Emotional Training
Given the discovery that the sense of a safe place is the main benefit traumatized clients may find, Dror Green decided to research how this sense of security is created in psychotherapy and in other situations. This led him to identify seven categories of emotional skill with which we create the sense of a safe place, and without which we cannot survive in our contemporary world.
Emotional Training is designated to help PTSD victims identify their special and unique emotional skills, to understand how they use these skills to create a sense of a safe place and to improve them as a continuous process in their lives. This program is based on the practice of the seven categories of emotional skills. By simulations and practicing it becomes a simple and practical way of life that serves as an emotional immune system. Emotional Training is a basic and primary skill for rehabilitating the emotional process, and it can be integrated with any other skills and methods. It is beneficial for PTSD victims, since this approach does not relate to the trauma as an illness, and since it provide PDSD victims with emotional skills to efficiently cope with the post-traumatic symptoms. Emotional Training does not pretend to heal or fix the trauma, but it introduces practical tools to cope with the traumatic damage which cannot be healed and it enables PTSD victims to live full and creative life after the trauma.
The post-traumatic damage does not involve only PTSD victims, but also their family members and close relationships. The rehabilitation of PTSD victims requires a supporting environment in which appropriate tools are provided that enable the PTSD victim to cope with the difficult symptoms. A basic safe place is required in which emotional skills may be practiced with the assistance of a skilled professional.
In 2000 Dr. Green started an online support group for PTSD victims, which he is still running. Online support has some advantages for PTSD victims:
1. Accessibility. PTSD victims can join online support groups without leaving their ‘safe place’ at home. While many PTSD victims suffer from anxiety that prevents them of entering crowded or noisy places, they can participate in online interaction without losing their sense of control.
2. Anonymity. Many PTSD victims avoid exposing their trauma to their families or even to professional therapists. Open support groups enable them to experience and to share their feelings with other people who can understand them, while keeping their anonymity. This is the first step of joining a professional support group or personal online therapy.
3. Privacy. The virtual clinic provides more privacy than a physical clinic, since no one can see the client enter the therapist’s office.
4. Information. Online website that is dedicated to post-trauma is the best source of information for PTSD victims, where they do not have to expose themselves.
5. Social skills. Online support groups enable PTSD victims to re-engage with other people and recreate their damaged social skills in a secure environment.
Online communication is the best setting for PTSD victims, since it enables them to interact anonymously, or in the confidential setting of the online clinic, without leaving their houses.
As one of the pioneers of online therapy, Dror Green has developed the first (and only) online clinic. The online clinic is a revolutionary development in online support, since it includes all advantages of face-to-face support, and also creates a new kind of helping relationship which was never available before. This approach to assisting men and women who have experienced trauma can be of great assistance to those who are providing either personal or organizational coaching services. While a professional coach should never seek to do psychotherapy or assume that their services can take the place of psychotherapy when working with a severely traumatized client, this coach can assist those with trauma to deal immediately in a more effective manner with the trauma—leading either to a life in which their trauma is less influential in their life or to a decision that psychotherapy is necessary for them to move on to richer life experiences.
As noted above, a fuller description is provided in Dror Green’s Emotional Training: The Art of Creating a Sense of a Safe Place in a Changing World –a book which is now available on Amazon and Kindle. It is also available by contacting Dr. Green directly (see his biographical description below).
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