International Trauma

ConferenceMay 27 – 30, 2020 • Boston, MA

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Conference Director:Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD

Associate Conference Directors: Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD & Wendy D’Andrea, PhD

Featuring thought leaders in the field of trauma

Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Restoration of the Self

T he study of trauma has probably been the single most fertile area in helping to develop a deeper understanding of the relationship among the emotional, cognitive, social and biological forces that shape human

development. Starting with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults and expanding into early attachment and overwhelming attachment and social experiences in childhood (“Developmental Trauma”), this endeavor has elucidated how certain experiences can “set” psychological expectations, bodily experiences and biological selectivity.

When addressing the problems of traumatized people who, in a myriad of ways, continue to react to current experience as a replay of the past, there is a need for therapeutic methods that do not depend exclusively on drugs, talk or understanding. We have learned that most experience is automatically processed on a subcortical level of the brain; i.e., by “unconscious” interpretations that take place outside of conscious awareness. Insight and good intentions have only a limited influence on the operation of these subcortical processes, but synchrony, movement and reparative experiences do. This conference will present both basic research about the impact of trauma over the life cycle, and a range of effective interventions that are being practiced in communities, clinics, schools, prisons, and families around the world.

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Table of Contents

Pre-Conference Institutes Wednesday, May 27, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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Main Conference Friday, May 29, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Friday Afternoon Workshops & Conference Objectives . . . . . . . . . 7

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CE Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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1Mapping Out the Transformative Effects of Mind-Altering Substances MDMA, Ketamine, and Psilocybin for Treating PTSD and Other Mental DistressMichael Mithoefer, MD, Rick Doblin, PhD, Gregory Meyer, PhD, Albert Garcia-Romeu, PhD, Elias Dakwar, MD, Philip Wolfson, MD, Richard Schwartz, PhD, Eric Vermetten, MD, PhD, James Hopper, PhD, Anne St. Goar, MD,

Elizabeth Call, PsyD, Susan Walker, MD, Francis Guerriero, MA, LICSW, Michael Alpert, MD, & Bessel van der Kolk, MDAfter an almost four-decade hiatus, the study of mind-altering substances, including MDMA (ecstasy), ketamine, psilocybin (mushrooms) and LSD is starting to resume in full force. Over the past decade, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Research (MAPS) has sponsored groundbreaking studies, including in MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, and for end-of-life anxiety. Mind altering substances have the potential to profoundly alter perceptions of one’s relationship to past experience, as well as perspectives of the future, and to promote self-compassion and self-acceptance. Therefore, psychedelic assisted therapy may be particularly effective for dealing with post-traumatic states of being emotionally stuck, frozen, rigid, terrified and ashamed. This workshop will focus in how we can best document and characterize both the short term and long-term alterations in self-perception, sense of belonging, agency, self-compassion and capacity for intimacy, and how we can delineate the differential effects of various substances. We will present a wealth of case histories, as well as cutting edge scientific data about the outcome and process of mind-altering substances on mental, interpersonal and biological dimensions.

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2Trauma and Expressive Arts: Innovative “Bottom-Up” Approaches to Attunement, Self-Regulation, and Safety EW

Cathy Malchiodi, PhDExpressive arts are part of the current forefront of emerging methods that incorporate both neuroscience (brain-wise) research and somatosensory (body-wise) findings within the contemporary treatment of traumatic stress. This experiential workshop emphasizes the importance of expressive methods in trauma reparation, underscoring three essential reparative foundations—mutual attunement, self-regulation and safety. Through movement, image making, storytelling, dramatic enactment, improvisation, creative writing, play and imagination, participants will experience a variety of approaches they can immediately apply to work with children, adults, families and groups to support these essential components of trauma-informed treatment. Material presented draws not only from the field of expressive arts therapy, but also from polyvagal theory, social engagement system, interoception, sensorimotor psychotherapy, sensory integration and bilateral work, somatic theory and narrative approaches.

The first half of the day introduces participants to creative strategies that capitalize on the embodied and movement-based nature of the expressive arts to establish attunement through synchrony and rhythm; support self-regulation and co-regulation; and develop an internalized sense of safety through experiences that re-sensitize individuals to pleasant and enlivening sensations and memories. The second half explains a three-part, “bottom-up,” brain-wise and body-based expressive arts framework for arts and play-based approaches in work with traumatic stress. Participants will experience this framework through group storytelling, movement, musicality, improvisation, image making, creative writing and play not only as trauma-informed strategies, but also to demonstrate the essential role of connection and community in trauma recovery.

