Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on How the Body Keeps the Score – Bessel A. van der Kolk, Martin H. Teicher, Cathy Malchiodi, and more

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Trauma is horrendous.
It overwhelms its victims and often the people who try to treat it. It reshapes one’s sense of self, bodily experience, and brain organization — leaving people stuck in terror, isolation, and shame.

My life’s work has been to find the most effective pathways to healing trauma. It’s why I founded the Trauma Center, have been part of groundbreaking research, and wrote the #1 New York Times bestselling book The Body Keeps the Score.

Along the way, I have collaborated with many of the most sought-after pioneers and researchers in our field. Together, we have successfully treated thousands of traumatized children and adults: victims of child abuse, natural disasters, wars, accidents, and human trafficking.

Now we collectively offer this exclusive online course as an
authoritative guide toward trauma healing.

Together, we will help you discover how incorporating methods such as EMDR, meditation, neurofeedback, yoga, mindfulness, sensory integration, and the arts can deepen your therapeutic skills and lead to deep, lasting healing.

Join us and we will show you how the helplessness, rage, and collapse from past trauma imprints can be transformed through physical experiences — restoring your client’s hope for a brighter future filled with joy, purpose, and meaning.

Yours in healing,
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

When you accept your invitation to join our devoted gathering of trauma treatment professionals, you will:

1. Discover how to build stronger connections with your clients
2. Deepen your understanding of trauma and its effects
3. Master innovative treatment options to fill your toolbox
4. Learn to go beyond standard talk therapy to customize treatment for deep-rooted trauma

1. Stay on the leading-edge of diagnosing trauma-related issues
2. Learn how to create unique treatment interventions that maximize your therapeutic outcomes
3. Join an elite group of peers from around the globe, all focused on enhancing their therapeutic skills and improving client outcomes

Your registration today shows your commitment to alleviate suffering, end the cycles of violence, and help people live their lives to the fullest. It also supports the Trauma Research Foundation in their mission to conduct innovative treatment and research—because no child or adult should suffer the consequences of trauma.

What will I learn?

The Body Keeps the Score: Trauma Healing

with Bessel van der Kolk, MD
The vast increase in our knowledge about the basic processes that underlie trauma has opened new possibilities to lessen or even reverse the damage.

Through intriguing videos, case studies, and masterful explanation, you will learn how to apply the latest findings from research to your trauma treatment protocols in practical, effective ways.

This intensive session will provide you the knowledge you need to give your clients:

• A way to find words that describe the deep and painful effects of trauma
• Tools to regulate their emotions, even when they’re unexpectedly triggered
• The ability to trust other human beings after the shameful and horrific details of their trauma
• The opportunity to be fully alive in the present, not stuck in the past
• …And so much more

Program Outline

The Body Keeps the Score: Trauma Healing

Neuroscience & Brain Development

• How children learn to regulate their arousal systems
• How the brain regulates itself
• Developmental psychopathology: The derailment of developmental processes & brain development due to trauma, abuse, and neglect
• How the brain responds to treatment

Early Life Trauma

• Interpersonal neurobiology
• Adaptations to trauma early in the life cycle
• Loss of affect regulation
• Chronic destructive relationships towards self and others
• Dissociation and amnesia
• Somatization
• Self-blame, guilt and shame
• Chronic distrust and identification with the aggressor

Attachment, Trauma, and Psychopathology

• The breakdown of information processing in trauma
• Mirror neuron systems and brain development
• How to overcome the destabilization and disintegration
• The compulsion to repeat – origins and solutions
• Difference between disorganized attachment and traumatic stress

Neuroscience, Trauma, Memory, and the Body

• The neurobiology of traumatic stress
• Learned helplessness and learned agency
• Restoring active mastery and the ability to attend to current experiences
• Somatic re-experiencing of trauma-related sensations and affects that serve as engines for continuing maladaptive behaviors
• How mind and brain mature in the context of caregiving systems

The Diagnosis of Treatment of Trauma-Related Disorders

• Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
• Affect and impulse dysregulation
• Disturbances of attention, cognition, and consciousness
• Distortions in self-perception and systems of meaning
• Interpersonal difficulties
• Somatization and biological dysregulation
• The development of DTD in the DSM-5® as a diagnosis and its implications for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment

The Latest Research on Trauma-specific Treatment Interventions

• The role of body-oriented and neurologically-based therapies to resolve the traumatic past
• Alternatives to drugs and talk therapy
• EMDR
• Self-regulation, including yoga
• Mindfulness
• Play and theatre
• Dance, movement, and sensory integration
• Neurofeedback

ho is this training for?

This training has been specially created for Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Teachers, Occupational Therapists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Nurses, and other helping professionals.

The education provided in this intensive online training is designed to breathe new life into your clinical treatment plans for even the most challenging trauma clients. This interactive online training also offers you a community of peers and mentors all focused on helping clients succeed.