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Bottom Up: How Neuroscience Can Guide Us in Body-Oriented Therapies

with Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Andrew Nicholson, PhD, Sebern Fisher, MA, BCN, Paul Frewen, PhD, CPsych, Sherain Harricharan, PhD, Chantelle Lloyd, PhD, Wendy D'Andrea, PhD, Margaret Mckinnon, PhD, Daniela Rabellino, PhD, and Braeden Terpou, PhD | Click here for information about our Speakers

It's increasingly evident ‘the body keeps the score': traumatized individuals frequently report somatically-based alterations in self experience, including feelings of disembodiment and related identity disturbance.

Pioneering neurobiological studies are beginning to shed light on self-disturbance in traumatized individuals both during resting state and under conditions of threat.

• How the brain processes trauma
• The development of maladaptive self-beliefs in the experience of PTSD (identity disturbance)
• Somatically-based alterations of experience in the bodies of trauma survivors
• Harnessing the brain networks in therapy that can lead to trauma resolution

The Transformation of EMDR: From Technique to Comprehensive Psychotherapy

with Deborah Korn, PsyD | Click here for information about Deborah Korn

Trauma is stored in the brain and body, continuing to cause pain and suffering, but there is an effective solution to free clients by repatterning thinking and emotional reactions:

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a unique type of psychotherapy proven to help clients recover from trauma and improve the quality of their lives.

• Determine the current status of EMDR therapy's evidence base in treating PTSD and other psychiatric conditions
• Formulate the basic tenets of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model
• Inspect the goal and function of each prong of the three-pronged approach in EDMR therapy

The Use of Mind-Altering Substances: MDMA, Psilocybin, and Marijuana for Treating PTSD and other Mental Distress

with Michael Mithoefer, MD, Rick Doblin, PhD, Phil Wolfson, MD, Sue Carter, PhD, Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC, Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, Anne Wagner, PhD, C Psych, James W. Hopper, PhD, Elizabeth Call, PsyD, Susan Walker, MD, Francis Guerriero, MA, LICSW, Michael Alpert, MD, and Bessel van der Kolk, MD | Click here for information about our Speakers

For the first time in over four decades, researchers are returning to examine the therapeutic benefits of mind-altering substances, including MDMA (ecstasy), psilocybin (mushrooms), marijuana and LSD.

• The emerging research on MDMA and MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy
• The history and contemporary research on Psilocybin and Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy
• Integration of psychedelics in contemporary treatments for mental illness
• Investigations regarding neurotransmitters and psychedelics

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

with Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP | Click here for information about Resmaa Menakem

We can't help ourselves begin to heal racialized trauma if we don't acknowledge that it even exists.

Through a somatic-body approach that negotiates the common historical and perpetual myths that Black bodies, Native bodies, and other bodies of colour are inherently deviant and that the white body is the standard of humanness, Resmaa helps build an understanding of racialized trauma so that we can move from our racialized lens to a cultural lens – and move further to a resourced energy lens of healing.

• Recognize body trauma born out of racism and white body supremacy
• Build a cultural container for you and your community to heal
• Begin practising resourced resilience

Going Beyond Regulation: Exploring Sensory Integration & Processing and Implications in Developmental Trauma

with Tina Champagne, OTD, OTR/L, CCAP | Click here for information about Tina Champagne

With this training, you'll discover effective ways to take in information through the senses, from within and outside of the body, then organize and interpret that information to make a meaningful, functional response for healing.

Get several sensory-based strategies to support childhood development and resiliency in children with developmental trauma, plus:

• Review sensory integration and processing performance skills
• Identify how developmental trauma impacts sensory integration and processing performance skills through clinical illustration