NARM™ - THE NEUROAFFECTIVE RELATIONAL MODEL

 

MODULE 1

 

19 – 23 June 2025

 

Portugal

 

During module 1 of the NARM^TM training the aims are to present:

• NARM the
• Working with shock and developmental trauma
• Working with top-down and bottom-up integrative approach
• NARM organising principles
• Overview of 5 adaptive survival styles
• Distortions of life force
• Distress and healing cycles
• Pride and shame-based identifications
• Reframing attachment and attachment loss
• Introducing the 4 pillars of NARM
• Establishing a therapeutic "contract”
• The NARM Relational Model
• Connection survival style
• Connection: Clients whose access to sensations and feelings are compromised

 

 

Participants are required to attend all sessions of the program. Sessions of the Module 1 program are covered by the tuition fee, but supervision sessions have an extra cost as described below.

 

 

Who is this training for:

Clinical Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists and other Healing Practitioners with Psychotherapeutic Practice.

 

SCHEDULE

 

Day 1- 3

8.00am – 10.00am Breakfast/Time for Session/Supervision

10.00am – 1.00pm Morning session

1.00pm Lunch

2.00pm Time for Session/Supervision/Rest

3.00pm – 6.30pm Afternoon session

6.30pm Dinner

7.00pm – 9.00 pm Rest /Session/Supervision

 

Day 4

8.00 – 10.00am Breakfast/Time for Session/Supervision

10.00am – 1.00pm Morning session

1.00pm Lunch

2.00pm Time for Session/Supervision/Rest

3.00pm – 6.00pm Afternoon session

6.00pm Dinner

7.00 – 9.00 pm Group supervision with the teacher (2 required for the certification)

 

Day 5

8.00 – 9.30am Breakfast/Time for Session/Supervision

9.30 – 2.00pm Morning session

2.00pm Lunch & Farewell

 

*TIME ZONE: GMT LISBON/LONDON

You are required to arrive the day before the training starts – 18^th of June between 4.00pm and 6.00pm. Dinner will be served at 6.00pm and you will have time to settle in and rest for the start of the training the next morning.

 

WHO IS IT FOR

Clinical Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists and other Healing Practitioners with Psychotherapeutic Practice.

 

TRAINER

 

 

BEATE LEISSE, MD - Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy

• Medical studies in Cologne 1986 - 1992
• ·Physician in internship 1993-1994 psychiatric dept. Klinikum Niederberg Velbert
• ·License to practice medicine on 1.11.1994
• ·Residency 11/1994 - 04/1998 psychiatric dept. Niederberg Clinic
• ·Recognition as a specialist in psychiatry 23.04.1998
• ·Worked as a medical doctor at the Niederberg Clinic until 31.12.1998
• ·Senior physician in the psychiatric dept. of the evangelic KH Bergisch Gladbach from Jan 1999 to Jan 2000
• ·Recognition of the additional title of psychotherapy 12/1999
• ·Parental leave from Jan 2000 - Jan 2003
• Promotion 08/2001
• Since Oct. 2003 working in own practice as medical psychotherapist
• Certification as EMDR™ therapist Jan 2008
• Certification as SE™ - Therapist March 2012
• Certification as NARM™ - Therapist Sept 2014
• Certification as NARM™ Masterclass Therapist Feb 2016

Since 2015, continuous assistance in various NARM™/NARM™ masterclass trainings in Europe with Dr. Laurence Heller and Michael Mokrus with the authorization to offer individual sessions dedicated to self-awareness, individual supervision and group supervision as part of the training. NARM™ teacher since 2022.

 

ASSISTANTS TRAINERS:

 

 

Bogdana Bursuc Landry - Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist. 

I have been practicing psychotherapy for the last 22 years in my private practice in Bucharest, Romania. I am a NARM psychotherapist since 2017. Over the years I have attended several psychotherapy schools and trainings, DGfS Family Constellations, Neuro-Affective Touch, SE, EMDR, MBSR, CBT - ACT, DBT. One of my master's degrees is Master of Health Psychology at Universidad de Minho, Braga and I still understand Portuguese and can speak a little. I continue my own individual and supervision sessions with my teachers, and for me this is undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools for personal and professional development. I can offer my support in English, French, Romanian and, I hope, soon in Portuguese. And I look forward meeting you.

