Healing the Legacy of Trauma
An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté and Peter A. Levine, PhD
with Dr. Albert Wong, Nkem Ndefo MSN, and Dr. Scott Lyons
ABOUT THE EVENT
Join Dr. Gabor Maté, creator of the psychotherapeutic approach Compassionate Inquiry® and author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction; When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress, and Peter A. Levine PhD, the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) in this intimate online conversation, with Dr. Albert Wong, Nkem Ndefo MSN, and Dr. Scott Lyons.
Together these renowned experts of trauma healing explore the power of somatics to unravel the legacies of trauma and the pathways to healing.
“Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives. It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world. It is the root of our deepest wounds.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
In this 60-minte FREE online conversation with the founders of somatic approaches to trauma healing and recovery we’ll explore:
Weaving the bridge between Compassionate Inquiry® and Somatic Experiencing (SE™)
The relationship between trauma, emotional loss and addiction and how to break free of the addictive patterns.
The brain-body connection and its relationship with emotional processing, the nervous system and stress.
Tools to resolve stuck physiological states to facilitate effective, long-lasting healing.
The power of somatics to heal intergenerational trauma.
Navigating healthy and toxic patterns of shame.
Resourcing, preparation and integration of trauma healing.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn directly from Dr. Gabor Maté and Peter A. Levine PhD - world leaders in somatic approaches to trauma healing and recovery.
“Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.”
— Peter A. Levine, PhD
ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUESTS
Dr. Gabor Maté
SPECIAL GUEST
A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development.
Rather than offering quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them.
After 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, Dr. Maté worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness.
His book on addiction received the Hubert Evans Prize for literary non-fiction. For his groundbreaking medical work and writing he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver.
His books include In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction; When the Body Says No; The Cost of Hidden Stress; Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder; Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers; and The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture.
His next book, Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and Their Adult Children is expected in 2025. Gabor is also the creator of a psychotherapeutic approach, Compassionate Inquiry, now studied by thousands of therapists, physicians, counselors, and others in over 80 countries.
Peter A. Levine, PhD
SPECIAL GUEST
Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing® International.
Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received multiple Lifetime Achievement awards, including from Psychotherapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. His work has been taught to over 50,000 practitioners in over 42 countries. He is currently a Senior Fellow and consultant at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona, and continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally. To learn more visit somaticexperiencing.com.
Nkem Ndefo, MSN
SPECIAL GUEST
Nkem Ndefo is the founder and president of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation in an ecologically sensitive framework and social justice context. Licensed as a nurse midwife, Nkem also has extensive post-graduate training in complementary health modalities and emotional therapies. She brings an abundance of experience as a clinician, educator, consultant, and community strategist to innovative programs that address stress and trauma and build resilience for individuals, organizations, and communities across sectors, both in her home country (USA) and internationally. Nkem is particularly interested in working alongside people most impacted by violence and marginalization.
Dr. Albert Wong
SPECIAL GUEST
Dr. Albert Wong is the Former Director of Somatic Psychology at JFK University. A Marshall Scholar, he has longstanding interests in the intersection of somatics, psychotherapy, and scalable technology. He has served as residential staff at the Esalen Institute and Core Faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has been featured on PBS, in Time Magazine, and in the book The American Soul Rush. He was educated at Princeton, Oxford, and the University of Tennessee and is the recipient of numerous national awards (Westinghouse Science Talent Scholarship, Goldwater Scholarship). He maintains a private counseling and consulting practice centered around somatic psychotherapy and is the founder of the online somatic education platform, Somatopia: www.somatopia.com.
Dr. Scott Lyons
SPECIAL GUEST
Dr. Scott Lyons is a holistic psychologist, educator and author of the book Addicted to Drama: Healing Dependency on Crisis and Chaos in Yourself and Others, with Hachette publishing. As a renowned body-based trauma expert, Doctor of Osteopathy and Mind-Body Medicine specialist, Scott helps people to break free of cycles of pain, limited beliefs, and trauma. Scott is an innovator in transformative wellness and trauma therapy, teaching over half a million people internationally over the past twenty years how to relieve stress and restore vitality. Scott has worked with many of the country’s top leaders and CEOs as an executive coach and wellness consultant.
Scott is the creator of The Embody Lab — the largest online learning platform for body-based trauma therapies— and developer of Somatic Stress Release™, a holistic process of restoring biological resilience, taught in over 20 countries. Scott is also the founder and progressive designer of Omala, a wellness brand dedicated to creating sustainably sourced tools for transformation.
Scott has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Women’s Forbes Magazine, Fast Company, The Telegraph and on The Jordan Harbinger Show, The Mental Illness Happy Hour, The Genius Life and How to Talk to Girls.
DIVE DEEPER INTO THE POWER OF SOMATICS TO HEAL TRAUMA
Join us for our upcoming in-person and live-streamed Somatic Trauma Healing Immersion starting February 29th, 2024! Featuring Bessel van der Kolk MD, Peter A. Levine PhD, Gabor Maté and many others at the forefront of somatic approaches to healing trauma.
