Reminders:

• Breakout sessions, listed below, are chosen upon checkout.

• 5.5 CEUs are offered for LMHC and LADC. 5 CEUs are offered for LCSW.

• The entire Conference will be ASL-Accessible.

• ASL-Accessible & Spanish-language TCTSY practices will be offered.

• Registration Fee is a sliding-scale for resource-based accessibility.

• Zoom information for the main group & breakout sessions will be emailed a week in advance of the conference.

Full Schedule:

DAY ONE: Saturday, April 10, 2021

8:00am: Optional TCTSY Practice (45-min)

Facilitator: Kelsey Gustafson

Two (2) sessions offered: English; English + ASL

9:00am: Opening and Welcome

9:10 - 9:50am: Keynote Speaker

Ellice Patterson with a performance by Abilities Dance Boston

10:00 - 10:50am Breakout Session ONE (Choose 1):

ReScripted: Theater-based trauma healing for youth

ReScripted is a trauma-informed intervention anchored in embodiment practices that utilizes the power of play, theater and movement to promote the development of a whole healthy self focused on children and teens. ReScripted is guided by the tagline, “act. embody. and empower.”, which is brought to life by inviting students to remain connected to their embodied experience as they explore the choices they are making in the scenes that are developed. In addition there is a focus on some specific skill modules including problem solving, identity development, and perspective taking.

Workshop will include an experiential component.

Presenters: Valeria Krpata and Kristen Cahill

Discipline and Healing: Boxing, Trauma, and Embodied Critique

Through an exploratory workshop, Nola Hanson and Hill Donnell from the Trans Boxing Collective will present an approach to boxing which considers the effects of trauma on the embodied experience. The workshop positions boxing as a healing modality, and reveals the transformative and restorative potential of group movement and exercise.

Workshop will include an experiential component.

Presenters: Nola Hanson and Hill Donnell

Unraveling: Unlearning Trauma at Work + Re-imagining Generative Work-place Cultures

The presenter will discuss how they are making sense of race-based trauma in work-places by integrating race equity and work-related research with aspects of the embodied healing framework, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY). Participants will leave the session with preliminary insight into a range of workplace practices and norms that are potentially traumatizing. Participants will be invited to begin imagining what it would feel like to be in organizational cultures that actively sought to mitigate such experiences.

Presenter: Dr. Tiffany Johnson

11:00 - 11:20am: Movement Break

Facilitated by Dave Emerson or Jenn Turner

11:30am - 12:20pm: Breakout Session TWO (Choose 1)

Embodied Eating

Eating can be a highly pleasurable, connected and healing daily experience, but it can also be a fraught one — a way to numb-out, exert control and/or seek comfort. Explore the power of mindful eating practices and the food-mood connection in a weight-inclusive approach to nutrition with integrative dietitian, health coach and educator Lindsay Keach Bronstein.

Workshop will include an experiential component.

Healing a traumatized body through Expressive Flamenco©

Expressive Flamenco© is an emerging expressive arts practice that explores holistic healing possibilities within the art of Flamenco. This therapeutic dance practice allows the prescribed movements of flamenco dance to attune your attention inward with the goal of connecting with your authentic self. This holistic, embodied approach was born of an effort to heal a personal trauma that manifested a severe somatic condition in the body. The personal journey of healing a body in stress will be shared and attendees of this workshop will be guided in the applied practice of Expressive Flamenco© to connect with your true self in order to grow in self-realization, wholeness, and wellbeing.

Work-shop will include an experiential component.

Presenter: Laura Sanchez

Secondary Traumatic Stress and Professional Resilience

This workshop will provide an overview of the symptoms of Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) along with a review of the research that identifies organizational risks and protective factors for clinicians, educators, healers, social workers and others in the "helping professions". This will be followed by a discussion of prevention and intervention practices with the opportunity to participate in an embodiment activity designed to promote resilience. Participants will receive packets containing an STS-Informed Organizational Assessment, STS Resiliency Checklist and other resources for understanding and mitigating the effects of STS.

