2019 Workshops

Bessel van der Kolk MD

Trauma, Neuroscience and the Evolving Therapy of Traumatized Children and Adults

The author of the ‘bible of traumatic stress’, the bestselling The Body Keeps the Score, Dr van der Kolk will present the very latest clinical methods in the resolution of traumatic experiences and the restoration of self.

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane: March 2019

Two day workshops

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Allan Schore PhD

The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy

Dr Schore presents his award-winning research on how early relational trauma imprints an enduring physiological reactivity of the early developing right brain and a susceptibility to later disorders of affect regulation, expressed in a deficit in the capacity to cope with future social-emotional stressors and a predisposition to a spectrum of psychiatric disorders.

Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney: May 2019

Two day workshops

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Iain McGilchrist

The Divided Brain Clinic

Join Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist in this two-day workshop as he presents the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain. It's not simply "emotion on the right, reason on the left," but something far more complex and interesting with important implications for psychotherapists and their clients.

Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney: Coming Soon

Two day workshops

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Specialist Psychologists and Psychiatrists with many years experience and over 5000 hours working face to face - developing mental health knowledge and treatment. Sessions from Bessel van der Kolk, Janina Fisher, Pat Ogden & Alan Fruzzetti.

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Dr Bessel van der Kolk: an interview with Lynne Malcolm from the ABC’s “All in the Mind”
Bessel van der Kolk explains to Lynne Malcolm from the ABC's "All in the Mind" program, why self-awareness is at the centre of his unconventional approach to therapy. […]
Bessel van der Kolk: Restoring Joy and Treating Traumatic Stress
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. […]
Bessel van der Kolk: Trauma, the Brain & the Body
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. […]
Bessel van der Kolk: Trauma Lives Within
Trauma is an inability to inhabit one’s body without being possessed by its defenses and the emotional numbing that shuts down all experience, including pleasure and satisfaction. […]
Why do so many people find psychological change so difficult?
Change, in the brain, is not a rare event, it is the day to day modus operandi. But if that’s the case, why do so many people find psychological change so difficult? If change is so possible, why do some people seem to get more rigid as time passes? […]
Anorexia and the “Plastic Paradox”
Anorexia Nervosa and other eating disorders have the highest mortality rate in all of mental health. Norman Doidge explores a new approach that takes the best of depth psychology psychotherapies and the newest developments in neuroplasticity and brain training. […]
Norman Doidge: Why Two Brains?
Why do we have two different brain hemispheres? And what difference does understanding this make in our lives and in how we treat patients? […]
Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War
Bessel van der Kolk will introduce a short piece of LIVE theatre at his coming workshops and then open the room up for comment and discussion. […]