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The workshop explores how trauma affects people. The way the brain processes information can be changed by trauma. traumatized people react in a variety of ways to current experience as a replay of the past because of altered biological systems. We will look at ways of befriending one’s body, both of which are essential for integration of traumatic memories: sensations, action patterns and physical sensations derived from the past. Insight and understanding can only have a limited influence on people’s control over the processes that are automatically processed on subcortical levels in the brain. The efficacy of various techniques to help people overcome a traumatic past and regain the capacity to be fully alive in the present will be presented.

The educational objectives are listed.

1. Describe recent developments in neuroscience as they relate to the treatment of PTSD.
2. Demonstrate techniques of physical mastery, affect regulation attention and memory processing.
3. Explain how experience itself, and controlled body action, individually and in groups, can powerfully help overcome traumatic repetitions and continued fight/flight/freeze responses.

Session may be edited to preserve confidentiality.