World Trauma Day: Kintsugi & Healing from Trauma, Adapting the lessons of Kintsugi to Trauma Informed Care | In-person | Thursday, October 17, 2024 | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm | Presented by Gary Rukin, LPC. Event Flyer
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FREE: 5.5 IDFPR CEU’s for LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, Psychologists. IAODAPCA (pending). Lunch on your own.
PART ONE: Acknowledging the Brokenness
PART TWO: Embracing Imperfection
PART THREE: Applying Golden Connections
PART FOUR: Connecting to Ourselves: A Journey to Inner Harmony
PART FIVE: Interconnected
SUMMARY
This training introduces the Japanese art of Kintsugi as a metaphor for trauma and recovery. It examines how trauma disrupts self-connection and impairs relationships, explores differences between normal and traumatic memories, and introduces Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model. It also looks at how children react to and internalize trauma, affecting attachment formation. The training addresses unconscious bias in self and social stigma, explores emotions and emotional granularity, and introduces Radical Compassion by Tara Brach. Additionally, it highlights the reality of interconnectedness versus the myth of “The Rugged Individual,” the benefits of yoga and other forms of somatic healing, the importance of belonging, and Brené Brown’s BRAVING for boundaries and trust. Finally, it explores how music and rhythm enhance self-connection and connection with others.
OBJECTIVES
- Acknowledge the internal and external brokenness caused by trauma.
- Understand how Kintsugi metaphorically relates to trauma and recovery.
- Comprehend the differences between normal and traumatic memory processing and storage.
- Learn the basics of Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model.
- Explore how young children react to, cope with, and internalize trauma.
- Understand the formation and manifestation of different types of attachment.
- Recognize the importance of reconnection to ourselves and others after trauma.
- Practice and appreciate the significance of Self-Compassion.
- Understand the role of unconscious bias in self and societal stigma.
- Explore the nature of our emotions and the importance of emotional granularity in connecting to them.
- Introduce Radical Compassion as presented by Tara Brach.
- Recognize the reality of interconnectedness versus the myth of “The Rugged Individual.”
- Introduce the benefits of yoga and somatic healing.
- Explore the importance of belonging and ways to achieve it.
- Introduce Brené Brown’s BRAVING for establishing boundaries and building trust.
- Explore how music and rhythm aid in self-connection and connection with others.
PRESENTER
Gary Rukin, LPC, has worked in Community Mental Health for the past twelve years. He serves as the Trauma-Informed Coordinator for the McHenry County Mental Health Board, and has presented trainings on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Understanding Psychosis, Understanding and Treating Emotional Trauma, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Thresholds, The Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Recovery Conference, Northwestern University Hospital, and the Illinois Department of Human Services.
