Compassionate Inquiry
During this presentation Dr Maté will present on Compassionate Inquiry and show how individuals can connect to the truth within themselves in the present moment, become…
Category: Keynote Presentation
EMDR therapy in the treatment of moral trauma/injury
The enduring nature of PTSD within military and veteran communities purports a proposed link between mental illness and moral trauma/injury. Changes in both the DSM-5 [2013]…
Breaking the Intergenerational Trauma Cycle
Dr. Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John M.A (hon.doc) is the award winning author, and is one of the new leading African Descent voices in the field of…
Human Givens: An Holistic Approach to Treating Trauma
It is now widely recognised that all human beings share a set of innate emotional needs that have to be met well in order for them…
Integrating Psychological Birth Trauma pathways into midwifery, counselling, psychotherapy and psychology
An integrative approach to psychological birth trauma “It matters that we resolve not just the physical but the psychological consequences of birth”- Anne Marie. Maternal mental health…
Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing
With incontrovertible evidence for neuroplasticity operating from the cradle to the grave, and now the emphasis on the importance of supporting flourishing processes in therapy, the…
SE Meets Humanual: How trauma affects support, suspension and breath
This keynote is a wonderful opportunity to discover the unity of body, mind, and spirit as you explore the relationship of movement and breath to trauma.…
Making sense of other people’s resistance: shame, blame and fierce curiosity
Over the past decade, public understanding of the processes of trauma has expanded significantly. However, awareness does not always bring change, which can feel frustrating, confusing…
How to enable narrative expression and affect regulation – The scared gang are asked to tell
When children are asked to recall traumatic events or express their fears, their stress response is activated. Children have different styles of adaptation to threat; Instinctive…
The evolution of caring and compassion and the healing of trauma
In Compassion Focused Therapy, compassion is regarded as rooted in a basic if A then do B stimulus response algorithm. This algorithm evolved in different ways…