Workshop will include an experiential component.

Presenter: Susan Lovett

12:30pm (20-min): Personal reflection

“What does it mean to me to connect to the wisdom of my body?”

Includes a breakout conversation with a peer.

12:50 Closing for Day ONE

DAY TWO: Sunday, April 11, 2021

8:00 - 8:45am: Optional TCTSY Practice (45-min)

Facilitated by: Laura Margarita Gomez

Two (2) sessions offered: English; Spanish

9:00am: Welcome Back!

9:10 - 9:50am: Keynote Speaker

Quentin Vennie — “Strong in the Broken Places: Coping With Trauma, Addiction and Mental Health"

10:00 - 10:50am: Breakout Session ONE (Choose 1)

Rebuilding the House by Tending to the Harm: A Conversation To Heal Organizations

Given the complex work of practitioners, service providers, and leaders in the trauma field, it is critical to be aware of the possible ways in which we can enact harm within our own organizations. When we neglect relationships and fail to critique our systems, we run the risk of upholding oppressive dynamics and perpetuating complacency of larger systems of oppression. This workshop will explore context and skills to build capacity for addressing harm at multiple levels and apply principles to create trusting communities within organizations. It will also introduce strategies to develop and maintain vicarious trauma-informed organizations.

Presenter: Dominique A. Malebranche, Ph.D.

Trauma Informed Weight Lifting

Mariah and Mark will present on their work fostering healing through weight lifting, building a community of trauma-informed coaches and trainers, and beginning to establish an evidence base for weight lifting as an adjunctive treatment for trauma.

Workshop will include an experiential component.

Presenters: Mariah Rooney and Mark Schneider

Integrating Yoga Into Peer Support Groups for Survivors of Sexual Violence

Based on her work with survivors of sexual violence at Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, Rowan will describe a model for integrating TC-TSY, a yoga-based intervention for trauma healing, into a present-centered support group framework. Drawing from her doctoral dissertation research, Rowan will highlight narratives of seven support group members and identify common themes. A short (10-15 minute) TC-TSY practice will be included in this session.

Workshop will include an experiential component.

Presenter: Rowan Atkinson

11:00 - 11:20am: Movement Break

Facilitated by Dave Emerson or Jenn Turner

11:30am - 12:20pm: Breakout Session TWO (Choose 1)

The Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Studio of the Future: A Foundation for Person-Centered Psychospiritual Maturation

As Humanity’s Chain of Pain—the toxic intergenerational transmission of trauma—grows in magnitude and intensity, it threatens to overwhelm our depleted mental health care system. We must shift our focus from crisis intervention to prevention strategies that address root causes of these problems, including oppressive group-based social dominance hierarchies. In this workshop, participants will explore how trauma-sensitive yoga clinicians can incorporate methods of person-centered psychospiritual maturation, transforming the yoga studio into a sanctuary for preventive approaches to individual and social well-being.

Workshop will include an experiential component.

Presenter: Jared Kass

Community Healing Embodied

Can a rape survivor heal in rape culture? Healing from trauma is often inextricably connected to society, culture, privilege and oppression. This presentation showcases some ways that communities can create physical representations of connection and solidarity. The presenter will highlight her successful initiative in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to build the first public, permanent Memorial to Survivors of Sexual Violence. What does it mean to make physical space in our world for monuments to survivors?

Presenter: Sarah Super

Embodied Healing: Survivor and Facilitator Voices from the Practice of Trauma Sensitive Yoga

Authors from the book ‘Embodied Healing: Survivor and Facilitator voices from the practice of Trauma Sensitive Yoga’ will join a panel discussion hosted by editor and co-founder of Center for Trauma and Embodiment, Jenn Turner. The panel will share excerpts from the book that highlight the themes of choice making, present moment experience, shared authentic experience and taking effective action. In addition, they will discuss their experience of writing in collaboration with clients including navigating the complexities of personal disclosure.

12:30pm: All Group Flamenco (Optional)

12:50: DAY TWO Closing