Join us to find out what we are learning about the power of the human body and spirit to recover from trauma and generate resilience in our children. Service professionals will learn how trauma and resilience is transmitted across generations and how people can learn not only to be resilient but to also thrive despite trauma histories. There will be featured workshops on embodied resilience including Embodied Child Raising, Community Resilience Model, Yoga for Trauma Recovery, Capacitar, and The Resilience Toolkit.
The much anticipated Dr Ken Hardy will be speaking on the “Healing the Hidden Wounds of Racial Trauma.” (He was scheduled to speak at our conference in March but a snowstorm prevented him from traveling.)
The preeminent scientist on the subject of intergenerational trauma and resilience, Dr. Rachel Yehuda is also a keynote. Her research on children of Holocaust survivors and children born to women pregnant during 9/11 has advanced the field of epigenetics. Our likes, dislikes and fears are programmed at a cellular level, thanks to the experiences of our parents and maybe even generations before them. We adapt to survive danger and pass those adaptations down to our children. It’s fascinating stuff! (For more, listen to this podcast.)
Dr. Monique Marrow will speak on “Trauma, adolescence and behavior through a cultural lens” focusing on her work in the juvenile justice system among young people of color. (Here is a video preview.)
Tonier Cain was the subject of “Healing Neen” and will be bringing a powerful resilience message that is also a stirring challenge to service providers. (Cissy White wrote an article for ACESConnection.com about the profound impact of Tonier’s message.)
Jim Rendon literally wrote the book about post-traumatic growth. He will talk about what he learned from conducting extensive interviews with top scientists in the field as well as from hearing the inspirational stories of people who have overcome life-changing trauma.
In order to be truly trauma and resiliency informed and get you out of your seats and into your bodies, in addition to the opportunity to hear these stand-out speakers, each day we will also be offering workshops on “embodied resilience.” Physical work can help us not only regulate our emotions, but also rewrite old patterns of responding. Kirstie Seaborne from Embodied Parents in the UK will help us recognize patterns and learn to overwrite our conditioned responses to conflict and stress; Elaine Miller Karas will be teaching the body-based Community Resiliency Model (CRM); Nkem Ndefo will be introducing The Resilience Toolkit; Echo trainer Jorge Rivera will teach techniques from Capacitar; and Hanna Gilan, who is both an Echo trainer and yoga teacher trainer, will be providing a mini version of our trauma-informed yoga training.
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