In this 6-day training, broken into two 3-day weekends with 10-hours of consultation (included in the price), participants will learn Addiction as Dissociation Model (ADM) and Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH). This training is specifically for ANYONE who wants to learn more about about our model and approach. This training is for people who want to understand healing (states of, psychological, psychedelic, and spiritual healing). 

Participants will learn Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA) and a variety of other helpful and relevant dissociation and addiction-informed skills and concepts, which were developed to support individual/personal, informed parents, self-help (sponsors/CRPA/Recovery coaches), paraprofessionals (support staff), and licenses clinicians development and identify with their dissociative and addictive profile, obtain unconscious informed consent, check unconscious biases, and lower treatment resistance. 

As a part of our PWH programming, we developed the MASA script and qualitative setup for assessing and screening for dissociation and addictions. This training is for any healthcare provider or healing professional to consider because trauma, dissociation, and addiction are transdiagnostic and non-diagnostic. Along with these, specifically, we will be training in the MASA script with Two Containers, Photo Album, Bulk Blink, Resetting Emotions, and working with Toxic Shame. The combination of ADM and MASA help provide a clear line between what is normal and what is pathology. PWH is a phase model of care that gives guidance on how and when trauma resolution methods should be done. We argue that pathology is sustained dysregulation (dissociative/addictive) and that the absence of unconscious informed consent is what contributes to low treatment outcomes and care resistance. We teach participants how to find the line between normative and pathological presentations and allow your healer’s path to unfold in front of you. We feel that this is invaluable information to all healers and clients. In this training, we invite participants to utilize cannabis products while taking our training, if appropriate, to help explore states of self-healing and therapeutic dissociation.

• Participants will learn the Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH), Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA), and Mindful Dissociation.
• Path of the Wounded Healer is a phase model of care and offers a research-informed approach.
• As a part of MASA, participants will learn Two Containers, Photo Album, and Resetting Emotions.
• Participants will learn Bulk Blink, Shame Shape and Color, Intention Resourcing, Journeying Resourcing, utilizing breath and Integration Resourcing.
• Participants will learn how to incorporate psychedelics (cannabis) into their EMDR, with best practices.
• Aspects of Recovery, Psychedelic Integration, and Posttraumtic Growth are further explored in depth.

ADM was developed by Dr. Adam O’Brien and Dr. Jamie Marich and provides a theoretical basis for our work and this training. ADM is a unifying theory of addiction that explores how the inner-play between trauma and dissociation produce pathological states of addiction. 

PWH highlights the universal spiritual path that we all must take to resolve our dissociative and addictive desires before we die. PWH offers ways for paraprofessionals, medical and psychological professionals, and the recovery community to learn about dissociated states of healing and to help solidify their right to be called healers. 

MASA is a hybrid of the Dissociative Table and common coping skills (Container and Calm Place) that are found in many different approaches and therapies. We teach our Two Containers, Photo Album, and Bulk Blink. These skills are performed in a particular order to help screen and assess for current dissociative and addictive dynamics. MASA is how we obtain unconscious informed consent before doing ANY treatments, providing any care, or taking any medicines (particularly psychedelics). We feel that MASA is the best humanistic and qualitative screening and assessment tool for dissociative and addictive presentations; it provides everyone involved with an opportunity to become more self-aware of where psychological material resides and how to navigate it.

**10 hours of group consultation (or 5 hours of individual (individuals are not included in pricing)) are needed to complete our PWH process. We may require participants to continue consultations before using them with people/clients/participants, particularly if the information or topics were not previously familiar to them. If recommended, additional consultations, at the participant’s expense, may be required before successful completion. Completion of the 6-day training and 10 consultations allows participants to qualify for becoming “trained” in PWH. We recommend doing 2-3 groups between Part 1 and 2 and save the rest for after. Becoming trained is the first step towards certification in the PWH. Participants must also apply to WHI  successfully complete PWH-3, do a total of 20 hours of consultation (includes the 10 hours to get trained), and complete the rest of requirements for certification.

*This training is currently online ONLY

Part 1: $750.00 early bird ($850.00 two-months prior to training date): PAY HERE

Part 2: $750.00 early bird ($850.00 two-months prior to training date) PAY HERE

or

PWH 1 and 2 = 1,400 (early bird): PAY HERE (1,600 two-months prior to first date of PWH Part 1 training date)

*Prices include 5 2-hour group consultations that are only provided by Adam O’Brien at designated times.

* For those interested in utilizing cannabis as a part of this training, they must complete the Admissions process HERE 

(the application fee can be waived, upon full payment).

To become certified in PWH, participants must apply to WHI (application fee is waived for participants who successfully complete of this training (PWH-1 and PWH-2) and are certified in BSP), successfully complete PWH-3, do a total of 20 hours of consultation, and complete the rest of requirements.

Dates: 

Class 1: 2/2/24-2/4/23 PWH-1 (Part 1) and 6/7/24-6/9/24 (Part 2).

*Dates may be able to be transferred in cases of emergency, but keeping with your class is ideal.

6-Day Outline

Day 1: ADM and PWH

Educational Goals:

·      Participants will learn about the historical context of trauma-informed care, psychology, and social justice.

