The Conference on Trauma and Embodiment introduces participants to innovative, cutting edge, research-based applications of body-first interventions to understand and treat trauma in a wide variety of individuals and communities. We will have two keynote speakers: "Supporting Intersectional Disability Rights" with Ellice Patterson of Abilities Dance Company, and "Coping with Trauma, Addiction and Mental Health" with Quentin Vennie. We will also have a variety of breakout sessions including: DAY ONE ReScripted: Theater-based Trauma Healing for Youth; Discipline and Healing: Boxing, Trauma, and Embodied Critique; Unraveling: Unlearning Trauma at Work + Re-imagining Generative Work-place Cultures; Embodied Eating; Healing a traumatized body through Expressive Flamenco©; Secondary Traumatic Stress and Professional Resilience DAY TWO Rebuilding the House by Tending to the Harm: A Conversation To Heal Organizations; Trauma Informed Weight Lifting; Integrating Yoga Into Peer Support Groups for Survivors of Sexual Violence; The Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Studio of the Future: A Foundation for Person-Centered Psychospiritual Maturation; Community Healing Embodied; Embodied Healing: Survivor and Facilitator Voices from the Practice of Trauma Sensitive Yoga
United States
