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Workshops & Trainings

"If the path before you is clear,

you are  probably on someone else's."

- C. G. Jung

Upcoming Events

  • Chronic Sexual Abuse: Gentle and Resource-Oriented Treatment Principals of Trauma Therapy
    Chronic Sexual Abuse: Gentle and Resource-Oriented Treatment Principals of Trauma Therapy
    Sat, 18 May
    18 May 2024, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
    Napier, 19 Marine Parade, Bluff Hill, Napier 4110, New Zealand
    Introduction workshop for clinicians starting to work with clients of sexual abuse that introduces relevant treatment principals. Building foundation for working with complex sexual abuse clients, that creates a gentle and resource oriented therapy approach.
  • Trauma and Personality Disorder:  Treating Self- and Interpersonal-Impairments in Complex PTSD
    Trauma and Personality Disorder:  Treating Self- and Interpersonal-Impairments in Complex PTSD
    Fri, 14 Jun
    14 Jun 2024, 9:00 am – 15 Jun 2024, 5:00 pm
    Napier, 19 Marine Parade, Bluff Hill, Napier 4110, New Zealand
    Most personality disordered presentations can best be understood as adaptions to developmental trauma and abusive contexts. Shattered self's attempts to find cohesion expresses then in characteristic responses to the world and others that need healing and understanding.
  • Dependency Dynamics in Therapy: Clinical and Ethical Considerations
    Dependency Dynamics in Therapy: Clinical and Ethical Considerations
    Sat, 29 Jun
    29 Jun 2024, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
    Napier, 19 Marine Parade, Bluff Hill, Napier 4110, New Zealand
    Navigating strong dependency needs in the therapeutic setting is not a easy challenge to even seasoned clinician. Depending on others is a significant human resource that buffers against stress and traumatic impact, yet is often the very resource that is harmed for traumatized populations.
  • Traumatic Blows to the Self: The Ubiquity of Narcissistic Dynamics  in the Aftermath of Relational Trauma
    Traumatic Blows to the Self: The Ubiquity of Narcissistic Dynamics  in the Aftermath of Relational Trauma
    Fri, 09 Aug
    09 Aug 2024, 9:00 am – 10 Aug 2024, 4:00 pm
    Napier, 19 Marine Parade, Bluff Hill, Napier 4110, New Zealand
    Narcissitic presentations of a disturbed self, are best understood as traumatic responses to relational hurt. Denial of the subjectivity and self-experience of the growing child/person, are blows to the self that reman present in vulnerable self-stats.
  • Healing from Developmental Trauma: Love, Tenderness and Care in the Therapeutic Encounter
    Healing from Developmental Trauma: Love, Tenderness and Care in the Therapeutic Encounter
    Sat, 07 Sept
    07 Sept 2024, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
    Napier, 19 Marine Parade, Bluff Hill, Napier 4110, New Zealand
    Developmental wounds of unrequited love, leave patients deeply harmed and with intense longings for care, tenderness and love, that can often manifest in strong desire. This workshop looks at the these dynamics in therapy to help therapists navigate these more confidently.

What Attendes Say

“I went to a workshop run by Tobias, and he brought a wealth of knowledge and experience to bear on a complex topic. If you get the opportunity - go to his workshops!”

— Attendee for Workshop on NPD, 11-12 May 2017

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