"All of us have old learnings held in the subconscious brain that color the way we experience and interact with the world. But these perceptions are not always true. Your clients can undo these old learnings and take in deeper truths about themselves and the world so their lives can be filled with self-trust and resilience. Memory Reconsolidation is the science of how that shift happens."
-Juliane Taylor Shore
Crack the code of the Three Principles of Memory Reconsolidation
Learn the skills that complement the Principles of Memory Reconsolidation
Recognize the "light bulb" moments that show you Memory Reconsolidation is occurring
Become more confident in your ability to serve your clients
It's time to learn all about memory! You will learn about explicit and implicit memory systems and take a look at how memory is created and re-experienced, and how it changes. We will uncover the core elements that are necessary for reconsolidation to be completed so that you don't miss any crucial steps and can set the stage for success in every client visit. Once you have this knowledge, you will have the tools and skills to support therapeutic reconsolidation experiences.
In this session, these topics are discussed:
Memory and Perception - How memory is recalled and the "psychological floor" that holds memory so you can identify implicit memory when it shows up
Memory Consolidation and Reconsolidation - When you know how memory happens, you'll understand which therapies are inherently doing memory reconsolidation (whether they know it or not) and why reconsolidation doesn't "work" all the time (and what you can do to support your client in those stuck moments)
Sticky Symptoms and Emotional Knowing - Learn the difference between a symptom and an emotional knowing, how the symptom came to be, and how it shows up so you can recognize it
How Brains Are Complicated - What to do when emotional knowings will not unlock, how to detect mismatches in the mind, and the right brain state for mismatches can be resolved
A demo tape that shows the three basic principles in action
The brain has to be in a certain state for reconsolidation to occur. Learn how to create the right balance of activation and regulation - at the same time - so the mismatch can be both discovered and integrated. You'll also discover that stances you hold might hinder your client's reconsolidation process.
In this session, these topics are discussed:
Healing Brain States - The relationship between mismatch detectors and the juxtaposition process so you can facilitate more reliable reconsolidation
Building Coherence - How to facilitate coherence through deep listening
Building Compassion - How to support your client's regulation through compassion, coherence, dual empathy, and presence
Therapeutic Presence - How letting go and trusting while using clinical tools will support mismatch and juxtaposition processes
Demo tapes of healing brain states, finding coherence, finding compassion, dual empathy
Recognizing this difference between the symptom and the emotional knowing is essential to supporting memory reconsolidation. Missing this distinction is one of the common reasons that clinicians feel unable to assist their clients with reconsolidation experiences. Another common issue that is addressed in this module is how to support the network holding the emotional knowing in an embodied way so it can become open to learning new information. You will leave with interventions and tools to help your clients discover their subconscious knowings and deepen their embodied experiences.
In this session, these topics are discussed:
Emotional Knowing or Sticky Symptom? - How to identify emotional knowings as differentiated from your client's symptom, and the precise language to use so you can help your clients reconsolidate with more ease and permanence
Symptom Deprivation and Sentence Completion - Learn the interventions for symptom deprivation and sentence completion and how to slow down enough to listen for the image, history, or language
Tracking the Joints and the Viscera - How to track the basal ganglia, joints, limbic system, and viscera as a way to find emotional knowings
Helping the Knowing Become Embodied - Get enough electricity flowing through the network so the prediction is embodied and active and the mismatch will be discovered naturally.
Demo tapes of symptom vs. knowings, symptom deprivation and sentence completion intervention, tracking viscera, helping the knowing become alive in the body, and using parts map to find the emotional knowing
The key for Memory Reconsolidation is to notice the moment of mismatch and learn how to recognize a successful opening in previously locked networks. You will learn to spot spontaneous reconsolidations and juxtapositions and learn how to support them to completion. You will also learn how to create spaces in which clients will find their own mismatches that are already present within themselves and learn what to do when a needed mismatch is not present. Finally, you will learn how to double check your reconsolidation work.
