Healthy Autonomy

Integrative Traumatherapy 

The consequences of trauma are very complex, therefore a complex approach in trauma therapy is necessary. During the last decade some new and powerful therapy methods have been developed such as EMDR (Francine Shapiro), Somatic Experiencing (Peter Levine) or Eye Movement Integration.

In the symptoms of our body, trauma feelings such as frozen pain, fear, anger and powerlessness are stuck. As Wilhem Reich stated, this leads to somatisation and armoring the muscles. By touching the body, traumata can easily be triggered at anytime. Therefore neo-Reichian Bodywork is still up-to-date.

The constellations work of Prof. Franz Ruppert creates a framework for a trans-generational trauma therapy. Traumas and entanglements become visible within an external space, reflected to the client by the representatives. So the client can understand his inner structure.

The approach in my therapeutic work is to use the different methods I have mentioned above to help the client understand his trauma better and reintegrate body and psyche step by step.

Radim Ress, born 1969.
Lives in Prague and works as a therapist individually and in groups,
trained in NLP (Johannes Zeilhoffer), Eye Movement Integration (Woltemade Hartman), Neoreichianian Bodywork (John Hawken), Voice Dialogue (Artho Wittemann),
12 years of practice as a facilitator of constellations, since 2006 following the approach of Prof. Franz Ruppert and organizing his seminars and lectures in Prague as well as translating his books into Czech.

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www.ress.cz

Tel. 0042 (0)607 590 533

Trauma Constellations in the indiviual session

Since 2000 I have made an intensive study of working with the constellations method in the private individual session, including writing a book entitled In the Presence of Many published in 2010, which made a particular focus of the topic. Since engaging with Franz Ruppert's work from 2005, I have developed further ideas about working with trauma and bonding, particularly in the one to one session.

As trauma is essentially an event that renders the person completely helpless and overwhelmed by the forces at work, it is about power and powerlessness. Our facilitation style and approach then must come under particular scrutiny. Working with trauma requires us to pay particular attention to our own state of being, how we relate and interact with the client, and this applies as much to the individual session as to group work.

What does it mean to work phenomenologically in the one-to-one session, to describe rather than interpret? How do we respect the autonomy of the client? How do we stay sensitive to the symbiosis of our relationship with the client without splitting and getting entangled in their symbiotic trauma, and perhaps our own? How do we stay in touch with that delicate interface between what is possible right now and what is not? How do we manage our role as representative and facilitator in light of these issues?

In this workshop I will share my thoughts and ideas, and demonstrate the work of constellation based on Franz's trauma- and bonding theory.

Vivian Broughton
has been working with constellations since 2000, and has been a Gestalt psychotherapist in private practice since 1989. From 2000 to 2010 she has organised a training in Systemic Family Constellations in the UK . She has worked with many of the foremost Constellations practicioners in the field, most prominently over 5 years with Albrecht Mahr. Her subsequent intense study of Ruppert's work since 2005 has resulted in her adoption of his theories and method in her work. In 2012 she is organising and teaching the first English Language Training in Constellations based on Franz Ruppert's work, which will take place in Europe.

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www.vivianbroughton.co.uk

Tel. 0044 (0)117 923 2797