. $2,300 paid in full by Dec 1.
Cancellation fee: $100.00. No refunds after first weekend.
Send Payment to: JoAnna Chartrand, 333 Old Mill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA, 93110.
Times: for Learning Program Participant: Sat. 9:30-5 & Sun. 9:30 to 4pm

Click here for the Trauma Training flyer in PDF format

Disclaimer: We reserve the right to monitor who is appropriate for the kind of learning that we offer and we reserve the right to decline participation to any applicant at any point during the learning/training programs.

Body, Trauma & Relational Constellations. Healing Traumatized Hearts

All traumatic experiences increase the activation level in our nervous system. This training will focus on the importance of tracking & regulating the activation level in clients as they experience their constellations. When clients are overactivated, their brain & bodies will not be able to fully process the constellation. When we work with the autonomic nervous system, this supports more integration of the new material revealed & more possibility to actually create new neural pathways & patterns of behavior for longer lasting benefits.

In Relational Constellations we focus on developmental trauma & themes that affect our way of connecting, loving & belonging. These early traumatic relational ruptures affect the way we are in relationship. This approach supports co-regulation & attunement between facilitator & client. This in itself heals attachment disruptions. Traumatic experiences in the nervous system and in our consciousness are passed on through the generations (epigenetics) and they need to be processed.

We want to avoid retraumatization & find ways to help love flow freely again. We can best do this by avoiding flooding in clients & representatives. We will address concepts such as: Titration, Resourcing, Pendulation, Window of Tolerance, Biological & Emotional Completion.

We want to invite you to hold the intention to help metabolize trauma when facilitating constellations. In general our Relational Constellation work focuses a lot on the relational field & addresses themes like: Intimacy, bonding, interrupted reaching out movement, attachment issues, heart/genital split, basic trust, false autonomy, true autonomy, etc.

Much of these presentations will be influenced by the newer somatic psychologies of working with trauma, such as Somatic Experiencing by Peter Levine. We will do power point presentations of the material, have time for questions & answers in the learning program segments.

Looking at trauma we are looking at loss of connection, connection to ourselves, to our family soul, to our surroundings and to embodied presence.

BIOs

Dyrian Benz-Chartrand, Psy.D.:

is co-director & co-trainer of the Relational Constellation Institute of California. (RCIOC) in Santa Barbara. The Relational Constellation Institute has been giving trainings in Constellation work for over 10 years. Dyrian originally trained with first & second generation European Constellation Facilitators, along with Bert Hellinger. The RCIOC Learning Program, trains participants in the main concepts of Constellation work, and flavors it with a relational accent. We focus a lot on the relational field & address themes like: Intimacy, bonding, interrupted reaching out movement, attachment issues, false autonomy, true autonomy, etc.. As a Somatic Psychology Educator, he also brings in the focus on the body & includes it in constellation work.

Dyrian has been a committed student of the Diamond Heart approach of A. H. Almaas since 1992, and includes a lot of psycho-spiritual practices in the learning program, eg. cultivating presence, connecting to the knowing field & to the essential self.

Dyrian was the director of External and Professional Specialty PhD Programs at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. In 2005 he developed the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute Embodied Psychotherapy Program: A certificate program in Relational Somatic Psychology given at the Esalen Institute. This successful Esalen program, presents the most current advances in the practice of Somatic psychology, including such topics as trauma, neuroscience, mindfulness, body and mind integration, the embodiment of being, and so on. This program is now run by the Embodied Psychology Association. Dyrian & JoAnna co-teach in this program & partake in all 5 day segments 6 times a year. For more info: www.embodiedpsychology.com

He is adjunct faculty at Antioch University and a co-founder and previous senior trainer of the Hakomi Institute. He is also founder and director of GroupField, a systems based method for groups and teams. For more info: www.groupfield.com

He is the author of ‘Groupfield”, co-author of “To the Core of Your experience” & at present writing a book called "Being In The Body". He lives in Santa Barbara, CA & offers the trainings there.

JoAnna Chartrand-Benz:

has been a European trained Somatic Psychology Educator since 1980 & has been in private practice for over 30 years. She is co-director & co-trainer of the Relational Constellation Institute of California. (RCIOC). JoAnna originally trained with first & second generation European Constellation Facilitators, along with Bert Hellinger. The Relational Constellation Institute has been giving trainings in Constellation work for over 10 years in Santa Barbara, CA. The RCIOC Learning Program, trains participants in the main concepts of Constellation work, and flavors it with a relational accent. We focus a lot on the relational field & address themes like: Intimacy, interrupted reaching out movement, attachment issues, heart/genital split, male/female dichotomies, basic trust, false autonomy, true autonomy, etc. She also brings in the focus on the body - how trauma lodges in the body & needs to be addressed & included in constellation work. Shamanic & native American practices that support connecting with ancestors are included in this training.
For more info go to: www.relationalconstellations.com

JoAnna has been a student of the Diamond Heart Approach, the psycho-spiritual School of A. H. Almaas, that combines western depth psychology with eastern traditions, since 1992. She includes a lot of psycho-spiritual practices in the Relational Constellation Learning Program, eg. cultivating presence, deepening connection to the knowing field & to the essential self etc.

She is an associate of the Embodied Psychology Association, a co-facilitator and the coordinator of the Esalen Embodied Psychotherapy Certificate Program - a Certificate Program in Relational Somatic Psychology given at the Esalen Institute. For more info: www.embodiedpsychology.com Her specialty is in Somatically-Based, Transpersonal and Relational Psychology along with Trauma. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.

JoAnna is the co-director of the Core Dynamics Relational Somatic Psychology Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. Her training has been with a focus on Relational Body-Oriented Psychology , Psychodynamics, Attachment Theory, AEDP, Gestalt, Internal Family Systems, BioSynthesis, Hakomi, Transpersonal Psychology, Pre & Peri Natal Issues, EMDR. She lives in Santa Barbara, CA & offers the trainings there.