We are so very grateful our Cracked Up community has been offered a 25% discount code, crackedup25, to attend this program.
My film Cracked Up, The Darrell Hammond Story is the film it is because of Bessel’s pioneering work! I am so honored to have him in the film as well as joining us on panels and participating inCracked Up, The Evolving Conversation series. His book, The Body Keeps The Score helped me more than any book on trauma I ever read. I felt seen and known with every word!
Bessel is a committed researcher, psychiatrist and friend to all of us who have been impacted by trauma. He really cares and sees the beautiful resilience in all of us.
He told me his teachers are his patients and the countless trauma survivors he has met around the world. Which is why I am extra excited about this program being interactive!
Send your questions for Bessel directly to support@collectivelyrooted.
At registration checkout, use code
crackedup25
to receive 25% off your ticket.
Questions? Please contact the hosts directly: support@
4 Week Lecture and
Conversation Style Workshops
Oct 20, 27 • Nov 3, 10
This year Bessel van der Kolk, MD together with Collectively Rooted, is putting on a special 4-Week program on October 20, 27, November 3, 10 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Eastern Time.
This unique program will highlight the ground-breaking concepts Dr. van der Kolk outlined in his book The Body Keeps the Score. It will give you the opportunity to deep dive with Bessel himself, into the research and understanding that went into this seminal piece of work, changing the way so many people think about the experiences they have had in the world we share.
Research shows that substance abuse, suicide, chronic disease, depression, and both being the victim and perpetrator of violent crime and sexual abuse are all predicted by trauma. Untreated trauma diminishes our ability to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships and these "attachment ruptures" interfere with our wellbeing and resilience. The good news is that trauma can be addressed and when it is, our ability to form the lasting, meaningful, healthy relationships that are so critical to our sense of security, is restored.
In this dynamic, interactive series, Bessel will synthesize history, neurology, and trauma research to deepen our understanding of trauma and trauma treatment. The results of his work has changed the lives of countless trauma sufferers and now you too can benefit from his dedication to the field through this new program.
Learn and converse alongside one of the world's leading experts in cutting-edge trauma science and healing techniques.
Schedule Overview
Week 1
Developmental Trauma
& Intergenerational Trauma
In response the lack of attention to what has been called the greatest threat to our nation’s public health, child abuse and neglect, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network has proposed a new clinical syndrome, Developmental Trauma Disorder, to more precisely capture the constellation of problems that require clinical intervention in this population.
In this opening session, Dr. van der Kolk discusses how when a diagnostic system does not include a diagnosis that captures the actual symptoms of a vast population of disturbed human beings, people with these symptoms are forced to receive inappropriate diagnoses and treatments. Currently, abused and neglected children receive such widely disparate diagnoses as bipolar disorder, conduct disorder, ADHD, phobic anxiety, reactive attachment disorder, and separation anxiety. All of these diagnoses are etiologically unrelated to trauma, and lead to pharmacological and behavioral control at the expense of dealing with fear, shame, terror, and rage that are derived from real threats to these children’s survival.
Objectives:
• Explain what trauma is and how it impacts differently at different stages of development
• Discuss the nature of traumatic memories
• Explain how the attachment system affects the processing of traumatic experiences
• Describe how children process trauma and how the attachment bond cultivates resilience
• Identify how trauma affects physical health and immune function.
Week 2
Neuroscience and Trauma
The development of neuroscience over the past two decades has provided new insights into how trauma impacts brain development and how the brain deals with overwhelming experiences. These findings call for a range of new approaches to trauma treatment, such as affect regulation techniques, dealing with traumatic memories, sensory awareness, and sensorimotor integration. Since traumatic imprints are stored in subcortical brain areas and are largely divorced from verbal recall, a central focus in treatment needs to be on the somatic experiencing of trauma-related sensations and affects. During this week’s session, we will examine how neuroscience research has elucidated the fundamental brain mechanism of self-regulation.
Objectives:
• Identify the basics of the brain circuitry involved in self-experience, salience, and executive functioning, and how these are impacted by trauma
• Describe how the polyvagal theory is relevant to clinical practice
• Demonstrate how rhythms, synchronicity, and movement are critical for normal functioning and their role in healing from trauma
• Explain basic features of normative brain development
Week 3
Stabilization: Neurofeedback, Yoga, Breathing; Movement and Other Treatments
The body is one of the theatres where the memory of trauma is re-enacted. Traditional western psychotherapy has approached the resolution of trauma as something that needs to be understood, worked through, and put into the larger perspective of one’s life. Informed by the neurobiology of trauma, this week we explore how various interventions can change core neurobiological, trauma-related deficits. We will explore the role that these interventions play in changing heart rate variability, interoceptive capacities mediated by the medial prefrontal cortex, being able to take action mediated in part by the anterior cingulate, orientation via changing activity of the posterior cingulate, and increase tolerance of sensory experiences mediated via the insula.
Objectives:
• Discuss a range of body-oriented treatment modalities and how they work
• Discuss the role of yoga, dancing, and martial arts in dealing with PTSD
• Define neurofeedback and explore what role brain training has in self-regulation and executive functioning
• Learn about mastery of rhythms and sensate experience, like yoga and sensorimotor processing, to heal from trauma
Participants will be exposed to the potential role of both traditional and innovative techniques in the future of the field of traumatic stress and summarize treatment strategies and alternatives to drugs and talk therapy.
Week 4
Trauma Processing
A continuation of the week 3 discussion, we will further explore how we can change people’s internal map of predictions and expectations by introducing new experiences with precision, attunement, and interaction. The organization of the emotional brain is notoriously resistant to modification by reason or understanding, but movement, touch, and auditory and visual input can all play a role in processing trauma. Accessing imagination, made possible using innovative methods like EMDR, psychedelics, Internal Family System (IFS), and psychodrama, is a critical piece of ending the cycle of re-enactment and suffering.
Objectives:
• Explain how trauma impacts the processing of subsequent experiences
• Gain an understanding of the role of timing and pacing in trauma processing
• Examine & explain how traumatized people's ability to process information is disrupted
• Learn how physical mastery, memory processing, affect regulation, sensory integration and other techniques can help people from moving from being trapped in their traumatic past into living in the present
• Discuss current research being done on psychedelic therapies
• Discuss EMDR, IFS, and psychodrama and why these body-oriented practices are effective in treating trauma
• Describe the use of theater and psychodrama in healing from trauma
We hope you are able to benefit from the incredible teaching opportunity available here.
At registration checkout, use code
crackedup25
to receive 25% off your ticket.
Questions? Please contact the hosts directly: support@
About Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Dr. van der Kolk believes that our experience of trauma leaves an imprint on our bodies, keeping trauma survivors linked to the injustices of the past and preventing them from reclaiming full ownership of their bodies and consequently leading fulfilling lives. With a research career spanning 30 plus years, a key theme of Dr van der Kolk’s work is that "exposure to abuse and violence fosters the development of a hyperactive alarm system and molds a body that gets stuck in fight/flight, and freeze." Author of New York Times Best Seller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Dr. van der Kolk spends his career studying how children and adults adapt to traumatic experiences, and has translated emerging findings from neuroscience and attachment research to develop and study a range of treatments for traumatic stress in children and adults.
In 1984, he set up one of the first clinical/research centers in the US dedicated to study and treatment of traumatic stress in civilian populations, which has trained numerous researchers and clinicians specializing in the study and treatment of traumatic stress, and which has been continually funded to research the impact of traumatic stress and effective treatment interventions. His work is so important, it has been congressionally mandated. This series is a must-see.
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