From: Maze, Jenifer
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:41 PM
To: ' announcements@listserv.nctsnet.org '
Subject: Special invitation to Conference sponsored by Nathan Cummings Foundation

 

The Nathan Cummings Foundation is extending a special invitation to NCTSN members to participate in a training conference in the San Francisco area, from May 29 – 31, 2007. Please see details below. This training might be of particular interest to NCTSN programs and their community partners that work with adults who have trauma histories. Lodging and meals at the conference center, as well as the conference registration fee, will be covered for up to 20 NCTSN trainees. Limited funds might also be available for travel to the training conference. Those who are interested should contact Adam Cummings at [removed from web post] before March 29 and identify yourselves as members of the NCTSN.

INVITATION TO CONFERENCE ON PESSO-BOYDEN SYSTEM PSYCHOMOTOR 

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA  MAY 29-MAY 31, 2007  

The Nathan Cummings Foundation is sponsoring a conference featuring a well-established somatically oriented treatment approach to address body-based memories of traumatic events and developmental deprivations. Developed in 1961 by Albert Pesso and Diane Boyden-Pesso, the Pesso-Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) makes use of movement, language, and symbolic re-enactment to enable the client to remember and simultaneously re-experience the emotional body states that originally accompanied those detrimental experiences and continue to emerge in response to reminders of the experience. The client is guided in the creation of new somatic and symbolic activities or structures that remediate the past through the recreation of the original subjective experience and through the creation of new alternative responses that promote trust, vitality, and hope in the pursuit of developmentally appropriate life goals. The PBSP approach is currently used in Norway , Denmark , Holland , Belgium , Switzerland , Germany and many cities in the United States , with long-term certification training available. The conference has been made available to NCTSN sites through the generosity of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. It is particularly recommended for NCTSN sites that work with parents whose somatic preoccupations with their own traumatic experiences prevent them from participating effectively as collaborators in their children's treatment. The UCSF-based Child Trauma Research Project of the Early Trauma Treatment Network (ETTN) is collaborating with the Nathan Cummings Foundation in organizing this conference as a way of expanding its understanding of how to work with battered pregnant women whose emotionally disorganzing preoccupation with their body experiences interferes with their self-care and with their psychological readiness to bond with and care for their babies during the prenatal period and after birth.   The conference will be limited to 20 participants. Please respond to Adam Cummings [removed from webpost] by March 29th.