Let’s talk about neuropsychology? Meeting with Professor Ruth Lanius on September 25th at 5 p.m.

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Let’s talk about neuropsychology?

Dear colleagues, on September 25, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., I invite you to a meeting with Professor Ruth Lanius.
It will be a free discussion about the needs of Ukrainian specialists in the field of neuropsychology.
We are planning a project with Professor Lanius, so we want to explore what specialists need.


You will receive a link to the meeting one day and two hours before it starts.

Registration: Registration form

 
Admission is free, but if you wish, you can help me pay for the translator’s work.
I am grateful for any contribution you can make!


Details:
Recipient: FOP Kocharyan Karine MartirosovnaI
BAN:UA723220010000026007310090195
TIN/EDRPOU: 2799404740
Joint-stock company: UNIVERSAL BANK
MFO: 322001
Bank OKPO: 21133352
Payment purpose: participation in the seminar.
We look forward to seeing you!
Sincerely,
The Team of the Center for Educational Projects “Tree of Knowledge”
Karine Kocharyan

 

Ruth A. Lanius, M.D., Ph.D.

is a Psychiatry Professor and Harris-Woodman Chair at Western
University of Canada, where she is the director of the Clinical Research Program for PTSD.
Ruth has over 25 years of clinical and research experience with trauma-related disorders.
She established the Traumatic Stress Service at London Health Sciences Center, a program
that specializes in the treatment of psychological trauma. Ruth has received numerous
research and teaching awards, including the Banting Award for Military Health Research.
She has published over 200 research articles and book chapters focusing on brain
adaptations to psychological trauma and novel adjunct treatments for PTSD. Ruth regularly
lectures on the topic of psychological trauma both nationally and internationally. Ruth has
co-authored four books: The Effects of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden
Epidemic, Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, Treatment, and Finding
Solid Ground (textbook and workbook). Ruth is a passionate clinician scientist who
endeavours to understand the first-person experience of traumatized individuals
throughout treatment and how it relates to brain functioning.

 

The absence of presence and the presence of absence: Psychotherapy with relational trauma survivors of what never happened that should have” with Ken Benau Ph.D .Start 12.09.25

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“The absence of presence and the presence of absence: Psychotherapy with relational trauma survivors of what never happened that should have”

Ken Benau, PhD

Description:

This six-week webinar series, three hours each session, will explore in depth the lasting effects of caregiver “absence” on the developing child, and on adults in psychotherapy.  Others have remarked that “neglect is often neglected” in developmental research. The same can be said of psychotherapy with survivors of absence in early relational trauma and attachment wounding. This course will highlight some of the subtler, chronic consequences of what never happened that should have, including the need to be seen, felt, known, and even celebrated for who we are.

This comprehensive course will include:

12 September:  Developmental research into early “neglect” or “absence” and its long-term impact, as well as some clinical applications of these findings.

19 September:  Clinical theory, starting with Ferenczi and Winnicott, and up to contemporary thinkers, regarding the nature and experience of absence.  Clinical applications of these theories will be explored.

26 September: “Enlivening therapeutic presence” from different perspectives, including “zest”, “vitality”, “enlivening responsiveness”, “spark”, and “pro-being”.  Clinical applications of these ideas with absence will be explored.

3 October:  Four clinical vignettes showing some of the many faces of absence in adult psychotherapy, and ways to work with these phenomena.

10 October:  Two transcribed sessions using Deep Brain Orienting (DBR), a brainstem-informed somatic psychotherapy especially suited to work with “the shock of unbearable aloneness”, i.e., absence.

17 October:  Conversation with Ken Benau, Ph.D. and participants about clinical challenges and conundrums associated with “absence”.

 

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This training is for mental health professionals: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other health practitioners who have experience of working with early adversity and trauma.

 

SPEAKER:   

Ken Benau, Ph.D. 

has been a licensed clinical psychologist since 1990, and maintains a private practice in Kensington, California, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, United States.  He provides individual adult, couple, and family therapy, professional consultation, and training.  Dr. Benau has expertise in working with children and adults with various learning and developmental differences, including those living with LD, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.  He has a special interest and expertise in shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma (RT).  Dr. Benau has presented his ideas about shame, pride, and dissociation and their therapeutic applications in psychotherapy with RT survivors at various international conferences, webinars, and podcasts.  He has also written several peer and non-peer reviewed articles with that same theme, and introduced the concept and phenomena of pro-being pride, the most powerful antidote to traumatic shame states.  Pro-being pride is the experience of taking delight in one’s unique ways of being and relating to oneself, others, and the world.  Dr. Benau’s book, Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy, was published by Routledge in March, 2022.

Webinars with Ken Benau, which took place at the Center for Educational Projects “Tree of Knowledge” last year and which can be purchased as recordings

Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts, Psychotherapy, and Transformation— An Introduction

‘The dynamics of traumatic shame between patient and therapist: reactive acting out, transition to adaptive movement, transformation and vitality.

Course registration and payment

Cost:  for Ukraininans12000 UAH

for foreighn partycipants 350$


Payment method:
To the bank details of the busness account  after registration, you will receive a letter with the payment details.

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Assessment of developmental trauma and dissociation in children and adolescents. Sandra Baita, LCP, Argentina

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Greetings , dear colleagues!
I invite you to take a course

«Assessment of developmental trauma and dissociation in children and adolescents”

with

Sandra Baita, LCP, Argentina

 

 

ABSTRACT : 

 Part I.

Contents

Understanding dissociation from a developmental perspective.

Theoretical models to understand dissociation from a developmental perspective:

            – Putnam´s Discrete Behavioral States

            – Structural Dissociation of Personality

            – Silberg´s Affect Avoidance Theory

            – Attachment disorganization

Developmental trauma vs. posttraumatic stress disorder

The link between dissociation and developmental trauma

Understanding symptoms of dissociation and developmental trauma as adaptations.