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3A Comprehensive Approach to Neurofeedback for Trauma Related Dysregulation: Integration with Therapeutic Attunement, Biofeedback, and Other Body/Mind Approaches EW

Ainat Rogel, PhD, Diana Martinez, MD, PhD, Sebern Fisher, MA, BCN, & Angelika Sadar, MA, BCNUnderstanding that trauma alters and dysregulates brain activity invites clinicians and scientists to explore novel treatments that directly target disturbed neuronal pathways. Neurofeedback leverages recent research results that relate neuronal pathways and brain areas affected by the trauma with executive functioning, safety, sense of self, different self-states, bodily based aspects (e.g. physical balance, movement, voice modulation, interoceptive sensations) shame and agency. This experiential workshop brings together researchers, clinicians and neurofeedback practitioners who are exploring ways in which we can apply the neuroscience of trauma to clinical practice by integrating it with psychotherapy, biofeedback, bodywork and mindfulness. The workshop will start with an explanation of the basics of neurofeedback and review the existing research with practical implications. Next, the impact of neurofeedback on Developmental Trauma by calming down the fear-driven brain and improving emotion regulation. The major part of the workshop will be dedicated to integrating neurofeedback into clinical settings, that will include hands-on experience.

PRE-CONFERENCE INSTITUTESWednesday, May 27, 2020Choose One Full-Day Workshop

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4Integrating Emotional Health into Medical Practice EW

Kimberly Pierce, PA & Lyndra Bills, MDThe current medical system’s inability to provide holistic trauma-informed treatment methods is

obvious, and there is a critical need for integrative approaches. This interactive workshop will describe simple effective and accessible skills/ practices that can be used to promote healing in ourselves, our clients and our communities. Participants will examine three core elements of a trauma informed culture and highlight specific approaches to engage clients in a rural primary care setting, including role playing and modeling how to utilize ACE assessment questionnaire, as well as effective experiential practices such as non-verbal yoga, tapping, body posture, mindfulness that can be utilized in a variety of settings. A documentary, “The Faces of Aces “(2018) will illustrate work in a rural clinic, featuring patient interviews and a grassroots effort in Vermont to create a trauma informed State. We will explore the benefits of community-building and healing through music, singing, playback theatre, and more. This workshop will also highlight a specific process in which a non-profit managed care company in Pennsylvania developed trauma informed care centers, using a value based payment approach to support general traumatic stress education, interventions and supervision.

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5Making the Invisible Visible: Addressing Power, Privilege, and Oppression in Trauma-Informed Practice Anita Shankar, MPH, Ilya Yacevich, MA, LMFT, & Wendy D’Andrea, PhD

Nairobi, Kenya, based Global Trauma Project (GTP) works between and within communities to support trauma-informed practice, particularly within under-resourced settings. Central to their work is confronting the reality of systems of oppression and strengthening local leadership. In this interactive workshop, GTP will introduce Trauma-Informed Community Empowerment (TICE) - an evidence-based framework for supporting community providers. Using case examples from Eastern Africa, Greece, and the USA, participants will explore how systems of power and privilege continue to impact trauma healing initiatives. Participants will identify strategies for implementing programs that are not only “trauma-informed,” but also community- developed and owned, and how this is critical to maximizing longer-term impacts. This workshop is appropriate for those interested in organizational/ program development; community work; research; and clinical services.

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6Child Trauma Treatment: Weaving Embodied and Symbolic: Integration of SMART with EMDR, Art Therapy, and SandtrayElizabeth Warner, PsyD, Anne Westcott, LICSW, Alexandra Cook, PhD, Heather Finn, LICSW, Jennifer LeFebre, PsyD, Erika Lally, LHMC, ATR-BC, & Robbie Aiken, LICSW

This workshop aims to explore the role of embodied approaches to child trauma treatment, as well as the synergistic process of effectively integrating embodied and symbolic treatment methods. The morning will feature an in-depth examination of SMART, including the role of 1) neurobiology behind its bottom-up approach, 2) the therapist in relational engagement, and 3) video recording as a means to promote mindfulness. In the afternoon, the workshop will focus on the integration of SMART with other more symbolic forms of child trauma treatment, including art therapy, EMDR, and sandtray. Presenters will use case material and video to illustrate the way these treatment approaches can be used to complement and enhance the healing process.

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7Treatment at the Interface of Addiction and TraumaTaruno Steffensen, LADC, SEP, CSAT In an attempt to manage the enormous distress associated with adverse childhood experiences,

and traumatic stress symptoms there is an enormous risk of developing any type of addiction or substance abuse. Trying to numb intensely emotional experiences in a world that drives and promotes addiction promotes use, which then commonly evolves into abuse and, finally, addiction. Suffering from traumatic stress interferes with recovery. Addiction treatment must address the role of the addictive behavior in “numbing” traumatic arousal/activation, the origins of both in one’s traumatic past, and the reality that recovering from either requires recovering from both. This hands-on workshop will help participants experience sensory-based approaches, emotional regulation skill building, Somatic Experiencing exercises, and guided meditations as a means of the liberation from addiction and trauma – and offer the hope of recovery.

