What Will You Learn?

• Training Objectives: The MATES Deep Dive© Online training is designed to teach and model the use of MATES – Brain Regulation Program® – to healthcare professionals, in practice with their respective clients individually not in group sessions.
• This training will provide a basic training in Trauma. MATES Deep Dive© includes experiential exercises. Your participation in these exercises will help you to understand and apply the MATES – Brain Regulation Program® more effectively. The MATES – Brain Regulation Program® is not a psychotherapeutic method but a psycho-educational program that can be used along with other therapies.
• Through this training, you will learn how to teach your clients (children or adults):
• The defensive mechanism: fight, flight, freeze, faint, fawn;
• 5 (five) simple brain self-regulation strategies: The MATES keys: Mind, Air, Tree, Express, Stretch;
• The use of MATES Program material to increase the capacity of developing resilience through simple and effective metaphors.
• As a healthcare professional, you will increase your capability to:
• Improve your active presence;
• Prevent vicarious trauma;
• Safely attune to your clients;
• Identify the states and needs of your clients, without pathologizing.