How to Work with the Limbic System to Reverse the Physiological Imprint of Trauma
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with Pat Ogden, PhD ;
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with Pat Ogden, PhD; Peter Levine, PhD; Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD; and Ruth Buczynski, PhD
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I will continue exploring how best to help my clients integrate the cognitive, somatic, and midbrain-limbic aspects of their experience.
This entire series has been extraordinarily informative, as well as encouraging in providing better resources and therapeutic skills for me to utilize with my trauma patients.
I plan to revisit the videos and learning materials in order to better remember and integrate the training for myself.
Thank you for bringing this amazing collaboration of professionals to us as practitioners. Thank you for the richness of your combined experiences, research, work with clients, and wisdom!
Everything about the brain-based, movement-based treatment of trauma feels revolutionary and exciting. I’m curious to know if anyone knows of research connecting central sleep apnea to trauma and chronic hypoarousal. The standard medical model treats it as a physiological problem by mechanically forcing the patient to breathe because it does not know why the body and brain would cease coordinating this activity.
I’m looking forward to applying the “watch the movie of your trauma backwards, or in black and white” and invoking some shift in the sensory perceptions associated with the specific trauma. This and other insights are very valuable, thank you very much for putting this program together!
Maria Schoeffler, LPC, NCC
This hour integrated a lot of concepts for me. I was trained 30 years ago as an Expressive Arts Therapist and later a Play Therapist, without understanding how or why what we do works. This focuses and makes intentional what I have been doing. Thank you so much!!
Yes! I have a similar background and just love how the brain science is catching up with these modalites, like Voice Movement Therapy, which I trained in the mind-90’s. Also how brain science is now acknowledging the profound affects of spiritual practices that cultivate mindfulness and Presence.
Wow, I am really in graditute! And I am in bliss!
Your programm gave me so much hints and inspirations, I got so specific differenziated INFROMATION of my understanding and my practical work.
THANK YOU!
michael pilliger
Thank you for sharing this program
This has been great training. I continue to learn more and more through your training. Please continue to keep some of it free to those who use it as it is so super useful.
This was such a valuable session-thank you! I’m wondering how cultural competency and more diverse perspectives/voices from diverse backgrounds, particularly from marginalized identities and indigenous voices, are being incorporated into nicabm.
Excellent I’ll be signing up shortly, thank you.
I am an 82 yr old Lesbian woman – a client of many therapists over time.
I grew up without any identifiable Feelings
Age 42, hypnosis, saw 3 flaccid penisus. 2 boys, one mans (W.I.N.G.S therapy). My mother remembered their names (42 yr later) The boys loved to babysit me – I was between 3 and 9 months old. The man was a newlywed friend of the family. That couple baby sat me for 2 weeks, I was 10 months old..
In 2017, was FINALLY diagnosed with PTSD..
Thru Shamanisn 2022, learned that my mother was incested by her father (age? to 8yrs old); she mostly ignored infants under 2 yrs old.
Got some Feelings back thru an old Straight friend.(via more Shamanic work on my part.
I do recommend some hypnosis and looking into Shamanism.
Your free online class went very quickly, and I don’t know the vocabulary very well AND I did get a lot of insight into my stuff.
Thank you,
Jude Gassaway
Edgewater, Colorado
Amazing!! Thank you so much for providing this free for people like myself who are trauma survivors and poor. Thank you for spreading this vital knowledge.
Excellent information, very helpful to better understand how to deal with traumas and how the body responds to these situations. I am very grateful that you give us these opportunities to take the courses. I am a Psychology student from Monterrey, NL Mexico. I am also the Director of SCARS, a non-profit organization that supports victims who have gone through emotional traumas, and all that you discussed this week will be very helpful to continue better supporting other people. Thanks again
THANK YOU SO VEY MUCH!
I really learnt a lot… so much more to dig deep into…
One thing I struggle to find anywhere is learning how to conduct sessions… literally looking how to start go through and finish sessions. i have done lots of trainings and now where do we get clear ideas from people who are in the therapy business for a long time on how to go through sessions.
This would be a good next teaching series for new practitioners.
Thank you for the great work you are doing.
Debbie Wullschleger
I can encourage kids who cut to push outward when feeling powerless or overwhelmed. I’m not a therapist, I”m a foster parent.
Grateful to learn with your organization. I am originally from Ukraine and have been interested in trauma work for almost 2 decades. First, as a volunteer in the suicide and crisis prevention organization.
Last 2 years, I am learning bodywork, realizing its potential for emotional healing.
And, now, with the war raging in Ukraine, I am looking to be even more helpful to people who experienced war or war-related events.
I am buying some of your courses and learning from your generously offered free materials. I do not see myself going for a university degree, so, doing my best with what I can do and your materials are very helpful. Thank you.
I am struck by the realization that we don’t have to work things out cognitively in order to heal. Our brains are naturally inclined to pay attention to “stories” as the ability to communicate a sequence of events was a protective adaptation of our ancestors. But in healing from trauma, our objective is not to define the past; it is to examine the ways in which the past is affecting an individual’s ability to be present in their own body, right now. That we can create new physical experiences to contradict the lessons that the brain learned from trauma is immensely encouraging.
