Forging New Inner Connections - The Adult Attachment Repair Model

Forging New Inner Connections

The Adult Attachment Repair Model (AARM):

An Introduction to Neuromodulation

1.5 CEU’s

PETER CUMMINGS, LCSW

Workshop Description:

Traumas arising from developmental disappointments follow us throughout a lifetime going unchecked as one falls deeper into helplessness. The Adult Attachment Repair Model (AARM) represents an ever-expanding consolidation of compelling models for complex trauma.

Inspired through the empiricism of affective neuroscience and attachment theory, this workshop offers a glimpse into an emerging world of somatic neuromodulation. Unresolved trauma builds up painful gaps in emotional integration that result in narrative voids. Utilizing somatic processing through body sensation, we can access this redacted information with an accuracy that is not available to us with verbalization. In the AARM we learn to approach emotional healing through the activation of senses and place less emphasis on cognitive exploration or insight.

The AARM honors human intersubjectivity as being paramount to sensory processing and human connection can be beautifully held using a somatic connection stick. The attendee will be challenged to rethink connection when acting as a healing guide informed by a body narrative.

Regulating the involuntary nervous system has become the new goal of psychotherapy. The AARM favors the use of naturally occurring physical healing scripts that are rooted in sensation and deepened through felt connection. Through sensation we can reveal and witness a body narrative, which moves us much further than the use of a verbal narrative alone.

About the Speaker

Peter Cummings, LCSW is the originator of the Adult Attachment Repair Model (AARM) and has gained a deep breadth of knowledge over his 40+ year career as a psychotherapist. He has developed a somatically based model to treat attachment trauma, a unique form of complex trauma that requires a unique approach to healing. The AARM has evolved through 3 decades of dedication to somatic therapy in full time psychotherapy practice. Peter has demonstrated that his original use of a somatic connection stick results in deeper processing and vastly improved clinical outcomes. Peter has trained a wide array of healers, and there are several leading authorities in the field who have adopted his approach. His comprehensive manuscript, The Sensation of Discovery, is currently being edited for publishing. He has an intensive training program and has launched a mentorship program for psychotherapists.