Understanding affective and behavioral dysregulation.

The 5 guiding principles for assessing dissociation in children and adolescents

 

: Part II.

Contents

 

Components of the assessment process.

External sources of information

            -Trauma history

            – Asking parents about traumatic symptoms

            – Asking parents about dissociative symptoms

            – Context-based and relational- based triggers

Screening tools: scope and limitations.

Asking the child about dissociative symptoms: psychoeducation and clinical tools.

Asking the child about behaviors and attitudes observed in the clinical setting.

Differential diagnosis: play, fantasy, and imaginary friends in traumatized children.

Increasing metacognitive functioning during the assessment process.

Symptoms of dissociation:

            -Amnesia

            -Fluctuations in knowledge and abilities

            – Sudden changes in affective and behavioral states

            – Symptoms of intrusion

            – Depersonalization and derealization

            – Auditory, visual and kinesthetic hallucinations. Regressive behaviors.

            – Dissociative parts

Recognizing avoidance during the assessment process.

 

DETAILES

 

DATES AND TIME

04.07.25 &  5 07.25
10.07.25 & 11.07.25
17.07.25 & 18.07.25 

31.07.25 & 01.08.25

 

Час з 16.00 до 19.00

 

CERTIFICATES :

Participants will receive personalized certificates in English with the number of academic hours (24 a.h.) from the Tree of Knowledge Educational Projects Center. Karine Kocharyan

 

RECORDING

The recording is available to all participants for one year.

 

PAYMENT: 

 

Cost: €295 in hryvnia at the exchange rate on the day of payment

IMPORTANT AND MANDATORY!!!

Before making a payment, please contact (from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.)

Yulia Bazyuk to check the euro exchange rate.

Her contact details: +380671404064 (Telegram)
Or by email to the Tree of Knowledge Center
karine.kocharyan@epc-tree-of-knowlege.com.ua
epc.tree.of.knowlege@gmail.com

Language: English with consecutive translation into Ukrainian.
Translation: Iryna Nastalovska

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This training is for mental health professionals: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other health practitioners who have experience of working with early adversity and trauma.

PRESENTER

Sandra Baita is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Child Therapist, EMDR Therapist, and Approved Consultant, as well as a Fellow Member of ISSTD. She has authored several book chapters in English, Italian, and Spanish; co-authored a book in Spanish about child sexual abuse for judges and prosecutors under a UNICEF project; and authored the first book written in the Spanish language on childhood dissociation (a book that was also translated into Italian). She has lectured and trained in Argentina, Latin America, Italy, Spain, Holland, and the US. She has worked for public agencies of the City of Buenos Aires for 15 years, working with abused children and adolescents. She currently lives and has a private practice in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

INTERVIEW WITH SANDRA BAITA:

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Building Resilience in Times of War, Violence, and Other Traumatic Events 8th May 2025 6pm to 9pm  With Pat Ogden Ph.D and Tony Buckley MSC

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Building Resilience in Times of War, Violence, and Other Traumatic Events 8th May 2025 6pm to 9pm  With

Pat Ogden, PhD, SP Creator and Founder of SPI

& Tony Buckley MSC, SP Faculty Member

 

In this 3 hour webinar/workshop, Dr. Pat Ogden and SPI faculty member, Tony Buckley explain and explore through translation, somatic resourcing interventions and resilience strategies which emphasize and optimise stabilisation and safety through body awareness.

 

Discover Sensorimotor Psychotherapy’s somatic and sensory mindfulness-based interventions which can meet some ongoing needs of clients living in daily crisis and can be very effective in your clinical work with trauma survivors. 

 

In this webinar participants can experience and understand various somatic body awareness resource interventions which minimise patterns of dysregulation and foster a return to natural states of calm, safety and peaceful equilibrium through various bodily systems. These include working with breath, posture, movements, five senses and specific somatic techniques which provide centering and containment by activating natural sensory systems through guided body awareness.

 

We are waiting for you on 8 May
Start at 18.00 Kyiv time
We work until 21. 00
Break from 19.30 to 19.45
Language of the workshop: English with consecutive interpretation into Ukrainian
Translator : Iryna Nastalovska
Recording : will be
Certificates : Not provided
Participants will be provided with the Ukrainian version of the PEACE Protocol: 5 steps to activate modulation and develop resilience
Admission is free, but if you wish, you can support the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a donation to the bank:
For the ZSU


🔗Link to the bank
https://send.monobank.ua/jar/2DDi1ZmSsv
💳Bank card number
5375 4112 1943 9739

Registration at the link : https://forms.gle/fUh2LKQoJamm89FH8
You can learn more about training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Ukraine by following the links:

 

 

This webinar is intended for psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists who is working with mental trauma of all therapeutic modes and directions.

Speackers

Pat Ogden, PhD, (she/her), 

Is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is a clinician, consultant, international lecturer, and the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015). Her third book, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context, advocates for an anti-racist perspective in psychotherapy practice. Her current interests include couple therapy, child and family therapy, social justice, diversity, inclusion, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie her work.

Tony Buckley, MSC,

is a BACP registered therapist (170042) who holds a BA Hons degree in Counselling and a Diploma in Supervision and Certificate of  Education. Tony has over 25 years’ experience in the therapeutic field including supervision, private practice, and managing counsellor’s in both a university setting and an adolescent counselling service within the voluntary sector. He is the manager of the Counselling and Trauma Service for Transport  for London (London Underground), which offers a time-limited trauma service. Tony is the chair of the UK Association of Sensorimotor Psychotherapists and an international Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Trainer. He is co-author of, “the Role of the Body in Fostering Resilience: a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspective” (2019), published in the Journal of Body Movement and Dance Psychotherapy

В Україні вже доступне навчання в методі Сенсомоторна Психотерапія. І група фахівців-першопроходьців вже  пройшла першій рівень навчанняю Нижче відео на яких деякі з них розповідають про свій досвід навчання та застосування методу на практиці. 

