The following two opportunities for outside professional development come to us from faculty in the CU Trauma Studies Program.
Collective Trauma Summit 2021: Collective Healing in Action  (Sep 19-28)
| Collective Trauma Summit 2021 with Thomas Hübl brought to you by the Science and Nonduality (SAND) Team. The online event will bring together more than 100,000 participants to explore the role of Collective Trauma in our world. No longer can we as a society pretend that we are separate. Humanity is finally starting to wake up to the reality of our interconnectedness and interdependence. You can get all of the important details and register for this special online event here: → [Learn More] Collective Trauma Summit 2021: Collective Healing in Action  |
| This is a powerful 10-day online event with over 45+ leading experts who will explore methods for working with unresolved and hidden trauma in individuals, communities, and society. The Summit includes an extraordinary cross-disciplinary speaker lineup featuring pioneering psychotherapists, researchers, and trauma healing educators; experts in public health, medicine, and neuroscience; Indigenous elders and activists; human rights and social justice academics and professionals; acclaimed poets and authors; climate scientists and activists; plus visionary thinkers and luminaries.Alongside the daily broadcasts of talks, there will be multiple live events that you won’t want to miss including group panels, performances from leading poets and artists, as well as group healing meditations. The theme this year is Collective Healing in Action, with a focus on highlighting the ways and methods we can address and work with collective trauma. When you attend this online Summit hosted by Thomas Hübl, you will hear fascinating conversations with leading experts in the world including: |
| · Dr. Gabor Maté – Bestselling Author, World-Renowned Speaker, Physician· Dr. Fania Davis – Founder, Restorative Justice of Oakland Youth, Social Justice Activist· Dr. Richard Schwartz – Founder of the Internal Family Systems Model· Krista Tippett – On Being Founder/CEO, Author, Speaker· Dr. Sará King – Neuroscientist, Political and Learning Scientist, Founder of MindHeart Consulting· Dr. Stephen Porges – Founding Director, Traumatic Stress Research Consortium, PhD Distinguished University Scientist· Deb Dana, LCSW – Author, Consultant, Developer of the Rhythm of Regulation Training Series· Deran Young – Founder of Black Therapists Rock· Jack Kornfield, PhD – Author, Buddhist practitioner, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center Founding Teacher· Dr. Diane Poole Heller – Author and Expert in the Field of Attachment Theory and Trauma Resolution· Dan Siegel, MD – Executive Director, The Mindsight Institute, Bestselling Author· Dr. Archana Basu – Clinical Psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Research Scientist at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health· Justin Michael Williams – Author, Speaker, Musician· Leymah Gbowee – Nobel Laureate & Liberian Peace Activist· Otto Scharmer – Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management/ Co-Founder, Presencing Institute· Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kkwasset – Attorney, Author, and Founder of the Land Peace Foundation· Tyson Yunkaporta – Author, Researcher, Founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University, Member of The Apalech Clan· Calixto Suarez – Arhuaco Indian of the Sierra Nevada· Fleet Maull, PhD – Founder of Heart Mind Institute· Dr. Kamilah Majied – Professor, Psychotherapist, and Contemplative Inclusivity and Equity Consultant· Laurie Leitch, PhD – Founder & Director Threshold GlobalWorks, Consultant and Trainer in the Social Resilience Model· Laura van Dernoot Lipsky – Founder and Director of The Trauma Stewardship Institute· Lori Teresa Yearwood – Trauma and Resilience Aware, Award-Winning Journalist· Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu – Harvard Psychologist with Training in Yoga, Meditation, and Chinese Medicine· William Ury – Co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, Leading Expert on Negotiation and Mediation· Eliane Ubalijoro – Global Hub Director, Canada, Future Earth & Executive Director, Sustainability in the Digital Age· And many, many MORE |
| Plus you will hear from these acclaimed poets: |
| · David Whyte – Poet, Author, and Organizational Thinker· Pádraig Ó Tuama – Distinguished Irish Poet, Theologian, and Mediator· Juan Felipe Herrera – Mexican American Performer & Activist, US Poet Laureate 2015-2017· Mai Der Vang – Award-winning Poet, Educator· Patricia Smith – Author and Award-winning Poet· Layli Long Soldier – Poet and Educator· Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, Ph.D. – Poet, Author, Zen Buddhist Priest· Ellen Bass – Award-winning Poet and Educator, Bestselling Nonfiction Author Sign up for free and get all of the details here:→[Learn More] Collective Trauma Summit 2021 – Collective Healing in Action |
| During the Summit, we will look at how individual, ancestral, and collective trauma interweave and why for healing to occur, all three levels must be addressed. We will also be sharing our film The Wisdom of Trauma as part of this event. Contact the Collective Trauma Summit with any questions. We hope you will join! Love, Zaya & Maurizio and the SAND Team P.S. To register for free access, click here. |
Understanding & Facilitating Post-Traumatic Growth (Oct 8)
| with Richard G. Tedeschi, Ph.D., developer of the theory of Post-Tramatic Growth, and Bret A. Moore, Psy.D., ABPP |
| What is this course about?+ Post-traumatic growth is a concept that acknowledges that trauma survivors often report positive changes in the aftermath of trauma, not only trauma symptoms or resilience. In this course, the process by which growth emerges will be explained, and an approach to facilitating this process in clinical work will be described with a case illustration. |
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