Dr. Bessel van der Kolk on How the Body Keeps the Score: Intensive Trauma Treatment Course – Bessel van der Kolk and Others

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Trauma is horrendous.

It overwhelms its victims and often the people who try to treat it. It reshapes one’s sense of self, bodily experience and brain organization — leaving people stuck in terror, isolation, and shame.

My life’s work has been to find the most effective pathways to healing trauma. It’s why I founded the Trauma Center, have been part of groundbreaking research, and wrote the #1 New York Times bestselling book The Body Keeps the Score and its forthcoming companion workbook (co-authored with Licia Sky, 2020).

Along the way, I have collaborated with many of the most sought-after pioneers and researchers in our field. Together, we have successfully treated thousands of traumatized children and adults: victims of child abuse, natural disasters, wars, accidents, and human trafficking.

Now we collectively offer this exclusive online course as an authoritative guide to trauma healing.

Together, we will help you discover how incorporating methods such as EMDR, meditation, neurofeedback, yoga, mindfulness, sensory integration, and the arts can deepen your therapeutic skills and lead to deep, lasting healing.

Join us and we will show you how the helplessness, rage, and collapse from past trauma imprints can be transformed through physical experiences — restoring your client’s hope for a brighter future filled with joy, purpose and meaning.

Yours in healing,

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

“I’m presenting this course to serve as both a guide and an invitation—an invitation to dedicate ourselves to facing the reality of trauma, to explore how best to treat it, and to commit ourselves, as a society, to using every means we have to prevent it.“

– Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

When you accept your invitation to join our devoted gathering of trauma treatment professionals, you will:

1. Discover how to build stronger connections with your clients
2. Deepen your understanding of trauma and its effects
3. Master innovative treatment options to fill your toolbox
4. Learn to go beyond standard talk therapy to customize treatment for deep-rooted trauma
5. Stay on the leading-edge of diagnosing trauma-related issues
6. Learn how to create unique treatment interventions that maximize your therapeutic outcomes
7. Join an elite group of peers from around the globe, all focused on enhancing their therapeutic skills and improving client outcomes

Your registration today shows your commitment to alleviate suffering, end the cycles of violence, and help people live their lives to the fullest. It also supports the Trauma Research Foundation in their mission to conduct innovative treatment and research—because no child or adult should suffer the consequences of trauma.

Starting today, this program can revolutionize your practice…

“The course was amazing and van der Kolk is a delightful and extraordinary human being and role model for our healing professions!” — Robyn P.

“I enjoyed Dr. van der Kolk immensely. It has been my dream to hear him speak and it was everything that I hoped for.” — Linda M.

“Cutting edge, very in-depth material.” — Janie E.

“I cannot say enough about how much I enjoyed this training. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk presented the material in a way that was engaging and very informative. He challenges the traditional methods in a manner that I greatly appreciate, and I am excited to put some of his teachings into practice.” — Ashley H.

“Best continuing ed course I have taken! Loved it.” — Melanie H.

“Thank you, Dr. van der Kolk, for your amazing contribution to the field of trauma treatment. As a psychologist and marital and family therapist for over 40 years, I found your work very relevant and congruent with my own experiences in working with the devastating aftereffects of trauma in individuals and their families and loved ones (and society in general).” — Debra S.

“Very, very informative, inspiring and definitely impacted my understanding of my own trauma and the work I do to heal myself and help others heal.” — Jose F.

“This completely changed how I will be practicing therapy. I’m so glad I got to hear this.” — Tiffany G.

“This was packed with new data and information relevant to helping clients overcome trauma!” — Leann K.

What will I learn?

The Body Keeps the Score: Trauma Healing

with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

The vast increase in our knowledge about the basic processes that underlie trauma has opened new possibilities to lessen or even reverse the damage.

Through intriguing videos, case studies, and masterful explanation, you will learn how to apply the latest findings from research to your trauma treatment protocols in practical, effective ways.

This intensive session will provide you the knowledge you need to give your clients:

• A way to find words that describe the deep and painful effects of trauma
• Tools to regulate their emotions, even when they’re unexpectedly triggered
• The ability to trust other human beings after the shameful and horrific details of their trauma
• The opportunity to be fully alive in the present, not stuck in the past
• …And so much more

Program Online

The Body Keeps the Score: Trauma Healing

 Neuroscience & Brain Development

• How children learn to regulate their arousal systems
• How the brain regulates itself
• Developmental psychopathology: The derailment of developmental processes & brain development due to trauma, abuse, and neglect
• How the brain responds to treatment

Early Life Trauma

• Interpersonal neurobiology
• Adaptations to trauma early in the life cycle
• Loss of affect regulation
• Chronic destructive relationships towards self and others
• Dissociation and amnesia
• Somatization
• Self-blame, guilt and shame
• Chronic distrust and identification with the aggressor

Attachment, Trauma, and Psychopathology

• The breakdown of information processing in trauma
• Mirror neuron systems and brain development
• How to overcome the destabilization and disintegration
• The compulsion to repeat – origins and solutions
• Difference between disorganized attachment and traumatic stress

Neuroscience, Trauma, Memory, and the Body

• The neurobiology of traumatic stress
• Learned helplessness and learned agency
• Restoring active mastery and the ability to attend to current experiences
• Somatic re-experiencing of trauma-related sensations and affects that serve as engines for continuing maladaptive behaviors
• How mind and brain mature in the context of caregiving systems

The Diagnosis of Treatment of Trauma-Related Disorders

• Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
• Affect and impulse dysregulation
• Disturbances of attention, cognition, and consciousness
• Distortions in self-perception and systems of meaning
• Interpersonal difficulties
• Somatization and biological dysregulation
• The development of DTD in the DSM-5® as a diagnosis and its implications for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment

The Latest Research on Trauma-specific Treatment Interventions

• The role of body-oriented and neurologically-based therapies to resolve the traumatic past
• Alternatives to drugs and talk therapy
• EMDR
• Self-regulation, including yoga
• Mindfulness
• Play and theatre
• Dance, movement, and sensory integration
• Neurofeedback

Praise for the work of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and his #1 New York Times bestselling book The Body Keeps the Score

Learn to combine 3 methods to help survivors feel fully alive in the present and more in control of their lives:

Top down: by talking, connecting with others, and allowing ourselves to know and understand what is going on with us, while processing the memories of the trauma.

Utilizing medications: to shut down inappropriate alarm reactions, or by utilizing other technologies that change the way the brain organizes information.

Bottom up: by allowing the body to have experiences that deeply and viscerally contradict the helplessness, rage, or collapse that result from trauma.

Learning that Fits YOUR Schedule:

Watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to all course materials, including the bonus materials — all designed to help you effectively integrate this instrumental information into your practice and your life. Click here for course objectives and outline.

Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You’ll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the CE21 Mobile™ app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.

Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You’ll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on integrating this valuable knowledge and practical skills in clinical practice, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.

Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 15.5 CE Hours! Click here for total course CE Credit and credit details specific to your profession.