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
- A series of mini-workshops focused on developmental issues
- 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.
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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.