Healing Across Generations: Tools for Transforming Transgenerational Trauma

Name: Healing Across Generations: Tools for Transforming Transgenerational Trauma
Brand: The Embody Lab
SKU: PE-C20
Price: 197.0 USD
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"Healing Across Generations: Tools for Transforming Transgenerational Trauma" delves into the profound impact of inherited experiences across family lineages. It illuminates how unacknowledged ancestral burdens, from systemic losses to historical events, manifest in the present through epigenetic changes, psychological patterns, and a persistent "felt sense" of unresolved issues. Through a powerful blend of Family Constellations, somatic ancestral genograms, and ancestral psychotherapy, participants will acquire practical, body-based techniques to identify, disentangle from, and compassionately process these inherited traumas. Ultimately, this program empowers individuals to cultivate a visceral sense of belonging, reclaim forgotten histories, and foster healing not only for themselves but also for their ancestors and future generations.

Comprehensive Curriculum

Module 1: Encapsulating Intergenerational Trauma (Nir Esterman) — Intergenerational trauma as complex psychobiological condition transmitted through epigenetics/psychological patterns/systemic unconscious, key indicators, body-based family constellation techniques to "return" trauma to its source.

Module 2: Resourcing Through the Ancestral Presence (Camara Meri Rajabari) — Ancestral psychotherapy as post-humanistic approach, healing reverberating through past/present/future generations, guided ancestral grounding and family constellations.

Module 3: Somatic Genograms for Intergenerational Healing (Dr. Amber Elizabeth Gray) — Somatic ancestral genograms (up to seven generations through felt sense), "ancestral compost" (released) vs. "harvest" (kept as resource).

Module 4: Healing the Past by Healing the Present (Karee Powers) — Manifestations (collective PTSD, shame, disenfranchised grief, altered stress hormones), reclaiming forgotten family and cultural histories, diverse strategies.

Learning Outcomes & Professional Benefits

Core competencies across 4 areas: Recognition (reactions "too big" for personal history, feelings of "infinite/bottomless/too heavy," patterns unrooted in individual experience); Understanding Transmission (epigenetic changes, psychological patterns, place-based transmission, "systemic unconscious" / energetic field); Somatic Approaches (ancestral trauma in present body, family constellations, somatic genograms, guided ancestral grounding, fixation points); Processing and Integration (compassionate return of inherited trauma to source, distinguishing personal from inherited, ancestral resources and resilience, completing grief ancestors couldn't complete).

Who This Is For

Therapists working with clients whose symptoms feel "too big"; practitioners noticing patterns unrooted in personal history; clinicians working with descendants of genocide/war/slavery/colonization; anyone addressing collective trauma; practitioners interested in Family Constellations, ancestral approaches, or systemic healing.

Faculty

Nir Esterman

Nir Esterman is a teacher of Family and Systemic Constellations, an Embodied Shadow Work trainer, developer of Shadow Constellations, and a body-psychotherapist with 20 years of experience in personal and group settings. He holds a B.Sc in Bioinformatics and an M.Sc in Science Teaching. Nir's work combines embodied inter-generational healing and Shadow integration, drawing on various modalities. He teaches therapists and facilitators to journey through their own Shadow realms in order to become deeper and safer professionals.

Camara Meri Rajabari

Camara Meri Rajabari is an arts-based, psychedelic-assisted, ancestral psychotherapist based in Oakland, California (Chochenyo and Ohlone lands) and Santa Fe, New Mexico (Pueblo and Tiwa lands). Her practice specializes in anxiety, depression, and intergenerational trauma, integrating non-ordinary states of consciousness with ancestral wisdom, ancient archetypes, dreams, and imagination. She co-authored "Invoking the Numinous" in Integral Psychedelic Therapy and is featured on NPR's Life Kit. A spiritualist, AfroFuturist, and artist, Camara facilitates paths of healing and ancestral connection for the global community.

Amber Elizabeth Gray (Dr.)

Dr. Amber Elizabeth L. Gray is a Dance/Movement Therapist, Human Rights Psychotherapist, and yoga teacher specializing in supporting survivors of war, torture, and human rights abuses. Her work spans active conflict zones, post-conflict areas, refugee camps, and disaster-stricken regions. An activist, artist, author, and therapist, she draws on a Polyvagal, Heart & Spirit-informed Right to Embody somatic human rights framework. With 25 years immersed in Polyvagal Theory, she developed survivor-centered, multicultural Somatic & Dance/Movement Therapy, shared globally through Body of Change eco-somatic retreats.

Karee Powers

Karee Powers, LICSW, EMDR-C is certified in EMDR and is an EMDR trainer and consultant. She has over 17 years of experience providing psychotherapy in a variety of settings including inpatient facilities, and non-profit organizations offering care for children, adolescents and adult survivors of abuse, neglect, combat trauma, sexual trauma, phobias, generational trauma, and interpersonal traumas. Her private practice and training is centered in work with complex trauma and dissociation, using EMDR, CBT, psychodrama, somatic psychology, and mindfulness. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with her Master’s in Social Work.

Peter Levine (Dr.)

Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International. Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received Lifetime Achievement awards from Psychoth erapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. He continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally. Learn more at somaticexperiencing.com.

Stephen Porges (Dr.)

Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He is the originator of the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral, mental, and health problems related to traumatic experiences.

Deb Dana

Deb Dana, LCSW, is an author, clinician, and consultant using Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve trauma while honoring the autonomic nervous system. She developed the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series and lectures internationally. Deb is a founding member of the Polyvagal Institute, clinical advisor to Khiron Clinics, and advisor to Unyte. Her clinical works with W.W. Norton include The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection, and the Polyvagal Flip Chart. With Sounds True, she released Befriending Your Nervous System and the book Anchored.