Trauma, Attachment, and Neuroscience
- 11th September 2024
- Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG, United Kingdom and Online
Embark on a Journey of Healing and Transformation
Embark on a learning journey of healing and transformation in this one-day immersion workshop. This exploration of trauma, attachment and the neuroscience involved is led by renowned trauma expert, clinician, and author of the NY Times bestselling book The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, and by Licia Sky, co-founder and global ambassador of The Trauma Research Foundation.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk will share over three decades of expertise, revealing how trauma rearranges the brain’s wiring and exploring the fundamental difference between trauma de-sensitization vs. integration and growth. Engage in experiential exercises with Licia Sky, focusing on interpersonal rhythms, attunement, and affect regulation techniques to establish a sense of self and community.
Why attend this immersion day?
What you’ll experience:
- Inner Exploration and Befriending: Therapies that work for trauma begin with a basic sense of calm and safety. The calmer we are, the more we can allow ourselves to know what we know, and to feel what we feel.
- Understanding Trauma’s Impact: Learn how trauma changes the way the brain processes information and how it manifests and leads to a state of being out of sync with oneself and one’s surroundings.
- Breaking Cycles of Re-enactment: Explore ways to break the cycles of re-enactment and suffering caused by altered biological systems.
Attend this high-impact day and leave with a comprehensive understanding of the impact of trauma, exploring diverse interventions, and acquiring practical skills for personal and professional growth.
What topics we will cover
- Understanding the Impact of Trauma and Disruptions: How trauma and disruptions of secure attachment influence the development of the mind, brain, and self.
- Exploring a Spectrum of Interventions: Finding words to describe and effectively communicate internal experiences. Emotion regulation for enhanced well-being: Processing traumatic memories for healing and resilience.
- Enhancing Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation: How trauma affects the development of the mind and brain. The impact of trauma on self-awareness and self-regulation.
- Trauma De-sensitization vs. Integration and Growth: The fundamental differences between trauma de-sensitization and the processes of integration and growth.
- Disrupted Attachment and Traumatic Stress: Investigate the distinctions between disrupted attachment and traumatic stress.
- Comprehensive Treatment Approaches: Integrative treatment: a necessity for trauma clients. A spectrum of interventions.
- Explore strategies to:
- Articulate experiences
- Regulate emotions
- Build trust
- Befriend physical sensations
- Process traumatic memories
- Cultivate full aliveness in the present
Learning objectives
Determine how traumatic experiences and disruptions of secure attachment effect brain development.
Examine methods to helps clients process traumatic memories to aid in recovery and build resilience.
Summarize how the impact of trauma on self-awareness and self-regulation.
Differentiate trauma de-sensitization, integration, and growth and the role in trauma treatment.
Demonstrate at least two strategies to help trauma clients regulate their emotions and befriend the physical sensations that accompany trauma.
Explain the clinical need for present-moment awareness and list two approaches to use with clients that foster a sense of “aliveness” in the present moment.
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Explore the entire Oxford 2024 event
If you purchase the full conference ticket you will have access to one of the confirmed full day workshops of your choice. Choose from a selection of immersion days with Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, Janina Fisher, Richard Schwartz and more. You will also have access to the recordings of all the workshops you don’t select to attend live.
