Through Trauma - in Families, Organizations and Society - to Creative Solutions
9:00 AM Feb 3 - 5:00 PM Feb 4, 2024
Pacific Time
*** Registration will close at 4:00 PM on Friday, February 2, 2024. No registrations are possible after this time, no exceptions. ***
All times listed are in Pacific Time (PT) unless otherwise noted.
PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- Pre-registration is required. Registration closes at 4 PM on the day before the event.
- You will receive confirmation and details by email. Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.
- This is a two-day program. Registration is only available for both days.
- The program presentation runs from at 9 AM to 5 PM on Saturday, February 3, and 9:30 AM to 1 PM on Sunday, February 4. See below for full schedule.
- This program is being presented in person only. Signature is required for CE Credit.
- 9 CE credits are offered for this program.
with Jerry Fromm and Richard Morgan-Jones
presented by the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations in conjunction with
the New Center for Psychoanalysis
"Bullets don't just travel through skin and bone. They travel through time."
These words were tattooed onto the shoulder of a young woman whose father was shot during "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland.
This wrenching, volatile but also binding truth is the subject of this workshop. It's a truth about traumatic experiences that happen to a family, but also to a society and to the organizations that link these intimate units with the larger context of history and culture. And it's also a truth about the way trauma plays out over time, including between generations.
This set of in-depth presentations and discussions will take up various manifestations of trauma and considerations about how to understand and address them. This work will also address dynamics within campaigning and social justice organizations, where there can be the challenge of containing conflicting emotions, especially between sub-groups, leading to the need to attend to trauma alongside the need to recruit and fight for the cause.
The workshop also features the use of the Trilogy Matrix, a reflective methodology that provides the possibility of thinking more clearly about the interrelatedness of personal, group and contextual trauma dynamics.
SCHEDULE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Day One will cover two sessions. Session 1 will give members the chance to meet as a group and explore what has brought them to the Workshop and what they hope for from it. This will lead into a presentation and discussion on the nature of trauma. Case material will be used, including from a Trilogy event exploring the traumatized and invaded skin in the first “Poland on the Couch” conference. This will introduce the Trilogy matrix experience, which offers a potential integration of perspectives from across individual, group and contextual dynamics (see below). Session 1 will include a Trilogy event, for the further exploration of dimensions of people’s own experiences in engaging with traumatized situations. Session 2 will introduce a presentation and discussion on the theme of (Im)possible dialogues, which may be between parts of the self, between groups or between generations. The way in which trauma shapes large group identity will also be discussed. Session 2 will also include further use of the Trilogy method.
8:30 – 9:00 | Check In
9:00 – 10:30 | Session 1, Part 1
10:30 – 11:00 | Break
11:00 – 12:30 | Session 1, Part 2
12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 | Session 2, Part 1
3:00 – 3:30 | Break
3:30 – 5:00 | Session 2, Part 2
(6 credit hours)
SCHEDULE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Day Two will focus on the third and final session. Session 3 will introduce a presentation and discussion on the theme of Creative innovations and new beginnings, which will take up the establishment of potential space and some of the dynamics that occur within it. We will then move to an elaboration and application of the workshop experience to situations members have engaged with and conclude with space for reviewing learning and new possibilities.
9:00 – 9:30 | Check In
9:30 – 11:00 | Session 3, Part 1
11:00– 11:30 | Break
11:30 – 1:00 | Session 3, Part 2
(3 credit hours)
The Trilogy Matrix
The experiential elements of the workshop will include the use of a version of the Trilogy Matrix event developed by Richard Morgan-Jones. This approach uses three nested circles, working one at a time to separate out what belongs to a) the person and family, b) the group/system and c) the context. It provides an experiential framework for reflecting on experience and making links to material presented from each of these three perspectives that are central to the systems psychodynamic approach. Rather as a physical therapist will focus on the development of one muscle group at a time, before integrating them, this approach separates out and practices each dimension of experience before integration can take place. This provides a coherent model that also explores how each dimension impacts the others. This model has been used in assisting groups in working through traumatized experience.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
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Summarize the key features of trauma, including the difference between conceptual and pre-conceptual trauma
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Explain how past trauma in individuals and families influences current trauma
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List the effects of trauma on identity, including the phenomenon of moral injury
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Assess the transmission of trauma across generations
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Explain large group identity and describe its role in societal conflict
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Describe the difference between collective trauma and chosen trauma
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Describe the "How are they right?" stance
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Summarize the characteristics of potential space
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Assess the strength or fragility of the containment around different traumatized systems
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Explain and work with the process of the intervenor's internalizing the group problem and link it to the capacity to survive in role
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Summarize the interrelatedness of individual, family, organizational and societal influences
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Apply the learning from case examples
Presenters
Jerry Fromm, PhD, ABPP, is a Distinguished Faculty member and former Director of the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center and a Fellow of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis. He is President of the International Dialogue Initiative, an interdisciplinary group that studies the psychodynamics of societal conflict, and a past president of ISPSO and the Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems in Boston. He currently consults to organizations, including psychoanalytic institutes, and leads training workshops. Dr. Fromm’s most recent book is Traveling through time: How trauma plays itself out in families, organizations and society.
Richard Morgan-Jones is a group relations, organizational consultant and coach. He is a supervising senior psychoanalytic psychotherapist of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, member British Psychoanalytic Council and OPUS, Distinguished Member of the International Society for Psychoanalytic Society of Organizations, Mentor A.K. Rice Institute, Visiting Faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India and Higher School of Economics Moscow, Director of Work Force Health: Consulting and Research, and author of The Body of the Organisation and its Health, London: Karnac. He has run a number of seminars and workshops in Moscow with HSE and APCBC, for whom he consults to a developing group relations program.
Program Coordination
This program was coordinated by members of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations: Jeffrey Axelbank, Leslie Goldenberg, Michael Lindsay, and Aaron Nurick. ispso.org
Target Audience: This program is directed to those interested in the inter-relatedness of traumatized experience between personal, group, and societal levels, including mental health providers of all levels, organizational consultants, community leaders, and activists.
CE/CME credits: 9 CE/CME credits (Certificates are downloadable through the NCP website 5-10 business days after the program.)
FEES:
Two-Day Registration: in person only
NCP and ISPSO Members Registration: $425
General Registration: $475
Student (candidates, students, psychiatric residents) Registration: $300
Please contact byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have trouble registering.
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The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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