Dan Hughes: The Importance of Relationship Expectations in Childhood – How They Develop & How They Change
2 March 12:00 pm-5:00 pm
£65.00- This event has passed.
A very special online opportunity to spend time learning directly from and with the wonderful Dan Hughes. This day is open to anyone working with and / or supporting children & young people – this includes parents & carers as well as professionals, practitioners & volunteers.
Content Summary:
The initial interactions with the important people in a child’s life, cause the child to expect that similar interactions will occur in relationship to those people as well as people in general.
When the child has been hurt in these early interactions, the child’s brain quickly develops a bias toward protecting self through “fight, flight, or freeze” and often misses cues that this relationship willl create safety and opportunities for nurturing engagements.
These biases make it difficult to help the child to respond to and be influenced by caring and supportive interactions being provided by a new caregiver, teacher, or counsellor / therapist. Routine frustrations and disappointments with these new adults are often experienced as being frightening, harsh, or even abusive.
In our efforts to assist these children in developing reciprocal positive relationships with others, we need to keep in mind that the child’s response to us may be primarily determined by their expectations based on past abusive experiences.
We need to relate in ways that generate safety and an openness to new learning.
We need to perceive and respond to the child’s inner life rather than to the behaviours that are problems and symptoms secondary to trauma.
We need to discover who the child was before being traumatized, who the child is underneath the traumatic symptoms.
These discoveries will help us to become engaged safely with the child and to invite him into relational experiences that generate new expectations of nurture, comfort, and joy.
This will be a rich, fun and inspiring day with Dan that will include time for questions and discussion, as well as the likelihood of some role play. Please note: Dan will be beaming in live from the East Coast of America – hence the timings of the workshop. We suggest you attend having already had lunch as there will only be two short breaks during the training in order to cover the equivalent of a full day’s content.
An uplifting, informative and transformational day with an incredible trainer – not to be missed!
About Dan:
Dan Hughes is a world-leading practitioner in healing troubled children. He is held in the highest esteem globally for his profoundly transformative therapeutic work with the most traumatised children and young people. Dan’s empathic way – encompassing his own PACE guidelines which he developed early on in his career – of relating to children and young people can bring about major life enhancing changes often in just a few sessions. He is an inspirational trainer and his workshops on PACE have impacted the lives and careers of thousands of parents and care givers as well as professionals and students.
Dan is highly respectful of family work and parent-child work and of healing a fraught or ruptured relationship between adult and child. He works as a Clinical Psychologist in South Portland, Maine, USA, where he specialises in working with children who have suffered abuse and neglect. He is a Consultant to Family Services programmes and also to therapists, case managers and parents struggling with the treatment of children who are locked in a life of anger, rage, hate or cruelty.
Dan founded and developed Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), the treatment of children who have experienced abuse and neglect and demonstrate ongoing problems related to attachment and trauma. This treatment occurs in a family setting and the treatment model has expanded to become a general model of family treatment. He has conducted seminars, workshops, and spoken at conferences throughout the US, Europe, Canada, and Australia for the past 25 years. He is also engaged in extensive training and supervision in the certification of therapists in his treatment model, along with ongoing consultation to various agencies and professionals. He is president of DDPI – a training Institute which is responsible for the certification of professionals in DDP. Information about DDPI can be found on ddpnetwork.org.
His many books and articles include: Healing Relational Trauma with Attachment-Focused Interventions, The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy: Enhancing Connection and Trust in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents (with Jon Baylin), Brain-based Parenting: The neuroscience of caregiving for healthy attachment (with Jon Baylin), Creating Loving Attachments (with Kim Golding), Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children. Dan’s website is www.danielhughes.org
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