This three day experience will be a rich opportunity for participants to be validated and to learn about who they are and how to provide the most effective treatment for their clients. We will learn the Collaborative Change Model, a three phase cyclical model that harnesses the natural universal cycle of change. We will learn how to apply CCM to any clinical model that the participants utilize. Together we will also explore the role of family therapy in the treatment of complex developmental trauma in individuals, couples, and families. We will practice this cyclical model based in our training and in our life experiences.

Participants will bring their own sacred creative gifts to the workshop the same way we bring those gifts to our treatment. We will explore how to utilize our gifts in our lives, both personally and professionally. And we will experience how to care for our gifts, in the face and impact of working intimately with Complex Developmental Trauma.

Over the three days, together we will learn through lecture, experiential activities, video tape examples, and case examples/consultation.

Day 1- Overview of the Collaborative Change model. CCM is an integrative treatment approach. CCM harnesses the natural process of change and how we can bring this process into our treatment room. We will learn about clinicians own traumatic stress during the process. An examination of the 5 essential ingredients of trauma and the essential guidelines for all effective treatment.

Day 2-We will focus on the step by step of the CCM as it applies to individual, couple and family therapy. We will learn how the steps are repeated in session, between sessions, and over time. And participants will apply their own clinical work into the recursive steps of CCM. We will explore the role of family therapy in the treatment of complex developmental.

Day 3- This day will focus on the therapist own self. How do we utilize who we are to be the most effective we can be. What is it that we bring to our therapy? We will then explore CCM with each participants experience to design their own treatment model that is unique for them integrating what they have learned over time, academically, learned from life experience, and what they know from their own sense and intuition.

Participants will also explore their family or families from which they were born and/ or raised.

And we will design our own wellness plans of how to maintain our health, as we are impacted daily by complex developmental trauma and the abuse and neglect our clients have experienced.