December 11: Mumbai: Workshop on Healing Trauma the Gentle way
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 Ericksonian 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. Dontations are exempt from tax under
section 80G.
The workshop will be conducted by Dr Dayal Mirchandani, M.D. DPM, who
has been practising 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 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 Erickson 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.