·      Participants will increase their knowledge of the clinical framework and assessment and screening of dissociation and addiction.

·      Participants will explore current trends in trauma-focused care.

·      Participants will learn ADM, PWH and MASA.

·      Participants will increase their understanding of our dissociation model to help clients coping with dissociation in addiction care.

Day 1: Schedule:

9-10am –  Greetings and ADM/PWH Orientation

10:15-12pm – Dissociation-Informed Care and Addiction-Informed Care

12-1 – Break

1-2pm – ADM

2-3pm – PWH Phase Model (Neurodynamic Neutrality/Therapeutic Dissociation)

3:15-5pm – PWH Demo/Debriefing

Day 2: Ego State Meeting Area

Educational Goals:

·      Participants will increase their knowledge of dissociative Meeting Area.

·      Participants will observe Ego State Meeting Area with dissociative/addicted population

·      Participants will have increased knowledge on assessing dissociation.

·      Participants will be able to identify 3 ways to build resources relating to attachment.

·      Participants will be educated on the variety of ways attachment dissociation presents in the addicted population.

·      Participants will be educated on the variety of ways dissociation presents in the dissociated/addicted population.

 Day 2: Schedule:

9-10am –  Small Groups Check-ins and Review

10:15-12pm – Ego State Meeting Area setup and Resourcing (Container, safe/calm place)

12-1 – Break

1-2pm – Memory Reconsolidation

2-3pm – Altered States of Consciousness

3:15-5pm – PWH Applications and Interventions (Meeting Area Practicum)

Day 3: MASA

Educational Goals:

·      Participants will increase their knowledge of dissociation, shame, and attachment or developmental trauma.

·      Participants will practice creating an ego state meeting area.

·      Participants will learn MASA.

·      Participants will integrate material observed from practicum in their small groups.

·      Participants will have increased knowledge on assessing and screening for dissociation.

·      Participants will be helping clients address attachment wounds with ego state interventions.

Day 3: Schedule:

9-10am –  Small Groups Check-ins and Review

10:15-12pm – MASA Orientation and script

12-1 – Break

1-2pm – MASA

2-3pm – PWH Applications

3:15-5pm PWH Interventions (PTG Practicum)

Day 4: Bulk Blink

Educational Goals:

·      Participants will increase their knowledge of memory reconsolidation.

·      Participants will learn the skill of Bulk Blink and Photo Album.

·      Participants will integrate material observed from practicum in their small groups.

·      Participants will have increased knowledge of tending to addiction as dissociation.

·      Participants will be educated on the variety of ways that addiction presents in dissociative states.

·      Participants will review knowledge base of memory reconsolidation and ego state intervention.

·      Participants will engage with the ego state meeting area with resetting emotions practicum.

Day 4: Schedule:

9-10am –  Small Groups Check-ins

10:15-12pm – MASA Script Review

12-1 – Break

1-2pm – Bulk Blink/Photo Album

2-3pm – Parts Work Orientation/Resetting Emotions

3:15-5pm – PWH Applications and Interventions (PTG Practicum)

Day 5: Working with Toxic Shame

Educational Goals:

·      Participants will integrate material observed from practicum in their small groups.

·      Participants will be able to build resources against shame.

·      Participants will tend to shame with the addicted and dissociated population.

·      Participants will work with Toxic Shame.

·      Participants will be able to identify 3 ways to build resources against addiction memory.

Day 5: Schedule:

9-10am –  Small Groups Check-ins and Review

10:15-12pm – Imaginal Exposure Interventions and PWH Script/ Developmental/Attachment trauma, normative addiction, universal addictions

12-1 – Break

1-3pm – Working with Toxic Shame (Demo)

3:15-5pm – PWH Applications and Interventions (Toxic Shame Practicum)

Day 6: Recovery and Positive Psychology

Educational Goals:

·      Participants will integrate material observed from practicum in their small groups.

·      Participants will increase their knowledge of memory expansion with positive memory networks and healthy shame.

·      Participants will explore recovery and positive psychology and how to support posttraumatic growth.

Day 6: Schedule:

9-10am –  Small Groups Check-ins

10:15-12pm – Working with Healthy Shame and Memory Expansion

12-1 – Break

1-2pm – Recovery Principles

2-3pm – Recovery and Positive Psychology

3:15-5pm – PWH Applications and Interventions (PTG/Recovery Practicum)

*DISCLAIMER: In this offering, we invite participants to explore their dissociative profiles to better understand dissociation, addiction, and spiritual states of healing. Wounded Healers Institute (WHI) provides state-dependent learning to help providers become knowledgeable in learning from and working with therapeutic dissociation, altered states of consciousness, normative to clinical dissociation, and universal addictions. As we define in our foundational literature (ADM) (O’Brien, 2023), these states of consciousness are readily accessible for clinicians to support and develop their use of therapeutic dissociation. Our research points toward dissociation making us more grounded, inducing endogenous states of healing, and creating a foundational for supporting our ongoing physical and mental health. Our trainings offer participants the option of consuming cannabis products as a part of their learning process with WHI.