Workshop Description
Beginning Lifespan Integration Workshops
This workshop will provide participants with the skills they need to begin using the basic Lifespan Integration protocol with their clients. After completing this workshop, therapists will be able to use LI to help their clients with attachment issues, anxiety disorders, difficulties with affect regulation, with self esteem, and with most other current issues which are related to a history of abuse or neglect in childhood. The beginning Lifespan Integration training briefly reviews the neuroscience of integration, and describes how trauma affects the encoding of explicit memory. During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to practice using and experiencing Lifespan Integration therapy under supervision.
Advanced Lifespan Integration Workshops
Advanced Lifespan Integration workshops are for therapists who have completed the Beginning LI workshop. It is recommended (but not required) that therapists have some experience using Lifespan Integration therapy with their clients before attending the advanced LI training.
The Advanced Lifespan Integration workshop is designed to provide participants with the skills they need to begin using variations of the Lifespan Integration protocol to treat more complicated disorders including depression, PTSD, attachment disorders, dissociative identity disorder, bulimia, and anorexia. This workshop will cover the mechanisms involved in neural integration and attachment. Clinicians will learn how to optimize neural plasticity to maximize change at the cellular level (the level of neurons). Participants will be shown how Lifespan Integration therapy integrates the split off emotional and somatic material of clients who have histories of extreme trauma and neglect. Clinicians will also learn how the Lifespan Integration attachment repair process is used to change the attachment style of clients with various attachment disorders.
After completing this workshop, therapists will be able to use Lifespan Integration therapy to help clients with attachment disorders, anxiety disorders, and depression. Therapists will also learn how to heal other more complex psychological disorders which have at their root incomplete neural integration. Workshop participants will be shown how the LI birth to present protocol can be used to improve a client’s ability to regulate affect.
Mental health clinicians who have had experience working with DID clients and with clients who were abused or neglected in childhood will find that LI offers them a gentle and non-intrusive way of healing these individuals without re-traumatizing them. Case examples will be discussed, and DVD’s will be shown to demonstrate the effectiveness of Lifespan Integration with adults who have histories of complex trauma.
To Register for Lifespan Integration Workshops
There are several ways to register for LI workshops. Start with the "Upcoming Workshops" page. There is a button under some of the workshops which takes you to the online registration page. Workshops with no button are being organized by other individuals or organizations. For these workshops, contact the organizing entity.
If you prefer to register by mail or fax, you can e-mail ppace@lifespanintegration.com to request a registration form which can be mailed or faxed. If you do not have access to e-mail, you can request a registration form from Lifespan Integration, LLC; PO Box 651; Roslyn, WA, 98941-0651.