 

 

Karima Valentina Hočevar -graduated from the School of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana majoring in Human Resources. She is a certified therapist for various approaches, including Byodinamic Craniosacral Therapy, the NeuroAffective Relational Model™, NARM Masterclass, Somatic Experiencing™, Integral Somatic Psychology™, and Codependency therapy. 

Since 2011, Karima has been leading or co-leading trainings and seminars on Biodynamic apprach to Craniosacral Therapy both in Slovenia and abroad. Additionally, since 2015, she has been an integral part of a team of teachers and supervisors for NeuroAffective Relational Model™ trainings across many European countries. 

Karima is also the founder of Mudita Institute and co-founder of Center Hočevar since 2017.

 

 

Ola Myszka - I am a psychologist with almost 20 years of therapeutic experience and a PhD in clinical psychology. I specialize in an individual work with adults suffering from early traumas. In my background I have a Gestalt school of therapy, systemic therapy and practice in dynamic meditation . I am a certified practitioner of NARM™ , Somatic Experiencing®, and SOMA®. These therapeutic approaches provide modern, neurophysiologically based methods for working with trauma.

While working with a person it is very important for me to work in the perspective of the "here and now". In my opinion such perspective serves to integrate all levels of human functioning - cognitive, emotional, physical and spiritual. For many years I have been a member of the teaching faculty - conducting classes, workshops and coaching groups in the field of psychology of stress and trauma, self-regulation and sport psychology for the University of Wroclaw and other private postgraduate schools.

Since 2017 I have been assisting   NARM ™ courses in Poland and abroad (Romania, Greece, Belgium).

I regularly deepen my understanding of NARM by participating in coaching triads and group supervisions.

I can provide accredited sessions and supervision (individual and group) for NARM ™ course participants.

 

 

Sabine Sonika Husfeld-Suethoff - My name is Sonika, and I am assisting NARM since many years. I finished my own training in 2011 and assisted Larry, Michael and Beate ever since. Originally, I trained to become a physiotherapist, then a naturopath. After many years of training, I felt that without incorporating the nervous system and developmental trauma, healing and change would not have a lasting effect.

Luckily, I met Larry and with him the missing link in my work.

My passion lies in NARM, after so many years I still feel very inspired by it and at ore about this method and its attitude. I am living in Hamburg and work in my own clinic.

 

Tobias Konermann - is a Clinical Psychologist and Certified Psychotherapist in private practice in Berlin, Germany. He teaches at various training institutes for psychotherapy and counselling (DGVT, HAP, IMU) and specialises in the treatment of developmental trauma. 

Tobias has extensive clinical training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and EMDR, with additional training in Gestalt and process-oriented approaches. He is a certified therapist in the Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) and the NARM Masterclass. Tobias assists with NARM trainings under Laurence Heller in Germany and works as a teaching 

therapist and supervisor in ongoing NARM trainings throughout Europe.

 

LANGUAGE:

The retreat will be guided in English, without consecutive translation.

 

RETREAR CENTER:

Casa da Torre, Soutelo, Vila Verde, Braga, Portugal (info here)

 

ACCOMODATION:

The accommodation at Casa da Torre is in individual and double rooms with private bathroom. The rooms are not luxurious, but rather very simple with all the comfort for you to have a pleasant and peaceful stay during the retreat. The Center has several gardens in the exterior that you can use during the entire duration of the retreat. It also has a beautiful terrace with an amazing view over an extensive natural area.

 

     

                        

                        

                                                           

* Casa da Torre is a Jesuit Monastery

 

MEALS:

Meals are vegetarian and they will include: complete breakfast, lunch and dinner & snacks at the bar (coffee, tea, biscuits)

If you need any special adaptation in terms of meals please let us know.

