The Body Keeps the Score: When Talk Isn’t Enough – Bessel van der Kolk

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Our field has made great advances in understanding the impact of trauma on developing brains and what works—and doesn’t—to address it in therapy. In this recording, you’ll review the latest research and interventions on how bottom-up processes (involving touch, movement, and breathing) as well as top-down processes (using mindfulness and interoception) can help traumatized children and adults regulate their arousal and regain mastery over their lives.

1. Explore how traumatic imprints can be integrated using techniques drawn from yoga, theater, neurofeedback, and somatic therapies.
2. Use breathing, posture, facial synchrony, and vocal exercises to energize your therapeutic presence and enhance your mirroring of the client’s words and expressions.
3. Apply techniques for bringing parts of the brain “online” that are knocked out by hyperand hypoarousal, while tracking physiological arousal in body language and movements.
4. Explain how to help clients achieve self-leadership through activation of the areas of the brain involved in interoception and mindfulness.

Techniques to Integrate Traumatic Imprints

Breathing, Posture, and Vocal Exercises to Energize Therapeutic Presence

Tracking Physiological Arousal in Body Language and Movements

Trauma-Specific Treatment Interventions