PATHWAYS FALL
CONFERENCE 2024
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WHEN
Friday, October 11, 2024
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
WHERE
Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes
Pilot Room
2681 Rocky Ridge Ln, Birmingham, AL 35216
COST
$150 General Admission | Includes boxed lunch and CE certificate
$100 Student Rate | Includes boxed lunch | Seating is limited
CREDIT CERTIFICATION
6 CEs available
CONFERENCE TOPIC
From Rupture to Repair: How Nervous System Regulation Can Support Trauma Recovery
Trauma recovery is a complex dance between the nervous system states of fight, flight, and freeze. This is why a primarily top-down approach is not sufficient to support long-term wellness. If we want to provide holistic care to our clients, we must engage the body through bottom-up processing. Nervous system regulation is one such model, helping our clients return to a state of balance through the reduction of time spent in hyper- or hypoarousal. This is done through both parasympathetic training of the nervous system and by teaching clients how to allow the thwarted (and now stuck) protective responses of fight, flight, and freeze to process through. Both of these skills will be taught during this day-long training, as well as somatic practices that clinicians can use to help protect their own nervous systems as they work with such vicariously traumatizing material. This will support clinicians own long-term sustainability in the field as well as help them to provide their clients with direction in restoring a feeling of safety in their own bodies.
OBJECTIVES/LEARNING OUTCOMES
Explain the three physiological responses to trauma and how those states, when unresolved, can contribute to symptoms of PTSD.
Identify five signs of sympathetic and five signs of parasympathetic nervous system activity in clients.
Develop skills in articulating five phrases that support clients to track sensations for the purpose of greater interoception skills.
Demonstrate the ability to help organize sensory and sensory-motor experience using the three skills of orientation, grounding, and resourcing.
Apply theoretical knowledge of titration, pendulation, and self-regulation to the conceptualization of a client session.
Understand the concepts of how to establish, complete, and discharge protective survival responses that are stuck in a client’s body and nervous system.
Demonstrate the ability to apply that cycle to the conceptualization of working with kids from hard places (i.e. adoption, foster case, abuse, neglect, trauma, etc.).
Identify three differences between joining and merging with a client’s nervous system experience.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:00 am – 8:30 am | Registration
8:30 am – 10:00 am | Conference
10:00 am – 10:15 am | Break
10:15 am – 11:45 pm | Conference
11:45 pm – 12:45 pm | Lunch (provided)
12:45 pm – 2:15 pm | Conference
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm | Break
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Conference
FEATURING GUEST SPEAKER
Christine Baker, PhD
LPC-S, CSAT
Christine lives in Birmingham, AL with her husband, Austin, who is the Lead Pastor at Immanuel Church. She adopted her first daughter in December of 2018 and then had two more children over the next two years. The Bakers love reading (fun fact: in their home, they have over 1500 books), being outside – specifically going to the zoo, and everything Walt Disney World.
Pathways Professional Counseling is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM #6679) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. Please contact Pathways Professional Counseling at 205.945.0037 if you have questions related to CE Credits.
Organizers reserve the right to change speakers and/or topics due to unforeseen circumstances. Contact Kelly Arant for grievances, concerns, or special accommodations at 205.945.0037 or karant@pathwaysprofessional.org
Refunds will only be available up to three days prior to the conference. A refund will be issued, less a 25.00 fee for processing.