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Digital Seminar

Trauma: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness with Peter Levine, Ph.D.


Speaker:
Peter A. Levine, PhD
Duration:
1 Hour 11 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Oct 09, 2015
Product Code:
POS046460_S1
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Digital Seminar


Description

  • Learn from the Originator and Developer of Somatic Experiencing®
  • Levine’s Nine Principles in Successful Trauma Healing
  • Peter Speaks on the Full Scope of his Life’s Work & Discovery

Join international trauma expert and author, Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., to learn how sensation-based (as opposed to emotional or rational) treatment is the key inroad into the trauma, and how to slowly uncouple fear from the natural immobility state. He will discuss his nine principles in successful trauma healing, all told through his own successful renegotiation of a personal traumatic event.

Representing the full scope of his life’s work and discovery, Dr. Levine will discuss the evolutionary underpinnings of trauma. The day will include an in-depth review of how trauma is related to the ethnological concept of tonic immobility, the importance of the so-called “primitive” Vagus system, and how its connections through the viscera and body are a key ally in trauma therapy.

OUTLINE

CHILD DEVELOPMENT: THE SIGNS OF TRAUMA IN EACH DEVELOPMENTAL PERIOD:

Pre-Natal

  • Hormonal interactions between mother and child
  • Birth Stress

Year One

  • Safety, affection and containment
  • Proprioceptive development

The Dopamine System

  • The space to explore one’s effect on the world
  • The formation of a self that is different from Mom and Dad
  • Testing boundaries

Age 3-5

  • The Biology and balance of shame
  • The importance of shame in society
  • The signs of overshaming
  • The signs of undershaming

The initial forays into sexuality

  • The importance of flirting
  • How these sames stages replay themselves out in later life

THE NATURALISTIC MECHANISMS OF TRAUMA

Understanding our primary survival tactics and how they play out in the body: Flight, fight, freeze and collapse

500 million years of evolution: Our Polyvagal underpinnings

  • How the Dorsal Vagal System is related to shutdown and collapse
  • Fight or flight: Sympathetic/adrenal
  • System mobilization, Returning to the our Mammalian birthright: The Ventral vagal system and social engagement

How we get “stuck”

  • Tonic immobility - The fallback to freeze
  • Freeze couples with Fear
  • Dissociation
  • Bracing and terror
  • Euphoric dissociaton
  • Collapse

Somatic and emotional - syndromes and complexes

  • Emotional – anxiety, depression
  • Somatic – chronic pain, fibromyalgia
  • Autonomic – migraines, irritable bowel

RESOLVING TRAUMATIC REACTIONS

The importance of “Bottom-Up” processing

  • The Paul MacLean’s Triune Brain- In an Unspoken Voice

Somatic Experiencing©

  • Renegotiation vs. Reliving.
  • Restoration of self-regulation
  • Trauma isn’t about the event, but the body’s inability to process and integrate the nervous system charge
  • The importance of developing a felt sense

The nine basic stages of trauma treatment

  • Containment of strong sensation and emotion
  • Pendulation – The dual opposites of sensation
  • Titration – going gradually
  • Completion
  • Renegotiation of active for passive responses
  • Allow things to settle: Self-Paced termination

Simple exercises that you can use in your practice

SPIRITUALITY AND TRAUMA

Trauma as one of the 4 avenues to enlightment

  • Lessons from the Kundalini
  • A feeling of “okayness”, wholeness and trust in the world
  • And other side effects of effective trauma treatment
  • The importance of maintaining balance in one’s life

OBJECTIVES

  • Describe the four major development stages that increase our vulnerability to trauma, and how to recognize them in your clients.
  • Explain the naturalistic mechanics of trauma and survival responses of flight, fight, freeze and collapse.
  • Describe the evolutionary underpinnings of trauma and the Polyvagal theory.
  • Define the importance of “Bottom-up” processing versus “Top Down” processing.
  • Summarize the process of how overwhelming stress leads to somatic and emotional syndromes.
  • List Dr. Levine’s nine stages for successful trauma healing.
  • Provide a detailed description as to how trauma therapy can be a conduit to a deeper spiritual understanding, and the social implications this feeling of connection can have on the world as a whole.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare. Levine’s international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 22 languages. His recent interests include the prevention of trauma in children, and he has co-written two books, with Maggie Kline, in this area: Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His most recent book: In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, was recently released to rave reviews. Levine’s original contribution to the field of Body-Psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Life Time Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP).