Про зміст першого рівня за посиланням тут 

А про сертифікаційне навання докладно можно дізнатись за посиланням

 

Unlocking the Power of Neuroscience in Clinical Practice with prof/ Ruth Lanius 25th of March 16.00-19.00 Kiev time

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Greetings, dear colleagues!


I invite you to a lecture:


‘Unlocking the power of neuroscience in clinical practice’


Which will be held on 25 March from 16.00 to 19.00 by Professor Ruth Lanius

Conditions of participation:

Certificates are NOT provided

The recording of the event is provided for 6 weeks

Payment:

Since Professor Lanius providing this lecture free of charge and  I as the organiser also , the cost of participation  is your donation from  500 UAH

A small part of the money will be used to pay for the work of interpreters, and the rest will be donated to our defenders.

By participating in the event, you will do two useful things: learn from a leading expert and help our army

Abstract:

Over the last two decades, we have seen an explosion of neuroscience research that is highly relevant to our understanding of how individuals adapt to overwhelming experience. This workshop will present pioneering work outlining key brain underpinnings of trauma and their relevance to treatment.  We will also describe how we can harness neuroplasticity of the brain to facilitate healing in the aftermath of trauma by restoring critical brain networks.

This lecture is for mental health professionals: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other health practitioners who have experience of working with early adversity and trauma.

PRESENTOR: 

Ruth A. Lanius, M.D., Ph.D. is a Psychiatry Professor and Harris-Woodman Chair at Western
University of Canada, where she is the director of the Clinical Research Program for PTSD.
Ruth has over 25 years of clinical and research experience with trauma-related disorders.
She established the Traumatic Stress Service at London Health Sciences Center, a program
that specializes in the treatment of psychological trauma. Ruth has received numerous
research and teaching awards, including the Banting Award for Military Health Research.
She has published over 200 research articles and book chapters focusing on brain
adaptations to psychological trauma and novel adjunct treatments for PTSD. Ruth regularly
lectures on the topic of psychological trauma both nationally and internationally. Ruth has
co-authored four books: The Effects of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden
Epidemic, Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, Treatment, and Finding
Solid Ground (textbook and workbook). Ruth is a passionate clinician scientist who
endeavours to understand the first-person experience of traumatized individuals
throughout treatment and how it relates to brain functioning.

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Treating Complex trauma-related disorders (CPTSD and dissociative disorders) Stabilization and challenges in the therapeutic Relationship with Suzette Boon Ph.D

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Greetings, dear colleagues!
Recently, Suzette Boone, one of the leading experts in Europe in the field of diagnosis and therapy of disorders caused by trauma, conducted a detailed training on the diagnosis of dissociative disorders at the Tree of Knowledge Center.
You can find out how it was held at the link

And after the diagnosis, therapy begins, and I invite you to take part in a practical course with Suzette Boone

“Treating Complex trauma-related disorders (CPTSD and dissociative disorders) Stabilization and challenges in the therapeutic Relationship “

 

he course will be held on the following dates:

Feb. 4,

March 4,

April 8,

May 6,

June 3

July 1

Please note!

February 4 we work from 16.00 to 19.00
on other days
from 17.00 to 20.00 Kyiv time

Organizational Details

Video: For members only Access for a year

ATTENTION.

Regarding the videos of clinical cases that Suzette Boone always uses to illustrate the material, we will leave them on the recording for a limited period of time. 

Participant certificates:  Participants will receive personalized certificates in English with the number of academic hours “18” from the Center of Educational Projects “Tree of Knowledge” Karine Kocharyan 

Language: English with consecutive translation into Ukrainian.

Translation: Iryna Nastalovska.

 Cost: 275 euros in UAH at the exchange rate on the day of payment

Payment can be made in two parts

After registration, please wait for an email from us before making a payment!

Is it possible to participate in a single day? – Since this is a course, not a series of separate webinars, partial participation is not possible.

 

Phase-oriented treatment, the accepted standard of care for dissociative disorders, stresses the need for careful pacing and regulation of arousal, because dissociative patients often have many debilitating symptoms, are especially prone to regulatory difficulties, and lack essential life skills. And most of all it can be a great challenge to develop a working alliance with a patient as most of them lack basic trust in other people. 

Therapists often have many questions about this first phase:

  • How do I engage a patient who desperately demands help, but also views me with distrust and fear?

  • My patient has so many different problems and symptoms: How do I prioritize and begin treatment?

  • How do I manage the therapeutic relationship?

  • How do I work with different kinds of dissociative parts, such as extremely dependent, avoidant, angry, or persecutory ones?

  • How do I keep the focus on the whole person in a complicated therapy in which I must work with parts? What are the major pitfalls in phase 1?

These and many other questions may arise in the first phase. The work that has to be done is not just teaching a ‘toolbox with techniques’. Techniques are helpful but more important is developing a working alliance with all parts of the patient including aggressive or hostile parts.

Many of these difficulties and symptoms can be understood as stemming from a series of trauma-related phobias that maintain dissociation and hinder adaptive functioning in the present. I will begin with an introduction about case formulation and move to essential treatment principles that organize therapeutic goals and interventions, regardless of the therapist’s theoretical orientation.  Didactic presentations, case vignettes and video clips will be included.

