TAG Workshops

We offer a variety of 2-hour workshops. Some we have run are:

Lies the DSM told you about Trauma

  1. Define trauma, referencing ACEs and lack, and how the DSM-5 is woefully inaccurate
  2. Introduction to the neurobiology of how the brain protects during/after traumatic experiences.
  3. Demonstrate tools for re-regulation including Vergence, touching on how the brain heals

 

Learn to Hear with Your Eyes

  1. Introduce the basics of the TAG Method and how it grew out of Brainspotting
  2. Demonstrate attuned presence and felt sense paired with relevant eye positions
  3. Demo of method and/or breakouts into dyads for practice
  4. Introduce The TAG Method healing music track, to be employed stand-alone or paired with TAG Method

 

Addiction Whack-A-Mole

  1. Discuss addiction as a trauma response, and not a disorder
  2. Explore the underlying mechanisms of addiction and how a trauma healing approach will garner greater results
  3. Deepen understanding of “self-soothing” and learn more adaptive tools

 

It’s Always more than Meets the Eye – It’s Trauma

  1. There’s more trauma out there than you realize, learn to recognize and redefine trauma responses
  2. Explain the neuroscience of the brain and its ways of managing and reacting to trauma
  3. Tools to reduce and regulate the trauma before you

 

You Probably Know Someone with DID but Don’t Know It

  1. Explain the neuropsychology of Dissociative Identity Disorder
  2. Explore the how and why it is formed as a coping mechanism
  3. Discuss how to work with someone with DID

 

Invisible Traumas – Do you know to ask?

  1. Adoption
  2. Gestation and birth
  3. Epigenetics
  4. Lack and scarcity