Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma

Hello,

Wouldn't you like a hand in interrupting intergenerational trauma?

Can you imagine the satisfaction of knowing you were involved in a profound act of healing that affected more than one person…one family…but generations of people?

That you helped end a legacy of crappy parenting?

That would be powerful.

When Dafna Lender was working with children with major attachment and trauma wounds…when she was burned out and doubted her path as a new therapist…when she thought of leaving social work to become a mortgage broker…she discovered two modalities that helped to transform her personal and professional existence.

Her insights helped her see why her own parents behaved as they did. Suddenly, she felt the intergenerational transmission of trauma.

And she knew how to stop it in its tracks.

Now, Dafna has combined what she learned from those two modalities, integrated her years of experience working with families, and funneled her passion for healing attachment wounds in this new course:

Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma: Helping Your Clients Heal Attachment Wounds Through Parent-Child Relationships

You don't have to take the long road like Dafna did. You can take a shortcut to stopping the cycle of attachment trauma.

Learn the process to heal attachment trauma through one's relationship with their children and/or parents.

Create a greater sense of hope, purpose, and legacy for your clients.

Warmly,

Academy of Therapy Wisdom

Dafna Lender, LCSW

What Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma Course Does for You

Instead of…..

Feeling stuck….

Being limited by your tools and skills….

Not knowing how to take healing to the next level…

You can….

Open up a whole new avenue in your practice

Invite your clients into a revolutionary way of working with attachment

You can create a greater sense of hope, purpose, and legacy for your clients

What Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma Course Provides You

In this on-demand workshop you will explore:

Module 1: Making the Case & Setting the Stage

First, we will define what intergenerational trauma is. We'll discuss the rationale and motivation for offering an adult client who is also a parent the opportunity to focus on their relationship with their child as a way of interrupting the cycle of intergenerational trauma.

You will learn:

What intergenerational trauma is so you can recognize and understand its power

How focusing on the relationship with a client's child will help your client feel better, happier, and more satisfied with their own life

Who and when this intervention would be appropriate so you can introduce it to clients

How to introduce this intervention to clients so you can help them transform their attachment wounds

Module 2: Nervous system responses to the client's child

In Module 2, you will learn about how the polyvagal theory helps us understand our strong negative emotions of fight, flight, and collapse. We will use the concept of the autonomic ladder to "map out" our reactions to our children in different conflictual or stressful circumstances. Then, we will learn how to respond to these states with calming techniques. A live demonstration will be shown.

You will learn:

The polyvagal theory so you can understand why parents have strong negative responses to their child

How to map out your own autonomic ladder to increase your self-awareness

How to interpret the exercise so you can help clients become more familiar with their negative responses and develop skills to calm them

Module 2 Nervous system responses to the client's Child

Module 3: Working with Non-Conscious Beliefs

In this module, you will learn to help clients uncover the sensations that they have in their body as well as their non-conscious beliefs when they are in a conflictual situation with their child. Then, we will learn the practice of installing a message of self-compassion with an experiential ritual. This will be demonstrated by a live example. We will then discuss how this helps the client to become calmer and more grounded so they can connect with their child more effectively.

You will:

Become aware of negative body sensations that arise when parents are in a conflict with their child

Discover your non-conscious negative beliefs so you can work consciously with them

Practice an experiential exercise that will install a message of self compassion within yourself

Learn how to use that exercise to help calm and ground your clients so that they can be more available to connect with their child

Module 4: Successful Parent-Child Communication

In the final module, you will learn how to guide clients to have more connected and peaceful conversations with their children, no matter their age. Therapists will learn about the PACE Attitude, which is a technique for conducting a successful conversation with a child. The PACE Attitude focuses on being an empathic and connected listener rather than giving advice, reassurance, or explanations to a child. Examples will be given for various types of interactions with children of various ages.

You will:

Learn about the PACE Attitude and how you can apply it

Become familiar with various uses and types of scenarios of the Attitude so it becomes an easily-used tool for you

Develop ways for clients to experiment with the Attitude so you can troubleshoot if they aren't sure they've done it right

Integrate all of the techniques together so you can build a healing and connected relationship with a client and their child

Reflect on how improving the relationship between parent and child helps adults with their own childhood history

Module 4 Successful Parent-Child Communication

Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma:

Helping Your Clients Heal Attachment Wounds Through Parent-Child Relationships

With Dafna Lender, LCSW

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An on-demand 3-hour video training with Dafna Lender, LCSW

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We are confident you will learn new skills in this online training. However, If during your first 7 days with this course, you don't believe you will learn anything to enhance your practice, please contact our support team at support@therapywisdom.comwithin 7 days of purchase and we will give you a full credit or exchange for another course, no questions asked.

Meet Your Presenter

Dafna Lender, LCSW

Dafna Lender, LCSW, is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), as well as an EMDR therapist. Dafna's expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care, and private practice. Dafna's style- whether as a therapist or teacher - is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense, and passionate presence to every encounter. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy and co-author of Theraplay: The Practitioner's Guide. She teaches and supervises clinicians in 15 countries and in 4 languages.

Hear what folks who have learned
from Dafna have to say…

"An accessible, intuitive, optimistic, and compassionate strategy to strengthen the parent-child relationship."

"Dafna Lender presents an integrated therapeutic approach as an accessible, intuitive, optimistic, and compassionate strategy to strengthen the parent-child relationship. The product of this integration is a transformative therapeutic strategy that leverages the importance of both child and parent feeling safe enough to trust each other."

- Stephen Porges, Ph.D., author of The Polyvagal Theory and Clinical applications of the Polyvagal Theory

"If parents and therapists follow Dafna's guidance, they can make significant progress in reducing attachment trauma in future generations."

"Dafna's framework uses the power of neuroplasticity to provide parents and children with new experiences of safety and connection that shift trauma-informed relationships. It offers a powerful mental health intervention that can help families to heal. If parents and therapists follow Dafna's guidance, they can make significant progress in reducing attachment trauma in future generations."

- Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score

"I learned so much from every question she answered and every video she showed."

"I loved how Dafna modeled PACE for all of us -- she was curious and playful and empathic and accepting of all of us and all we brought. She modulated her affect to go with what the group needed at all times. Plus she has so many years of experience and knowledge, I learned so much from every question she answered and every video she showed. Would love to take future trainings with Dafna!"

- Emma R.

"Dafna's expertise is amazing."

"I liked the real-life examples, and Dafna's expertise is amazing. I particularly like that she looks beyond the behavior to what is driving the behavior. And the ideas about body placement, eye contact, touch or not touch in regards to connection and de-escalation are priceless."

- Michele T.

"She says the hard things…"

"Dafna does an excellent job of explaining the approach she uses with high-need children… She gives very specific examples which are helpful to get a sense of how to use these strategies in real life… She says the hard things, like 'You need to work on yourself so you can show up better for your child."

- Brooke F.

"She knows the problems parents are facing and…the solutions."

"I liked Dafna's straight-forwardness. She obviously knows the common problems parents are facing and is able to talk directly about the solutions. I like how her approach is compassionate, and she opened up my mind about how a child's nervous system could be affecting their behavior."

- Stephanie W.