I’m very grateful that you have released some free access to this information. I’m not a therapist, I am a trauma survivor struggling to get any access at all to trauma therapy currently in the UK as the only practitioners are either out of affordability for me or working for charities with waiting lists in multiples of years. I would love to access your material going forward to review it and use it to help myself further, and I would love to support your work.Sadly even the discount price puts it way out of reach for me as it’s about a quarter of a months low salary, you may know many people in the uk are currently experiencing financial hardship and crisis, and I have nothing to spare. Even one listen though is of some help and hopefully I will be able to recall and retain some of it. Being of an academic turn of mind I find it extremely interesting, as well as vital for my recovery. I’m very grateful indeed to have had a brief glance at the surface of this field and I have so much client-end insight I would love to share! Exciting times in this field!
Thank you for sharing this excellent series. I’ve already been implementing some of what I’ve learned with clients I’ve seen this week.
Thanks for this series! I’m a political ecologist and I work with people who are dealing with complex layers of physical, political and ecological trauma. I’m planning to use what I’ve learned here to think about how movement (including connections with nonhumans like animals, water and forests) can help to heal communities and their ecosystems.
As a trainee art therapist, I noticed how movement in making art is vital in shifting the stuckness of trauma in the body. So, I would use sensory motor art therapy, and would also readjust the toxic memory by calibrating the senses, and building awareness of the here and now. I would also ask the client what things they might enjoy, such as creativity, yoga, movement/dance, Tai Chi, or Qi Gong to release the traumatic memory in their body from the fight/flight/freeze response. Thank you.
As a patient, I cannot tell you how much i appreciate you sharing this knowledge. I have been disabled by by traumas (i.e., unable to work) and finding resources to help myself and to help my daughter are a big part of my healing.
in particular I believe we are failing most people seeking help BECAUSE therapists at all levels are not taught from a trauma perspective. I have been suffering all my 55 yrs and have been through many many therapists. Why isn’t the kind of information you provide the fundamental teaching for therapy?
the modalities sit on top of the understanding that trauma IS the underlying condition for most of our mental illnesses: adhd, anxiety, depression, anger (acting out), poor social skills.
As I heal, my next career is trying to make the change so that therapy is ACTUALLY effective as opposed to a shitty stop-gap that helps people limp along. We MUST change how therapy is taught and applied.
Excellent program. I have seen healing progress with folks doing athletic and/or outdoor challenges. Also connection to animals helps – like horses.
Excellent program. I have seen healing progress with folks doing athletic and/or outdoor challenges.
Really interesting session especially as a yoga teacher. I’m not signing up as this is not my field but would be interested in yoga therapy related courses
I would help I think if more yoga teachers understood how to teach so the practice focused more on skills that helped relieve trauma.
I would help I think if more yoga teachers understood how to teach so the practice focused more on skills that helped relieve trauma. Perhaps a program to teach this would help.
THANK YOU!, excellent program.
I teach painting and think that this fall semester, given students under-performing from Covid ‘hangover’ the last couple semesters, that I will make the projects less technique-focused at the start and deal with emotions right off – the series (which I watched before – your best yet imo) inspired me to think if new approaches that might reach them more successfully as they seem less motivated to achieve lately.
Also aside from learning a lot, this helps those of us who wanted more somatic interaction w therapists (some who counseled ‘just put it behind you’) in the past to treat attachment problems and PTSD. It helps me trust my intuition re what might have been missing – as I do with students.
Fantastic – thanks!!!
Thank you so much to everyone involved in these presentations. I am already using some of the techniques and education presented. My clients and I have found them very helpful and I look forward to using them again soon.
Thank you also for the insight into yoga. I have practiced yoga for over thirty years and instinctively believed that this has been instrumental in protecting my “sanity” at different times in my life. Today I learnt why it has “saved” me.
A large percentage of my work is with people in grief (lots of trauma there) and is voluntary. I am extremely grateful to have this education made available so generously, so thank you also, to those who can support the work, by purchasing the program.
Hello,
I signed up to listen to the free version. I am someone living with trauma and so wanted to learn more about healing myself as, to date I have not found counseling to be beneficial.
I am currently undergoing my yoga teacher training and am encouraged to hear you talk about the benefits of yoga to heal trauma. I hope to be able to support my yoga students through my own personal learnings. Thank you for these valuable sessions. 🙏🏼 Erin
Thank You for this incredible learning series. Today has helped me recognise my body reactions from past trauma. It was powerful learning the importance of telling “the secret” when due to loyalty to a parent stops one from telling the truth. The healing that can come from the truth telling is so important. My daughters are Social Workers and I hope their organisations will buy the gold series. Thank you for caring about the in the community who cannot pay, it is important for everyone to have understanding or trauma and the affect it has in so many ways. Thank you Joy
I am a student interested in psychology… These sessions have been so interesting and informative, and have helped me understand even responses I’ve noticed in my own friends and family. Thank you for having this available!