 

 

COST:

 

Tuition for Training Sessions:

Early Bid Rate: 700 euros + 23% VAT = 861,00 euros (until 15th January 2025)

Standard Rate: 750 euros+ 23% VAT = 922,50 euroS

 

Tuition for Supervision Sessions (to be paid directly to the trainers):

50 min of individual supervision                                                                       fee   € 80, - each

1,25 hour of group supervision with 2 people                                                   fee   € 75, - each

1,50 hour of group supervision with 3 people                                                   fee   € 65, - each

1,50 hour of group supervision with 4 people                                                   fee   € 60, - each

2,00 hours of group supervision with 5 people                                                  fee   € 60, - each

2,00 hours of group supervision with 6 people                                                  fee   € 55, - each

2,00 hours of group supervision with 7 people                                                  fee   € 50, - each

2,00 hours of group supervision with 8 -9 people                                              fee   € 40, - each

3,00 hours of group supervision with 10 or 12 people                                       fee   € 50, - each

 

Tuition for Self-Experiential Sessions:

Fee   € 80, - each

 

** Participants from abroad have to pay the session/supervision price of their home country when taking sessions/supervisions online between the modules

 

*** PLEASE REFER TO THE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS AND STUDY RECORD DOCUMENT HERE: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3y5vlj8lapdte38eqk9w4/NARM-TRAINING-REQUIREMENTS.pdf?rlkey=uxo3885i2kzvhtvcniyt7z3ht&dl=0

 

Meals and Accommodation:

400 euros (individual ensuite rooms and if you wish we can accomodate double ensuite rooms)

 

REGISTRATION:

The limit date for registration is the 1st April 2025. After this date we won’t accept any further registrations.

 

The number of places is limited, so we advise your registration as soon as possible.

 

To register in the training:

• Make the payment of the value of the training using the payment options below:
• Please send us email to geral@serintegral.pt with your CV to confirm your training background. Please include a brief summary of the work you do at the moment.
NARM MODULE 1 - EARLY BID NARM TRAINING MODULE 1

 

During the first day of the training you will have to pay your accommodation/meals fee directly to Casa da Torre in the total value of de 400 euros.

 

After the reception of your email we will send you a reply confirming your place in the retreat and with information relating to the retreat. If you don't receive our reply please contact us. 

 

CANCELLATION POLICY:

• If your registration in the training is canceled until the 15th of April 2025 you will receive a full reimbursement of the training minus an administration fee of 50 euros plus fee for the international bank transference. After this date we won’t make any reimbursements.
• If the event is canceled due to an unexpected reason, Ser Integral: Centro Português de Mindfulness, will provide a reimbursement of 100% of the value paid for the training, but we won’t be responsible for any other costs (i.e., travelling and accommodation) associated with your participation in the training

 

NOTES:
- The training will occur with a minimum and maximum number of participants (limited places available). In the eventuality of the training not having the minimum registrations established Se Integral: Portuguese Center for Mindfulness will have to cancel the event.

- Please bring confortable clothing. Also bring confortable walking shoes to use on the gardens/forest and you might also be interested in bringing a mosquito repellent.

- The program is subject to minor changes according to the needs met during the training.

- The room has bed sheets, towels, blankets, but you should bring all the toiletries that you usually need (e.g., shampoo, soap, etc)

- Individual rooms are limited and they will be offered on first registration basis. The cost of a private room per person is the same as a double room per person.

 

FAQ
How to get here?

Please see the information on: http://casadatorre.org/arrive/arrive.html

 

The closest airport is PORTO (OPO). From here you can rent a car to drive to Vila Verde (use the GPS coordinates and address below), take a taxi to the Bus Station in Porto (http://www.renex.pt/, Address: Campo Mártires da Pátria, 37, Porto) to get a bus from Porto to Braga and from Braga please see the details below: 

 

By Bus:Between 7am and 8.15pm you can find several buses that leave the Bus Central Station of Braga to Vila Verde, Arcos and Monção. You need to get out at the stop – Rio Homem, make a left and you will have Casa da Torre ahead (with a big gate).

By Taxi:From the Central Bus Station or Train Station of Braga to Casa da Torre you will pay around 12 euros.

By Car: GPS coordinates:41º36’.08”N 8º26’17.05”W or the address: Casa da Torre, Avenida Viscondes da Torre, nº 80 4730-570 Soutelo – Vila Verde.

By Shuttle:Ser Integral: Portuguese Center for Mindfulness will organize shuttles from the airport to the training center if a minimum number of participants from other countries registers in the training. There will be a fee for this service (to be determined).

At what time should I arrive? When will we finish?
Arrival is on the day before of the first day of the training between 4.00pm and 6.00pm so that we can process your arrival and registration. You will then be assigned to your room and we will meet  at 6.00pm for dinner. In the last day of the retreat we will have lunch at the retreat center and after this we will all leave the retreat center.

Is there wireless and mobile phone connection?

Yes.

