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A new guided meditation for traumatic and disturbing memories: Blink-Flash
Serving and bearing witness to those suffering physically, emotionally and spiritually, healthcare personnel can be left with vicarious and secondary trauma from distressing memories. This has been described as "Critical Incident Stress Syndrome." We will address these issues with some exciting new developments in the field of trauma therapy, modified into an easy, rapid visualization exercise: Blink-Flash Meditation®.
Since 2017, nearly 5,000 EMDR-trained psychotherapists from over 30 countries have attended a six hour workshop or webinar to learn of a recent advance in trauma treatment: the Flash Technique®, developed since mid-2016 by senior EMDR trainer Phil Manfield, Ph.D. with Lewis Engel, Ph.D.
In contrast to other psychological treatments (such as EMDR, Prolonged Exposure Therapy; Critical Incident Stress Debriefing; Trauma Focused-CBT; Somatic Experiencing®, Emotional Freedom Technique®, etc.) the Flash Technique® and Blink-Flash Meditation® INVOLVE NO CONSCIOUS EXPOSURE to traumatic or disturbing memories. This paradigm shift reduces the risk of re-traumatization to nearly zero.
Blink-Flash Meditation® has been developed as a self-administered visualization technique to help psychotherapists and other health care personnel when they have disturbing memories, particularly ones after exposure to significant medical, emotional and spiritual suffering in patients and their loved ones. A short and simple visualization, Blink-Flash Meditation® can rapidly reduce both the impact of disturbing memories in people we work with and in our own vicarious trauma, promoting resilience.
This approach has been demonstrated to psychologists, social workers, physicians and nurses in oncology, palliative care, hospice and emergency room staff at UCSF and Kaiser San Rafael. We have also held meetings demonstrating the Flash Technique® for researchers and clinicians from the VAMCSF, UCSF, ZSFGH Trauma Center, and to senior teachers from the SF Zen Center.
In this two-hour format, we will describe clinical case examples with audio and video recordings, and discuss theoretical issues in consciousness and relevant research from memory reconsolidation and subliminal perception.
Most importantly, participants will have an opportunity to DIRECTLY EXPERIENCE Blink-Flash Meditation® and subjectively feel changes in their own disturbing memories (of any kind. Content of such memories will not need to be discussed by participants).
("Money-back guarantee" for any participant who does not find this seminar engaging, powerfully useful in their clinical practice and personal life, and intriguing for what it can demonstrate about consciousness and memory.)
Presenter: David Bullard, Ph.D.,
David has had a private practice of individual psychotherapy and couples therapy in San Francisco since 1976. He is a clinical professor in departments of medicine and psychiatry and a member of the professional advisory group of Spiritual Care Services at the University of California, San Francisco, and is a consultant for the Symptom Management Service (outpatient palliative care) at UCSFs Helen Diller Family Cancer Center. He is also a mentor in the CIIS Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research. His trauma therapy is informed by advanced training in EMDR, Somatic Experiencing®, and the Flash Technique®.
David's latest professional publication is the chapter "Sexual Problems" (co-authored with Christine Derzko, M.D.) in Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice, 5th edition (in press; McGraw-Hill). He has previously published psychotherapy.net interviews with William (Bill) Richards, Ph.D.; Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D. (English translator and editor for H.H. the Dalai Lama); Allan Schore, Ph.D.; Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.; Mark Epstein, M.D.; Ida Gorbis, Ph.D.; George Silberschatz, Ph.D.; and Lonnie Barbach, Ph.D.; and also has traveled with, interviewed and presented with Tibetan Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, Ph.D.
David has consulted with Apple Computer employees' Apple Buddhist Club for presentations by Dr. Robert Thurman; Angie Boissevain, Søtø Zen roshi of the Floating Zendo in San Jose; and Linda Ruth Cutts, Central Abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center. In September 2019, David chaired a meeting of UCSF, CIIS and other international trauma researchers and clinicians in a discussion of new approaches to understanding and treating trauma and ptsd.
For more information, please contact: david@drbullard.com
ALL ATTENDEES MUST REGISTER:
(Discount of $10 for members of San Francisco Psychological Association. Contact david@drbullard.com for discount code for registration).
2 Continuing Education Credits are available for attending this program at extra fee of $25.
CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
LCSWs, MFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association..
SCRC is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California.
For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact David Bullard, Ph.D. at david.bullard@ucsf.edu.
For questions about CE, visit www.spiritualcompetency.com or contact David Lukoff, PhD at CE@spiritualcompetency.com
Learning Objectives: At the end of the program, participants will be better able to
- Describe two main differences between exposure-based and non-exposure based treatments for trauma and ptsd
- Use blink-flash meditation with clients in a clinical setting
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LocationPacific Heights, San Francisco Address Provided with Registration
to be sent after registration
San Francisco , CA 94115
United States
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