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Traumatic Incident Reduction and Life Stress Reduction (TIR)

• About Traumatic Incident Reduction and Life Stress Reduction (TIR)

The Traumatic Incident Reduction and Life Stress Reduction approach is taught in 5 workshops:

• Level I Module 1- Introduction to Traumatic Incident Reduction - Basic TIR
• Level I Module 2- Introduction to Traumatic Incident Reduction - Thematic TIR and Unblocking
• Level II - TIR Expanded Applications
• Level III - Metapsychology Schema Coaching Workshop
• Life Stress Reduction - Treatment plans for a wider range of problems
• TIR Exploration and Enhanced Rapport Workshop
• Accreditation as TIR practitioner

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About Traumatic Incident Reduction and Life Stress Reduction (TIR)

Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is an integrative mindfulness-oriented approach to counselling, best known for addressing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The broader subject of TIR and Life Stress Reduction provides a well developed, thorough and coherent model for mindfulness-based case-formulation and integrative mindfulness-based counselling.

The broader subject of metapsychology is a systematic approach for enabling detached, non-judgmental observation of almost any inner or outer world event, whether cognitive, emotive, physiological, behavioural or other.

Tools are varied, person-focused and applied in order to:

1. maintain congruence with the client's own experience
2. to maximise client engagement moment to moment, and
3. to cater to the client's mental resources and problem type at a given time.

The approach also consists of useful strategies for accessing awareness the client was previously unable to access. The broader subject of metapsychology is also multimodal, consisting of coaching methods for affecting behavioural changes in the service of specific values (c.f. ACT).

All tools enable the client to achieve greater equanimity with respect to his/her mental and physical environments.

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Traumatic Incident Reduction (4 day workshop)

Trainer: Henry Whitfield

Date: 10-13th Sept 2010
Fee: £480 
Venue: A large family house in its own grounds 6 miles SW of Cambridge. B&B, Lunch and Evening meal can be arranged if required

Basic Traumatic Incident Reduction

This part covers:

• A contextualization of Trauma and TIR
• Mindfulness for two - enabling mindful observation within a one-to-one counselling environment
• How to perceive if the client is engaged in processing unassimilated material
• Optimising the client's ability to make progress
• Each attendee will both give and receive real TIR sessions after supervised practice of a range of skills
• Recognizing shifts in 'meta-awareness' and other optimum points for ending the session

Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is a non-evaluative, client-titrated, mindfulness-oriented procedure that enables the client to undo repression and increase awareness of past events that still effect his present. The basic TIR procedure also responds to how traumatic experiences 'network' and identifies other less obviously related incidents that can be complicit in the maintenance of symptoms. The broader subject of TIR consists of a range of theoretically consistent counselling tools, designed to respond to many different needs and situations.

TIR workshop Level I Module II Thematic TIR and Unblocking

This part completes the first level of TIR training. Once completed you are in a position to build up TIR client hours for your Accreditation with the Traumatic Incident Reduction Association. It includes another form of TIR - Thematic TIR - a method for reaching traumatic incidents that the client is unaware he has. TIR is a client-titrated approach and therefore the client decides what he/she is ready to look at. Unblocking procedure, also taught on this workshop, is a way to prepare a client for more challenging exposure work.

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Level II TIR - Expanded Applications Workshop, 3 days (TIR-EA)

Trainer: Henry Whitfield

Date: TBA
Venue: Mindfulness Training Offices, Primrose Hill, London
Fee: £360 (£340 if booked four weeks in advance)

This workshop greatly expands upon the first level of TIR training, moving you into the subject of designing detailed case formulations. This is done using a well developed approach for integrating a wide range of tools into a single treatment plan. This highly coherent model of mindfulness-based caseformulation and treatment serves as an excellent platform for integrating mindfulness-based therapies. See below for more details.
This workshop was developed after extensive interviews with graduates of the TIR Workshop. The new methods taught in this workshop enable students to administer detailed and coherent treatment plans for addressing the majority of client issues encountered in general practice.

Section I - The Basics

Review of the common trouble spots
Engagement - What is a Session? How to better engage a client
Communication Exercises - Methods for enhancing rapport with clients
Additional tactics for clients who struggle to contact certain incidents/emotions

Section II - Case Preparation and Case Progress

Exploration as a Lead-in to TIR
Short Unlayering and Recall Techniques - repetitive observation on specific caseformulated areas
"Get the Idea" - A mindful exercise for addressing unhealthy fixed ideas/beliefs
Communication with the Body - tuning in to your body's needs and sensations
Disturbance Handling - Defusing emotional charge from relationship upsets
Unblocking Relationships - Defusing stress from very difficult relationships
Grounding Techniques - These involve the client focusing repetitively on the present moment.

