DEALING WITH OLD TRAUMA AND INNER CHILD WORK

This 1-day experiential workshop may be taken for a WHEE Level 2a Certificate or may be attended without certification, after clarification with Dr. Benor.

WORKSHOP CONTENT

I. REVIEW OF BASIC SAFETY ISSUES: IF IT DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT, DON’T DO IT!

A. Grounding and centering  – understanding body, emotions, mind, spirit, including bioenergies, Brain Gym, breathing, imagery.

B. Protection
    1. Safe environment, physical boundaries
    2. Energetic boundaries of safety
    3. Spiritual boundaries of safety
    4. Always for the highest good of all

C. Therapist and client safety: First do no harm
    1. Client’s needs come first
    2. Therapist’s needs are also important
    3. When to intervene or not intervene: examples, brief discussion
    4. The client is in charge, the therapist is a consultant
    5. Therapist meta-decisions: Is this information intended for me or the client?


II. WHOLISTIC HEALING                 
For a detailed discussions on the interrelationships between body, emotions, mind, relationships and spirit, click on round icons at the top of this page, or click here


II. TRAUMA RESIDUES – detailed explorations

A. The Inner Child
    Genetic
        Strengths/ weaknesses
        Preferences (Chess & Thomas)
    Behavioral conditioning/ reinforcements
        Positive
        Negative
    Childhood programming
        Family
            Teaching
            Examples
    Society
        Norms
        Subgroups
    Significant experiences
        Positive ‡ strengths
        Negative
            Limiting beliefs/ disbeliefs
            Emotional scars
    Self-reinforcing beliefs and behavior patterns

B. WHEE facilitates releasing old hurts, along with more recent traumas
    Learning to identify hints and signs of presence of earlier trauma underlying current issues
        Identifying specifics of old hurts
        Current lifetimes
        Past life
    Releasing old hurts through
        Bundling them with current hurts
        Partializing, dealing with the old hurts separately
    Clearing using intuitive awarenesses
        Muscle testing
        Clearing dream issues and images
        Bioenergy awareness

C. Reframing
    Suffering that is self-generated
        Residues from the past – carried inside ourselves
            Memories
            Images
            Feelings
            Body memories
            Energy cysts
        Limiting beliefs/ disbeliefs
            Core beliefs
            Topical beliefs
        Habits
            Self-perceptions – Parent/ Adult/ Child (Stewart & Joines)
            Rewards and punishments
            Cravings
        Systems traps
            Family roles (Satir)
            Self-perceptions – Parent/ Adult/ Child (Stewart & Joines)
            Games people play (Eric Berne)

D. Common sense
    Living with uncertainty and errors of intuition
    Monitoring distortions
        Mentoring
        Peer supervision
            Dyad
            Groiup


PRACTICING WHEE

A.  Journaling self-healing
It is extremely helpful to record the specific words and phrases used in doing WHEE. When successful, these serve as markers or templates for further use. When only partially working or unsuccessful, these enable a tweaking and sharpening of focus so that the WHEE accurately targets the issues.

B.  Records by practitioners of WHEE treatments of clients
Building a database of where WHEE has been successful or not in your practice is helpful to all WHEE practitioners and potential WHEE users.

C.  Reports from those you have taught WHEE
Client reports of WHEE effects, in their own words, supplement and complement practitioner observations.

D.  Records of peer supervision
    Organized on your own
    Monthly telephone seminars with Dr. Benor
This is important for ongoing professional growth. A log of WHEE sessions with brief notes on the contents of discussions serves the same purpose as individual journaling.
  Participation in a peer supervision group on a regular basis is a requirement for taking WHEE Level 2a or 2b training.

E.  Contributing to databases of WHEE effects
More organized and professional summaries of WHEE effects help others who are new to WHEE to appreciate its benefits.

The WholisticHealingResearch.com site features articles about WHEE

A section will soon be added for practitioner reports on WHEE use. Send Dr. Benor your reports that may be posted on this site. Confidentiality of client details must be respected. Either clients must sign a release of information that permits publication on the WHR site (strongly preferred), or the details must be disguised in such a manner that clients cannot be identified.

The International Journal of Healing and Caring will accept articles with detailed descriptions of WHEE use. Again, the respect of client confidentiality applies. The IJHC has a standard release of information form, available on request.

Recommended reading for WHEE Level 2a training ( * = highly recommended books)

Transforming beliefs

Clinton, Asha Nahoma. Seemorg Matrix Core Belief CD-ROM

Bandler, Richard/ Grinder, John. ReFraming: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning, Moab, UT: Real People Press 1982. (Perceptual preferences, potent ways of shifting beliefs.)

Chess, Stella/ Thomas, Alexander. Temperament in Clinical Practice, Guilford Press 1968.

