- Neglect, abuse & attachment formation
- Traumatic attachment
- Early attachment & shaping attachment to self
- Internal attachment styles
- Identify manifestations of self-alienation
- Recognize self-alienation as a survival strategy
- Split brain & conflicting defensive strategies
- Primary structural dissociation vs. secondary
- What to do when the parts highjack the body
- Repair internal attachments
- Help clients overcome the challenge of self-acceptance
- Sensorimotor principles of treatment
- Prerequisites for successful treatment
- Mindfulness & psychoeducation
- Implications of procedurally learned patterns
- Autonomic adaptation
- Teach clients skills to regulate arousal
- Somatic resources for traumatic reactions
Blending
- The questions trauma survivors don’t know to ask
- Blending
- Unblending: step-by-step
- Sensorimotor approaches to unblending
Befriending our Parts
- Awaken an observer
- Help clients achieve distance from symptoms
- Decoding: identify parts
- Speak the language of parts to decrease phobia of traumatized parts
- Encourage self-leadership
- Recognize the role each part plays in survival
- Assist clients with learning to “ask inside”
- Facilitate internal communication
- What does each part need?
- Establish relationships with parts
- Cultivate empathy for the parts
- The befriending questions
- Rupture & repair of internal attachment
- Provide missing experiences for parts
- Role of mentalization
- Requirements of integration
- What to do when clients get highjacked
- Utilize the Social Engagement system





