Expert Series - The Body Remembers: Somatic Pathways to Trauma Healing

This course delves into the multifaceted nature of trauma, exploring its somatic manifestations and profound impact on the brain and body. Featuring insights from Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, it highlights how trauma is stored as bodily sensations and emphasizes the critical role of embodiment in healing. The modules examine diverse therapeutic modalities, including EMDR, yoga, neurofeedback, and the emerging potential of psychedelic-assisted therapy, while underscoring the vital importance of relational connection and pleasure in recovery. This package provides a holistic perspectice of trauma treatment, guiding participants towards effective strategies for integrating past experiences and fostering a renewed sense of aliveness.

Comprehensive Curriculum

Micro-Moments of Regulation
Building change through glimmers, savoring, and stretching the nervous system
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Ethos
Tracking and shifting the internal organization of experience for healing
Working with Dreams
Practical techniques for using dreams to reintegrate fragmented parts
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
Utilizing the EFT Tango to process, deepen, and regulate core emotions.

Faculty

Bessel van der Kolk (Dr.)

Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., is a pioneering clinician, researcher, and teacher in posttraumatic stress, integrating developmental, neurobiological, and interpersonal aspects of trauma. His bestselling The Body Keeps the Score transformed how we understand trauma. With 150+ peer-reviewed articles, he has studied neuroimaging, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater, and EMDR. He is founder of the Trauma Research Foundation, past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University, and PI of the MAPS MDMA-assisted psychotherapy study.