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Constructed Awareness, Chattanooga, TN (2026)

03/19/2026

Trauma processing does not always begin with technique. Sometimes it begins with awareness.

When therapists can observe how experience unfolds in the moment—thoughts, bodily sensations, and what is happening in the room—new possibilities for working with trauma often begin to emerge naturally.

Constructed Awareness® Level 3 begins in one week.

This advanced training invites therapists who have completed Levels 1 and 2 to deepen their understanding of trauma processing through the Constructed Awareness® model.

Level 3 focuses on the practical integration of CA theory and intervention into what we call Responsive Processing. Rather than applying trauma techniques in a rigid sequence, therapists learn how trauma responses can emerge within the flow of therapy and how to work with those moments in a grounded and relational way.

Throughout the training, participants explore how orientation styles influence trauma processing, how single-event and complex trauma present in clinical work, and how responses such as fight, flight, freeze, and dissociation can be understood through the lens of Constructed Awareness.

This four-day live virtual workshop includes teaching, demonstrations, practicums, and collaborative discussion designed to help therapists translate these ideas directly into clinical practice.

Participants receive:
• a 55-page handbook
• demonstration videos
• 30 continuing education hours

If you have completed Constructed Awareness® Levels 1 and 2, there is still time to register before the training begins.

Session 1
March 27–28
Session 2
April 17–18
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM EST
Live on Zoom

Learn more and register at constructedawareness.com

03/18/2026

Many therapists discover that learning a therapeutic model is only the beginning. The deeper work often happens when real clinical questions, challenging cases, and lived therapeutic experience are brought into conversation with other clinicians.

Beginning in April, Tyler Orr, LPC, NCC, creator of Constructed Awareness®, will be facilitating a monthly consultation group for therapists interested in deepening their understanding of the model in clinical practice.

This group offers a collaborative space for experiential learning, case consultation, and peer reflection. Together we explore how Constructed Awareness principles unfold in real therapy sessions and how awareness-based observation can support meaningful therapeutic shifts.

Whether you are already trained in Constructed Awareness or simply curious about how awareness-based approaches can inform your clinical work, this consultation group provides a practical and supportive environment to explore the model alongside other clinicians.

Participants will have the opportunity to:
• discuss challenging clinical cases
• practice CA techniques in a focused setting
• engage in collaborative reflection and peer feedback
• deepen confidence applying awareness-based approaches in therapy

Group Details
Second Wednesday of each month
12:00–1:30 PM EST
Online (Zoom)
Duration: 90 minutes
Fee: $40 per session
The first session begins April 8, 2026.

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03/17/2026

Many therapists notice that meaningful shifts in therapy often begin with something simple: observation. When experience can be seen clearly within thoughts, bodily sensations, and what is happening in the external environment, new possibilities often begin to emerge naturally.

Constructed Awareness® explores this process by helping therapists and clients notice how experience is unfolding in the present moment. To explore these ideas together, we’re introducing a new community conversation for therapists.

Beginning in April, we will be hosting a Constructed Awareness® Lunch & Learn every other month on the first Friday at 12:00 PM EST. These virtual gatherings are designed as a relaxed space for therapists to explore awareness-based approaches to therapy through conversation, reflection, and shared curiosity.

Each Lunch & Learn focuses on a different topic related to Constructed Awareness and offers clinicians an opportunity to learn more about the model, ask questions, and hear how other therapists are applying these ideas in practice.

These gatherings are open to any therapist who is curious about Constructed Awareness. Whether you are already using the model, currently learning it, or simply interested in how awareness-based principles can inform clinical work, Lunch & Learn offers a welcoming space to explore these ideas with other clinicians.

Our first session will explore: Understanding the Three Principles of Constructed Awareness®
The discussion will be led by Tyler Orr, LPC, NCC, creator of Constructed Awareness®, joined by CA-certified clinicians Gloria Cave, LCSW and Dayhana Ray, LCMHC.