 

Learning objectives:

Participants will be able to :

  1. Understand how various phobias maintain the dissociation of the personality and knowing how to help a patient to overcome them

  2. Know how to utilize the collaborative therapeutic relationship in helping the patient/client to recognize, accept, and collaborate with parts.

  3. Understand the importance of a healthy treatment frame with clear boundaries.

  4. Be able to use techniques to help the patient regulate emotions and deal with severe PTSD and dissociative symptoms.

  5. Develop a systemic approach in working with these parts, including child parts (also pre-verbal parts), hostile and perpetrator-imitating parts, perpetrator-idealizing parts

  6. Use therapeutic approaches that call upon the patient’s/client’s imaginative capacity.

 

 

This training is for mental health professionals: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other health practitioners who have experience of working with early adversity and trauma.

PRESENTER  

 

Сюзетт Бун Ph.D| Suzette Boon Ph.D

Suzette A. Boon PhD, 1949, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. She has more than thirty years of experience working in mental health institutions. She is a trainer and supervisor for the Dutch Society for Family Therapy and the Dutch Society for Hypnosis. Since the late eighties, she has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of complex dissociative disorders. She has worked as a researcher at the Free University of Amsterdam (Psychiatric Department). She translated and validated the Dutch version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D) and received a PhD for her thesis Multiple Personality Disorder in the Netherlands in 1993. She has published several books, book chapters and many articles on both the diagnosis and treatment of dissociative disorders.Suzette Boon is working in a private practice, mainly as a trainer and supervisor. She has been giving workshops all over Europe and the USA on topics related to complex trauma and dissociation.She has developed a skills training manual for patients with a complex dissociative disorder and currently has eight years of experience using this manual in structured groups in the Netherlands. In addition, she has been supervising projects in Norway and Finland using this manual. Its English version (with Kathy Steele, MN, CS and Onno van der Hart, PhD) was published in March 2011 by Norton publishers. Translations have been published in Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, German, Norwegian, French, Italian and Spanish.She is currently doing research with a new diagnostic interview to assess chronic trauma-related disorders, in particular the dissociative disorders – the Trauma and Dissociation Symptoms Interview (TADS-I). This new instrument that follows an earlier version (IDDTS, 2006) has been introduced in several European countries. For further information please contact Suzette.Suzette Boon is co-founder of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) and was the first president of this Society.The International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) granted her the David Caul Memorial Award in 1993, the Morton Prince Award in 1994 and the President’s Award of Distinction and the status of Fellow in 1995 for her contributions to the diagnosis, treatment, research and education in the field of dissociative disorders. In 2009, she received the Life Time Achievement Award, and in 2011 the Pierre Janet writing Award for the book Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation a Skills Training for Patients and their Therapists.

 

 

 

 
 
 
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“Patient(s)-therapist traumatic shame state dynamics: Reactive enactment to responsive movement, transformation and aliveness”  with Ken Benay PhD. 22 of November on Zoom from 18.00 -21.00 Kiev time

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Dear colleagues!


I invite you to take part in the second webinar on shame in therapy with Ken Benau PhD.
‘The dynamics of traumatic shame between patient and therapist: reactive acting out, transition to adaptive movement, transformation and vitality.’

We have decided to make this event more interactive, so you will have the opportunity to discuss practical issues with Ken Benau in a calm and unhurried manner


We are waiting for you on 22 November from 18.00 to 21.00 Kyiv time.

 

Theoretical part from 18.00 to 19.30
Questions on the theoretical part 19.30 = 19.50
Break 19.50-20.00
Clinical questions and discussion 20.00 – 21.00


Cost:


$ 45 (in UAH at the exchange rate on the day of payment )
ATTENTION! Please wait for an email from us before making a payment!

 

For participants who are citizens of other countries where there is no war and a stable economy, the cost is : 60 $

 

Shame and pride subtypes: Emotional processes vs. traumatic   mind/body states.  Pro-being pride.  (A brief review)

Why understanding shame state reactivity is important in psychotherapy with relational trauma (RT)

General process of moving from shame state reactivity to responsivity, collaboration, and transformation

Three models of shame state reactivity and self-protection/defense:   Fisher (2017), Nathanson (1992), and Karpman (1968, 2014)

Common Adult Patient and Therapist Intrarelational and
Interrelational Reactive Shame Dynamics, and therapeutic “ways through”

Clinical Case Discussion:  “Harold”  (Benau, 2022, Chapter 5, pp. 164-170)

Using your strengths to work with your vulnerabilities

 

A few common Parent-Child-Therapist, and Spouse-Spouse-Therapist shame states intra-reactions and inter-reactions, and therapeutic “ways through”

 
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.This training is for mental health professionals: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other health practitioners who have experience of working with early adversity and trauma.

SPEAKER:  

Ken Benau, Ph.D. 

has been a licensed clinical psychologist since 1990, and maintains a private practice in Kensington, California, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, United States.  He provides individual adult, couple, and family therapy, professional consultation, and training.  Dr. Benau has expertise in working with children and adults with various learning and developmental differences, including those living with LD, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.  He has a special interest and expertise in shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma (RT).  Dr. Benau has presented his ideas about shame, pride, and dissociation and their therapeutic applications in psychotherapy with RT survivors at various international conferences, webinars, and podcasts.  He has also written several peer and non-peer reviewed articles with that same theme, and introduced the concept and phenomena of pro-being pride, the most powerful antidote to traumatic shame states.  Pro-being pride is the experience of taking delight in one’s unique ways of being and relating to oneself, others, and the world.  Dr. Benau’s book, Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy, was published by Routledge in March, 2022.

After filling out the registration form, you will receive an email with payment details to the email address you provided. Such emails often end up in the SPAM and PROMOTIONS folders. Please check these folders after registration if you do not receive a confirmation email immediately.

