CPD Event title: The Rewind Technique: Effective treatment for trauma (PTSD) and phobias
Brief Description Of Event:
This 2-day workshop gives you the opportunity to see demonstrated, experience, and practice the steps of this powerful technique in a small group under the careful guidance of our expert tutor – and much more…
Why take this course
We have over 25 years of experience in teaching the rewind technique to health and welfare professionals which we’ve drawn on to develop a course that gives you enough time to thoroughly absorb and practice the technique, see it demonstrated, understand why it works and experience it yourself, so that you leave confident in your ability to use the rewind safely and effectively.
A recent NHS study has validated the version of the rewind technique taught on this course. What you will learn >
The Rewind Technique* is an effective psychological intervention for successfully treating trauma and phobias – often in as little as one session. It is one of the most important skills you need to master to be able to work successfully with any anxiety disorder or condition which may have developed as a result of unresolved trauma. Even the most severe phobic and post-traumatic stress (PTSD) symptoms can be successfully addressed using the the rewind technique taught on this 2-day course, which has been refined* in line with understandings from neuroscience to make it as safe and reliably effective as possible.
An essential therapeutic technique to have in your therapeutic ‘toolkit’, it is important to learn and practice it under the careful guidance of our expert tutor – you will leave the course knowing how to use the rewind technique safely and effectively having watched live demonstrations, had plenty of time to practice the steps involved with fellow students, the opportunity to experience the technique yourself and more. Our workshop has limited numbers so you will have plenty of opportunities for asking questions and the tutor, who has extensive clinical experience.
Using the rewind technique you can, often surprisingly quickly, detraumatise bad memories, stop flashbacks and other PTSD symptoms, cure phobias, banish nightmares and reduce anxiety so you can help the victims of abuse, rape, violence, car accidents, fire, terrorism and panic attacks, heart attacks and other life-threatening experiences.
Another key benefit of this technique is non disclosure – there is no need for people to repeatedly revisit or talk about specific details of the events that have traumatised them. This helps avoid embedding the trauma further and making the situation worse – as can sometimes inadvertently happen in other therapeutic approaches to treating trauma – and helps prevent the therapist or counsellor being vicariously traumatised by what they might hear.
It is also invaluable when working therapeutically with people who have suffered persistent physical or sexual abuse, and people with OCD. People suffering from other conditions, such as depression, addictions or uncontrollable anger, may have experienced a traumatic event, which needs to be successfully detraumatised in order for them to move on with their lives.
As a result of our training in the rewind technique – which we have been delivering for over 20 years – our graduates have brought relief to literally thousands of people (eg. case history / PTSD Resolution).
What you will learn
- How to detraumatise people quickly and safely
- The necessary skills to treat even severe phobias
- Why this version of the rewind technique is so effective, and how it works
Under careful guidance from the tutor, you will:
- revisit key skills for relaxing clients in order to successfully work using the technique
- walk and talk through a step-by-step breakdown of the rewind technique
- see a live demonstration of working with a phobia or trauma
- practice each stage of the rewind technique in pairs
- practice the entire process, with other course participants, under supervision
You will also gain:
- Vital tools for psycho-education – both adding to your own understanding and to pass on to clients
- A clear understanding of the fear response and how PTSD and phobias develop
- The detrimental impact traumas and phobias can have on a person’s life
- The crucial role of the pattern-matching processes in the brain in triggering phobic responses and post traumatic stress symptoms
- How the main treatment techniques for treating post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sub-threshold trauma and phobias (including EMDR, EFT and CBT) work – their advantages and disadvantages
- Why the rewind technique draws on the innate ability we all have to recover from trauma
- Pre-disposing factors for suffering a problematic post-traumatic response (or developing a phobia)
- Why critical incident debriefing increases the incidence of PTSD
- How this version of the rewind technique has been modified to make it safer and more reliable
- Trauma-focused rewinding: the psycho-biological reason why this refined rewind technique works so consistently well
- A step-by-step breakdown of the essential stages of the rewind technique
- The chance to see a live demonstration of working with a phobia or trauma
You will leave with:
- The confidence to begin using the technique ethically and safely
- A clear understanding of the advantages of using a non-intrusive psychological technique to treat trauma, PTSD and phobias (where the client does not have to go into details about or repeatedly ‘revisit’ what has traumatised them)
- What to do if a client as an abreaction
- Important information about when not to use this technique – and what can be done instead
- An understanding of how the rewind technique can be used to work with Complex Trauma and cases involving ‘freeze’, shutdown or dissociative responses
- How you can carefully apply this technique to relieve a huge range of anxiety disorders
- Greater confidence in dealing with anxiety disorders and distress caused by trauma, phobias and flashbacks
- An understanding of how rapidly transformative this technique can be; on the last afternoon we view a filmed therapy session (and follow up) in which Joe Griffin uses the rewind technique to relieve a young man of his severe shark phobia
There is also plenty of opportunity for you to ask questions and to experience and practice, under careful guidance, the various stages of the rewind technique yourself.
Who is this course suitable for?
Anyone working with distressed, phobic or traumatised people, who has already taken our Guided Imagery and Visualisation workshop (and ideally the Therapeutic Power of Language workshop too) as these skills are essential components of the rewind technique.
If you help traumatised people (including children) or people suffering from any form of phobia or anxiety disorder – this includes: psychotherapists, counsellors, mental health nurses, OTs, health visitors, social workers, psychiatrists, GPs, clinical psychologists, midwives, welfare officers, youth workers, hypnotherapists and those working with traumatised members of public services, such as: firefighters, police, paramedics and military personnel – you will find the rewind technique and associated skills hugely helpful.
Date of event: Nov 02 & 03, 2027
Duration of Event: 2 days, 9.30am – 4.00pm
Venue for event: Leeds
Name of trainer: Ros Townsend
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Website: https://www.humangivens.com/college/rewind-technique-training-workshop/
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Cost of Course: £440