Dear Everyone,

For those of you in the UK, here's a summary the trauma and PTSD
counselling events we are putting on over the month of June:

Steve Bisbey (the principal Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR)
trainer in the UK ) will be facilitating three events on trauma
resolution in London.

1. "Critical Issues in Understanding and Resolving trauma" is the
first of these - happening this Friday evening (6th June).
2. "Basic Traumatic Incident Reduction" is the next happening Friday
20th June - a one day workshop.
3. "Thematic TIR and Unblocking" is a two day weekend workshop that
concludes level one TIR training (21-22nd June).

For those of you who are interested to know more, please email me
and I will send you the full details and a map to the first evening
event, happening this Friday.

Best wishes,

Henry
Henry Whitfield
Training Coordinator, TIR UK


Critical issues in understanding and resolving trauma - by Stephen
Bisbey Bsc Psych. , CTS



This talk is on a cognitive model that demonstrates how trauma (and
PTSD) comes about and how its symptoms can be overcome. The model is
presented by its developer Mr. Stephen Bisbey.


The model complements and clarifies the principles underlying the
technique of Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) - a structured
imaginal exposure method for enabling a client to fully assimilate
and accommodate their past traumatic experience. TIR is a method
developed principally by psychiatrist Dr. F.A. Gerbode, Controlled
comparative studies with other methods for resolving PTSD have
demonstrated TIR to be consistently effective at resolving PTSD and
other effects of traumatic stress. It accomplishes this by
gradiently enabling a person to inspect and discharge the emotional
and cognitive content of the trauma. The resolution of the condition
typically ends with a cognitive shift as the client regains
awareness of the cognitions that underlie the emotions of the
Trauma. Experience and testing have shown these cognitive shifts to
be very significant and of a permanent nature for the client.


Time: 7:30 - 9:15pm

Date: 6th June 2003

Fees: £6

Venue: Victim Support Lambeth, Lincoln House, 1-3 Brixton Road,
London, SW9 6DE

Contact: henry@... tel. 020 7813 0903

To attend the evening please contact us in advance so we can plan
for numbers.


More about the speaker:

Stephen Bisbey is a Certified Trauma Specialist, trained in EMDR
(level II), Direct Therapeutic Exposure (DTE), Debriefing and many
other methods. He has worked extensively on formal controlled
studies to compare the effectiveness of TIR, EMDR and DTE in PTSD
resolution. He is co-author of "Brief Therapy for Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder: Traumatic Incident Reduction and related
techniques."

- edited by Windy Dryden. He has worked in the field of Trauma for
20 years and was involved in the development of TIR itself. He is
also innovator of many other TIR related techniques for resolving
other kinds of stress.