For participants who are citizens of other countries where there is no war and a stable economy, the cost is

60 USD 

 

 After registration, you will receive a letter with payment details to the bank details of the sole proprietor;

 

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Assessing Trauma-Related Dissociation with the Trauma and Dissociation Symptoms Interview (TADS-I): Challenges and New Developments. with Suzette Boon PhD. 24-25 of October 9.30-17.00 on Zoom

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Assessing Trauma-Related Dissociation with the Trauma and Dissociation Symptoms Interview (TADS-I): Challenges and New Developments Suzette Boon Ph.D

24-25 of October 2024 9.300-17.00

Online

For participants who are citizens of other countries where there is no war and a stable economy, the cost is 400 euro

 

  • Does this patient suffer from dissociative amnesia or are memory problems caused by episiodes of absorption or something else?

  • Are the voices psychotic or dissociative?

  • How to evaluate the identity problems? Are they caused by the existence of dissociative parts of the personality or can they be explained as part of personality disorder problems or another psychiatric condition?

  • How to distinguish dissociative parts of the personality from borderline modes or ego- states?

 

In this 2 day workshop Suzette Boon will focus on these and other questions introducing a new diagnostic interview the Trauma and Dissociation Symptoms Interview (TADS-I).

On the first day of this workshop  Suzette Boon will give  general overview of the dissociative disorders and other trauma-related disorders such as complex PTSD and somatoform dissociation. We will look at the clinical phenomenology of the DSM-5 and ICD-11 dissociative disorders. She will present the Trauma and Dissociation Symptoms Interview (TADS-I ) and discuss how to use the interview.

Video vignettes will be presented.

The second part of this workshop will focus differential diagnosis (for instance personality disorders, psychotic disorders, mood disorders, and false positive DID)

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to recognize and differentiate the DSM-5 and ICD-11 dissociative disorders and will increase their awareness of other complex trauma-related disorders.

  2. Participants will be aware of problems concerning differential diagnosis and learn to distinguish dissociative disorders from personality disorders, mood and affect disorders and disorders in the schizophrenia spectrum.

  3. Participants will become aware of the problems of false -positive DID diagnoses and learn how to distinguish these from genuine DID

 

Assessing dissociative disorders is challenging for many clinicians because:

 

  • Definitions on dissociation differ and are not always clear. Some clinicians consider dissociation a phenomenon that exists on an continuum (from normal to pathological) other consider dissociation a phenomenon that is always pathological and refers to a division of self.

  • Patients generally do not present with dissociative symptoms but have a tendency to hide or dissimulate these symptoms.

  • There is a lot of overlap with other disorders such as complex PTSD and other anxiety disorders, and personality disorders

  • Differential diagnosis from many other psychiatric disorders (e.g psychosis, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorders) may be difficult

  • Main classification systems (DSM and ICD) differ with respect to dissociative disorders

  • Clinicians do not receive systematic education about diagnosis and treatment of dissociative disorders

 

The TADS-I (Boon & Matthess, 2016) is a new clinician-administered semi-structured interview to assess dissociative symptoms and disorders and other trauma-related symptoms. This interview enables the clinician to make DSM-5 and ICD-11 diagnoses; thus, it also includes a large section on somatoform dissociative symptoms. Secondly, it includes a section on other trauma-related symptoms in order to: (1) develop a more complete clinical picture of possible comorbidity, including symptoms of PTSD and complex PTSD; (2) achieve greater insight into the (possible) dissociative organization of the personality; and (3) differentiate complex dissociative disorders from personality disorders and other disorders, such as a (complex) posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), mood disorder or psychotic disorders. Finally, the TADS-I aims at making a distinction between symptoms referring to a division of the personality and symptoms that may involve other alterations of consciousness but are not per se dissociative.  Data of a preliminary study are currently analysed.

 

This training is for mental health professionals: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other health practitioners who have experience of working with early adversity and trauma.

PRESENTER  

Suzette A. Boon

Suzette A. Boon PhD, 1949, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. She has more than thirty years of experience working in mental health institutions. She is a trainer and supervisor for the Dutch Society for Family Therapy and the Dutch Society for Hypnosis. Since the late eighties, she has specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of complex dissociative disorders. She has worked as a researcher at the Free University of Amsterdam (Psychiatric Department). She translated and validated the Dutch version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D) and received a PhD for her thesis Multiple Personality Disorder in the Netherlands in 1993. She has published several books, book chapters and many articles on both the diagnosis and treatment of dissociative disorders.Suzette Boon is working in a private practice, mainly as a trainer and supervisor. She has been giving workshops all over Europe and the USA on topics related to complex trauma and dissociation.She has developed a skills training manual for patients with a complex dissociative disorder and currently has eight years of experience using this manual in structured groups in the Netherlands. In addition, she has been supervising projects in Norway and Finland using this manual. Its English version (with Kathy Steele, MN, CS and Onno van der Hart, PhD) was published in March 2011 by Norton publishers. Translations have been published in Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, German, Norwegian, French, Italian and Spanish.She is currently doing research with a new diagnostic interview to assess chronic trauma-related disorders, in particular the dissociative disorders – the Trauma and Dissociation Symptoms Interview (TADS-I). This new instrument that follows an earlier version (IDDTS, 2006) has been introduced in several European countries. For further information please contact Suzette.Suzette Boon is co-founder of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (ESTD) and was the first president of this Society.The International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) granted her the David Caul Memorial Award in 1993, the Morton Prince Award in 1994 and the President’s Award of Distinction and the status of Fellow in 1995 for her contributions to the diagnosis, treatment, research and education in the field of dissociative disorders. In 2009, she received the Life Time Achievement Award, and in 2011 the Pierre Janet writing Award for the book Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation a Skills Training for Patients and their Therapists.

