(NEW) Online Training – Working with the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Trauma Informed Stabilization Training (TIST)

Alienation from self in the context of abusive parenting is a survival strategy that maintains children’s attachment to caregivers by disowning themselves as “bad” or “unlovable.”   This deeply painful failure of self-acceptance is adaptive at the time but results in lifelong shame and self-loathing, difficulty self-soothing, and complications in relationships with others.  Without internal compassion and a sense of worth, it is difficult to take in the compassion and acceptance of others. To overcome this alienation from self, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment or TIST focuses on cultivating mindful awareness of clients’ disowned selves and disowned experience. As they learn to relate to overwhelming emotions and impulsive behavior as evidence of trauma-related, structurally dissociated younger selves, most clients begin to feel an internal sense of warmth and gratitude that changes their internal experience.  In this workshop, using strategies inspired by Structural Dissociation theory, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems, we will explore the therapeutic power of fostering internal secure attachment to clients’ most deeply disowned selves.