Level I - Introduction to Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIRW)

Trainer: Henry J. Whitfield MSc, MBACP, ACBS peer-reviewed ACT trainer, Accredited Advanced TIR trainer and TIR practitioner (TIRA)
Overcome the presence of the past.
Date: TBA
Fee: £360
Venue: Mindfulness Training Offices, Fitzroys Studios, The Print House, London

TIR Workshop Level - 1

This part covers:

• A contextualization of Trauma and TIR
• Mindfulness for two - enabling mindful observation within a one-to-one counselling environment
• How to perceive if the client is engaged in processing unassimilated material
• Optimising the client's ability to make progress
• Each attendee will both give and receive real TIR sessions after supervised practice of a range of skills
• Recognizing shifts in 'meta-awareness' and other optimum points for ending the session

Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is a non-evaluative, client-titrated, mindfulness-oriented procedure that enables the client to undo repression and increase awareness of past events that still effect his present. The basic TIR procedure also responds to how traumatic experiences 'network' and identifies other less obviously related incidents that can be complicit in the maintenance of symptoms. The broader subject of TIR consists of a range of theoretically consistent counselling tools, designed to respond to many different needs and situations.

TIR workshop Level I Module II Thematic TIR and Unblocking

This part completes the first level of TIR training. Once completed you are in a position to build up TIR client hours for your Accreditation with the Traumatic Incident Reduction Association. It includes another form of TIR - Thematic TIR - a method for reaching traumatic incidents that the client is unaware he has. TIR is a client-titrated approach and therefore the client decides what he/she is ready to look at. Unblocking procedure, also taught on this workshop, is a way to prepare a client for more challenging exposure work.

Henry J. Whitfield MSc, MBACP, ACBS peer-reviewed ACT trainer, Accredited Advanced TIR trainer and TIR practitioner (TIRA)

Henry set up Mindfulness Training Ltd in 2006. His research interests include the theoretical and practical integration of mindfulness with cognitive behavioural theories, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes and in case-formulated applications of mindfulness. After 4 years as a trauma specialist for Victim Support Lambeth, Henry is now conducting empirical research for City and Hackney Mind, investigating the process of values within different approaches to trauma counselling. He also works in private pratice, and teaches widely on the subject of Mindfulness-consistent therapies.