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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) course Level 1 of 3 – 2024-2025

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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI)

and

Educational Projects Centre ‘Tree of Knowledge’

Announcing a set for
training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for mental health professionals
Course.

wich consists of three levels of training

Level 1
Sensory-motor psychotherapy for the treatment of trauma
4 three-day modules
2024-2025

Programme 

The first module will take place on 19, 20 and 21 September 2024 – details below

Level 2
Sensorimotor psychotherapy for relational and developmental trauma
Dates to be agreed

Programme 

Level 3.
Advanced integrative training in Sensory Motor Therapy

Final certification course – required to be considered a Certified SP Practitioner

Programme 

Dates to be agreed

Requirements for candidates to study at Level 1 SP:

Obligatory : Have a basic university degree in the field of mental health

Desirable: Meet all or one of the following requirements:

  1. Be trained or have completed training in one of the recognised psychotherapeutic approaches

  2. Practice in one of the recognised psychotherapeutic approaches

  3. Have/have completed your own psychotherapy and regular supervision

 

 

Start 10am Kiev time

 

Coffee break 11.30am  (15 mins)

 

Lunch 12.30pm (1 hour)

 

Afternoon break 3pm 15 mins

 

Finish 5.30 

Training Description

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is a body-oriented talk therapy that blends cognitive and emotional approaches, verbal dialogue, and physical interventions to directly address the implicit memories and neurobiological effects of trauma.  By using bodily experience as a primary entry point in trauma therapy, rather than the events of the “story,” we attend to how the body is processing information and its interface with emotions and cognitive meaning making.

 Level 1 trauma training presents simple, body-oriented interventions for tracking, naming, and safely exploring trauma-related, somatic activation, creating new competencies and restoring a somatic sense of self.

 

Students will learn effective and accessible interventions for identifying and working with limiting somatic patterns, disturbed cognitive and emotional processing, and the fragmented sense of self experienced by so many traumatized individuals.

 

By the end of the training, students will be able to apply basic SP techniques with clients who are distressed or traumatized and adapt SP skills for more complex clinical situations.

 

Level 1: SP for the Treatment of Trauma is offered in 4 formats to support learning and accessibility. All formats offer a minimum of 39 Continuing Education (CE) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits and deliver the same content, learning materials, and interactive lessons.

 

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TRAINING:
Level 1 Programme is here 
4 modules
Sensorimotor psychotherapy for the treatment of trauma
Module 1
19-21 September 2024
Presenter : Tony Buckley
Recording: Members only

Certificates: Participants will receive personalised SPI practitian certificates  in English from the Sensorimotor Psychtherapy Institute (SPI) after III level completion 

Language: English with consecutive interpretation.
Translation: Iryna Nostalovska.

Cost: For foreight partysypants  

450 euros per Module

Applications are accepted until 14.00 on 18 September

 

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SCHEDULE OF TRAINING MODULES

Module 1
19-21 September 2024
Presenter : Tony Buckley

Module 2
31 October – 2 November 2024
Presenter: Lisa Stockeland

Module 3
12-14 December 2024
Presenter: Lisa Stockeland

Module 4
23-25 January 2025
Presenter : Tony Buckley

Cost:  For participants who are citizens of other countries where there is no war and a stable economy, the cost is

450 euros per Module

This training is intended for psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists who is working with mental trauma of all therapeutic modes and directions.

TRAINERS

Tony Buckley, BA,

is a BACP registered therapist (170042) who holds a BA Hons degree in Counselling and a Diploma in Supervision and Certificate of  Education. Tony has over 25 years’ experience in the therapeutic field including supervision, private practice, and managing counsellor’s in both a university setting and an adolescent counselling service within the voluntary sector. He is the manager of the Counselling and Trauma Service for Transport  for London (London Underground), which offers a time-limited trauma service. Tony is the chair of the UK Association of Sensorimotor Psychotherapists and an international Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Trainer. He is co-author of, “the Role of the Body in Fostering Resilience: a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Perspective” (2019), published in the Journal of Body Movement and Dance Psychotherapy

Lisa Stokkeland

is a licensed Clinical Psychologist from Norway. She is a specialist in clinical psychology working with adults and in clinical neuropsychology. She started her career working in the forensic field of psychology and then worked several years with addiction. The last years she has worked mainly with clients with complex trauma and dissociative disorders in a public outpatient clinic. She has several years of experience with supervising students in psychotherapy and giving lectures. She is a former member of the Ethical Committee of Norwegian Psychological Association.

 

 

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Staff Care and Resilience in Times of Crisis 5,12 and 19 of August

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Greetings, dear colleagues!
We invite you to take part in a joint project of the

Headington Institute

and

Educational Projects Centre ‘Tree of Knowledge’

STAFF CARE AND RESILIENCE IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Three seminars

5 August from 16.00 to 18.00
Understanding traumatic stress and resilience
Dr Don Bosch
Translation by Olga Bileychuk

12 August from 16.00 to 18.00
Understanding vicarious trauma
Dr Brent Stenberg
Translation by Anna Lukashevich

19 August 16.00 to 18.00
Advanced psychological first aid and sleep in difficult conditions
Dr Rick Williamson

Translation by Olga Bileychuk

Cost: Full participation $60 (in UAH at the exchange rate on the day of payment )Individual webinar $30 (in UAH at the exchange rate on the day of payment)

Recording : For participants ONLY

Certificates: Provided only for those participants who have attended all three webinars of the project. You will receive personalised certificates in English indicating the number of hours/ 1?5 hours per webinar

Webinar language: English with consecutive translation into Ukrainian.