 

Is it possible to arrive earlier or stay after the retreat ends?

Yes, if you need more nights at the retreat center you have to contact Casa da Torre directly.

What do I need to bring?

It is advised to bring confortable clothing. The room has bed sheets, towels, blankets, but you should bring all the toiletries that you usually need (e.g., shampoo, soap, etc). Also bring confortable walking shoes to use on the gardens/forest and you might also be interested in bringing a mosquito repellent.

 

  www.serintegral.pt| geral@serintegral.pt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE NEUROAFFECTIVE RELATIONAL MODEL (NARM™)

 

The spontaneous movement towards connection, health an aliveness is the driving force in all of us. No matter how withdrawn and isolated we have become, or how serious the trauma we have experienced, on the deepest level, just as a plant spontaneously moves towards sunlight, there is in each of us an impulse moving towards connection and healing. This organismic impulse is the fuel of the NARM approach.

Laurence Heller, PhD & Aline LaPierre, Psych.D.

 

WHAT IS NARM™?

The Neuroaffective Relationship Model (NARM™) is a psychotherapeutic approach specifically designed to treat attachment, relationship, and developmental trauma, also referred to as “complex trauma” (Complex-PTSD or C-PTSD). This developmentally oriented, neuroscience-based method emerged from psychotherapeutic orientations such as psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment theory, Gestalt therapy, and somatic psychotherapy. NARM™ integrates top-down psychotherapy with bottom-up somatics approaches in a relational context.

 

NARM™ was developed by Dr. Laurence Heller over the course of his 45-year clinical career and first introduced in his book, Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image and the Capacity for Relationship. The NARM™ model is a powerful approach to addressing adverse childhood experiences and their long-term consequences as revealed in the ACEs study.

NARM™ assumes that while biography matters, it is not what happened in the past that causes the symptoms people experience as adults. It is the persistence of survival strategies that were once appropriate that distort the present experience and produce symptoms. These survival strategies have lost their usefulness and lead to a constant disconnection from our authentic self and from others.

For example, dissociation and isolation are the primary coping mechanisms for dealing with early trauma. Dissociation and isolation have literally saved people’s lives, but when these mechanisms continue into adulthood, they cause persistent symptoms.

 

It is the distortion of identity that develops in response to early trauma that causes ongoing suffering. Example: When children grow up with unloving parents, they are not able to realize that this is their parents’ failure. Children always experience the failures of the environment as their own failures and develop the feeling that they themselves are not lovable. A core element of the NARM™ model is working with the unconscious need of the child, and later the adult, to protect the attachment and love relationship. By compartmentalizing developmental needs and emotions, the image of the caregiver is protected at the expense of one’s own positive sense of self. This has profound implications on a psychobiological level.

 

The NARM™ clinical model has precise and effective techniques for working with the core issues of identity distortion and physiological dysregulation. Within the NARM™ approach, we work simultaneously with the psychology and physiology of people who have experienced developmental trauma, focusing on the interplay between identity issues and the capacity for connection and regulation.

 

More information here: https://narmtraining.com/what-is-narm/

 

 

 

 

 

 

A. INTRODUCTORY NARM WORKSHOP

This workshop provides an overview and introduces participants to the basic concepts of NARM’s theoretical and clinical approach.

 

 

B. COMPLETE NARM™ PRACTITIONER TRAINING PROGRAMME CURRICULUM

 

An overview of taught topics during the 2 Year NARM Practitioner Training*

 

MODULE 1: 19 – 23 June 2025 (More information here)

• NARM the
• Working with shock and developmental trauma
• Working with top-down and bottom-up integrative approach
• NARM organising principles
• Overview of 5 adaptive survival styles
• Distortions of life force
• Distress and healing cycles
• Pride and shame-based identifications
• Reframing attachment and attachment loss
• Introducing the 4 pillars of NARM
• Establishing a therapeutic "contract”
• The NARM Relational Model
• Connection survival style
• Connection: Clients whose access to sensations and feelings are compromised

 

MODULE 2: 30 – September – 4 October 2025 (More information here)

• Developmental process: Attachment and separation-individuation
• Asking exploratory questions
• Somatic mindfulness
• Attunement survival style
• Identifying and using resources
• Working in present time with dual awareness
• Reflecting positive shifts
• Autonomy survival style
• Working with anger and aggression
• Working with shame and guilt