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8Designing Trauma-Informed Interventions for Youth at the Grassroots Level: A Practical Toolkit for Bringing Research to Practice Lou Bergholz, Maren Rojas

There is a growing need for trauma-informed programming in non-clinical settings. Utilizing cutting edge research and evidence-based practice, providers can implement programs that acknowledge and address the deep impact of trauma, from school to camp to sport. This workshop will equip you with the tools and framework to design an effective, high quality trauma-informed intervention in your non-clinical setting. The following topics will be explored: transforming clinical approaches to accessible models for participants and staff, embedding emotional regulation in programming, building a trauma-sensitive culture, and creating trauma-informed schedules. We will combine mini-lectures, small-group dialogue, and application exercises. We will study several successful trauma-informed programs, including: the Newtown Parks and Recreation Department, CARE International in Gaza, Free to Run in Afghanistan, No Means No Worldwide, and Next Step in Boston. Ranging in programming from long distance running to music to summer camping and with populations from children and youth in conflict areas to young adults with life threatening illnesses, these programs foster resilience and strength using a trauma-informed lens. They will serve as our guide as we explore the intersection of research and clinical treatment at the grassroots level.

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9Inpatient Treatment of Traumatized Individuals - the Meadows Model: Using a Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Support the Emergence of an Embodied Self Sean Walsh, Scott Davis, LPC, CSAT-S, Deirdre Stewart, LPC, SEP, BCN, Kristen Burns, LPC, SEP, Andrea Fry, LPC, SEP, & Michelle Person, BCN

For the past 40 years, the Meadows Model has been treating trauma and addiction, using both Pia Mellody’s Model on Codependency and a variety of evolving cutting edge trauma interventions to provide a safe container where patients learn to re-regulate and traverse the autonomic shifts needed within their nervous systems that allow for healing to occur.

Because meaning follows physiology, one of our main goals is utilization of a range of therapeutic modalities that interrupt negative feedback loops - including disorganized breathing patterns, thoughts and brainwave patterns. The state of our nervous system informs how we experience and make meaning of our lives. Through working directly with the nervous system to help people reorganize the non-conscious survival adaptations, we explore the importance of experiencing the body in the present moment. Healing happens in the here-and-now.

Combining experiential, somatic and attachment focused modalities this workshop will explore customized and personalized treatment across a vast continuum of care, including, but not limited to Safe and Sound Protocol, Somatic Experiencing, Accelerated Resolution Therapy and Neurofeedback. This is an interactive workshop with demonstrations and case presentations.

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10A Peer Counseling Model (ReEvaluation Counseling) for Healing the Trauma of Identity Based Social Inequalities: Creating Social Justice in Access to Healing Barbara J. Love, PhD & Uwiragiye Placide

This pre-conference workshop addresses healing from trauma resulting from experiences of genocide, war, slavery, Jim Crow, as well as from trauma resulting from racism, classism, sexism, GLBTQ oppression and other social identity based social inequalities. The recognition of social identities based on inequality and oppression inevitably leads the need to develop accessible treatment modalities that address traditional and historical barriers to access to healing.

This workshop will explore the theory and practice of ReEvaluation Counseling as an accessible modality that is rooted in a liberation-oppression framework. ReEvaluation Counseling focuses on both the early life experiences of participants, including the quality of early attachment, as well as the multi-generational effects of experience of oppression such as slavery and genocide. Workshop participants will interact with faculty who practice ReEvaluation Counseling, including a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, as well as an African American descendant of race based lynching victims of the 1919 Elaine Arkansas race riot.

PRE-CONFERENCE INSTITUTESThursday, May 28, 2020Choose One Full-Day Workshop

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11Freeing the Prisoner Inside: Prison Yoga Project (PYP) and Shakespeare Behind Bars EW

Curt L. Tofteland, James Fox, MA, Josefin Wikström, TCTSY-F, e-RYT, YACEP, & Sam Williams

Trauma informed yoga, dance, art and theatre to relieve the symptoms of trauma, creating a sanctuary of shared presence, hope and rehabilitation behind and beyond the prison walls, into the world.

Most incarcerated people have a history of complex, interpersonal trauma. Unless this is addressed, the likelihood of re-offending is high. This is an experiential workshop on the why and how of providing trauma-informed, mindfulness based yoga practices, theatre and movement therapy as a means of self- empowerment. The Prison Yoga Project is a global initiative that supports incarcerated adults and youths, prison systems, forensic psychiatry units, trauma exposed communities and survivors of crime with programs to promote rehabilitation, reduce recidivism, and improve public safety. Shakespeare Behind Bars offers theatrical encounters with personal and social issues to incarcerated, post-incarcerated, and at-risk communities, allowing them to develop life skills that will ensure their successful integration into society When a Circle Of Trust is created, any pursuit, passion, avocation, or past-time can be put into its center. For Shakespeare Behind Bars, it happens to be art, theatre, the collected works of William Shakespeare, and original writing. All presenters will share their work with restorative justice.

