

This training is delivered in a lecture-style format. This workshop will discuss and demonstrate specific affect regulation techniques, examine ways to deal with fragmented self-experience, and teach the benefits of yoga, EMDR, meditation, neurofeedback, music and theater.

We will examine a spectrum of interventions: finding words to describe and communicate what is going on, learning to regulate one’s emotions, learning to trust other human beings with shameful and horrific details of one’s life, processing traumatic memories, reorganizing the brain to focus and filter out irrelevant experiences, and learning to be fully alive in the present. Trauma and disruptions of secure attachment affect the development of mind, brain and self. In this workshop we will demonstrate the cultivation of an embodied orientation: We cannot teach or guide someone else in attuned self-awareness if we are not able to get into that state ourselves. As therapists, our own body awareness is an important barometer to track the states of both patient and therapist. Its treatment requires a spectrum of interventions: finding words to describe and communicate what is going on, learning to regulate one’s emotions, learning to trust other human beings with shameful and horrific details of one’s life, befriending our physical sensations, processing traumatic memories, and learning to be fully alive in the present.īody awareness is a major component of how we process bodily sensations and mental memories and, thus, how we deal with, and heal from, traumatic experiences. Trauma changes development of mind, brain and self. We will discuss and demonstrate affect regulation techniques, examine ways to deal with fragmented self-experience, and teach the benefits of yoga, EMDR, meditation, neurofeedback, psychedelics, music and theater. We will do experiential exercises to explore the role of interpersonal rhythms and attunement in establishing a sense of self and community. integration and growth, and look at the difference between disrupted attachment and traumatic stress. We will focus on the fundamental difference between trauma de-sensitization vs. This workshop will show how trauma affects how mind and brain develop, and how trauma affects self-awareness and self-regulation. Learn how trauma can literally rearrange the brain’s wiring-specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust.

Join him in this transformational conference, and leave with a new understanding of traumatic stress. And doing research on effective treatments. Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors.