 

MODULE 3: 14 – 18 April 2026 (More information here)

• Trust survival style
• Core vs default emotions
• Anger and aggression
• Narcissism and objectification
• Narcissistic vs sadistic abuse
• Supporting agency
• Love-sexuality survival style
• The psychobiological process of shame (“shame as a verb”)
• Tracking expansion and contraction/connection and disconnection
• “Drilling down” / deconstruction of experience (in the function of disidentification)
• NARM languaging
• Deepening study into the connection survival style issues, symptoms and related disorders
• The polyvagal theory
• Trait-survival style-personality disorder continuum
• Identifying core dilemma: Core themes vs survival strategies (behaviours, symptoms, etc.)
• Countertransference and the traps of goal-oriented, solution-focused psychotherapy

 

MODULE 4: 06 -10 October 2026 (More information here)

• How to develop a working hypothesis
• Freeze and intrapsychic conflict
• Self-hatred and self-rejection
• An overview of NARM’s different orientation to working with personality disorders
• Therapist’s countertransference acting-out and re-enactment
• Unmanaged empathy and therapist efforting
• The interplay of the survival styles: Primary and secondary patterns
• Survival styles as they relate to intimacy and sexuality
• Developing capacity for pleasure
• Working with couples
• Working with identity
• Disidentification: Loneliness and freedom
• Supporting increasing complexity, capacity and resiliency
• Addressing the physical structure of the adaptive survival styles
• Working with the social engagement channels: Eyes, ears, face and touch
• Integrating NARM effectively into our clinical practice
• Addressing identity from both a psychological and non-Western perspective

* NARM's unique organic approach to healing developmental trauma means that topics and schedules may be subject to change.

 

Please read here the TRAINING REQUIREMENTS AND STUDY RECORD – https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3y5vlj8lapdte38eqk9w4/NARM-TRAINING-REQUIREMENTS.pdf?rlkey=uxo3885i2kzvhtvcniyt7z3ht&dl=0

 

COURSE STRUCTURE:

Each module is presented over a period of 5 days, taught live in Portugal with a total of 30 hours of teaching each module. The 4 live modules will be held for a total of 20 days over the period of the training. The live modules are typically spaced 4 – 6 months apart to allow time for continued study, practice and peer meetings in support of greater integration of the NARM clinical approach.

 

TEACHING METHODS:

All modules include a combination of 2 complementary instruction approaches:

 

1.Didactic and theoretical learning: including lecture, question and answer periods, class-wide discussion, case consultation, and deconstruction of live-demonstrations and videos. 

This training presents highly advanced psychological learning that involves complex, often evocative and transformative material on trauma.

 

2. Experiential learning: including self-inquiry exercises, small group activities, role-plays, active coaching and guided skill practice.

This training presents an opportunity for clinical development based on direct personal experience that involves complex, often evocative and transformative material on trauma.

 

WHO IS IT FOR:

Clinical Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists and other Healing Practitioners with Psychotherapeutic Practice.

 

NARM TRAINING CERTIFICATE

To obtain a Certificate of the entire 2 year of training you need to:

1.  Attend all program sessions

2. Complete 10 supervision sessions including a video recording of a session with a client to review during supervision

3. Attend 10 individual experiential session with certified NARM assistant

4. Some of the supervision sessions and individual experiential sessions can be taken during program sessions (with an extra cost)

 

After each module you will receive an attendance letter, but the Certificate as a NARM therapist will only be provided when you complete the entire training modules, supervision sessions and experiential sessions as described above.

 

TRAINER

BEATE LEISSE, MD - Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy

• Medical studies in Cologne 1986 - 1992
• ·Physician in internship 1993-1994 psychiatric dept. Klinikum Niederberg Velbert
• ·License to practice medicine on 1.11.1994
• ·Residency 11/1994 - 04/1998 psychiatric dept. Niederberg Clinic
• ·Recognition as a specialist in psychiatry 23.04.1998
• ·Worked as a medical doctor at the Niederberg Clinic until 31.12.1998
• ·Senior physician in the psychiatric dept. of the evangelic KH Bergisch Gladbach from Jan 1999 to Jan 2000
• ·Recognition of the additional title of psychotherapy 12/1999
• ·Parental leave from Jan 2000 - Jan 2003
• Promotion 08/2001
• Since Oct. 2003 working in own practice as medical psychotherapist
• Certification as EMDR™ therapist Jan 2008
• Certification as SE™ - Therapist March 2012
• Certification as NARM™ - Therapist Sept 2014
• Certification as NARM™ Masterclass Therapist Feb 2016

Since 2015, continuous assistance in various NARM™/NARM™ masterclass trainings in Europe with Dr. Laurence Heller and Michael Mokrus with the authorization to offer individual sessions dedicated to self-awareness, individual supervision and group supervision as part of the training. NARM™ teacher since 2022.