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Peter A. Levine, PhD's Profile

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Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethnopolitical warfare. Levine’s international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 22 languages. His recent interests include the prevention of trauma in children, and he has co-written two books, with Maggie Kline, in the area: Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His most recent book: Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past, was recently released to rave reviews. Levine’s original contribution to the field of body psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). Levine was also honored as the recipient of the 2020 Psychotherapy Networker Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Peter Levine is the founder and president of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education, the president and editorial director of Ergos Institute Press, and receives a consulting fee from the Meadows Addiction Center. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Levine receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Peter Levine is a senior clinical fellow and advisor to the Meadows Addiction Treatment Center. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Humanistic Psychological Association, and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.


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Access never expires for this product.


Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Therapists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Case Managers, Nurses, School Psychologists, Other Helping Professionals

Objectives

  1. Articulate the four major developmental stages that increase vulnerability to trauma and how to recognize them in your clients.
  2. Determine the naturalistic mechanics of trauma and survival responses of flight, fight, freeze and collapse as it relates to clinical treatment.
  3. Discover the evolutionary underpinnings of trauma and the Polyvagal theory and their clinical implications.
  4. Demonstrate the importance of “Bottom-up” processing versus “Top Down” processing to improve treatment outcomes.
  5. Summarize the process of how overwhelming stress leads to somatic and emotional syndromes in clients.
  6. Incorporate Dr. Levine’s simple containment tools in order to more effectively engage your client in trauma therapy.

Outline

  1. Child Development: The Signs of Trauma in Each Developmental Period:
    1. Pre-Natal
      1. Hormonal interactions between mother and child
      2. Birth Stress
    2. Year One
      1. Safety, affection and containment
      2. Proprioceptive development
    3. The Dopamine System
      1. The space to explore one’s effect on the world
      2. The formation of a self that is different from Mom and Dad
      3. Testing boundaries
    4. Age 3-5
      1. The Biology and balance of shame
      2. The importance of shame in society
      3. The signs of overshaming
      4. The signs of undershaming
    5. The initial forays into sexuality
      1. The importance of flirting
      2. How these sames stages replay themselves out in later life
  2. The Naturalistic Mechanisms of Trauma
    1. Understanding our primary survival tactics and how they play out in the body: Flight, fight, freeze and collapse
    2. 500 million years of evolution: Our Polyvagal underpinnings
      1. How the Dorsal Vagal System is related to shutdown and collapse
      2. Fight or flight: Sympathetic/adrenal
      3. System mobilization, Returning to the our Mammalian birthright: The Ventral vagal system and social engagement
    3. How we get “stuck”
      1. Tonic immobility - The fallback to freeze
      2. Freeze couples with Fear
        1. Dissociation
        2. Bracing and terror
        3. Euphoric dissociaton
      3. Collapse
    4. Somatic and emotional - syndromes and complexes
      1. Emotional - anxiety, depression
      2. Somatic - chronic pain, fibromyalgia
      3. Autonomic - migraines, irritable bowel
  3. Resolving Traumatic Reactions
    1. The importance of “Bottom-Up” processing
      1. The Paul MacLean’s Triune Brain- In an Unspoken Voice
    2. Somatic Experiencing©
      1. Renegotiation vs. Reliving.
        1. Restoration of self-regulation
        2. Trauma isn’t about the event, but the body’s inability to process and integrate the nervous system charge
        3. The importance of developing a felt sense
    3. The nine basic stages of trauma treatment
      1. Containment of strong sensation and emotion
      2. Pendulation - The dual opposites of sensation
      3. Titration - going gradually
      4. Completion
        1. Renegotiation of active for passive responses
      5. Allow things to settle: Self-Paced termination
    4. Simple exercises that you can use in your practice
  4. Spirituality and Trauma
    1. Trauma as one of the 4 avenues to enlightment
      1. Lessons from the Kundalini
      2. A feeling of “okayness”, wholeness and trust in the world
        1. And other side effects of effective trauma treatment
      3. The importance of maintaining balance in one’s life

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Total Reviews: 32

Comments

Louise N

"Excellent course and really enjoyed the demonstrations "

James W

"Thank you. I was most impressed and will like to continue to study this topic"

Pamela F

"This was an extremely valuable training for me!"

Maurice Keith M

"I love you PESI. Keep up all the good work and excellent course offerings!"

Tanya C

"Wonderful presentation. I use Theraplay daily with my trauma hildren, so at the end when he mentioned the Theraplay Institute, it made my heart happy"

Donyale B

"Awesome training! "

Christilou S

"Excellent. I learned so much, thank you!"

Lillian S

"Amazing conceptualization of trauma. The breakthroughs that can be accomplished and sometimes so quickly is astounding. I absolutely loved it. I just would like to learn more about how to effectively use these techniques."

Laura T

"This was perhaps the most helpful workshop I have attended in my 20 years of practice."

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Access CE trainings on your phone or tablet through our free mobile app. Choose video or audio-only versions of online courses from the world’s best instructors, and complete your CE requirements anywhere, anytime, at your own pace.

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