What you'll learn
- How past painful experiences in relationships (including developmental trauma) intrude into and significantly impair our relational functioning;
- How to interrupt the physiological threat response in our bodies that are compelling us to act in self-defense instead of acting with compassion and love;
- What commitment and hard work is not enough—healing relationships requires more working smart than working hard;
- Learn the secrets of co-regulation so that you can become an instrument of health, healing and safety for the people you love and care about;
- How to use the Forward-Facing process as a discipline to become the person you choose to be instead of how your painful past experiences have programmed you
- How to immediately find satisfaction and hope in even the most contentious of relationships
Requirements
- No Prerequisites
Description
How frequently do you find yourself acting in ways that you do not like and that lower your self-respect within the important relationships of your life? How frequently do you fail to act in the ways that you want to act with these people?
Would you like look back on your day and feel good about the way you behaved with the people you care about...instead of blaming everyone else for your discomfort. Becoming intentional with your words and actions in relationships is possible. Feeling safe, connected, loving and hopeful in relationships requires just a few simple tools...and then a whole lot of practice putting these tools to work.
Not knowing how our developmental experiences of attachment trauma can impact us in our adult relationships can leave us feeling ashamed and hopeless as we find ourselves habitually engaging in the same patterns of self-defense with our partners, our children, our co-workers and ourselves.
This course will give you the insight and tools to begin to gain traction in becoming the person you choose to be in all the relationships in your life. The more you are able to achieve and sustain intentional behavior in these relationships, the more you are diminishing the power that past trauma and painful experiences have in your present life.
Who this course is for:
- Individuals who want more out of life
- Learners who want a more fulfilling life
- Those looking to become the best they can be
- Educators
- Parents
- Friends
- Family
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 699 Reviews
- 3,102 Students
- 9 Courses
J. Eric Gentry, Ph.D., LMHC, D.A.A.E.T.S. is the founder of the Forward-Facing® Institute. Dr. Gentry is a board-certified and internationally recognized leader in the study and treatment of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. His doctorate is from Florida State University where he studied with Professor Charles Figley—a pioneer of these two fields. In 1997, he co-developed the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for Compassion Fatigue—the world’s only evidence-based treatment protocol for compassion fatigue. Dr. Gentry was original faculty, curriculum designer and Associate Director of the Traumatology Institute at Florida State University. In 2001, he became the co-director and moved this institute to the University of South Florida where it became the International Traumatology Institute. In 2010, he began the International Association of Trauma Professionals. He has trained tens of thousands of professionals to more effectively treat traumatic stress. In 2005, Hogrefe and Huber published Trauma Practice: Tools for Stabilization and Recovery—a critically acclaimed text on the treatment of traumatic stress for which Dr. Gentry is a co-author. The third edition of this text was released in 2015. In 2016 He released his revolutionary Forward-Facing Trauma Therapy book. He is the author of numerous chapters, papers, and peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. Dr. Gentry is a licensed psychotherapist with over 33 years of clinical practice. He is the CEO and owner of Compassion Unlimited-- a private psychotherapy, training, and consulting practice.
What is Forward-Facing®? Forward-Facing® is a unique process for resolving our painful past while living a principle-based life here in the present. It is the marriage of science-based self-regulatory skills paired with resilient intentional living. Engaging these skills lowers stress symptoms while simultaneously enhancing quality of life and well-being. The skills are deceptively simple and easy to implement. Anyone can learn them in a short period of time…and then work the rest of our lives to master them. While Forward-Facing® is a bona fide protocol for addressing and resolving traumatic stress, it is equally effective for developing stress-management, resilience and optimization skill for professionals, parents, couples, athletes and performers.