The NARM Training Institute Presents

Counseling: The Level 1 NARM Online Basics Training has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. NARM Training Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-4132.

CE Provider Contact Information: The NARM Training Institute may be reached by phone at 1-707-621-8945; by email at admin@narmtraining.com; by mail at PO Box 388, Ukiah, CA 95482; or more information may be found on our website at www.narmtraining.com. 

Skill Level: Beginner/Introductory

Instruction Methodology: Didactic and theoretical learning to include lecture; question/answer periods; experiential learning (i.e. self-reflection exercises); discussion of pre-recorded demonstrations and vignettes; deconstruction of live NARM demonstration sessions; and small group learning integration times.

No Ethics Hours or Academic Credit: This training offers no ethics-related CE hours. This training offers no academic credit, and CE hours awarded are not eligible toward the fulfillment of a degree.

Social Work: NASW-CA is the CE provider for social workers attending the Level 1 NARM Online Basics Training. This course meets the qualifications for Continuing Education for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, or LEPs as required by the California State Board of Behavioral Sciences, provided by NASW-CA.

CE Provider Contact Information: NASW-CA may be reached by phone at 1-916-379-7578; by email at support@naswca.org; by mail at 1016 23rd St, Sacramento, CA 95816; or more information may be found on their website at www.socialworkweb.com. 

Skill Level: Beginner/Introductory

Instruction Methodology: Didactic and theoretical learning to include lecture; question/answer periods; experiential learning (i.e. self-reflection exercises); discussion of pre-recorded demonstrations and vignettes; deconstruction of live NARM demonstration sessions; and small group learning integration times.

No Ethics Hours or Academic Credit: This training offers no ethics-related CE hours. This training offers no academic credit, and CE hours awarded are not eligible toward the fulfillment of a degree.
 

Application to this training is open to mental health professionals and other allied helping professionals, as well as those in training programs in these fields. 

To review the Refund, Transfer, and Cancellation Policy, please click here.

Registration Process for NARM Online Basics Training:

1. Click the “Apply for” link on this page, which will take you to the corresponding training’s registration page
2. Review your payment options as well as the Refund, Transfer, and Cancellation policy on the registration page.
3. Choose your preferred payment plan and submit payment.
4. Upon completion of payment, you complete and submit the application form.
5. Sign the Waiver and Agreement forms.
6. You will receive email notification confirming your training registration and giving you further information about the training you registered for.
    

The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) provides a trauma-informed framework for understanding the developmental disruptions caused by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and other forms of complex trauma (C-PTSD). The content of the NARM Online Basics Training, as a whole, provides an overview of this NARM framework, which includes a presentation on 5 developmental stages and the childhood adaptive strategies associated at each stage.  

In the first module, the training will focus on the place of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) in the trauma-informed movement, including the current perspectives on ACEs and C-PTSD, the adaptive survival styles and the NARM 4 Pillars, and will present a framework for understanding the nature of developmental trauma. The second module focuses on the roles of helplessness and unmanaged empathy in the mental health professional and other allied helping professionals that can lead to professional burnout, as well as offers a deeper look into NARM Pillars #1 and #2. In the third module, disrupted emotions associated with early trauma and ways to identify the psychological, behavioral, and relational symptoms associated with disrupted emotional development will be highlighted; Pillars #3 and #4 will also be expounded upon in the third module. In the fourth module, other forms of complex trauma–including cultural and intergenerational trauma, attachment and adverse childhood experiences on child development–will be highlighted, as well as a greater understanding of the NARM principles for identifying and supporting post-traumatic growth and increased resiliency.

1. Identify the significance of the current trauma-informed movement.
2. Identify how the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) fits into the current field of trauma.
3. Summarize a basic understanding of the NARM 4 Pillar approach for addressing complex trauma.
4. Review the new ICD diagnosis and diagnostic criteria of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD).
5. Describe the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study.
6. Review the 10 categories of the ACEs study score.
7. Summarize a basic understanding of the role of the ACEs Study in understanding complex trauma (C-PTSD).
8. Indicate the NARM organizing principles and how they can support mental health professionals in addressing complex trauma.
9. Name the 5 adaptive survival styles in NARM.
10. Discuss how NARM views and addresses toxic shame, self-rejection, self-hatred and self-sabotaging behaviors.
11. Discuss the legacy of unresolved developmental trauma including negative self-concept, dysregulation of the self, and interpersonal difficulties.
12. Identify basic NARM principles and skills through observation of mental health professionals working with complex trauma.

1. Describe the basic NARM principle of Pillar #1: Setting the Intention for Change. 
2. Describe the basic NARM principle of Pillar #2: Exploring Internal Obstacles.
3. Summarize a basic understanding of the NARM Relational Model.
4. Identify the basic obstacles and triggers for mental health professionals who work with trauma, including their own.
5. Summarize the roles of helplessness and unmanaged empathy as they relate to mental health professionals. 
6. Specify the importance of interpersonal consent in addressing developmental and relational trauma.
7. Discuss the role of inquiry in addressing complex trauma.
8. Discuss professional burnout from a NARM perspective.
9. Review personal growth from a NARM perspective.
10. Identify the role of spirituality from a NARM perspective.
11. Review a basic understanding of the NARM 4 Pillar approach for addressing complex trauma.
12. Identify basic NARM principles and skills through observation of mental health professionals working with complex trauma.

1. Describe the basic NARM principle of Pillar #3: Supporting Personal Agency.
2. Describe the basic NARM principle of Pillar #4: Transforming Trauma Patterns.
3. Describe the NARM Emotional Completion Process.
4. Discuss the importance of emotional containment, of deepening affective states, and of supporting psychobiological completion of affective states.
5. Differentiate between Primary and Default Emotions using a NARM perspective.
6. Identify the 3 steps of the Emotional Completion Process.
7. Summarize the way NARM conceptualizes self-sabotaging and addictive behaviors.
8. Summarize the 3 considerations in using Psychoeducation in NARM.
9. Discuss the importance of NARM languaging when working with complex trauma.
10. Name how complex trauma impacts relationship and intimacy dynamics.
11. Name how complex trauma impacts family dynamics.
12. Explain the NARM understanding of connection and disconnection.
13. Discuss the legacy of unresolved developmental trauma including negative self-concept, dysregulation of the self, and interpersonal difficulties.
14. Identify basic NARM principles and skills through observation of mental health professionals working with complex trauma.

1. Describe a basic understanding of the psychobiological response to unresolved attachment, relational, and developmental trauma.
2. Define cultural and intergenerational trauma.
3. Identify the signs of cultural and intergenerational trauma.
4. Define environmental failure in the context of developmental trauma.
5. Summarize how developmental trauma is caused by attachment and environmental failure.
6. Summarize the NARM Personality Spectrum.
7. Summarize the NARM Personality Spectrum as a way of understanding the organization of the Self.
8. Describe how trauma at the earliest stages of development impacts the developing self.
9. Explain how the NARM approach to working with complex trauma supports and engenders post-traumatic growth.
10. Review the main elements of the Polyvagal Theory and developmental trauma’s impact on the body.
11. Define the NARM approach to heartfulness.
12. Explain the process of disidentification and post-traumatic growth.
13. Describe a broad overview of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM).
14. Identify basic NARM principles and skills through observation of mental health professionals working with complex trauma.