Trauma and Paths to Liberation

with Dr Leslye Noyes, MDiv, PsyD

Saturday, February 10th, 2018 from 9:00am–2:00pm

$125

Join Dr. Leslye Noyes to explore how trauma affects the nervous system and as caregivers, how we can support a return to trust, safety and well-being.

We will come to understand how trauma shapes experience, the body and nervous system, and a fundamental sense of identity.Trauma compromises our capacity for pleasure, emotional engagement, and freedom. Learning practical ways to work with trauma offers relief and a chance to be different. We will also investigate how personal trauma parallels community and cultural trauma and how treatments may also have parallels.

Using research in the emerging field of trauma care and considering practical teachings, we will use two texts to support our inquiry: Bessel van der Kolk’s best-selling book: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, and Judith Hermann’s Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath Violence.

The course is designed to be experiential and didactic. Working in pairs and through group exercises, participants will learn to define, assess, and work with trauma in an efficacious and comprehensive way.

5 CE’s available for nurses and social workers