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12Therapeutic Applications of Hip Hop: Implications for Engagement, Regulation, and Integration in the Treatment of Complex Trauma EW

Elliot Gann, PsyD, Raphael Travis, DrPH, LCSW, J.C. Hall, LMSW, Aaron Rodwin, LMSW, Jonah Scott, AMFT, Max Kline, AMFT, & Alexander Crooke, PhD

While a growing trend in mental health is the use of trauma-informed practices, few are developed using intervention strategies that are culturally responsive and developmentally appropriate to the needs of the diverse populations they serve. The World Health Organization (2019) recently synthesized a growing body of evidence on how expressive arts strategies can support engagement, prevention, and treatment of mental health conditions. This workshop will focus on therapeutic applications of Hip Hop as a culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and developmentally appropriate vehicle to foster engagement, regulation, and integration for complex and developmental trauma. Presenters will explore Hip Hop culture in the context of intergenerational trauma and systemic oppression and its connection to empowerment, well-being, and social change. Research that informs different theoretical approaches and trauma-informed practice models incorporating elements of Hip Hop into the therapeutic process will be discussed. Presenters will provide quantitative and qualitative data, including case vignettes and a short documentary, capturing the impact of using these frameworks with diverse client populations. This workshop will also focus on the neurophysiological implications of Hip Hop integrated approaches as they relate to understanding and addressing trauma. Participants will also have the opportunity to immerse themselves in an interactive experience that demonstrates these practice

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13Trauma and the Restoration of the Self: Integrating Fundamental Discoveries in Neuroscience with Embodied Self-Awareness and MindfulnessRuth Lanius, MD, PhD, Sherain Haricharan, PhD, Braeden Terpou, PhD, Margaret McKinnon, PhD, Paul Frewen, PhD, C.Psych, Wendy D’Andrea, PhD, Licia Sky, Eric Vermetten, MD, PhD, Matthew Sanford, & Bessel van der Kolk, MD

Trauma tends to have a profound impact on one’s sense of self, leaving a lasting imprint on both cognitive and somatic domains of self-experience. Cognitively, traumatized individuals often remain tortured by thoughts that reflect intensely negative core beliefs about themselves such as: “I will never be able to feel normal emotions again”, “I feel like an object, not like a person”, “I don’t know myself anymore”, and “I have permanently changed for the worse”. Somatically, it is increasingly evident that ‘the body keeps the score’. Traumatized individuals frequently report somatically-based alterations in self-experience, including feelings of disembodiment and related identity disturbance, as in: “I feel dead inside”, “I feel as if I am outside my body”, “I feel like my body does not belong to me”, or “I feel like there is no boundary around my body”. Pioneering neurobiological studies are beginning to shed light on self-disturbance in traumatized individuals both during resting state and under conditions of threat. These show that the brain networks involved in self-experience are most intact while under threat, which may explain various forms of reckless behaviors. In this workshop we will present these findings from the laboratory and demonstrate how we can we clinically work with the traumatized self to restore the self at a somatic and cognitive level and thereby reunite brain, mind, and body.

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8:00 – 8:30 am Registration

8:30 – 8:45 am Three Decades of Explorations in Trauma Stress: Welcome & IntroductionBessel A. van der Kolk, MD

8:45 - 9:45 am Biological Embedding of Early-Life Stress: From Mechanisms to Novel Approaches for the Developmental Programming of Lifelong HealthChristine Heim, PhD & Martin H Teicher MD, PhD

9:45 - 10:45 am Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass: A Psychologist’s MemoirAnnita Sawyer, PhD

11:45 – 11:05 am Coffee Break

11:05 - 12:05 pm Plasticity of the Social Brain: How to Train Mindfulness, Compassion, and Perspectives on the SelfTania Singer, PhD & Richard Schwartz, PhD

12:05 -12:30 pm Panel Discussion & Questions Faculty & Conference Participants

12:30 - 1:45 pm Lunch (on your own)

1:15 – 1:45 pm Chair Yoga (optional) Josefin Wikstrom, TCTSY-F, e-RYT, YACEP

1:45 - 2:45 pm The Emergence of a Polyvagal-Informed Therapy: Harnessing Neuroception of Safety in Clinical TreatmentStephen W. Porges, PhD

2:45 – 3:00 pm Coffee Break

3:00 - 5:00 pm Afternoon Workshops (see options on right)

Friday Night Poster Session! 5:30 – 7:00 pm

We invite you to share your work in a Science Fair-style session. All types of projects and career levels are welcome: qualitative and quantitative research, case studies, program evaluation, etc. Students can elect to have their posters judged for the International Trauma Conference Poster Award.