Translation: Olga Bileychuk and Anna Lukashevich

This training is intended for psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists who is working with mental trauma of all therapeutic modes and directions.

5 August

16.00 – 18.00

Dr. Don Bosch 

Understanding Traumatic Stress and Resilience 

This webinar will focus on the neuroscience findings that help explain our responses in uncertain and risk environments. By understanding how different regions of the brain respond and interact we will learn how our immediate default response can put us in more danger and look at the long-term consequences of remaining physiologically stressed. Finally, we will explore proactive research-based resilience behaviors that help mitigate the short- and long-term effects of living and working in risk environments. 

12 August 

16.00 – 18.00

Dr. Brent Stenberg 

Understanding Vicarious Trauma:

It is a privilege to provide support for persons experiencing significant distress or dealing with the aftermath of traumatic events. However, this commitment can often take a toll on your well-being as you are a witness to the suffering of others. This workshop will focus on identifying the common challenges, personal risk factors and self-care strategies that may be helpful in maintaining your own emotional equilibrium as you engage in this work. The continuum from compassion fatigue to vicarious trauma will be explored as well as the concept and impact of “moral injury” in crisis contexts.

19 August 

16.00 – 18.00

Dr. Rick Wiliamson 

Advanced Psychological First Aid & Sleep in Challenging Environments 

This workshop will help participants maximize how to offer a supportive and compassionate presence to persons suffering immediate exposure to acute stress and trauma. While the basics of Psychological First Aid help to stabilize persons in distress, the advanced workshop focuses on how to mitigate acute stress reactions and facilitate continued support to persons across their near term, intermediate term, and long-term reactions. The workshop will also address the importance of sleep and how to optimize its restorative effects within the crisis context. 

 

SPEAKERS: 

Dr. Don Bosch 

Dr. Don Bosch is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, holding doctoral degrees in both disciplines. He has been in practice for over 40 years. Since 2007 he has focused on humanitarians having worked with global rapid response teams, security trainings, and individual aid workers. He currently is the principal of Humanitarian Psychological Services and previously was Director of Clinical Services at the Headington Institute. He is one of the authors of the Headington Institute Resilience Inventory. For the past decade he has provided instruction and field support for Harvard University’s Humanitarian Response Intensive Course. 

Dr. Brent Stenberg 

Dr. Brent Stenberg is a licensed clinical psychologist with 35 years of experience providing training, counseling, and consulting services with a special focus on leadership development. Over the years, Brent has traveled to places like Haiti, South Sudan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to support regional staff welfare initiatives. 

Dr. Rick Wiliamson 

Dr. Rick Williamson is a licensed clinical psychologist based in Los Angeles, CA. He is the co-founder of a nonprofit organization dedicated to understanding and serving the mental health needs of hard-to-reach segments of oppressed and marginalized communities. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and has a passion for support care-providers that serve in high-demand contexts. 

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Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts, Psychotherapy, and Transformation— An Introduction with Ken Benau, PhD. June 28, 2024 18.00-21.00 Ukraine Time

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Ken Benau, PhD

Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma:

Concepts, Psychotherapy, and Transformation— An Introduction 

The language of the webinar is English with consecutive translation into Ukrainian.
Translation by: Olga Bileychuk

June 28, 2024 18.00-21.00 Ukraine Time

For participants who are citizens of other countries where there is no war and a stable economy, the cost is

60 USD 

At the end of the seminar, a personal certificate in English is issued indicating the number of hours.

The recording will be provided ONLY for  participants for one year.

 

Abstract

This three-hour webinar will introduce attendees to understanding how shame and pride play a central role in psychotherapy generally, and more specifically with survivors of survivors of relational trauma (RT).  We begin by defining our terms, i.e., relational trauma, shame, and pride.  Next, we turn to descriptions of adaptive and maladaptive shame and pride subtypes, paying attention to the difference between shame and pride as emotional processes (“emotions”), and as traumatic mind/body states (“shame states” and “pride states”).  A brief description of why shame and pride are important in psychotherapy with RT survivors, follows.  An introductory exploration is offered into the dynamic relationship between embodied shame states and disembodied dissociative processes, that include mind/body leave taking (LT) or “detachment”, and “structural dissociation” (SD), and some clinical implications.  The last hour of this webinar will be devoted to a presentation of several psychotherapy sessions with “Isaac”, a RT survivor, using verbatim transcripts to document his movement from shame states, to adaptive pride, and finally pro-being pride.  The concept and lived experience of pro-being pride, defined as taking delight in one’s unique ways of being in relationship with oneself, others, and the world, will be illustrated both conceptually (when outlining shame and pride subtypes) and clinically, in the psychotherapy session transcripts.  There will be opportunities for questions and answers throughout this webinar, enabling attendees to consider how these understandings can be applied to their psychotherapy with relational trauma survivors.

Webinar Outline and Timeline

 

Time                           Theme

 

1800-1850      What are shame and pride, and why do that matter in psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma (RT)?  Adaptive and maladaptive shame and pride subtypes as emotions and traumatic, mind/body states, are included here.  The concept and experience of pro-being pride, delighting in one’s unique way of being and relating to self, other, and the world, viewed as the most powerful antidote to traumatic shame and pride states, is also highlighted.

 

1850-1900      Q & A with Dr. Benau and attendees

 

1900-1935      A description of the relationship between embodied shame states, and dissociation as “mind/body leave taking” (LT), broadly speaking “detachment”, and structural dissociation (SD).  Linkages between shame states and dissociation neurophysiologically, intra-relationally, inter-relationally, and at the level of meaning, are outlined to enhance attendees’ clinical understanding and practice.

