Bessel A. van der Kolk's 29th Annual Trauma Conference -Main Conference Day 1 - Bessel van der Kolk, Elizabeth Warner, Ruth Lanius, Stephen Porges, Richard C. Schwartz, Matthew Sanford, Sherain Harricharan, Judson Brewer

Course Summary: Healing Trauma Through the Senses with Bessel van der Kolk & Leading Experts

This course, featuring Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and other renowned trauma experts, delves into cutting-edge approaches for treating complex trauma. Drawing from decades of research and clinical practice, the conference empowers clinicians to help clients reclaim their bodies and minds, fostering healing from deep-rooted traumatic experiences. Participants will gain insights into how trauma impacts brain development and learn practical methods to restore self-regulation and facilitate recovery.

Course Content & Objectives

Target Audience: This conference is designed for clinicians, therapists, mental health professionals, and healthcare providers involved in the management of trauma patients.

Key Topics and Learning Objectives:

• Neurobiology of Trauma: Understand how traumatic experiences affect brain development, self-regulation, and the ability to process information.
• Developmental Psychopathology: Explore the derailment of developmental processes due to trauma, abuse, and neglect.
• Affect Regulation: Address the loss of affect regulation, chronic destructive relationships, dissociation, amnesia, somatization, self-blame, guilt, shame, and chronic distrust often seen in trauma survivors.
• Therapeutic Interventions: Learn and apply proven methods and approaches including neurofeedback, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), meditation, yoga, mindfulness, and sensory integration to foster healing.
• Integration of Trauma Imprints: Assess how traumatic imprints can be integrated using techniques drawn from various somatic therapies and other innovative approaches.