To participate, please email your title and abstract (200 words or less) to Wendy D’Andrea, PhD: dandreaw@newschool.edu by May 1, 2020. You will receive poster instructions after receipt of your submission.

Friday, May 28, 2020

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1Healing Relational Trauma with Internal Family Systems Therapy Frank Anderson, MD

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2Mindfulness Training in High-Stress and Trauma-Sensitive Contexts: Using MMFT to “Widen the Window” and Heal TraumaElizabeth Stanley, PhD

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3Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory Stephen Porges, PhD

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4Consultation About Neurodevelopmental Underpinnings of Developmental Trauma Christine Heim, MD, PhD & Hannah Schreier, PhD

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5Consultation and ElaborationAnnita Sawyer, PhD

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6Clinical Applications of Mindfulness Research Tania Singer, PhD & Richard Schwartz, PhD

Conference ObjectivesThe objective of this course is to present current understanding of how people’s minds, brains, bodies and social organizations respond to traumatic experiences, and what currently appear to be the optimal clinical interventions, including the role of relationships, movement, synchrony, justice and processing to protect and restore safety and regulation.

Central is the role of affect regulation and the resolution of misinterpretation of innocuous stimuli as threats, which require interventions that can restore a sense of active mastery and the capacity to mindfully focus on the demands of the present.

We will also explore how different populations, ethnic groups and cultures may deal differently with traumatic experiences, and address how the legacy of trauma, systematic discrimination, isolation, blame, and social inequality can have profound effects on the capacity to cope and recover from trauma.

Conference Target Audience:Social Workers, Counselors, Psychologists, Nurses, Physicians, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychiatrists, and other Mental Health Professionals, Teachers, Law Enforcement, Corporate HR Personnel, Lawyers

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Saturday, May 29, 2020

8:00 – 8:30 am Registration

8:30 - 9:45 am Disrupted Caregiving Relationships vs Traumatic Stress: Treatment Implications of Their Differential Effects on the Development of Self, Mind and BrainBessel van der Kolk MD, Ruth Lanius MD, PhD & Ed Tronick, PhD

9:45 - 10:45 am The Effects of Trauma on the Mind-Body Relationship in Everyday Life (Posture, Balance, Self-awareness, Sensory Integration, Giving and Receiving) Matthew Sanford

10:45 – 11:00 am Coffee Break

11: 00 – 12:00 pm Expressive Arts Therapy: Coming to Our Senses Through Movement, Synchrony and Embodied NarrativeCathy Malchiodi, PhD

12:00 - 12:20 pm Panel DiscussionBessel van der Kolk MD, Ruth Lanius MD, PhD, Ed Tronick, PhD, Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, & Matthew Sanford

12:20 - 1:30 pm Lunch (on your own)

12:45- 1:20 pm Chair Yoga (optional) Josefin Wikström, TCTSY-F, e-RYT, YACEP

1:30 – 2:25 pm Eliminating Barriers to Access to Healing from the Trauma of Identity Based Social Inequalities Using a Peer Counseling (ReEvaluation Counseling) Model Barbara J. Love, PhD & Uwiragiye Placide

2:25-3:00 pm Empowering Lay People to Heal Themselves from Trauma and be Their Own Coach of Well-Being - the Chinese ExperienceHailan Guo, MD, PhD & Joy Huang

3:00- 3:45 pm Creating Circles of Trust: A Sanctuary of Shared Presence, as Exemplified by “Shakespeare Behind Bars” Curt Tofteland

3:45 - 4:05 pm Panel Discussion Faculty & Conference Participants

4:05 – 4:20 pm Afternoon Break

4:20-5:00 pm Restoring the Capacity to Play by Creating Optimal Healing Environments Steven Gross, MSW

5:00 - 5:30 pm Closing: Quaker Style Sharing & Debriefing (optional)

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FACULTY

PLENARY SPEAKERSSteve Gross, MSW, Founder and Chief Playmaker of the Life is good Playmakers. He and his team have responded to some of the greatest catastrophes of our time, including Hurricane Katrina, earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, and the 2012 Newtown school shooting. Over 8,000 certified Playmakers have cared for more than 1 million children throughout the United States and Haiti.

Hailan X.X. Guo, MD, PhD, Founder of Hailan Family Well-being. Member, Advisory Council, China’s Family Education Association. Chief Supervisor and Trainer of Her Village Well-being Program, which serves China’s largest community of professional women (>200M people).  After the Great Sichuan Earthquake in 2008, she organized trauma treatment to over 100,000 students and teachers. Author, best-selling serial books Imperfection is Perfect (I-III). Beijing, China.