Davis, Laura/ Bass, Ellen. The Courage to Heal: A Guide For Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. New York: HarperCollins 1992.

Davis, Laura. Allies in Healing, NY: HarperPerennial 1991. (The first is for people with history of sexual, physical, emotional abuse, the second for partners of same. Outstanding discussion, with heavy but helpful case materials. For therapists and laypersons.)

Davis, Laura/ Bass, Ellen. Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. New York: HarperPerennial 1993.

Freud, Anna. The ego and mechanisms of defense, In: Writings of Anna Freud, Vol.2, New York: International Universities Press 1967. (Orig. 1953)

Freud, Sigmund. Psychopathology of Everyday Life, New York: Norton 1971.

Gordon, Thomas. P.E.T. – Parent Effectiveness Training, NY: Penguin 1975. (Excellent on communications between parents; parents & children.)

Gray, John. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, NY: HarperCollins 1993. (Excellent introduction to major differences in orientations between men & women, helpful to laypersons.)

Haley, Jay. Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H Erickson, MD New York: Ballantine 1973.

Janov, Arthur. The Primal Scream, NY: Dell 1970. (Classic on screaming therapy. One of the best descriptions of how people tie themselves into neurotic knots and how they fear untying these. Author is a bit hard to take, presenting himself as God's gift to therapy. This is his only book worth reading.)

Laing, Ronald D. Knots, NY: Penguin 1970. (also – The Divided Self – More technical – Discussions on how we split ourselves off into bits and pieces.)

Minuchin, Salvador. Families and Family Therapy, London: Tavistock 1974. (Excellent for therapists - concepts of family therapy mapping of problems.)

Satir, Virginia. Peoplemaking, Palo Alto: Science and Behavior Books 1972.

Stewart, Ian/ Joines, Vann. TA Today, Chapel Hill, NC: Lifespace 1991. (Excellent, thorough introduction to Transactional Analysis.)

Whitfield, C.L. Healing the Child Within: Discovery and recovery for adult children of dysfunctional families, Health Communications 1989. (Co-dependence.)

Whitfield, C.L. Co-dependence: Healing the human condition, Health Communications 1989. (This is a very good book.)

Whitfield, C.L. Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, protecting and enjoying the Self, Health Communications 1993. (Co-dependence.)


Inner child

Capacchione, Lucia. Recovery of Your Inner Child: The Highly Acclaimed Method for Liberating Your Inner Self, New York: Fireside 1991.

*Whitfield, Charles L. Healing The Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families, New York: HCI 1987.

Bradshaw, John. Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, New York: Bantam Repring 1992

Paul, Margaret. Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child, HarperSanFrancisco 1992


Books by Daniel J. Benor, MD

Benor, Daniel J, WHEE Workbook, Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications, 2006   Available as immediate eBook download or paperback.

Benor, Daniel J, Healing Research: Volume I - Popular edition - Spiritual Healing: Scientific Validation of a Healing Revolution, Bellmawr, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications. Healers describe their work, research in parapsychology as a context for understanding healing, brief summaries of randomized controlled studies, pilot studies.
   This book is available through this website only.

Benor, Daniel J, Healing Research: Volume I, Professional Supplement, Southfield, MI: Vision Publications, 2001.
Only the studies -- described in much greater detail, including statistical information.

Benor, D. J. Healing Research, Volume II (Professional edition), Consciousness, Bioenergy and Healing, Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications, 2004.
Self-healing, wholistic complementary/ alternative medicine and integrative care, biological energies, and environmental interactions with bioenergies.
   Available in Paperback, CD-ROM, and eBook versions

Benor, D. J. Healing Research, Volume II (Popular edition), How Can I Heal What Hurts? Wholistic Healing and Bioenergies, Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications, 2005.
Self-healing, wholistic complementary/ alternative medicine and integrative care, biological energies, and environmental interactions with bioenergies.

Benor, D. J. Healing Research, Volume III – Personal Spirituality: Science, Spirit and the Eternal Soul, Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications 2006.
Research on NDE, OBE, spirit survival, reincarnation, spiritual awareness.

Benor, Daniel J. Reaching Higher and Deeper: Workbook for Healing Research, Volume 3: Personal Spirituality: Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications 2007  

Benor, D. J. Healing Research, Volume IV - A Synthesis of Recent Research, Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publication (in press).  Topical summaries of volumes I-III, with discussion of theories, early synthesis of explanations for healing.

WHEE Level 2 Certificate workshops 

There are two separate Level 2 workshops:

Level 2a training (this page)  explores many ways to use WHEE for:
   Clearing issues from the past that are connected with issues in the present
   Inner Child work
   Meta-issues that block clearing of primary issues

Level 2b training introduces many ways to use WHEE for developing and deepening personal spiritual awareness
Click here for details of WHEE Level 2b training

The order in which you take these is your choice.