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Fierce Love: Undoing Traumatic Meaning to Reclaim the Core Self
Monday, July 18, 2022, 8:00 AM to Friday, July 22, 2022, 5:00 PM EDT
Category: CE Events: Adult Individuals

We are born with the innate capacity for self-love. But when the world we meet is traumatizing, we respond by rejecting and condemning ourselves, creating a Wounded Self built on erroneous beliefs about the worth of the self and its place in the world. Fierce Love, which grew out of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and other experiential psychotherapies, is a relationally bold, new clinical model devoted to undoing the structure of the Wounded Self so that the Core Self can be reclaimed. The Fierce Love therapist targets the entrenched defenses and toxic shame states created by distorted mirroring and other traumatic experience, standing in on behalf of the patient’s Core Self to guide the patient back to their birthright of love.The model has its roots in attachment theory, affective neuroscience, memory reconsolidation research, and mother-infant intersubjectivity research. Fierce Love is also inspired by other clinical models, including Somatic Experiencing, Eriksonian Hypnosis, and Nancy Napier’s parts work. In this workshop, we will explore how to enhance and accelerate healing through specific interventions that target the deepest intrapsychic wounds. Through the use of lecture, videotapes of actual therapy sessions and live demos we will explore in-depth how to reclaim the Core Self, even with the toughest and most fragile of patients. Specifically, you will learn how to:embody the active Fierce Love therapeutic stance that includes championing the integrity of the patient’s Core Self; leading, redirecting, and staying on target; and holding the hope, no matter what.transform core erroneous beliefs and internal laws through uncoupling, Core Self mirroring, updating the nervous system and parts work.micro-track and micro-attune, the fuel that drives the therapeutic work.shore up and entrain the Present-Day Self to do the work of intrapsychic healing through parts work. install and encode corrective emotional experiences to enhance memory and meaning reconsolidation. This workshop is well suited for clinicians of all levels, including those who are already practicing other experiential models, such as AEDP, Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems.

Hosted by MAK Continuing Education, LLC, Cape Cod Institute in Eastham, MA for 15 CEs. For more info, visit the event webpage.