Christine Heim, PhD, Director of the Institute of Medical Psychology at Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, & Professor of Biobehavioral Health at Pennsylvania State. She integrates psychological, neuroendocrine, immunological, neural, and molecular measures to identify the mechanisms that underlie biological embedding of early-life stress. Recipient 2007 Curt P. Richter Award, International Society for Psychoneuro-endocrinology, & the 2015 Patricia Barchas Award in Sociophysiology of the American Psychosomatic Society.

Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario; Canada, co-editor, The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic & Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience & Treatment.

Barbara J. Love, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Social Justice Education, College of Education, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Reference Person and leader for the Black Liberation and Community Development Project of the ReEvaluation Counseling Communities. Recently led delegations to the UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change in Paris and Morocco, and to the San Francisco and New York City Climate Summit.

Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, REAT psychologist and expressive arts therapist, founder and director of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute. She writes the Arts and Health column for Psychology Today Online, with a following of 4.8 million readers. Author of Handbook of Art Therapy, Expressive Therapies, and Art Therapy Sourcebook, and Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body and Imagination in the Healing Process (New York: Guilford Publications, 2020).

Stephen Porges, PhD, Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University; Director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. Past president Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Author: The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation; co-editor Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies.

Matthew Sanford, yoga teacher, founder, Mind Body Solutions, and a paraplegic for the last thirty-nine years.  He is the author of Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence. He teaches people around the US living with trauma, loss, and disability how to re-inhabit their bodies. 

Annita P. Sawyer, PhD, Yale clinical faculty, psychologist in practice for almost forty years; author of the prize-winning memoir, Smoking Cigarettes; Eating Glass. She seeks to diminish the stigma of mental illness by speaking to clinical audiences around the country, using herself as a case study.

Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, Founder of the Center for Self-Leadership; faculty Harvard medical school; Author: You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For; Internal Family Systems Therapy; Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model; The Mosaic Mind; and Metaframeworks.

Tania Singer, PhD, Scientific head of the Social Neuroscience Lab, Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany. Her research focus is on the hormonal, neuronal, and developmental basis of human sociality, empathy and compassion, and their malleability through mental training. She is the principal investigator of a large-scale, nine-month longitudinal meditation based mental training study, The ReSource Project, and investigates together with Dennis Snower how psychology can inform new models of Caring Economics.

Martin H. Teicher, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Director of the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program and Laboratory of Developmental Psychopharmacology at McLean Hospital. His research studies range from inquiries into the molecular mechanisms of brain development to brain-imaging studies of the effects of childhood maltreatment on brain development.

Curt L. Tofteland founder of Shakespeare Behind Bars and internationally recognized for creating Circles of Trust. Recipient of honorary degrees from Oakland University and Bellarmine University. Author, New Directions in Dramaturgy, California Shakespeare Theater.

Ed Tronick, PhD, University Distinguished Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston; Infant-Parent Mental Health Program; Department of Newborn Medicine, Harvard Medical School; author, The Neurobehavioral and Social Emotional Development of Infants and Children; The Power of Discord.

Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, BUSM; President, Trauma Research Foundation; Past President, ISTSS; Author, NYT Science best-seller The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in Healing from Trauma, translated into 31 languages.

WORKSHOP FACULTYRobbie Aikin, LICSW, is a psychotherapist with a private practice in New Hampshire who uses SMART, Sand Tray, and EMDR in his practice with children.

Michael D. Alpert, MD, Staff Psychiatrist, BayCove Mental Health Center, Boston Harvard Medical School; MDMA Therapy team member, the Trauma Research Foundation  

Frank Guasetlla Anderson MD, IFS trainer, author of Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse.

Lou Bergholz, founder of Edgework Consulting, has spent the last two decades working on creating trauma-informed interventions that adapt clinical practice and research to population without access to definitive clinical care, author of Vital Connections: Harnessing the Power of Relationship to Impact the Lives of Young People, and co-author of Redesigning Youth Sport: Change the Game.

Lyndra Bills, MD, Senior medical director for Community Care Behavioral Health in Pennsylvania, focusing on trauma informed integrated healthcare.

Kristen Burns, LPC, SEP, Clinical Supervisor Trauma Department, The Meadows.

Elizabeth Call, PsyD, Psychologist in private practice.  Therapy team member, MDMA study, the Trauma Research Foundation.   

Alexandra Cook, PhD, is a developer of the SMART model, founding partner of SMARTmoves, and co-author of Transforming Trauma for Children and Adolescents: An Embodied Approach to Somatic Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Attachment-Building.  She was the Associate Director of the Trauma Center, and now has a private practice.

