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TAKING THE TRAUMA OUT OF TRAUMATIC MEMORIES: Memory, Resilience and Consciousness
For UCSF healthcare personnel and staff.
In addition to their own personal painful life experiences, healthcare personnel can experience vicarious and secondary trauma from serving and bearing witness to those suffering physically, emotionally and spiritually, 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.
The first hour will be demonstrations of and opportunities to directly experience an adaptation of the Flash Technique, which reduces or eliminates the impact of previously traumatic and disturbing memories, and has been taught internationally in the past four years by Phillip Manfield, PhD and Lewis Engel, PhD to over 10,000 EMDR trauma therapists.
The optional second hour will be a discussion exploring consciousness from points of view of trauma, memory reconsolidation and other neuroscience research, Buddhist and psychedelic awareness.
No personal sharing of trauma memories will be required.
And NO previous knowledge of EMDR or other trauma-informed therapies will be required.
(Although everyone will have the opportunity to learn about and experience a modification of the Flash Technique, this participation alone will not qualify anyone without a mental health background to utilize this approach with clients or patients. For psychotherapists to get further training, a 6-hour introductory course by Manfield and Engel is highly recommended, offered to EMDR or other trauma-informed mental health therapists. These are given every couple of months, and can be found at flashtechnique.com)
Past participants in this webinar experienced new understandings about conscious awareness, memory and how to use this technique to diminish the disturbance of their own memories. It also was valued as providing ways to help others suffering from trauma by referring to qualified mental health specialists trained in the Flash Technique.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the program, participants will be better able to
* Describe the perceptual error of a disturbing memory
* Demonstrate a short visualization that will diminish sensory, emotional and cognitive disturbances of a difficult memory
Presenter:
David Bullard, PhD is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice where he is president-elect of the San Francisco chapter of the California Psychological Association. He is UCSF clinical professor in the departments of medicine at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. He also has served as a mentor in the center for psychedelic therapies and research at the California Institute of Integral Studies. David's trauma therapy background includes advanced EMDR training, he is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and has been teaching an adaptation of the Flash Technique for the past four years, including live onsite at TibetHouse.US in New York City on February 29, 2020. David has no financial ties to Dr. Manfield or to the official Flash Technique training webinars.
Three recent peer-reviewed articles on Flash Technique are:
Manfield, Engel, Greenwald & Bullard (May, 2021). Flash Technique in a scalable low-intensity group intervention for COVID-19-related stress in healthcare providers. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research Vol 15 Issue 2, DOI: 10.1891/EMDR-D-21-00048
Cox, D., Fellows, J. L., & Goulding, J. M. (2022). Patient perspective on a novel psychological therapy approach (flash technique) for neurofibromatosis. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology. https://doi.org/10.1111/ced.15064
Yaar, A. B., Emre Konuk, Kavakç, Ö., Uygun, E., Gündomu, ., Taygar Afra, S., & Uluda, E. (2022). A Randomized-Controlled Trial of EMDR Flash Technique on Traumatic Symptoms, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Life of Quality With Individuals Who Have Experienced a Traffic Accident. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.845481
10 peer-reviewed articles on the Flash Technique will be provided to workshop participants.
"I have had the pleasure of knowing David for several years and admire his ability to bring kindness and humor into his interaction with others with such ease. He is most known for his work with trauma and relationships, where, in addition to his professional expertise as a clinical psychologist, he also brings important Buddhist insights as part of his therapeutic approach. I recommend him as a caring and entertaining teacher."
- Thupten Jinpa, PhD, principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama since 1985, founder and chairman of the Compassion Institute and author of A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives (2015).
"I have attended David's previous presentations about the newest and absolutely the most interesting and powerful direction of the treatment of trauma. It will change how you view trauma treatment and possibilities for healing. Highly recommended."
- Nancy Haugen, PhD, associate clinical professor, department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Chairperson for disaster mental health for Marin County Psychological Association.
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Location3D's Online Zoom Room
Timezone: America/Los_Angeles Online Access Information Friday, August 12, 2022; 4:15pm to 6:15pm
Online Zoom webinar link provided the evenng before and morning of the event to those registered
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