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Professional training Mindfulness, Resistance & Trauma 

This training is for professionals who want to work with mindfulness, resistance and defense mechanisms, both for themselves and with clients.

Training specifications

Live online sessies
23 sept, 7, 21 okt, 4, 18 nov, 2 en 16 dec 2024
Tijd sessies
19.00 - 21.30 uur
Casusbespreking en Q&A
30 sept, 14, 28 okt, 11, 25 nov en 9 dec 2024
Tijden casus & Q&A
19.00 - 20.00 uur
Locatie
Online via zoom
Opleider
Micah Anderson
Taal
Engels
Kosten
950 euro
Vooropleiding
Mindfulness basisopleiding Of achtergrond in GGZ en ervaring met mindfulness
Contacturen en voorbereidingstijd
23,5 uren
Trainingsmateriaal
Hand-outs en aanbevolen literatuur (zie hieronder)
Lange Traject
Telt mee als 2 keuze-themadagen binnen het Lange Traject
Accreditatie
Registerplein 23,5 punten
Interview with trainer Micah Anderson

Overview of the professional training ‘Mindfulness, Resistance & Trauma’ 

We are glad to present this new professional training, centered on how to use mindfulness and self-awareness to understand, accept, and work with resistance and defense mechanisms whether within our own selves, or the wider populations that we serve.

Resistance should never be ignored, but engaged with kindness, skillfulness, and presence. No matter how it may manifest, resistance always arises for a purpose and with a reason. It is often a protective mechanism intentionally or unintentionally to cover or hide emotional wounding and/or trauma, and must be handled with care. 

There will be two frames which we will view resistance trough: personal/individual and systemic/societal.

FRAME 1: Personal and individual aspect 

As practitioners who aim to be trauma informed, we must first learn and understand our own relationship to resistance and the defense mechanisms that may be within us. Only then can we expand our understanding of resistance towards other populations that we may serve.

Once we have an understanding of our own triggers, we can expand to work with people who may have either histories of trauma and/or are marginalized. Resistance can be used as a doorway for authenticity, deepening, and ultimately transformation. Just as an empathic break in the therapeutic alliance can offer a chance for the clinician to model repair, forgiveness and healing, resistance offers similar opportunities. As the saying goes, “what’s in the way, is the way.”

In addition to this participants can learn from over a decades worth of Micah’s on-the-ground experience working with marginalized communities (incarcerated youth and adults, Muslim communities), with case-studies, storytelling, and plenty of room for real life scenarios. Tools and interventions will be given from a variety of perspectives including psychology (Hakomi, somatic experiencing, evidence-based practices), secular mindfulness, and various wisdom traditions.

We will also have a safe space and cohort to process and discuss real-time struggles with resistance whether professionally or personally. This, perhaps most importantly, will be a space to experientially practice rolling with resistance, together, in this community of practice. 

FRAME 2: Systemic and Societal aspect

Often, when we resist what is either personal or professional, we can spiral into endless patterns of reactive behavior. If something systemic or societal is in the way, it can equally create reactive patterns with certain groups and society as a whole. Often we may e.g. think “how can we get rid of the environmental issues?”, but they exist so how do we now deal with this, how do we go through it?

On this note, we will incorporate some of the challenges we are facing in the world today (e.g. systemic racism, gender issues, climate change, war in Ukraine, pandemic trauma, etc.)

How do we move towards taking action on this collectively, rather than just ‘pushing through’ (at best) or ignoring (at worst). Let us discuss, build, and create a space where topic such as these are welcomed.

Micah Anderson Rolling with resistance

Trainer Micah Anderson

Micah Anderson is the Clinical Director of the Mind Body Awareness Project, whose mission is to work with at-risk communities—and those who serve them—offering mindfulness-based mental health tools that support equity, healing, and empowerment.

Micah has also taught retreats and led trainings on mindfulness, trauma-informed care, and mental health in five countries, and also runs a private psychotherapy practice, focusing on mindfulness-based interventions with under-served populations. He is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist with the in the State of California, and lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two children.

Training format

This training consists of 7 sessions that will contain a combination of didactic sections, conversation, and experiential activities (guided meditations, journaling, breakout groups) which will enable the participants to have a deeper understanding of the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of resistance and defense mechanisms.

In addition there will be 6 ‘office hours’ between the sessions which will allow for Q&A as well as practical case discussions from participants related to the subject of resistance.

Don’t turn your head.
Keep looking at the bandaged place;
​that’s where the Light enters you. 
Jalaudin Rumi ​
Supporting book recommendations

'The body Keeps the Score'. Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma. Auteur: Bessel van der Kolk

'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts'. Close Encounters with Addiction. Auteur: Dr Gabor Mate

Learning Objectives

  • Understand why and how resistance occurs in ourselves and those we serve
  • Learn how defense mechanisms connect to trauma and how they are an opportunity for deepening
  • Exploring defense mechanisms in ourselves and our clients and how to begin to engage them
  • Why our own therapeutic practices are essential for the long haul
  • Learn interventions and teachings which will help to “roll” with resistance, be it inter- or intra-personal
  • Nervous system regulation and co-regulation techniques
  • Learning the framework of the Window of Tolerance and its importance when understanding resistance and defenses
  • Trauma informed mindfulness techniques of grounding and resourcing for use with client
  • Vicarious trauma and self care in the face of collective trauma. Self-care as an ethical imperative.
  • Group and Council Practice techniques and approaches that lessen defenses
  • Engage in a safe space and cohort to process and discuss real-time struggles with resistance whether professionally or personally. 
  • Practical approach: Breakout groups, journal and inquiry prompts, guided meditations and interventions, and conversation. 
  • Working with youth and with different cultures: Agency, equity, empowerment 
  • Learn alternative methods  for engaging different demographics, such as storytelling, ritual, movement, art, and music.