Embodied Hypo States: Understanding and Inviting into Awareness with Merete Holm Brantbjerg | Recording

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Overview

This online learning event focuses on hypo-states and how to invite them into awareness. This is an area that has often been neglected in working with stress and trauma. We all know the experience of hyper-states, tensing up, but what about areas of our bodies that have given up, hypo-states? Relational Trauma therapy specialises in including and normalising hypo-states and developing practical methods for working with these.

Hypo-states challenge and scare the therapist in a different way than hyper-states. “Hypo” means under-activation, meaning that those of us who experience hypo-states have lost access to very important resources and impulses. Giving up, withdrawing, diffusing and collapsing are the realms of hypo-states. This webinar will advocate for staying present, awake and curious in relation to these strategies, in lieu of identifying with them. Facilitating understanding of the ease in which we can polarise with hypo-states will be examined in detail. This supports the client and therapist to respectfully meet the hypo- state instead of unconsciously running away.

Dosing low is seen as a key component in approaching and gently negotiating with hypo-states. Low dosed activation of muscles and connective tissue will be introduced as a practical methodology that can be used by therapists as well as clients. This makes it possible to awaken hypo-responsive parts of us in a dose and speed that works. Whatever emerges for the client can then be integrated.

A differentiation is made between degrees of hypo-states. Hypo-response in muscles on one hand and hypo-arousal in the autonomic nervous-system on the other. Focusing on hypo-response supports starting with a small giving up, before learning how to cope with the deeper level of trauma-related collapse. This can then lead to the trauma-related collapse being included, approached and normalised.

The Webinar includes the following:

  • Webinar 3 hours in length
  • One resource paper from the speaker
  • Slide decks to accompany the webinar
  • A certificate with 3 CPD points/hours [ if the option is chosen ]
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Description

Learning objectives:

  • Include hypo-states in your perception of yourself and of others
  • See hypo-states (giving up) as normal reactions and survival strategies side by side with hyper-states (tensing up)
  • Understand the principle of dosing as a key component in approaching hypo-states
  • Use a number of low-dosed muscle-activations to relate to and gently awaken parts of the body impacted by hypo-states
  • Differentiate between hypo-response in muscles and hypo-arousal in the ANS
  • Understand the difference between staying present in relation to hypo-states compared to polarising to them or being pulled into them
  • Be curious about what emerges when including and awakening hypo-response
  • Understand how modification of hypo-response can be part of trauma-therapeutic work

Target Audience

This online learning event is suitable for psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapists, social workers, addiction counsellors, trauma therapists, body workers, somatic practitioners, people working in inpatient or community settings, mental health/psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists, probation officers, people working in HR/occupational health and/or carers for people with mental health issues

Speaker Biography 

Merete Holm Brantbjerg is a psychomotor-trainer and co-creator of Bodynamic Analysis from 1985-2003. From 2003 till now, she has developed “Relational Trauma Therapy” together with Kolbjørn Vårdal combining psychomotor and neurocentric skill training and systems oriented group-work. The goal of the approach is to establish systems in which mutual regulation of what has been held in dissociation can happen. Merete has specialised in developing methodology aimed at normalising, including and regulating hypo-states. She leads trainings and workshops in Denmark, and internationally online. She lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Additional information

ACCREDITATION

with CPD Cert, without CPD Cert

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