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7/27/2019 Making Contact with our Affect Regulation Systems & Learning how we Transition from Threat/ Drive onto Soothing- Yotam Heineberg
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T-Ride Exercise # 1!
Making contact with our affect regulation systems
&Learning how we transition from Threat/Dr ive onto Soothing!
Dr. Yotam Heineberg Psy.D.
Clinical supervisor and lecturer
Palo Alto University
Applied Psychological Interventions
CCARE, Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & EducationStanford University Medical School
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The three circles of affect regulation
Incentive/resource-
focused
Wanting, pursuing,
achieving, consuming
Dopamine?
Non-wanting/
Affiliative focused
Safeness-kindness
Opiates/Oxytocin?
Threat-focused
Protection and Safety-seeking
(Behaviours, Emotions, Thoughts)
HPA/Serotonin?
Anger, Anxiety, Disgust
Drive, Excite, Vitality Content, Safe, Soothed
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Experiential awareness to the
process of our three affect
regulation systems
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Dyadic exercise - Success Story!
How did you transition from drive/threat onto Soothing?
Phase I: Describe a past experience (you feel comfortable sharing) where you felt stuck
either in your threat or drive system (or both).
- What has been the impact of this experience, what has it made you feel, think and do?
- What ideas/messages/habits/ feelings/people have been supporting your being stuck in that place?
Phase II: Describe a time when you were able to resist the pressures of threat and drive, and
successfully transition into your safeness and soothing system (this entails experiencing feelings of
safeness and contentment, as well as becoming connected with kindness towards others, receiving it
from others, giving it to yourself, or any combination of those).
- How were you able to make this transition work? Where did you get the strength to do this?
- What coping resources did you draw upon in order to arrive at your safeness/soothing space?
Share on the ways in which you coped, and write them down, receive feedback and suggestions for
additional coping methods from your listener, and write them down as well, to create a personally
useful resource list that you will take away with you, and could potentially draw upon in the future.
You could connect with your coping resources in words, somatically, emotionally, visually,
interpersonally, artistically or any other form of expression that best fits your particular style.
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RESOURCING - THE MULTI-MODAL MODEL FOR COPING & RESILIENCEY(Rony Berger, 2002, based on the work of Arnold Lazarus, 1981 )
MOST - BASIC
I: Imagination C: CognitionCreativity Knowledge
3 way compassion Positive thinking
Futuristic outlook Rationalism
Symbols & metaphors Problem-solving
B: Belief A: Affect S: SocialAttitudes Emotions SupportBeliefs Expression HelpingValues Empathy Social skillsMeaning Ventilation Groups
MO: Motor ST: Sensation
Doing (activities) MindfulnessExercises Breathing
Playing RelaxationWork Focusing on compassion
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Processing what was it like for you?
Tellerwhat was it like to share?
Listenerwhat was it like to listen? & what
was it like to offer additional coping resources?
What would it feel like if all the walls of this entire
space were covered with artwork, with each artistic
piece repressing a visual of a different coping skill?
Our goal is awareness via Collective/supportive
good vibe & a spirit of having each others backs!
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ReferencesWhat did we do here? MeditationAffective, Somatic and Cognitive awareness to CFTs three affect
regulation systems, via Paul Gilberts 3 circles model (Compassionate Mind, 2010)
We used dyadic processing (interpersonal sharing, empathic listening, support and
problem solving) in order to facilitate the application of the following interventions:
Externalizing The Problem building awareness to the oppressive impact
drive/threat may had on you, and building capacity to emancipate yourself from
oppression, and safely arrive at your soothing space! (Michael White, based on
Michel Foucaults work, see Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, 1990).
Coping skillsThis strategy has been globally implemented by Rony Berger: Over
60,000 at risk children worldwide have benefitted from it and have sat in classroomssurrounded by visually stimulating illustrations of various coping resources, in order
to generate supportive/collective good vibe, and a spirit of having each others backs!
(Lazarus, A. (1981). The practice of multimodal therapy. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
ERASE-Stress; Berger, Gelkopf & Heineberg, 2012; Berger et al., 2003; Berger et al., 2005; Gelkopf,
Cotton & Berger, 2008; Berger et al., 2007; Gelkepf & Berger, 2009)