Alexander Crooke, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne

Elias Dakwar, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Principal investigator on several studies evaluating opioid, cannabis, or cocaine use disorders. K23 award recipient from NIDA for clinical and laboratory investigations of ketamine infusions combined with mindfulness training to treat drug abuse.

Wendy D’Andrea, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research in New York, NY. Her research focuses on physiological manifestations and consequences of complex trauma.

Scott Davis, LPC, CSAT-S, Clinical Director, The Meadows.

Rick Doblin, PhD, Executive Director, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Chair of the Board of Directors MAPS Public Benefit Corporation.

Heather Finn, LICSW, contributing developer for the SMART model and founding partner of SMARTmoves, LLC and and co-author of Transforming Trauma for Children and Adolescents: An Embodied Approach to Somatic Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Attachment-Building.   

James Fox, MA, Founder of the Prison Yoga. Faculty, Loyola Marymount University’s Yoga, Mindfulness, and Social Change Certification Program, Advisor to the National Institutes of Health-sponsored Chicago Urban Mindfulness Program, Author: Yoga: a Path for Healing and Recovery. Honored by the Yoga Journal Karma Yoga Award for 40th Anniversary Issue.

Sebern Fisher, MA, BCN, Psychotherapist and neurofeedback consultant, Northampton, Mass. Author, Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear- Driven Brain.

Paul A. Frewen, PhD, C.Psych, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Western Ontario; Chair, Traumatic Stress Section, Canadian Psychological Association. Co-author, Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience & Treatment.

Andrea Fry, LPC, SEP, Trauma Therapist, the Meadows, Michelle Person, BCN, Lead NFB Technician, Meadows Behavioral Healthcare.

Elliot Gann, PsyD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Director of Today’s Future Sound.

Albert Garcia-Romeu, PhD, Member, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Guest Researcher, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Neuroimaging Research Branch. His research focuses on clinical applications of psychedelics, mindfulness, and altered states of consciousness and their underlying neurobiological mechanisms.

Francis Guerriero, MA, LICSW, Private practice, Cambridge, MA; MDMA Therapy team member, The Trauma Research Foundation.  

J.C. Hall, LMSW, School Social Worker, Hip-Hop Therapy Studio Program Director at Mott Haven Community High School.

Sherain Haricharan, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University under the supervision of Margaret McKinnon, PhD. Specializes in sensory processing deficits in trauma-related disorders.

James W. Hopper, PhD, Independent consultant and Instructor in Psychology, Cambridge Health Alliance & Harvard Medical School. Co-editor, Mindfulness-oriented interventions for trauma: Integrating contemplative practices. The MDMA Team, Trauma Research Foundation.  

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Joy X.Y Huang, Director of International Collaboration and Operation Enablers, Hailan Family Well-Being, Certified Teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion, Beijing, China.

Inna Khazan, PhD, Clinical psychologist specializing in health psychology and performance excellence at Harvard Medical School Author Clinical Handbook of Biofeedback and Biofeedback and Mindfulness in Everyday Life. 

Max Kline, AMFT, Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Rhythmic Mind.

Erika Lally, LMHC, ATR-BC, Owner of Center Psychotherapy LLC in Winchester MA. She uses EMDR, is SMART trained, and incorporates non-verbal and body-based modalities in her approach to trauma treatment.

Jennifer Lefebre, PsyD, Owner of Healing the Child Within in New Hartford, CT.  She is a practitioner of EMDR, DBT, Mindfulness, Sandplay, PCIT, and SMART.

Diana Martinez, MD, PhD, CEO of Necemod (Neuromodulation Center), Mexico. Director of Neurofeedback Clinic at Boston Neurodynamics and the Trauma Research Foundation.   

Margaret McKinnon, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McMaster University, Hamilton OT. Expert in trauma-related autobiographical memory and social cognition.

Gregory J. Meyer, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Toledo; co-author, Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS), and co-editor of the casebook, Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS). 

Michael Mithoefer, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. In 2009 he has completed the first FDA approved clinical trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment-resistant PTSD and is conducting a second study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in military veterans, firefighters and police officers with PTSD.

Leon Morales-Quezada, MD, MSc, PhD, MPH, physician-scientist with experience in neurocognitive rehabilitation, noninvasive neuromodulation, applied psychophysiology, and technology development for neurological rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH), Harvard Medical School. 

Michelle Person, BCN, Lead NFB Technician, Meadows Behavioral Healthcare.

Kimberly Pierce, PA, Physician’s Assistant at The Health Center, Plainfield VT, caring for generations of families while helping her organization become trauma informed.  

Uwiragiye Placide, Kigali, Rwanda. A survivor of the Rwandan Genocide, leads and directs Ijabo Center for Healing from Genocide. Manager and advocacy, “Houses and Goats”, a housing and empowerment project providing housing and economic sustainability for poor families in rural areas. Works with Center for Social, a local association of people living with Aids.

