Understanding Stress and Trauma

The Bay Area Radical Mental Health Collective Present:
A workshop on Complex Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
with author Pete Walker.

• Sunday July 8th
• Dinner at 6pm
• Workshop starts promptly at 7pm and ends at 10pm (please be on time)
• Location: The Long Haul
  • 3124 Shattuck Ave.
  • Berkeley Ca.
  • (2 blocks from Ashby BART, Across from La Peña Cultural Center)

• Any ?’s – Please call 510-594-2450 ask for Jamie

You will learn about Stress, Trauma, and Responses to Trauma and how to
understand and manage these experiences.

Pete’s Workshop Description:
FLASHBACK MANAGEMENT IN THE TREATMENT OF COMPLX PTSD

People extensively abused or neglected in childhood frequently suffer from
Complex PTSD and its recurring, life-spoiling emotional flashbacks.
Emotional flashbacks are intensely disturbing regressions to the
overwhelming feeling-states of childhood abandonment – typically a
bewildering mélange of fear, shame, helplessness, hopelessness and
depression.

This workshop presents an eclectic blend of CBT, Psychodynamic, Somatic,
and Relational approaches to obviate peoples’ unnecessary and
pain-exacerbating reactions to flashbacks. When flashbacks are treated on
cognitive, emotional, somatic and behavioral levels, their frequency,
intensity and duration is greatly reduced. A trauma typology is also
presented to differentially diagnose four key instinctual defensive
structures: Fight [narcissistic], Flight [obsessive-compulsive], Freeze
[dissociative], and Fawn [codependent]. The developmental arrest of
self-nurturing and self-protective functions characteristic of complex
PTSD is also addressed.

I hope you can make it!! Please Fwd to Your friends and lists.