 

ASSISTANTS TRAINERS:

 

Bogdana Bursuc Landry - Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist. 

I have been practicing psychotherapy for the last 22 years in my private practice in Bucharest, Romania. I am a NARM psychotherapist since 2017. Over the years I have attended several psychotherapy schools and trainings, DGfS Family Constellations, Neuro-Affective Touch, SE, EMDR, MBSR, CBT - ACT, DBT. One of my master's degrees is Master of Health Psychology at Universidad de Minho, Braga and I still understand Portuguese and can speak a little. I continue my own individual and supervision sessions with my teachers, and for me this is undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools for personal and professional development. I can offer my support in English, French, Romanian and, I hope, soon in Portuguese. And I look forward meeting you.

 

Karima Valentina Hočevar -graduated from the School of Economics and Business at the University of Ljubljana majoring in Human Resources. She is a certified therapist for various approaches, including Byodinamic Craniosacral Therapy, the NeuroAffective Relational Model™, NARM Masterclass, Somatic Experiencing™, Integral Somatic Psychology™, and Codependency therapy. 

Since 2011, Karima has been leading or co-leading trainings and seminars on Biodynamic apprach to Craniosacral Therapy both in Slovenia and abroad. Additionally, since 2015, she has been an integral part of a team of teachers and supervisors for NeuroAffective Relational Model™ trainings across many European countries. 

Karima is also the founder of Mudita Institute and co-founder of Center Hočevar since 2017.

 

 

Ola Myszka - I am a psychologist with almost 20 years of therapeutic experience and a PhD in clinical psychology. I specialize in an individual work with adults suffering from early traumas. In my background I have a Gestalt school of therapy, systemic therapy and practice in dynamic meditation . I am a certified practitioner of NARM™ , Somatic Experiencing®, and SOMA®. These therapeutic approaches provide modern, neurophysiologically based methods for working with trauma.

While working with a person it is very important for me to work in the perspective of the "here and now". In my opinion such perspective serves to integrate all levels of human functioning - cognitive, emotional, physical and spiritual. For many years I have been a member of the teaching faculty - conducting classes, workshops and coaching groups in the field of psychology of stress and trauma, self-regulation and sport psychology for the University of Wroclaw and other private postgraduate schools.

Since 2017 I have been assisting   NARM ™ courses in Poland and abroad (Romania, Greece, Belgium).

I regularly deepen my understanding of NARM by participating in coaching triads and group supervisions.

I can provide accredited sessions and supervision (individual and group) for NARM ™ course participants.

 

Sabine Sonika Husfeld-Suethoff - My name is Sonika, and I am assisting NARM since many years. I finished my own training in 2011 and assisted Larry, Michael and Beate ever since. Originally, I trained to become a physiotherapist, then a naturopath. After many years of training, I felt that without incorporating the nervous system and developmental trauma, healing and change would not have a lasting effect.

Luckily, I met Larry and with him the missing link in my work.

My passion lies in NARM, after so many years I still feel very inspired by it and at ore about this method and its attitude. I am living in Hamburg and work in my own clinic.

 

Tobias Konermann - is a Clinical Psychologist and Certified Psychotherapist in private practice in Berlin, Germany. He teaches at various training institutes for psychotherapy and counselling (DGVT, HAP, IMU) and specialises in the treatment of developmental trauma. 

Tobias has extensive clinical training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and EMDR, with additional training in Gestalt and process-oriented approaches. He is a certified therapist in the Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) and the NARM Masterclass. Tobias assists with NARM trainings under Laurence Heller in Germany and works as a teaching 

therapist and supervisor in ongoing NARM trainings throughout Europe.

 

LANGUAGE:

The retreat will be guided in English, without consecutive translation.

