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The Masterpiece Effect of Rupture & Repair: Transcending Addiction & Trauma

In-Person
1 CE Hour

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Dates and Times

  • -
    In-Person

Location

  • Pacific B
    Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort
    Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
Description

Addictions, anxiety, depression, and suicide are on a fast rise in America, especially with Millennials and Generation Z. Addiction is an adaptive survival response to overwhelming experiences of pain, emptiness, isolation, and toxic shame. Treatment for addiction and mental health struggles frequently focuses solely on sobriety, abstinence, or merely alleviating symptoms, but neglects the critical discovery and resolution of the root underlying causes. These causes are often demoted to mere lip service or outright dismissal. Trauma injures our neurophysiological systems by mis-calibrating the Autonomic Nervous System and the inner self with toxic shame. These ruptures, left unrepaired, disconnect us from our true identity and impede the formation of secure attachments. This presentation delves into the process of rupture and repair within the three core systems: coping behaviors, core being, and family context. It explores the concept of the “Masterpiece Effect” which proposes that individuals have the potential to emerge stronger and healthier after repair, than they were before experiencing rupture.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Participants will be able to construct a diagram of the three core systems conceptual framework.

  • Participants will be able to describe post-traumatic growth through the rupture and repair process and its Masterpiece Effect.

  • Participants will be able to discuss the repercussions of unhealed trauma from a Polyvagal Theory perspective and connect it to toxic shame and the development of addiction.

  • Participants will be able to describe the concept of the enticement power factor in the development of addictions.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Adrian Hickmon

Adrian Hickmon’s was a football coach for fourteen years, eleven as a head coach at Ouachita Christian High School in Monroe, LA. He served as a Professor in the MFT master’s program at Harding University from its beginning in 1993 until 2013. In 2001 he founded Capstone Treatment Center in Searcy, Arkansas, where he now serves as the Clinical Architect. He holds a PhD in MFT from Virginia Tech, an MA in Substance Abuse Counseling from NE Louisiana University, and a MEd from HU. He is an LPC, an LMFT, and an LADAC. Hickmon has over 25,000 hours of therapy / supervision experience. His credentials include CSAT-S, CTT, and CMAT-S. He developed the Core-Systems Model which focuses on addictions, mental health issues, trauma, attachment, and family relationships. He has presented internationally on these topics. He and his wife JoAnna have been married for 48 years and live in their childhood hometown. They have daughters 44 and 42, twin sons 35, five grandsons 13, 12, 10, 8, and 6 months, a 4-year-old granddaughter and twin granddaughters on the way. His greatest joy is being with his family, especially in God’s great outdoors.

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