Background: Building on the keynote premise that neuroscience biases change via the right (affective, unconscious, and body-based) side of the brain, we’ll examine ways that we, regardless of our clinical orientations, can add more implicit and “bottom-up” approaches to the way we work. You’ll leave with tools you can immediately apply.
A. Review of Neurobiology of affect regulation, “limbic dominance” Implicit relational schema and non-decisional changes from keynote.
B. Tools for working “bottom-up”
a. Reflecting more affective language.
b. Encouraging client to name their own affective and somatic experience
c. Taking clients into their bodies
d. Teaching dual awareness skills etc.
Building on the keynote premise that neuroscience research biases change via the right (affective, unconscious, body-based) side of the brain, we’ll examine ways that we, regardless of our clinical orientations, can add more implicit and “bottom-up” approaches to the way we work. You’ll leave with tools you can immediately apply.
Francine Lapides has been a licensed MFT since 1974, was a supervising therapist through the 1970’s, and been in private practice in San Jose and Santa Cruz, CA since 1980. She trained extensively with Daniel Siegel, is a 10-year member of Allan Schore's Berkeley study-group, and has been influenced by relational principles developed at The Stone Center, Wellesley College. She's a founding member of the Santa Cruz Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, teaches at workshops and conferences across the US, and a repeat presenter at the Cape Cod Institute and NY City Affect Regulation Conference. For more, contact Francine at FrancineLapides@aol.com
