Mumbai: Healing Trauma the Gentle Way - Workshop Details

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Dear FORUM,

The Behavioural Science Network has organised a workshop on Healing

Traumatic Stress on Thursday 11th December 2008.

The focus of this workshop will be on the use of gentle means to heal trauma in

ways that do not require the person to re-experience the pain and which

scientific research shows leads to re-traumatisation and worsening or

persistence of the trauma symptoms.

The evidence has been persuasive enough for the World Health Organisation to

recommend against the dominant model of debriefing after disaster or emergency

situations (Mental Health in Emergencies: WHO 2003).However this still continues

to be the most used intervention following a disaster.

In the first half we will discuss the effects of severe psychological

trauma and how the body and brain respond to this.

We will teach simple ksonian and NLP techniques to relieve acute stress.

More importantly, in the second half, we will discuss how to use techniques

drawn from Narrative practices that have been used by professionals in Israel,

the Gaza strip and Rwanda to help master the effects of catastrophic

experiences.

We will also cover the use of psychiatric medication and other

treatment methods for severe or chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

(PTSD). The workshop will be of interest to counsellors,

psychotherapists and social workers working with trauma victims.

Date & Time: Thursday 11th December 2008 from 10 am to 5 pm

Venue : Lokhandwala Complex Andheri (W), Mumbai

Registration : To register please call Anjali on (022) 22901720.

Email registrations will not be accepted.

Please do not call Dr Mirchandani as he has no say in the registration process.

On confirming your participation further details of the venue will be

provided.

Please register early as we have had many responses to an

earlier email and will be registering people on first come first

serve basis.

A sandwich lunch, tea and coffee will be provided. There is NO fee for the

workshop. However we request participants make a donation by cheque to " CHIP "

(Children in Pain) an NGO that works to help underprivileged children. Dontation

are exempt from tax under

section 80G.

The workshop will be conducted by Dr Dayal Mirchandani, M.D. DPM, who

has been practicing Behavioural Medicine and Hypnotherapy since 1980.

He has been a Member of the Board of Studies (Psychology) of both

S.N.D.T. and Mumbai Universities and on the Committee for the

selection of teachers in Psychology at Mumbai University.

The USIS invited him to America under its International Visitors Program in 1990

for his research on treating poor addicts from the slums and streets of Mumbai.

He co-founded the National Addiction Research Centre (NARC) and continues to be

a governing body member of NARC which runs

a 20 bedded in-patient facility for the poor.

He helped at a refugee camp during the 1993 communal riots and some survivors at

NARC following the riots.

He has authored articles and books for the layman. He currently has a column in

Reader's Digest India. He has conducted many workshops on therapy and hypnosis

over the years.

The Behavioural Science Foundation has arranged to have many leading

therapists from various organisations conduct trainings in Mumbai

including from the kson Foundation, Focusing Institute, Jung

Institute Zurich , Process Work (Arnold Mindell), NLP (1987) and more

recently some of the best known Narrative therapists from across the

globe.

The Behavioural Science Network

e-mail: <behavnet@...>