Dr Bessel van der Kolk Live - The Body Keeps the Score

A healing, educational workshop for therapists, practitioners and the general public.

In his best-selling work The Body Keeps the Score, Dr Bessel van der Kolk explains how trauma literally reshapes the brain and body, causing lasting effects on mental and physical health. 

Trauma is not a story of what has happened in the past: trauma that started outside shapes the filters and perceptions that determine how we currently experience our lives – trauma keeps being replayed inside the theatre of the body.

Dr Bessel van der Kolk is supported by Licia Sky and Tania de Jong AM.

This workshop will explore:

• What neuroscience teaches about self-awareness and trauma

• The nature and essence of human attachment

• New psychotherapeutic treatments that help integrate traumatic memories, including psychedelic-assisted therapies

• Body-centered approaches for dealing with trauma, including EMDR, yoga, play, voice, dance, theatre work and tai chi.

These techniques help people come into the present moment and shift out of fear, numbing and hyperarousal. This allows them to resolve traumatic memories, promote mastery over the post-traumatic legacy of constriction, disconnection, and loss, and reclaim authority over their lives.

This event is presented by Activate Media Events and charity Mind Medicine Australia.

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