Section III - Further Applications of TIR

TIR on Pleasant Experiences - For increasing ego-strength (repetitive observation of the positive)
Communication with a Departed Loved One - For bereavement
Future TIR - For overcoming fears of imagined futures
Long-Term Trauma - Dealing with Type II PTSD - Enabling clients to separate incidents

Section IV - Case Planning

Some Case Planning Notes
Handling Wrong Indications - For overcoming the effects of invalidation from others/bullying
Gradient of Viewing Actions - An approach for making
smoother progress when employing a range of tools (tool categorisation)
Treatment Plans Using the Chart Method, Including Sample Intake Assessment

Section V - Remedial Actions

Using Unblocking to Repair TIR

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Level III Metapsychology Schema Coaching Workshop (SW)

Trainer: Henry Whitfield

Dates: TBA
Fee: £260, or £240 if booked four weeks in advance

Schema coaching is a method for use when a client:

• Needs motivation
• Has difficulty choosing a direction in life
• Is unsure of his or her goals
• Has difficulty in reaching goals
• Cannot see how he or she might realize goals

This course teaches a systematic approach to examining and streamlining the path to achieving our goals in life. It also provides effective tools for overcoming emotional charge accumulated after past failures and tools for clarifying goals and values.

A partial list of course contents:

• The Six Domains of life - The self - Intimates - Groups - Humankind - All life - Infinity
• Balance Negative with Positive Gain
• Having as a Subjective State
• Loss of Having - what makes clients cling to even negative conditions and how to overcome this
• The Modus Operandi - Examining what the client actually does on a daily basis
• Aligning modus operandis with the client's goals and other aspects of life.
• Schema Exercises
• Methods for clarifying goals
• Symptoms of an Unconfronted Problem

Testimonial:

"Amongst the many approaches to coaching around, Henry Whitfield's Schema Workshop stands out as the most innovative and effective that I have come across. It is excellent value for money and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to any life coach or counsellor."
Nicola Martin, DHP, DCH, FICH, Principal of the Institute of Clinical Hypnosis, London

(This programme is co-sponsored by Applied Metapsychology International (AMI) and TIR UK. AMI is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. AMI maintains responsibility for the programme.)

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Level IV TIR - Case Planning for TIR and Life Stress Reduction (CP-LSR)

Trainer: Henry Whitfield

Dates: TBA
Venue: Mindfulness Training Offices,Primrose Hill,London

Fee: £360 (£340 if booked four weeks in advance)

This workshop introduces participants to a much broader range of metapsychological techniques and also has an extensive section on Case Planning. The term 'Life Stress Reduction' relates to the goal reducing general life stress. That is, counselling for overcoming the effects of any kind of stress or psychological disturbance, not just the effects of known traumas. Below is a partial list of the course contents:

Assessment Interviews
Different types of technique
The effects of withheld communication during the session and the client's life.

Unlayering techniques addressing:

Problem solving
Giving and receiving help
Expectations
Charge on Self/self-esteem
Liking and disliking
The ability to face up to difficulty
Handling criticism

Tolerating imperfection
Feel good techniques
Grounding techniques tailored to specific charged objects
Dealing with change
Happiness
Giving and receiving
Expanded Unblocking with synonyms
Balance the Negative with the Positive
Listing techniques

Life Stress List (LSL) for general charged areas
Addressing Emotionally charged persons
Techniques for Body Image problems
Recall Lists and methods for accessing forgotten or repressed memories

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Exploration and Enhanced Rapport Workshop

Trainer: Henry Whitfield

Date TBA
Fee: £225
Venue: Mindfulness Training Offices, Primrose Hill, London

The material in this workshop is taught by its author Marian Volkman and covers the fundamentals of communication itself.

In this workshop you will gain a whole new perspective on communication. In a series of exercises we reveal and examine those vital elements necessary for success as practitioners of many helping methods, not only TIR. This is done in the context of enhancing rapport with our clients within a mindfulness-based environment.

In the second half of the workshop we take a detailed look at the art of Exploration, a technique that, unlike TIR, has no predetermined questions. You will learn how to remain client-led while using this relatively unstructured technique.

Your mastery of Exploration in all its various applications ensures smoother progress for your clients and greater satisfaction for both client and facilitator. Structured techniques are only appropriate as and when they match the needs of a particular situation. It therefore follows that one may cease applying a particular structure at any moment during a session.

This workshop focuses on how to ask appropriate questions that are useful to the client between, during or in lieu of structured techniques. The style of communication practised is gently directive yet non-evaluative and mindful in attitude.

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Accreditation as TIR practitioner offered at two levels:

TIR practitioner
Advanced TIR practitioner

This consists of 50 hours supervised practice per level (100hours for advanced practitioner accreditation), followed by the submission of tape recorded sessions for assessment.

Continuing education credits offered:

• APA: The TIR programme is co-sponsored by Applied Metapsychology International (AMI) and Mindfulness Training. AMI is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. AMI maintains responsibility for the programme and its contents.
• ATSS: The credit hours for thw TIR training may be applied towards certification and recertification as a trauma specialist, a trauma responder, and a Trauma Services Specialist with the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists (ATSS)
• NASW: This program was approved by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) (provider # 886415259) for up to 28 continuing education contact hours.

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