A Workshop in ReParentive® Therapy!
Personality Disordered Nation: Intergenerational Trauma and Systemic Cultural Dysregulation
Globally, collectively, our survival fear is activated. The stakes are very high and the urgency is great. If ever there was a time to lean in, this is it. We must ask: How are we as therapists to respond to all of this volatility? How can we help each other and our clients?
As someone who supports family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder, I see how BPD exists systemically, on vertical and horizontal axes. By vertical axis I mean how and why the disorder gets passed down generationally. By horizontal axis I mean how the disorder plays out culturally in society. The interplay of the macro and micro spheres exacerbates the phenomenon for everyone and makes healing extra challenging.
What happens when we’re not afforded the opportunity to respond rather than react?
On the neurobiological level, dysregulation is contagious.
But so is regulation.
ReParentive Therapy focuses on intentionally creating regulation and co-regulation. This can have a ripple effect. It can be harnessed dyadically in psychotherapy and even more powerfully, in group work.
In this 90 minute live virtual workshop, we’ll explore:
What is being asked of us as therapists right now?
What is possible in terms of healing?
Together we’ll look at:
- Cultural phenomena that mirror patterns of a BPD household, such as polarizing, cancel culture, splitting, emotional swings, unpredictability
- The contagion of dysregulation
- The contagion of regulation
- What ReParentive Therapy offers in terms of theory, tools, and solutions
- How to apply the ReParentive concept of Fractals
- Why group therapy is an antidote to this wounding and to this collective moment
- How group work is decolonizing
