Professional Training Workshops

Pat Ogden PhD

When Words Are Not Enough:
How to Engage the Body to Disrupt Entrenched Patterns

Join Pat Ogden in this two-day workshop as we learn practical, easy to implement interventions from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy designed to catalyze change in “resistant” and otherwise “difficult” clients with chronic entrenched patterns.

Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney: November 2019

Two day workshops

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Bessel van der Kolk MD

Clinical Approaches to Working with Trauma:
Attachment, Trauma and Neuroscience

Join Bessel van der Kolk in this two-day workshop as we explore how trauma affects the developing mind and brain, as well as self-awareness and self-regulation. We will look at the difference between disrupted attachment and traumatic stress and focus on the fundamental difference between trauma de-sensitization vs. integration and growth.

Sydney & Melbourne: February 2020

Two day workshops

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Iain McGilchrist

The Divided Brain Clinic

Join Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist in this two-day workshop as he presents the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain. It's not simply "emotion on the right, reason on the left," but something far more complex and interesting with important implications for psychotherapists and their clients.

Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney: March 2020

Two day workshops

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Brilliant Mental Health

Specialist Psychologists and Psychiatrists with many years experience and over 5000 hours working face to face - developing mental health knowledge and treatment. Sessions from Bessel van der Kolk, Iain McGilchrist, Janina Fisher, Pat Ogden & Alan Fruzzetti.

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Here’s Your Brain on Trauma
Approximately 50% of the population will experience a traumatic event at some point in their lives. While reactions to trauma can vary widely, and not everyone will develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), trauma can change the brain in some predictable ways. […]
The Divided Brain Clinic
with Iain McGilchrist: Live in Australia
Iain McGilchrist, author of the "Divided Brain" is coming to Australia. […]
Dissociation and the Body
As clients learn to mindfully observe and describe the various parts, they develop mindfulness of two or more parts simultaneously—a skill that is particularly important in the treatment of dissociative disorders as it promotes integration. […]
Iain McGilchrist Australian Workshops
The Divided Brain Clinic
Iain McGilchrist presents the real differences between the left and right hemispheres of the human brain. […]
Allan Schore: The Role of the Right Brain in Group Psychotherapy
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. […]
Iain McGilchrist: Language and the Divided Brain
Iain McGilchrist presents the real differences between the left and right hemispheres of the human brain. […]
Pat Ogden: Connecting with Your Body
Pat Ogden shows us skills that she finds helpful to reconnect with our body. We discover different tools and actions that we can use to change the imprint of the past and reclaim our right to bodily sensations. […]
Dr Bessel van der Kolk: an interview with Lynne Malcolm from the ABC’s “All in the Mind”
Bessel van der Kolk explains to Lynne Malcolm from the ABC's "All in the Mind" program, why self-awareness is at the centre of his unconventional approach to therapy. […]
Bessel van der Kolk: Restoring Joy and Treating Traumatic Stress
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. […]
Bessel van der Kolk: Trauma, the Brain & the Body
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. […]
Bessel van der Kolk: Trauma Lives Within
Trauma is an inability to inhabit one’s body without being possessed by its defenses and the emotional numbing that shuts down all experience, including pleasure and satisfaction. […]