 

FORMAT:

The training will take place in a residential format at a retreat center in Portugal

 

 

COST:

Tuition for Training Sessions per Module:

Early Bid Rate: 700 euros + 23% VAT = 861,00 euros 

Standard Rate: 750 euros+ 23% VAT = 922,50 euros

 

Tuition for Supervision Sessions (to be paid directly to the trainers):

50 min of individual supervision                                                                       fee   € 80, - each

1,25 hour of group supervision with 2 people                                                   fee   € 75, - each

1,50 hour of group supervision with 3 people                                                   fee   € 65, - each

1,50 hour of group supervision with 4 people                                                   fee   € 60, - each

2,00 hours of group supervision with 5 people                                                  fee   € 60, - each

2,00 hours of group supervision with 6 people                                                  fee   € 55, - each

2,00 hours of group supervision with 7 people                                                  fee   € 50, - each

2,00 hours of group supervision with 8 -9 people                                              fee   € 45, - each

3,00 hours of group supervision with 10 or 12 people                                       fee   € 50, - each

 

Tuition for Self-Experiential Sessions:

Fee   € 80, - each

 

** Participants from abroad have to pay the session/supervision price of their home country when taking sessions/supervisions online between the modules

 

REGISTRATION:

 

Please note that once you register you are committing yourself to the 4 modules of the training, as the completion of these is the requirement to obtain the Certificate of NARM training.

 

MODULE 1: 19 – 23 June 2025 (More information here)

 

MODULE 2: 30 – September – 4 October 2025 (More information here)

 

MODULE 3: 14 – 18 April 2026 (More information here)

 

MODULE 4: 06 - 10 October 2026 (More information here)

 

 

 

 

www.serintegral.pt | geral@serintegral.pt

 

 

 

MINDFULNESS BASED PROGRAMS

INDIVIDUAL ONE-ON-ONE

 

At Ser Integral: Portuguese Center for Mindfulness we offer Mindfulness Based Programs/Sessions on a private one-on-one context. Sessions are offered in English, in person or online depending on your preference.

When it is not possible to attend a group course because of personal preference, work, care commitments or illness this format is an ideal way to bring mindfulness into one’s life. The individual format follows a similar format to the 4-Week and 8-Week Group Mindfulness Based Program but consists of 10- weekly individual sessions of 120 minutes, by Zoom or in person, at a time of your choosing. The focus of the program can be tailored to your specific needs. In all programs you will have access to recorded audio practices as well as a Manual with information to support your learning process.

BENEFITS OF THE ONE-ON-ONE FORMAT

• Learn how to increase self-awareness and well-being
• Privacy during the sessions
• Sessions tailored around your own individual needs
• The ability to ask questions relevant to your own needs
• More in depth support
• Work at your own pace
• More flexibility

PROGRAMS

1. MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR)

MBSR is an evidence-based, experiential program designed to provide participants with intensive and systematic training in mindfulness and movement practices, and integrating into one’s daily life what is discovered and learned through the process of participating in the program throughout the 8-weeks. This is an experiential program that focuses on the inner resources of each individual to foster and cultivate resilience in the face of life challenges.

 

Mindfulness Based-Stress Reduction (MBSR) was developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979. It offers participants the possibility to develop a different relationship to stress resulting from chronic physical and psychological illnesses. Research outcomes have demonstrated positive improvements in physical and psychological symptoms, as well as changes in health attitudes and behaviors.

 

MBSR has been researched over 40 years and consistently delivers positive outcomes associated with increased self-awareness and emotional and attentional regulation. In addition, outcomes have included reductions in symptoms for various physical and behavioral health conditions such as anxiety, depression, stress, chronic pain, hypertension, sleep disturbances, headaches, grief and loss.

 

The program runs over 10 Sessions, 2 hours each. More sessions can be booked afterwards if you want to deepen your learning process or feel you need more time to integrate the material.

 

2.MINDFULNESS BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY (MBCT)

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) was developed some 15 years ago by Zindal Segal, then of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health at the University of Toronto; Mark Williams, then of the University of Bangor, and subsequently, University of Oxford; and John Teasdale then of the Applied Psychology Unit of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge.

 

In 2004, the UK National Institute Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) endorsed MBCT as an effective treatment, given evidence from randomized controlled trials that indicated MBCT can reduce rates of relapse by 50% among patients who suffer from recurrent depression. In 2009, following further trials, the recommendation was updated and given ‘key priority’ status.