Participants will receive 1 continuing education hour approved by NBCC and ASWB.
When: April 3, 2026
12:00 PM EST
Where: Virtual

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03/16/2026

Many therapists notice that meaningful shifts in therapy often begin with something simple: observation.

Constructed Awareness® is a therapeutic model that helps clients observe how their experience is being constructed in the present moment.

Rather than focusing on controlling thoughts or emotions, the process begins by helping clients notice the building blocks of experience — thoughts, bodily sensations, and external perception.

As these elements are observed with greater clarity, patterns that once felt automatic often begin to reveal themselves. From this place of awareness, emotional regulation, relational flexibility, and new possibilities for response can begin to emerge naturally.

Constructed Awareness offers therapists a model for guiding this process in a structured and relational way, particularly when working with trauma, attachment patterns, and complex emotional experiences.

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03/15/2026

Constructed Awareness® begins with noticing how attention orients across thoughts, sensations, and external perception. For some, structured reflection can support this process.
The Constructed Awareness Scale (CAS) offers a way to begin noticing orientation patterns across different contexts without assigning labels or identities. Within CA, it is understood as a starting point for reflection and shared language.

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03/10/2026

Within Constructed Awareness® (CA), transformation is not achieved by changing who someone is or eliminating a pattern. It unfolds as awareness widens the range of available responses.

When experience is observed with clarity and curiosity, orientation becomes less rigid and more responsive. Flexibility emerges not from force, but from expanded awareness of orientation patterns.

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03/09/2026

Within Constructed Awareness® (CA), orientation styles are understood as adaptive responses to life. Each style develops to help a person orient, regulate, and respond within specific relational and environmental conditions.

No style is inherently better or worse. Each can support regulation in some contexts and become overwhelming in others. Awareness allows these patterns to be met with curiosity rather than judgment.

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03/08/2026

Within Constructed Awareness® (CA), sensation-oriented styles such as SME: Feeling and SEM: Trusting reflect ways experience may organize around bodily awareness. The same orientation that supports depth and presence in one context may feel overwhelming in another.
Regulation in CA is contextual. What matters is not which style is present, but whether attention is supported by access to multiple building blocks in the moment. Awareness allows sensation to remain grounding rather than flooding.

If you’re curious about how your attention tends to orient across different contexts, the Constructed Awareness Scale (CAS) offers a starting place for noticing without assigning a type.

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03/05/2026

Within Constructed Awareness® (CA), SEM: Trusting describes one arrangement of the three building blocks—sensation, external, and mental—in which attention organizes primarily through bodily awareness with less emphasis on interpretation.

Like all orientation styles, Trusting develops adaptively and may be regulating in some contexts while creating strain in others. The letters (SEM) refer to the sequence of building blocks, reflecting how experience organizes in a given moment and can shift across contexts over time.

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03/03/2026

Within Constructed Awareness® (CA), SME: Feeling describes one arrangement of the three building blocks—sensation, mental, and external—in which attention organizes primarily through bodily awareness.

Like all orientation styles, Feeling develops adaptively and may be regulating in some contexts while creating strain in others. The letters (SME) refer to the sequence of building blocks, reflecting how experience organizes in a given moment and can shift across contexts over time.

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02/25/2026

Within Constructed Awareness®, ESM: Giving describes one arrangement of the three building blocks—external, sensation, and mental—in which attention organizes primarily around others and relational context.

Like all orientation styles, Giving develops adaptively and may be regulating in some situations while creating strain in others. The letters ESM refer to the sequence of building blocks, not to a personality label.

Orientation in CA reflects how experience organizes in a given moment and can shift across contexts over time.

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02/23/2026

Within Constructed Awareness®, EMS: Adapting describes one arrangement of the three building blocks—external, mental, and sensation—in which attention organizes primarily around environment and relational context.

Like all orientation styles, Adapting develops adaptively and may be regulating in some situations while creating strain in others. The letters EMS refer to the sequence of building blocks that construct experience.

Orientation in CA reflects how experience organizes in a given moment and can shift across contexts over time.

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