Collective Trauma

Dr. Janine Shelby teaches you how to prepare and respond to tragic events with your child clients and use appropriate protocols to prepare and respond to tragic events and support early intervention.

Learn how Polyvagal Theory offers a better understanding of the automatic reactions of our body to safety, danger, and life threat with Dr. Stephen Porges.

Understand the psychological effect of collective trauma to support clients with immediate and long-term psychological effects including the possibility of the activation of unprocessed transgenerational traumatic experiences, but also the potential for traumatic growth.

Discover expressive therapy—an implicit, non-verbal, and action-oriented form of communication and recovery—that is emerging as an effective approach to addressing individual and collective trauma.

Understand how individual and collective trauma differentiate and the impacts of collective trauma on population groups.

Using a Polyvagal Guide, Deb Dana answers the essential question, "What does the nervous system need to find safety in connection?"

Explore an IFS perspective to managing and healing the effects of global trauma in your world with Dr. Frank Anderson.

Gain practical strategies for treating anxiety in clients so that they experience less panic, increase their stress resilience, and block worry.

Explore trauma and resilience and how adaptive flexibility is essential for supporting your clients and bringing about the best outcomes.

Shelley Spear Chief compares westernized counselling and Indigenous healing supports and shows us how to create more authentic relationships.

Dr. Sue Johnson provides an overview of the practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals for working with trauma survivors.

Healers and caregivers can experience trauma, neglect of needs, compassion fatigue, and burnout. Learn tools to combat this silent killer.

Learn with Ulrich Schnyder about the available empirically supported psychotherapies for PTSD

Understand the impact of collective trauma from a culturally-informed psychodynamic approach when working with immigrants and refugees.

Join Dr. Ron Siegel and Dr. Tania Singer as they explore various techniques designed to build resilience and cultivate presence, perspective-taking, empathy and compassion, and attunement in the face of collective trauma.

Nicole Adami provides an insiders perspective of the psychological support for nurses at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bergamo, Italy.

Learn useful, clinical and community-engaged approaches to collective trauma based on a resilience framework with Jack Saul.

Clara Mucci discusses how resilience can be reinforced and structured to create stronger individuals and societies. Hyperarousal, or excess stress, and the impact on the immune system, will also be explored.

Pat Ogden explores power subjugation dynamics and how the influence of history, culture, racism, and biases can perpetuate collective trauma.

Learn an integrative, mind-body approach to working with collective trauma and the body and intergenerational wounds with Dr. Arielle Schwartz.

John Briere discusses his clinical observations of institutional maltreatment, survivors of historical trauma, and the socially marginalized.

Learn the soulfulness approach to racial-cultural trauma that focuses on contact with our interconnected and embodied inner aliveness.

Judith Anderson explores the role that climate change, eco-emotions, and existential crisis can have on mental health.