PODS Workshop / Training Day ‘Living with Dissociation’

This introductory workshop is suitable both for people suffering from a Dissociative Disorder and their partners, family members or other supporters, including counsellors, therapists, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Health and Social Care professionals, pastoral staff/clergy, and anyone else interested in finding out more about DID and dissociation. The main part of the day will be an information-based workshop looking at:

• Understanding DID
• What it’s like being DID
• Coping with and recovering from Dissociative Disorders.

This will then be followed at 3.30 pm by an open meeting which is the opportunity for partners and survivors to meet together, support one another and share their experiences. There will also be a separate Q&A session for counsellors, therapists and other professionals.

The workshops are currently running in the following locations:

17 March 2012

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

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20 October 2012

Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands

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New Workshop / Training Day for 2012 - ‘Trauma and the Body: Somatisation and Dissociation’

Trauma doesn’t just affect the mind and the emotions.  It profoundly affects the brain and the body too.  Often ‘the body remembers’ what the mind cannot.

Why is it that so many trauma survivors not only suffer from ‘psychological’ disorders such as Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) but also from a whole raft of physical issues — chronic pain; frequent or recurrent infections; auto-immune disorders such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (aka ME), fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis; and difficulty in both connecting with the body and living healthily?  The body is both the medium through which often the original trauma was enacted, and the source of ongoing suffering and self-hatred.

This workshop will explore why, to the best of current scientific knowledge, this happens, and most importantly, what can be done about it. We’ll be looking at the impact of trauma on the body, and how it seems that the body can also be a key to unlocking the psychological issues of trauma.

28 April 2012

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

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26 May 2012

Bradford, West Yorkshire

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1 December 2012

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

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New Workshop / Training Day for 2012 - ‘Recovering from Trauma - Healthy Boundaries and Relationships’

Sexual trauma such as childhood sexual abuse is the ultimate violation of boundaries. Rather than growing up with a secure attachment where our personal, physical and psychological boundaries are respected, as trauma survivors we have often grown up in toxic relationships, where we have developed a shame-based sense of self, and consequently in adulthood we may struggle to maintain our own boundaries as well to respect other people’s.

This workshop will look at why all this happens, and most importantly what we can do about it.  Covering topics such as how to identify safe and unsafe people, what role mindfulness can play in the development of our interpersonal capacities, and how to develop a healthy relationship with both others and our self (or selves), this workshop is suitable for both trauma survivors and those working with them.

30 June 2012

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

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14 July 2012

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

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13 October 2012

Bradford, West Yorkshire

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