Psychosocial Development Stages + Demands + Tendencies V Adverse LivedExperiences – An Introduction.

This workshop introduces the emergent field of Neurobiology of the Psychosocial and explores the Eriksonian psychosocial developmental stages, along with the demands and tendencies that emerge throughout the Life Cycle. The key concepts of adverse lived experiences, psychosocial trauma, and neuropsychosocial disintegration are defined, and the SPEARS model, which serves as a practical approach to recovering self-authenticity lost due to psychosocial trauma and neuropsychosocial disintegration that begins in childhood, is introduced. An important takeaway from this workshop is an appreciation of the innate survival SPEAR—the need for Somato-Psycho-Emotional Attunement and Relational Safety with which a child enters the social world and will engage adaptively.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduction to Neurobiology of the Psychosocial
• Psychosocial Developmental Stages, Demands, Tendencies – Erikson’s Paradigm
• Adverse Lived Experiences & Psychosocial Trauma in Ordinary Life
• The Nervous System’s Role in Adverse Lived Experiences & Psychosocial Trauma
• Psychosocial Trauma in the Nervous System – Hijacking the Survival Circuitry
• Introduction to Neuropsychosocial Disintegration & Integration
• Introduction to SPEARS – A Practical Approach to Recovering Self-Authenticity Lost to Psychosocial Trauma & Neuropsychosocial Disintegration – Beginning in Childhood
• Introduction Somato-Psycho-Emotional Attunement and Relational Safety
• Dialogue, Reflections & Questions

The Workshop is Appropriate for:

Trauma researchers, therapists, and clinicians, as well as lay individuals exploring their
own traumas.

This is a “cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural synthesis of neurobiology, attachment and
trauma theory, spirituality, and epigenetics. Woven through passionate prose is an
appreciation of the centrality of storytelling, testimony, and bearing witness in the lives of
human beings in groups and communities. Here is a giant step forward for the emergent
field of psychosocial studies.”