Workshop Six - Pat Ogden and Tony Buckley - The Sequelae of Embodied Trauma: Perspectives from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Trauma survivors often experience repetitive states of bodily dysregulation that can disrupt their lives and wreak havoc on their relationships.
Utilising the movies as metaphor this presentation will illustrate the sequence of activation/arousal through mind and body from first detection of threat stimulus right through to completed adaptive actions based on optimal survival at the time of trauma.
Tracking the sequence of activation can lead to new empowering capacities towards resolve the debilitating effects of trauma.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy achieves this by optimising three interventions to engage instinctive networks in metabolising fixated traumatic pattern: orienting, reinstating active defence and sensorimotor sequencing.
Practitioners can incorporate these interventions into their trauma skills repertoire.
These skills draw on directed mindfulness to support the body’s innate wisdom enabling the system to reactivate in order to harness survival energy towards resolving the residue of trauma.
Tony Buckley will present elements of this process through metaphor for trauma practitioners.
Pat Ogden will present video excerpt and discussion of method in action to illustrate key points.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Develop understanding of trauma related patterns and how to release them.
2. Differentiate various somatic indicators of traumatic activation.