Join international trauma expert and author, Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., to learn how sensation-based (as opposed to emotional or rational) treatment is the key inroad into the trauma, and how to slowly uncouple fear from the natural immobility state. He will discuss his nine principles in successful trauma healing, all told through his own successful renegotiation of a personal traumatic event.
Representing the full scope of his life’s work and discovery, Dr. Levine will discuss the evolutionary underpinnings of trauma. The day will include an in-depth review of how trauma is related to the ethnological concept of tonic immobility, the importance of the so-called “primitive” Vagus system, and how its connections through the viscera and body are a key ally in trauma therapy.
OUTLINE
CHILD DEVELOPMENT: THE SIGNS OF TRAUMA IN EACH DEVELOPMENTAL PERIOD:
Pre-Natal
Year One
The Dopamine System
Age 3-5
The initial forays into sexuality
THE NATURALISTIC MECHANISMS OF TRAUMA
Understanding our primary survival tactics and how they play out in the body: Flight, fight, freeze and collapse
500 million years of evolution: Our Polyvagal underpinnings
How we get “stuck”
Somatic and emotional - syndromes and complexes
RESOLVING TRAUMATIC REACTIONS
The importance of “Bottom-Up” processing
Somatic Experiencing©
The nine basic stages of trauma treatment
Simple exercises that you can use in your practice
SPIRITUALITY AND TRAUMA
Trauma as one of the 4 avenues to enlightment
OBJECTIVES
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare. Levine’s international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 22 languages. His recent interests include the prevention of trauma in children, and he has co-written two books, with Maggie Kline, in this area: Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His most recent book: In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, was recently released to rave reviews. Levine’s original contribution to the field of Body-Psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Life Time Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP).
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TARGET AUDIENCE
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, and other Mental Health Professionals
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