With Tracey Post and Alaine Duncan
Co Sponsored with The Princeton Center for MindBody Healing
Open to all curious clinicians.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET
$160
Live Interactive Virtual Webinar via Zoom
Accessibility requests welcome no later than February 15, 2025
Co Sponsored with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton
Friday, May 2, 2025
10:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET
$140
Includes catered lunch (details TBD)
@ Robert Wood Johnson Fitness and Wellness Center
3100 Quakerbridge Rd., Hamilton Township, NJ 08619
Accessibility requests welcome no later than February 15, 2025
What is trauma and what defines trauma healing? Historically, trauma was defined as an event or series of events that happened in the past and trauma healing was defined as the understanding of that event.
What is now known: trauma, while often perceived as an event or series of events, is more the residue of those events remaining in the body, mind, and spirit. Symptoms of traumatic stress arise from incomplete or thwarted attempts at self-protection remaining in our tissues long after the event or series of events is over. These experiences often occur before we are physiologically developed to successfully navigate them — sometimes prior to birth and often prior to our capacity for cognitive awareness. They are what happens within, as the body tries, but is unsuccessful, at navigating real or perceived harm.
So, how can cognitive treatment resolve trauma? Short answer: it can’t. Thankfully our bodies are designed to go into both hyper-arousal and collapse to help us get through danger and life threat — and are also hard-wired to recover from these experiences — even the ones that occur before we have language or cognitive awareness. Clinicians can help bring regulation and balance to trauma survivors by engaging the body’s essential wisdom.
Here lies the power of bottom-up therapies. Healing that begins with the body. Body based healing invites the integration of new healthy coping skills to replace habituated responses of either or both hyper-arousal and collapse.
Participants will:
- Develop a multi-faceted definition of trauma
- Explore bottom-up approaches to healing trauma, including PolyVagal Theory, the neurobiology of the Self Protective Response, and the Tao of Trauma.
- Expand capacity to recognize your somatic cues of safety, arousal and collapse
- Recognize signs of somatic dysregulation and how to implement healing attunement
- Practice techniques designed to build capacity for self and co-regulation
- Cultivate a cultural context of healing
Course outline:
| 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Introductions, Overview, Review of Trauma and 5 steps of the Self Protective Response |
| 12:30 – 12:45 PM | Break |
| 12:45 – 1:30 PM | Review of the ACES and impact of ACES on the development of complex trauma as well as the potential impact on adult morbidity and mortality |
| 1:30 – 2:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:30 – 3:45 PM | Review of Polyvagal Theory and bottom up processing |
| 3:45 – 4:00 PM | Break |
| 4:00 – 4:45 PM | Review Principles of Tao of Trauma |
| 4:45 – 5:15 PM | Exploration and integration of the role of bottom up therapies in cultural transformations |
| 5:15 – 5:30 PM | Debrief and evaluations |
5 CEU’s: NCCAOM; ASWB pending
Cancellations 30 days prior to class will receive full refund, less $50 administrative fee.