Module 1
 

Includes:

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• NARM Organizing Principles

• NARM Theoretical Orientation

• Differentiating Interventions for working with Shock vs. Developmental Trauma

• Working Top-Down and Bottom-Up

• Tracking Connection & Disconnection

• Developmental Process: Attachment & Separation-Individuation

• Reframing Attachment and Attachment Loss

• The Distortion of the Life Force Model

• Distress and Healing Cycles

• 5 Adaptive Survival Styles

• Connection Survival Style

• Attunement Survival Style

• NARM 4 Pillars: Clinical Model

• NARM Pillar 1: Establishing a Therapeutic “Contract”

• NARM Pillar 2: Asking Exploratory Questions

• Deconstruction of Experience (in the function of Disidentification)

• "Drilling Down": A Process of Challenging Assumptions & Clarifying Experience

 

 

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Module 2
 

Includes:

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• The NARM Relational Model

• Working Hypothesis

• Identifying Core Dilemma: Core Themes vs Survival Strategies (Behaviors, symptoms, etc.)

• Trust Survival Style

• Autonomy Survival Style

• Love-Sexuality Survival Style

• NARM Pillar 3: Supporting Agency (Agency as the Foundation for the Development of Adult Self)

• NARM Pillar 4: Reflecting Positive Shifts

• NARM Languaging

 

 

 

Module 3
 

Includes:

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• NARM Model for Working with Affect

• Primary vs Default Emotions

• Emotional Completion

• The Psychobiological Process of Shame ("Shame as a Verb not a Noun"; "Shame as a Process not a State")

• Shame, Guilt & Self-Hatred

• Working with Anger & Aggression

• Countertransference in NARM

• Unmanaged Empathy and Therapist Efforting

• Narcissism and Objectification of Self

• Narcissistic vs Sadistic Abuse

• NARM Personality Spectrum

 

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Module 4
 

Includes:

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• Deepening Study into the Connection Survival Style Issues, Symptoms and Related Disorders

• The Interplay of the Survival Styles: Primary and Secondary Patterns

• Revisiting the Dynamics of Attachment, Separation-Individuation, Attachment Loss and the Core Dilemma

• Relationships, Couples, Intimacy and Sexuality

• Survival Styles & the Polyvagal Theory

• NARM & the Body

• Working with Identity

• Transgenerational Trauma

• Disidentification Process

• "Cutting the Cord": Freedom from Identity

• Post-Traumatic Growth

• Resiliency: Supporting the Capacity to Tolerate Increasing Complexity

• Integrating NARM Effectively Into Our Clinical Practice