Aaron Rodwin, LMSW, Clinical Researcher at New York University, Therapist at Douglas Psychotherapy Services.

Maren Rojas, partner at Edgework Consulting. Expert in trauma-informed programming and design. Has worked with organizations using sport and recreation for healing from Iraq to Rwanda to Newton, CT.

Ainat Rogel, PhD, BCIA-certified neurofeedback provider and supervisor cofounder and co-director of Boston Neurodynamics, affiliate of the Trauma Center and the Trauma Research Foundation. 

Angelika Sadar, MA, BCN, licensed psychologist, certified in clinical hypnosis, clinical director of Sadar Psychological and Sports Center, and has been the executive director of the Northeast Region Biofeedback Society since 2013.

Hannah Schreier, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health at the Pennsylvania State University. Child Maltreatment Solutions Network.

Jonah Scott, AMFT, Co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Rhythmic Mind.

Anita Shankar, MPH, Senior Director of the Global Trauma Project, utilizes the Trauma-Informed Community Empowerment (TICE) Framework to build the capacity of community leaders and government officials in South Sudan.

Licia Sky, Secretary of the Trauma Research Foundation; singer/songwriter who leads songwriting retreats for self-discovery and embodied voice, guiding awareness experiences that build safety, community and attunement.

Anne St. Goar, MD, Primary Care Physician at HVMA, emeritus, Certified Psychedelic Therapist; Boston MDMA Therapy team member with the Trauma Research Foundation.

Elizabeth Stanley, PhD, SEP, Associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University; creator of Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)®; U.S. Army veteran with service in Asia and Europe; author: Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive during Stress and Recover from Trauma. 

Taruno Steffensen, LADC, SEP, CSAT, Licensed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in private practice specializing in addiction and trauma.

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Elya Steinberg, MD, head of training and co-director of the Centre for Biodynamic Psychotherapy in London, UK. Biodynamic Psychotherapist who integrates Biodynamic psychology, bioenergy, neurofeedback, psychological trauma work, martial arts and integrative medicine.

Deirdre Stewart, LPC, SEP, BCN, Director of Trauma Resolution, Meadows Behavioral Healthcare.

Braeden Terpou, PhD, Post-doc University of Western Ontario, with Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD. Specializes in neurobiological underpinnings of brainstem responses & their effects on higher cognitive functioning in trauma-related disorders. 

Raphael Travis, DrPH, LCSW, Associate Professor of Social Work/MSW Program Director at Texas State University in San Marcos.

Eric Vermetten, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry Leiden UMC, Netherlands Adjunct Professor NYU. Strategic advisor of research at the Military Mental Health Service with the Dutch Ministry of Defense and Arq National Psychotrauma Center. Author: The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic; behavioral neurobiology of PTSD, Traumatic Dissociation.

Susan Walker, MD, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Cambridge Health Alliance. MDMA Therapy Team Member, the Trauma Research Foundation.

Sean Walsh, President & CEO - Meadows Behavioral Healthcare.

Elizabeth Warner, PsyD, developer of the SMART model, founding member of SMARTmoves, and co-author of Transforming Trauma for Children and Adolescents: An Embodied Approach to Somatic Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Attachment-Building.   

Anne Westcott, LICSW, a developer of the SMART model, founding partner of SMARTmoves, and co-author of Transforming Trauma for Children and Adolescents: An Embodied Approach to Somatic Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Attachment-Building.   

Josefin Wikström, TCTSY-F, e-RYT, YACEP, founder and Executive Director Trauma Informed Yoga and Movement Sweden, Director of Programs PYP Europe and India, co-founder of the evidence based Swedish prison yoga project- Krimyoga. Author, ”Yoga Therapy for Prisoners Mental Health”.

Sam Williams, Co-chair, Community Advisory Board, Northeastern University’s Institute of Race and Justice, member Executive Office of Public Safety, Massachusetts Racial Profiling Task Force. Prison Yoga Project, Restorative Justice, Prison Rehabilitation and Re-entry (MCI-Norfolk and MCI-Framingham).  

Philip Wolfson, MD, creator of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. He has been the Principal Investigator of the recently completed MAPS.org study of MDMA treatment for individuals with a life-threatening illness. Founding member of Heffter Research Institute.  Author: The Ketamine Papers and Noe – A Father/Son Song of Love, Life, Illness and Death.   

Ilya Yacevich, MA, LMFT, lives in Nairobi, Kenya, Founding Director of the Global Trauma Project (GTP) and developer of the “Trauma-Informed Community Empowerment” (TICE) framework. This children and families with histories of complex and inter-generational trauma in East Africa, Greece and Indian Reservations in the US.

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