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Trainings

Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR)

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Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is a person-centered yet intensely focused approach to trauma resolution based on the principle that the very act of trying to repress painful memories is what holds them in place and gives them power over the individual. 

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TIR is designed to examine the cognitive, emotional, perceptual, or other content of past incidents, to reduce or eliminate the emotional charge contained in them, and thus to relieve the patient of their negative consequences, whether or not a diagnosis of PTSD applies to the patient.  

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Traumatic Incident Reduction provides a safe space and the means to examine what has been blocked fully. In the process, we release our resistance and the painful emotions and negative thought patterns contained in that past trauma.

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Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) is listed on SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices: www.tir-nrepp.org. It has also been successful in treating specific phobias, depression, anxiety, and addictions.

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TIR Workshop Training Outline

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Basic TIR Theory - application of the "Rules of Facilitation" - Managing communication cycles, and skills designed to facilitate handling client concerns that may occur in a TIR session - The "Unblocking" procedure: theory, technique, demonstration, and practice sessions - Basic and Thematic TIR and TIR exercises and supervised practice in TIR - Giving and receiving one or more TIR / Unblocking sessions

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*Workshops involve ample & close supervision, often one-on-one*

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AMI is approved as a provider of continuing education by the Florida Dept of Health, Division of Medical Quality Assurance, Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling, CE Provider #50-17430. 

  

The continuing education credits for this program may also be submitted to the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists towards certification and recertification as a Trauma Specialist, a Trauma Responder, and a Trauma Service Specialist.

 

 Participants in all professional disciplines will be provided with documentation of credit hours for use in securing CE credits from their respective licensure boards and/or professional associations.

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TIR Workshop Training Days

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  • Day 1: Introduction to TIR, Communication Exercises

  • Day 2: Unblocking and Unblocking sessions

  • Day 3: TIR and Endpoints, TIR Sessions, Quiz, Evaluations

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TIR Workshop Learning Objectives

  • Explain the theory and practice of Traumatic Incident Reduction.

  • Explain the theory and practice of Unblocking.

  • Explain the theory of the traumatic network.

  • Analyze the nature of an activity cycle.

  • Describe unresolved traumatic incidents as incomplete activity cycles.

  • Predict how reactivation (triggering) affects clients' everyday lives.

  • Explain the theory of emotional charge.

  • Demonstrate the application of activity cycles throughout a TIR session.

  • List conditions to check before beginning a TIR session

  • Explain the purpose of addressing recent life disturbances before starting the TIR technique.

  • Explain the rationale of using unvarying instructions to a client.

  • Recite Basic TIR instructions used to guide clients through traumatic memories.

  • Demonstrate helping a client to identify a subject to address with Thematic TIR

  • Assess potential issues to be addressed using distress and interest ratings.

  • List situations in which you would ask for an earlier, similar event when using Basic TIR

  • List situations in which you would ask for an earlier, similar event when using Thematic TIR

  • List situations in which you would use the "additional questions" in the TIR technique

  • List the factors that could comprise a successful "endpoint"

  • Compare the "unlayering" style used in Unblocking to the TIR technique.

  • List situations in which you would use the positive recall list

  • Analyze in what situations you might use the conversational remedy.

  • Describe clients for whom TIR is not appropriate.

  • Describe what actions to take with a client who is not yet ready for TIR.

  • Compare TIR methodology to other counseling styles.

  • Analyze the role of the Rules of Facilitation in the successful application of TIR.

  • Utilize communication exercises to increase rapport with clients.

  • Practice maintaining a stable, non-reactive presence with a client.

  • Explain the importance of acknowledging the client's communications.

  • Demonstrate how to address any client concern or distraction to continue the TIR action smoothly.

  • Apply Traumatic Incident Reduction to a successful result.

  • Apply Unblocking to a successful result.

  • Use these structured, directive techniques in a client-centered way.

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