The Wheel of Tolerance: An Inside Look with Developer Katrina Lundgren and Dr. Jamie Marich (Homestudy Version)

About the Course



The Wheel of Tolerance is a dynamic alternative to Dr. Daniel Siegel's Window of Tolerance that can be a more appropriate model for people who dissociate and for neurodivergent individuals and systems. Workshop originally offered on March 31, 2023, you now have unlimited access to the recording and workshop materials.


Equine therapist Katarina Lundgren first published the Wheel of Tolerance on her blog in 2019, and
expanded upon its principles as a contributor for Dr. Jamie Marich's 2023 book Dissociation Made
Simple: A Stigma Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life.


In this 3-hour workshop Katarina will share some elements of her story and lived experience and take you through how she developed the Wheel of Tolerance. She goes over principles for using the Wheel in a variety of settings and will then be in conversation with Dr. Jamie Marich to discuss more varied clinical applications. 

No CEs are offered for this event, although the three hours can be counted as an elective towards ICM's Advanced Certificate in Dissociation Studies for EMDR Therapists*. 


Objectives

(1) To critique the popular Window of Tolerance model that is often used as a standard of care in trauma-focused therapy from a dissociation-informed and neurodivergent perspective

(2) To summarize the development of the Wheel of Tolerance model as a viable, non-linear alternative to the Window of Tolerance model

(3) To apply the Wheel of Tolerance model in a variety of clinical or human services settings to help clients navigate shifts in affect


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Confidentiality: There is no client relationship or other privilege that would create a duty rising to the level of clinical confidentiality in this training setting; however, you are expected to respect the confidentiality of other trainees in the group, and your trainer will explain the importance of confidentiality. Trainees who observe a problem with another trainee are expected to bring the problem to the lead trainer or other training staff. Similarly, if a staff member observes an issue with professionalism, they reserve the right to discuss that issue with the lead trainer.


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Cost: $25.00

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Instructor

Developer Katrina Lundgren

Katarina Lundgren is the Chair of Board in MiMer and the Director of MiMer Centre, and her work is focused on equine assisted interventions, psychology, trauma, and mindfulness. Katarina has a background in running a livery yard and a riding school in Sweden, and has offered nature and horse tourism packages for more than 15 years. For the last 10 years, her work has been increasingly focused on helping people grow and heal after trauma with the help of nature based and equine assisted approaches.  She travels internationally and talks and teaches about the interaction between horses and humans,  as well as human trauma and trauma consequences. She is passionate about equine welfare and the ethics of working with horses in a therapeutic way. Katarina sees herself as a growth facilitator, and she is a certified trauma sensitive mindfulness instructor and cognitive scientist offering various Equine Assisted Interventions. Katrina is a survivor of sexual abuse and as a teenager and young woman spent many years living with difficult and dissociative mind states, and receiving psychiatric treatment. She has a historic diagnosis of Dissociative identity disorder (DID), and a more recent diagnosis of autism.

ICM Founder & Director Jamie Marich

Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they/we) began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003, primarily teaching English and music. Jamie travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice and online education operations in her home base of Akron, OH. Marich is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy. Marich is the author of EMDR Made Simple: 4 Approaches for Using EMDR with Every Client (2011), Trauma and the Twelve Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement (2012), Creative Mindfulness (2013), Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment, and Working with Survivors, Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015), and Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019). Marich co-authored EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Care along with colleague Dr. Stephen Dansiger in 2018, and their new book with Springer Publishing Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide released in 2021. North Atlantic Books published a revised and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps in the Summer of 2020, and they released The Healing Power of Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide to Transforming Trauma and Facilitating Recovery in 2022. Her latest release with North Atlantic Book, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life came out in January 2023. She has three more projects in the works with North Atlantic Books, including her personal memoir about surviving spiritual abuse called You Lied to Me About God, due out in Autumn 2024. The Huffington Post published her personal story of being out as a clinical professional with a dissociative disorder in May 2023. The New York Times featured Marich’s writing and work on Dancing Mindfulness in 2017 and 2020. NALGAP: The Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Addiction Professionals and Their Allies awarded Jamie with their esteemed President’s Award in 2015 for her work as an LGBT advocate. The EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) granted Jamie the 2019 Advocacy in EMDR Award for her using her public platform in media and in the addiction field to advance awareness about EMDR therapy and to reduce stigma around mental health. Jamie also sits on the editorial board of the EMDR Journal of Practice and Research, and she was the 2008 winner of the Poster Research Award at the EMDRIA Annual Conference.

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