Rescripting Trauma Memories with Memory Reconsolidation: Protocols for Updating Implicit Beliefs and Patterns (Clinical Hypnosis Society of New Jersey)
May 17
Organization: Clinical Hypnosis Society of New Jersey
Website: https://www.clinicalhypnosisnj.org/event-6001181
Agenda: https://asch.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Timed_agenda.docx
Event Title: Rescripting Trauma Memories with Memory Reconsolidation: Protocols for Updating Implicit Beliefs and Patterns
Dates: 05/17/2025
Location: Virtual
CE: 6.0
Contact: chsnj1986@gmail.com
Abstract:
Reprocessing traumatic memories can be a tough task, due to the stubborn persistence of painful emotions, thoughts, and patterns woven into the memory at both conscious and subconscious levels. Fortunately, neuroscience has revealed how clinicians can more effectively help their clients reprocess traumatic memories by harnessing the mechanisms of memory consolidation. Memory reconsolidation refers to the brain’s inherent ability to update a memory network with new information when the person encounters a new experience that is emotionally significant enough for the brain to change the memory’s meaning, context, and associations. In this webinar, we will explore the phenomenon of memory reconsolidation and how clinical hypnosis can be used as an adjunct to treatment to facilitate it. Participants will learn why hypnosis can be an effective tool for eliciting memory reconsolidation and get several tools they can use to help clients rescript trauma narratives, repair attachment wounds, and foster a positive post-trauma identity
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this workshop, participants will be better able to:
- Evaluate recent neuroscience discoveries regarding memory reconsolidation and their clinical implications for treating trauma.
- Describe the steps of the RECON protocol, an imaginal rescripting technique to help clients reduce distress related to memories of traumatic events.
- Describe how to integrate cognitive reframing techniques with hypnosis to rescript the client’s trauma narrative and beliefs associated with the traumatic event.
- Identify at least two ways to help clients avoid re-traumatization while reviewing traumatic memories.
- Discuss at least two strengths and two limitations of the research on memory reconsolidation and clinical hypnosis in trauma treatment