 

MBCT was originally developed to address recurrent depression and prevent relapse showing very positive results with clinical groups suffering from recurrent depression. It is also a program applied to the general population showing benefits in terms of depression, anxiety, stress, concentration and attention.

 

The program runs over 10 Sessions, 2 hours each. More sessions can be booked afterwards if you want to deepen your learning process or feel you need more time to integrate the material.

 

 

3. MINDFULNESS BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR LIFE (MBCT-L)

MBCT for Life (MBCT-L) is an adaptation of the original MBCT programme that is designed to be relevant, effective and beneficial for all of us, not only those at risk of depression. The focus moves from preventing depressive relapse to helping a much broader spectrum of the population. The programme still offers a way of being that will reduce stress and improve mental health for many people, but is also designed to be beneficial for those who are functioning well and enjoying good wellbeing to develop resilience, realise their potential and to flourish.

 

The programme has been developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, part of Oxford University in the UK.

 

In the first half of the programme participants develop mindfulness skills that are intended to:

• enhance attentional control, develop awareness, and cultivate attitudes of curiosity, care, patience, kindness and equanimity.
• recognise unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour and develop new ways of responding more skilfully to unpleasant situations and experiences
• rebalance the focus of attention and awareness to recognise and savour positive experiences.

 

In the second half of the programme, the emphasis is on helping participants apply what they have learned so far to everyday life.

 

The MBCT for Life programme offers an alternate way of being, a way of living that includes enjoying life to the full and realising our full potential, as well as dealing with distress and difficulty in a more helpful way when they arise.

 

The program runs over 10 Sessions, 2 hours each. More sessions can be booked afterwards if you want to deepen your learning process or feel you need more time to integrate the material.

 

4. MINDFULNESS RELAPSE PREVENTION (MBRP)

 

Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) was developed by Sarah Bowen, Neha Chawla and Alan Marlatt and is a novel treatment approach originally developed at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington, for individuals in recovery from addictive behaviors including alcohol and other substance addiction.

 

MBRP practices are intended to foster increased awareness of triggers, destructive habitual patterns, and “automatic” reactions that seem to control many of our lives. Mindfulness practices in MBRP are designed to help us pause, observe present experience, and bring awareness to the range of choices before each of us in every moment. We learn to respond in ways that serve us, rather than react in ways that are detrimental to our health and happiness. Ultimately, we are working towards freedom from deeply ingrained and often catastrophic patterns.

 

Similar to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for depression, MBRP is designed as an aftercare program integrating mindfulness practices and principles with cognitive-behavioral relapse prevention skills. In our experience, MBRP is best suited to individuals who have undergone initial treatment and wish to maintain their treatment gains and develop a lifestyle that supports their well-being and recovery.

 

The primary goals of MBRP are:

1. Develop awareness of personal triggers and habitual reactions, and learn ways to create a pause in this seemingly automatic process.

2. Change our relationship to discomfort, learning to recognize challenging emotional and physical experiences and responding to them in skillful ways.

3. Foster a nonjudgmental, compassionate approach toward ourselves and our experiences.

4. Build a lifestyle that supports both mindfulness practice and recovery.

 

 

All programs are challenging and life-affirming and require a personal commitment to attend all sessions, as well as complete the home practices assigned each week.

 

All programs are oriented by Carla Martins, PhD – Clinical and Health Psychologists, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Certified MBSR Teacher through the Center for Mindfulness in Education, Health and Society of the University of Massachusetts Medical School; Certified MBCT and MBCT-L Teacher at the Oxford Mindfulness Center and MBRP Teacher at Ser Integral: Portuguese Center for Mindfulness. Carla is also a Mindfulness Based Supervisor through Mindfulness Network and Facilitator of Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness. Carla has completed her academic training and most of her professional training in the UK as well as USA where she has lived and worked for over 9 years. Carla offers a safe, supportive, kind, gentle and deeply engaging learning environment that allows participants to seek, explore, reflect and inquire into their learning process and experiences so that you can benefit the most from the sessions, the practices, the challenges and this unique opportunity to meet yourself, your present moment experience and life as it is. To know more about Carla’s background and training please read here

 

 

If you would like to know more or book your program with us, please send us an email to: geral@serintegral.pt

 

 

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