Courses,
Workshops & Conferences
Enactive Trauma Therapy (Online)
Monthly interactive webinars, clinical training and Q&A Sessions.
For whom: clinicians
Language: English and German
Dates: dates and times vary to accommodate
to participants dialling in from different time zones
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Basic course Enactive Trauma Therapy (Online)
For whom: clinicians
Language: English
Duration: 56 teach hours
Teaching days: 4x Fridays and Saturdays
Teaching methods: interactive webinars, training, role-play and Q&A Sessions
What to expect?
Enactive trauma therapy is a method for treating traumatised people. The practice is based on the theory of trauma-related structural dissociation and the enactive approach to mind and life. The basic idea is that to live takes power to act, that is, power to fulfil our innate longings. Like all living beings, we primarily long and strive to preserve our existence and to evolve. When we succeed, we feel joy. The more we lack the power to meet harmful worldly powers, the more we experience sorrow. Technically, the idea is that we like all forms of life are inherently embodied and environmentally embedded or ecological systems. We are not situated in a world. We are rather part of our world. We are not primarily mind or matter (e.g., brain), but wholes that include what we experience and know as mind and matter. To meet destructive worldly powers beyond our power to act (e.g., emotional neglect and rejection, abuse), we may divide ourselves in two or more subsystems as a substitute for integrative strivings we cannot reach. Each of these dissociative subsystems is a partly conscious agent longing and striving to satisfy some of our basic needs. A basic division is between the effort to live daily life—while keeping traumatic affects and memories at bay—and the longing and striving to survive what harms us. Enactive trauma therapy involves an intense cooperation of an injured person (‘patient’) and a coach (‘therapist’). This co-action involves the mutual longing and striving of the two to increase the patient’s power to act. It utilises the patient’s potential to grow and the therapist’s power to support this progression. In this course, we will learn to increase our power to assist our injured fellows. The training fosters active participation: we learn most by doing.
This course starts once enough people have shown an interest in it. Show your interest by pre-registering yourself for it. You can pre-register yourself by clicking on the link below. Pre-registration does not oblige you to enrol yourself into the course
Online Basic Course & Online Advanced Modules
Language: German
On the "German Agenda” you will find a full description of the basic course and advanced course modules.
DATES
October 2024
March 2025
LOCATION
Online
Seminar Enactive Trauma Therapy
Language: German
Seminar: Enactive trauma therapy
Language: German
Seminar description in German: Dieses Seminar soll Teilnehmenden helfen, sich in der enaktiven Traumatherapie einbringen zu können. Die enaktive Betrachtung versucht problematische Dualismen, so wie Ich-Welt, Ich-Du, und Körper-Geist, zu überwinden. So stellt sie vor, dass Ich und Umwelt immer zusammen da sind, gegenseitig abhängig sind, und einander hervorbringen. Körper und Geist sind als intrinsisch verbundene Fassungen gedacht, statt als Faktoren, die einander verursachen. Trauma ist ein makabrer Tanz einer verletzten, verkörperten Person und einer verletzenden Welt.
Traumatherapie ist eine verkörperte Begegnung von Patient:innen und Therapeut:innen. Ziel der Therapie ist die Handlungfähigkeit der Patient:innen zu erhöhen, die Verletzung zu heilen. Ziel des Seminars ist die Handlungfähigkeit der Therapeut:innen zu erhöhen.
For questions, please address these to: Peter Thomas, Praxis - Institut für systemische Beratung Süd
DATE
November 25-26, 2024
LOCATION
Hanau, Germany
Masterclass 2024
For whom: Therapists who have completed the basic course and advanced course (or received a substantial amount of private supervisions) Enactive Trauma Therapy with Ellert Nijenhuis.
Language: German
Click on “register now” to learn more about this 3-days’ workshop.
Do you have questions? Please contact Kirande Nijenhuis.
DATE
28-30 November, 2024
LOCATION
Eibelstadt (near Würzburg), Germany
Conference on the Enactive approach to
Trauma & Dissociation 2025
A three day conference with the theme enactive (psycho)therapy, cPTSD, Dissociative Disorders is being organised. Click on “Get notified” to be stay informed about Nijenhuis’ conference.
For whom: clinicians
Language: English and German
Date and Location: to be determined
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Belgium