The Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) Workshop
Gerald French, MACP, C.T.S.
July 25-28
28 hrs Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. / Fee $650
This workshop has been called by many psychotherapists the single most valuable training experience they have had in their professional careers. Though based on concepts long familiar to the profession, TIR and its unique protocols represent an entirely new and extremely effective paradigm from which successfully to address not only PTSD but a host of other, less obviously trauma-related conditions, including anxiety and somatization disorders, acute stress, phobias, and virtually all adjustment disorders. Developed by psychiatrist Frank A. Gerbode and Gerald French, its presenter, the TIR workshop is designed to enable participants to become competent in the use of a uniquely client-empowering therapeutic intervention. It includes lectures and videos / discussion of live sessions, as well as supervised application in dyads.
"Since French taught the workshop here, I've had outcomes I can only describe as brilliant . . . [A] powerful and elegantly simple method of exposure treatment for traumatic memories . . . I strongly recommend TIR as a strategy to add to one's therapeutic armamentarium."
- Michael S. Armstrong, M.D., President, Institute of Australasian Psychiatrists
"I'd been the Team Leader of a Vet Center in Alaska for 8 years. Then I was exposed to TIR by Gerald French. It was a revelation . . . a wonderful blend of exposure therapy and Rogerian counseling. It has changed significantly the way I do therapy."
- Ken Green, Ph.D., Vet Center Team Leader, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Gerald French, MACP, C.T.S. is a Trauma Specialist and lead author of Traumatic Incident Reduction, (CRC Press, 1998) [Recommended pre-workshop reading.] He has taught and lectured throughout Europe, and in Israel, Australia, Japan, Brazil, as well as in the U. S. from Alaska to Florida to Oklahoma City, where he was a faculty member for Operation Green Cross, training local therapists following the 1995 bombing there.
This program is co-sponsored by Applied Metapsychology Internationsl (AMI) and The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. AMI is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. AMI maintains responsibility for the program.
