NICABM – Practical Strategies to Foster Post-Traumatic Growth

How to Help Clients Engage with the Pain of Trauma to Foster Growth

Steven Hayes, PhD      Ron Siegel, PsyD
Kelly McGonigal, PhD      Rick Hanson, PhD

• The critical connection to pain that lays the groundwork for change
• The one factor that blocks the pivotal transition from trauma to growth
• The 4-stage process that helps clients find meaning from their pain
• The “gut check” that reframes trauma and fosters growth

The Neurobiology of Post-Traumatic Growth

Stephen Porges, PhD      Pat Ogden, PhD
Joan Borysenko, PhD      Kelly McGonigal, PhD

• How the body’s neurobiological response to trauma can trap clients in self-blame
• The two vital functions that get powerfully inhibited during the body’s freeze response
• Why a client’s state of arousal can affect the integration of unprocessed trauma (and how to work with it)

How to Reframe the Context of Trauma to Shift Clients Out of Self-Blame

Rick Hanson, PhD      Kelly McGonigal, PhD      Ron Siegel, PsyD

• What can go wrong when you help a client attach meaning to their trauma
• The crucial difference between justice and grievance and how this nuance can ignite change
• One liberating switch in perspective that can give clients agency in their future

The Critical Role of Connection in Post-Traumatic Growth

Sue Johnson, EdD      Kelly McGonigal, PhD      Joan Borysenko, Ph

• How to help clients without secure relationships move into post-traumatic growth
• How this one element of trauma recovery can help determine whether the client relapses
• The one particular kind of relationship that can have a deeply profound effect on fear and rage
• The specific feeling state that’s one of the most powerful predictors of post-traumatic growth (and how to promote it)

How to Promote Growth After Early Life Trauma

Marsha Linehan, PhD      Ron Siegel, PsyD
Kelly McGonigal, PhD      Rick Hanson, PhD

• How to help clients repair supportive family relationships broken by trauma
• The adaptive coping model that releases vengeance and helps clients regain their inner freedom

How to Help Clients Make Sense of a World Altered by Trauma

Shelly Harrell, PhD      Kelly McGonigal, PhD      Ron Siegel, PsyD

• One thing you should avoid in treatment so you don’t negatively impact a client’s sense of self
• How to help clients stop clinging to the self-states that are blocking growth (and a simple exercise that will help)

How Your Choice of Language Can Transform an Intervention (And Foster Growth)

Scott Miller, PhD      Kelly McGonigal, PhD
Ron Siegel, PsyD      Joan Borysenko, PhD

• The powerful non-reaction that can radically change the way a client sees themselves
• One game-changing mental checkpoint to use when responding to a client’s story
• Two words that can liberate a client from shame and vulnerability

One Crucial Way the Practitioner Can Ignite Accelerated Growth

Michael Yapko, PhD      Ron Siegel, PsyD

• How to help clients stop using their past trauma to make future decisions
• How to work with the rumination that anchors clients to the past
• The specific skill set that can derail self-perpetuating patterns of trauma

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