In this session, these topics are discussed:
Finding the Mismatch, It Is Already There - Learn to recognize when a mismatch or spontaneous juxtaposition has successfully occurred and how to wait for your client to discover it
What About When There Is Not a Mismatch - How to build mismatch through mindful focus and interventions you can use (such as using yourself) to create new experiences for your client
Keeping a Reconsolidation Going Once It Starts - The five-hour window for deeper integration, going back and forth between knowing and mismatch, and interventions to use right after a session
Double Checking the Reconsolidation - How to check-in about a symptom after reconsolidation and what to do if it didn't work
Demo tapes of a mismatch moment, back and forth, and using yourself as juxtaposition
Memory reconsolidation is a powerful tool for several specific issues. It can be helpful with improving self-worth and empowerment, in attachment repair, and in unlocking couples that are mired in long-held stories about who the other is. You will also explore how shock trauma is helped with memory reconsolidation.
In this session, these topics are discussed:
Memory Reconsolidation and Self Worth - Understand the points of origin and consolidation of belief for low self-worth as symptom, and and learn several interventions so you can use to improve your work with clients who struggle with self-worth
Memory Reconsolidation and Empowerment - Understand the points of origin and consolidation of belief for low empowerment emotional knowings, and use memory reconsolidation experiences to discover resiliency and empowerment in embodied forms so you can improve your work with clients who struggle with a history and current experiences of oppression, threat, and disempowerment.
Memory Reconsolidation and Attachment - A review of attachment theory and how to look at attachment through the lens of prediction so you can set up scenarios for predictions and mismatches for your clients with attachment difficulties
Memory Reconsolidation and Couples - Untangle the knowing from personal history and within the couple dance and introduce interventions in your couples sessions
Memory Reconsolidation with Shock Trauma - Learn to separate the knowing from the incident and how to find the mismatch in the body so you can help your clients embody their survival
Demo tapes of memory reconsolidation for self-worth, empowerment, and couples counseling
"Jules has helped me find clarity in the murky waters of trauma work."
Her incredible capacity to distill complex science into heart-felt wisdom and tangible guidance makes the deeper work feel suddenly accessible and clear.
- Tori Olds, PhD, psychologist and educator, Austin, TX
"This new knowledge…has helped many of my couple clients to achieve the 'whoosh' of realization that makes profound change possible."
The clarity and accessibility of the descriptions of brain function that Jules has provided have transformed
my understanding. The outcomes are immeasurable… I can explain concepts - such as the way in which our 'history channels' constantly tweak our experience of the present moment - with a renewed confidence.
- Mary, couples therapist and trainer, Ireland
"Jules created the most emotionally safe, inviting, connected training space I've experienced in my 12+ years as a therapist."
Jules has a beautiful gift of taking difficult to understand or complex material and translating it a digestible, concise manner... I am immensely grateful for how she has consolidated and streamlined research, technique, and theory into something actually applicable in the room with people.
- Natalie, therapist, Austin, TX
"Jules pulled back the curtain and showed me the science behind the magic of psychotherapy!"
I needed the science although I love the magic!"
- Charla, LPC Associate, Austin, TX
"[Working with Jules] has helped me to help every single one of my clients to heal and reach their potential."
Learning her unique approach to neuroscience and integrating so many of her exercises and interventions into my work, has helped me to help every single one of my clients to heal and reach their potential.
- Sue, psychotherapist, England
"My pen or typing skills have a hard time keeping up with all of the wealth of information she shares."
Jules has a brain that can capture, hold and integrate information from most all therapeutic frameworks,
interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB), Polyagal, Somatic and the most recent and relevant research. She takes that information and makes it understandable to others. I have been training with Jules for 5 years on a regular basis and I know what I am learning and bringing to my clients is the best clinical practices and interventions. After each session, I am more confident in the chair and I see transformation with my clients.
- Janai, LCSW therapist, Austin, TX