We regret to inform you that the webinar "Transforming Complex Trauma Into Recovery and Growth" originally scheduled for May 17th has to be canceled. We hope to be able to offer this webinar again at a later date TBD. Refunds will be issued to all those non-members who paid.
Following is a note from the presenter, Jean Rhea. We ask that you join us in sending love and wishes to her family for their full and speedy recovery from Covid-19.
"To my colleagues and global AAP peers, it is with great disappointment that I cancel my Webinar on "Transforming Complex Trauma Into Recovery And Growth" on May 17th. I will be rescheduling on a future date and will give you ample time to join me then. TBD.
Since March 11th, I have been on the front-lines of healthcare as Director of Clinical and Trauma Services at Bel Aire Recovery
Center and in private practice as psychotherapist and trauma-informed interventionist. With focus, determination and often daily collaboration with local, state and federal health professionals, we've worked to keep our behavioral health services open to those most vulnerable and in need of resources, when many such services and centers have closed and psychotherapy often unavailable at this unprecedented and stressful time.
And providing trauma-informed care has been important while we've worked to equally keep our staff and workers safe, protected and supported.
On a more personal note, my own family members have been either directly exposed to COVID-19, including my son, his partner and our Grandson, whom tested positive and in lock-down for the past six weeks in Manila, while other close family members have lost their employment.
With heart-felt wishes, I send affirmations of continued good health and prayers of support to all, as we lean in to this new reality, continue to learn, grow, love and heal... Jean"
Target audience: This session is oriented towards those who may have experienced complex trauma, recovery and growth personally or are now interested in or currently guiding others professionally. One of the key take-aways from this webinar is the importance of asking the question, "What's happened to you?," instead of the often misguided question, "What's wrong with you?," thus opening to the possibility and opportunity for transpersonal recovery and growth.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore moving away from the stigmatizing, marginalizing and polarizing label of 'addiction', instead using substance use and misuse.
- Explore seeing and holding substance use and misuse as a healthy survival strategy and important primary relationship!
- Identifying survival subpersonalities with creative, incredible strengths and survival skills.
- Practice identifying and simplifying complex trauma (individual, family, community national and global) and patterns of substance use and misuse into a
- single snapshot using a new model I am currently developing: Complex Trauma, Recovery and Growth: A self-directed wellness plan.
- Explore how to turn Survival Subpersonalities and their Survival Skills and Strengths into new and more Authentic Selves with Recovery Skills and Strengths.
- Identifying recovery and post-traumatic growth as an often immediate response.
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Jean A. Rhea, LCMFT (KS), LMFT (CA), MS Upon taking the Adverse Childhood Experiences or ACE assessment, I personally scored a 5 which correlates with the level of childhood abuse I experienced as a child growing up in a midwestern family, many of whom had also experienced complex trauma and substance misuse. There is no doubt the survival subpersonalities developed over time saved my life and sanity. Alcohol not only proved to be an important, primary relationship.
Growing into adulthood, the survival subpersonalities and skills I developed became more polished as they expanded and deepened throughout all areas of my life until becoming my reactions, not responses, to the layers of trauma I came to experience. Some of those trauma’s included my sexual orientation identification as LGBTQ in a family, community and religion that was unaccepting, unsupportive and instead punishing. I also experienced sexual violence by a sexual predator and as a result over thirty years of navigating the U.S. Criminal Justice and Victim Services System. Finally in November of 1993, a horse accident and subsequent Near-Death experience that let me finally to Sofia University where I met and trained with Ann Gila and John Firman at Psychosynthesis Palo Alto over the next ten years.
Currently I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in both California and Kansas, a Professional Interventionist and Recovery Coach with past experience as the Clinical Director of St. Vincent De Paul/San Francisco, and as a behavioral health consultant with Felton Institute, where as part of a team, I educated, trained and implemented a trauma-informed, strengths-based and culturally relevant way of finding treatment solutions instead of punishment for Transitional Age Youth in San Francisco’s Drug Court.
Psychosynthesis provides the foundation for a model I’m currently developing and utilizing in my current work. It is a compassionate, insightful, strengths-based and trauma-informed approach that moves away from stigmatizing, marginalizing and polarizing labels and instead provides insight, compassion, collaboration and guidance into one's own ability to completely transform complex trauma into recovery and growth - in one's own way, using one's own language and in one's own time.