 

1935-1945      Q & A with Dr. Benau and attendees

 

1945-2000      Break

 

2000-2045      “Issac”: Clinical case presentation of an RT survivor, using verbatim transcripts, documenting the patient’s psychotherapeutic transformation from shame states, to adaptive pride, and finally pro-being pride.

 

2045-2100      Final Q & A with Dr. Benau and attendees

 

 

This training is for mental health professionals: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other health practitioners who have experience of working with early adversity and trauma.

SPEAKER: 

Ken Benau, Ph.D. has been a licensed clinical psychologist since 1990, and maintains a private practice in Kensington, California, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, United States.  He provides individual adult, couple, and family therapy, professional consultation, and training.  Dr. Benau has expertise in working with children and adults with various learning and developmental differences, including those living with LD, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.  He has a special interest and expertise in shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with survivors of relational trauma (RT).  Dr. Benau has presented his ideas about shame, pride, and dissociation and their therapeutic applications in psychotherapy with RT survivors at various international conferences, webinars, and podcasts.  He has also written several peer and non-peer reviewed articles with that same theme, and introduced the concept and phenomena of pro-being pride, the most powerful antidote to traumatic shame states.  Pro-being pride is the experience of taking delight in one’s unique ways of being and relating to oneself, others, and the world.  Dr. Benau’s book, Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy, was published by Routledge in March, 2022.

Ведучій: Кен Бенау PhD/ Ken Benau, PhD

After filling out the registration form, you will receive an email with payment details to the email address you provided. Such emails often end up in the SPAM and PROMOTIONS folders. Please check these folders after registration if you do not receive a confirmation email immediately.

For participants who are citizens of other countries where there is no war and a stable economy, the cost is

60 USD 

Payment methods:

1. After registration, you will receive a letter with payment details to the bank details of the sole proprietor;

2. In cash in Odesa.

3. PayPal 

Regardless of the payment method, please fill out the registration form.

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“DBR- Deep Brain Reorienting: An introduction” With Dr. Frank Corrigan 3 and 4 th of June 2024 on Zoom

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DBR- Deep Brain Reorienting: an Introduction

with Dr. Frank Corrigan

3th and 4th of June 2024

Schedule: to be agreed

Recording: For participants only

Certificates of participation: Participants will receive personalized certificates in English from the DBR community indicating the number of hours – 12 A.H.

The language of the webinar is English with consecutive translation into Ukrainian.
Translation by: Oksana Lyzak

 Payment:

For participants who are citizens of other countries where there is no war and a stable economy, the cost is

300 euros 

 

Please note that payment is made in UAH to the business account at the NBU exchange rate on the day of payment.

 Abstract:

This two-day training offers participants an opportunity to understand the key role of midbrain systems in traumatic experiences which have clinical consequences. There is an emphasis on attachment shock, which may be historic or recent, and on early life adversity. A distinction between brain circuits for shock and circuits for affective and defensive responding underlies the clinical approach of Deep Brain Reorienting.

DBR is a trauma memory processing modality that has developed from an understanding of stimulus-response sequences in the upper brainstem and uses these in a way that diminishes the risk of overwhelm or dissociation. Tracking the sequences, informed by the knowledge of how they occur physiologically, activates a healing process which, optimally, promotes a complete resolution of the clinical consequences of the traumatic experiences.

DBR can also be useful when attachment urges are conflicted because of adverse experiences. For example, when the capacity to orient toward connection simultaneously triggers the impulse to move away, often with negative affects emerging, the urge to connect with significant others is conflicted at a level not readily accessible in talk therapy.

Key learning outcomes

• To develop an understanding of the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of threat and adversity response systems in the midbrain, the upper part of the brainstem

• To be able to track deep sequences that have occurred so quickly that only their late effects have been recognized – and to wait with these sequences until full processing of them has occurred

• To identify and differentiate the main components of physiological sequences underpinning conflicted orienting patterns in relational connections.

Who should attend?

This training is for mental health professionals: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other health practitioners who have experience of working with early adversity and trauma.

From DBR  website 

Training in the DBR method – Deep Brain Reorienting consists of three levels:

Level 1: Deep Brain Reorientation (DBR) : Introduction (two days)

Level 2 : DBR therapy for shock and attachment wounds (two days)

Level 3: DBR for dissociative and other complex traumatic disorders(two days)

Additional trainings. Advanced level

  1. A series of mini-workshops focused on developmental issues
  2. Working with dynamic orienting tension in DBR using ideas from Alexander Technique

You can learn more about each stage of training in a separate brochure.

This training is for mental health professionals: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and other health practitioners who have experience of working with early adversity and trauma.

PRESENTER AND AUTHOR OF THE METHOD

DBR : 

Dr. Frank Corrigan MD, FRC Psych

 
 

Throughout a career spanning over 30 years as an NHS Consultant Psychiatrist in Scotland, Frank combined his extensive clinical experience with research on the neurobiology of trauma and its underpinnings in major psychiatric disorders.

His research broadly explored the intersection between affective Neuroscience and the science of healing culminating in the development of Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR). This new and novel psychotherapeutic approach emphasises the importance of tracking a distinctive neurophysiological sequence embedded in ‘deep brain’ systems. One of the most unique aspects of DBR as a trauma-focused therapy, is the embodiment of a natural healing process that is consonant with the evolutionary process of the developing brain and nervous system.  

After filling out the registration form, you will receive an email with payment details to the email address you provided. Such emails often end up in the SPAM and PROMOTIONS folders. Please check these folders after registration if you do not receive a confirmation email immediately.

The cost of participation

 For foreign partycipants 

300 Euros 

Payment methods:


1. After registration, you will receive a letter with payment details to the bank details of the sole proprietor;


2. In cash in Odesa.

3. PayPal 


Regardless of the payment method, please fill out the registration form.

 

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