About the DNMS

The DNMS is a gentle ego state therapy that treats adults wounded by childhood abuse, rejection, neglect, or enmeshment. The DNMS protocols:

• Build self-esteem
• Desensitize traumas
• Reduce internal conflicts
• Integrate dissociated parts of self
• Repair childhood attachment wounds
• Reduce unwanted behaviors, beliefs, and emotions
• Use alternating bilateral stimulation (made popular by EMDR therapy)

The DNMS is based on the assumption that the degree to which developmental needs were not adequately met is the degree to which a client is stuck in childhood. Needs may be unmet when bad things happen (e.g. incest) or when critical good things do not happen (e.g. nurturing). A client who is stuck in a painful childhood will experience unwanted behaviors, beliefs, and emotions generated by wounded child ego states. The DNMS aims to alleviate symptoms by helping wounded child parts heal and get unstuck from the past. The process starts by guiding clients to establish three internal Resources: a Nurturing Adult Self, a Protective Adult Self, and a Spiritual Core Self. Together these Resources help wounded child parts heal by meeting their unmet developmental needs, by helping them process through painful emotions, and by establishing an emotional bond. The DNMS focuses special attention on healing maladaptive introjects. These are parts of self that hold “recordings” of wounding messages from abusers, neglecters, rejecters, and betrayers. In adulthood, these wounding messages get directed to other parts of self (reactive parts) - perpetuating internal conflicts. Since maladaptive introjects cause the most trouble for clients, their healing results in a significant benefit. As introjects heal, clients report their unwanted behaviors, beliefs, and emotions diminish.

About This Workshop

This workshop is for licensed psychotherapists who treat adult clients with trauma and attachment wounds. It will provide an introduction to the DNMS model. Each protocol and procedure will be discussed with an illustrated slide show and audiotapes of sample sessions. Participants interested in learning the model can study the DNMS Book or take the Home Study Course. (Anyone who purchases the book or Course can enroll in the free DNMS professional e-mail discussion list.) There are many reasons to learn the DNMS:

• It can treat a broad range of diagnoses and disorders.
• The primary agent for change is a client’s own internal Resources.
• It gives clients tools for managing emotions both in and outside of session.
• It can heal the attachment wounds that formed when caregivers were neglectful, rejecting, enmeshing, or emotionally unavailable.
• It can heal the trauma wounds that formed with betrayal or abuse - from both childhood and adulthood.
• Trauma resolution occurs as a client’s own Resources gently meet needs that were not met in the past - not by reliving and abreacting painful events with emotionally taxing interventions.
• DNMS protocols can be:
  --- applied individually, as stand-alone interventions.
  --- applied collectively, in a comprehensive DNMS treatment.
  --- integrated with other therapy models.

Workshop Outline

• Part I: Background and Overview
    What is the DNMS?
    Healing by Neural Integration
    Alternating Bilateral Stimulation (ABS)
    Ego State Theory
    Introjection

• Part II: Wounded Parts of Self
    Reactive Parts
    Maladaptive Introjects
    Reactive Parts and Introjects Interact

• Part III: The Healing Interventions
    The Resource Development Protocol - Connects clients to three Resource ego states
    The Attachment Needs Ladder Questionnaire - Reveals the most important attachment wounds
    The Conference Room Protocol - Identifies wounding introjects connected to attachment wounds
    The Switching the Dominance Protocol - A simple intervention that helps maladaptive introjects heal
    The Needs Meeting Protocol - A comprehensive intervention that gets introjects totally unstuck

• Part IV: Handling Processing Blocks
    Overview of Blocks
    Misunderstandings
    Blocking Introjects

Workshop Learning Objectives

• Describe how internal conflicts between maladaptive introjects and reactive parts can lead to unwanted behaviors, beliefs, and emotions.
• Describe a protocol to connect clients to powerful internal Resources.
• Describe several methods for identifying the maladaptive introjects associated with trauma wounds and attachment wounds.
• Describe two protocols for helping maladaptive introjects heal.

Workshop Location

TBA.

Workshop Date and Time

TBA. Lunch break on your own from 12:15-1:15.

Workshop Cost

The cost for the workshop is $75 per person. Please sign up early as there may be limited space available. To keep the workshop cost low, minimal refreshments will be served. Attendees wishing to nibble during the presentation are encouraged to bring their own favorite snacks.

Continuing Education Credits - Optional

This workshop is sponsored by R.Cassidy Seminars (RCS), which maintains responsibility for the program. It has been approved for 6 hours of continuing education (CE) credits for most Psychologists, Social Workers, Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Chemical Dependency Counselors - for an additional fee. To receive a Certificate of Completion, workshop attendees must complete an evaluation form and pay a $45 RCS fee. The fee can be paid when registering for the workshop or after the workshop is over. RCS is a CE credit provider approved by the American Psychological Association, the Association of Social Work Boards, the National Board for Certified Counselors, the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, and the California Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors. Click here to verify that you can receive credit for this program.