Thank you for offering this wonderful master series! I have a complex trauma history and also a degree in counseling. This has helped me in my trauma healing and hopefully when I’m able to work with others it will help many more!
This was amazing. Not sure if I can afford the package. It is such a valuable package. I am grateful this was made initially free for the Live viewing so that I could view and learn as much as I am able to at the moment.
Such important information for healing and supporting others who are healing. Thank you for providing client and modality examples in the explanations. That was extremely helpful.
I am a volunteer support group co-facilitator for a national mental health organization. I am an emerging teaching artist who uses literary arts in workshops to help others heal. I am part of writing for a well-being organization in the UK. I am American and live stateside. My intention is to use these approaches in my literary arts and also use them to support others who are healing from trauma. I am also a trauma survivor. I plan to also keep these techniques in mind for myself as well. Thank you.
I would have bought it, but I just could’t bear to hear about the gold subscription over and over again. No joke. Absolutely loved the teaching but the gold subscription stuff ruined for me
I understand your reaction, David, money and teaching and therapy don’t seem to fit together, but…we all have to pay our bills, and I can tell you, they better insist that you get the gold subscription. I got it, and that means a whole lot of very precious material, outstanding quality, I’m impressed and grateful!!!
Thank you for offering this master series for free! I work with a community non-profit teaching preschoolers, kindergartners and their parents, and I am also a mother of three children. Although I consider myself a layperson in the field of trauma and psychology, I have become an avid student of the brain and how, through simple measures, we can rewire our brains to be more open and receptive to learning. This seminar has helped me understand more deeply how trauma affects the brain, sometimes short-circuiting receptiveness to the present and new input. I also noted how healthy habits, especially mindfulness and movement, can heal and protect the brain and body from trauma.
I know that movement, esp. dance, martial arts, and Ultimate frisbee, have been life-saving for my family through traumatic times, allowing us to rewire the parts of the brain that at one time needed to move in order to avoid danger, or avoid the discomfort of “sitting still with difficult emotions.” Where traume left imprints of dread and dis-ease, physical disciplines counteracted that with joy and health.
In my work with kinders and parents, we teach social-emotional skills, for example how to “check in” with your body and your emotions, share them, and act on them, if necessary, to help get back to calm so you can be ready to learn. This social-emotional learning is so important for all students, especially students who have experienced trauma and may not be able to sense their bodies. It is gratifying to help little ones integrate the parts of their brain so that they can function better. I appreciate very much the expertise and years of research and help each our you have contributed to this field – I feel blessed to have access to this knowledge from my small corner of the world.
I teach social and emotional skills to gifted and talented students, many of whom are “twice-exceptional” with challenges in self-regulation. I have seen marked improvement in many of my students as they learn to check in with their bodies and notice and name what they are experiencing. The materials from NICABM on trauma-treatment give me insight and strategies that really help.
Thank you to Dr. Ruth Buczynski; and the team of doctors for such a great program. I have set my alarm as a reminder for each session, attempting to get in all 3/day.
Today’s session was especially impactful. Dr. Ruth Lanius is speaking to my soul. I have gleaned as much of her wisdom as possible, and hoping to get the Gold package before it’s too late, to soak in more.
My hope is to help as many people out of the chains that bind and hold people hostage…Chains I have seen fall from me because of programs, that help like this one. These Professional people, and what they do to “change the world one life at a time”; (Paraphased from words of Dr. Ruth Lanius) is, as they say, “PRICELESS.”
Thanks again,
Lorinda Pearson,
Passionate about Neurobiology, Trauma, and Freedom…Spirit, Soul (mind, will and emotions), and Body.
A Life long student of great doctors of this scale; and others like them.
Thank so much every body… that participated in this work!! I am a Dance Movement Therapist and a lot of this material is so very close to the ways we work in dance therapy with peoples movements, body, sensations and minfulness. The focus on the nolege of trauma and the brain you give is verry important and intresting! Another comon area I see, is that of enlarging the posibilities of movement and in life by giving more alternatives / options on movement bocabulary and life, that they was maybe blocked before.
Thank you again.
Thank you so much for creating this serious of talks. I truly appreciate your work. I am a mother of an adopted child and have spent years reading all the recommended books on adoption and attachment etc. But there is nothing like listening to real people describe real situations. Although I’m not educated in your field I feel I gained a lot of insight this week. I’m hoping to guide my teenage daughter to yoga or karate now and I shall have a greater empathy for her struggles with focus, schoolwork and confidence. I am feeling very grateful 🙏
I have thoroughly enjoyed this series…
I have got so much out of my own “body work”, there has been so many shifts and breakthroughs.
I don’t know why I am still so amazed at our ability to heal in this way.
Helping clients to reconnect and reintegrate using body and breathe work is a gift that I value highly.
I’m very grateful for this resource. Thank you.
Petina (Tina) Walker MBACP Get Clarity Counselling Exeter UK
I am a school nurse at an inner city alternative high school in Seattle. Most, if not all, of our students have multiple ACE’s. Trauma is a daily walk for our students and staff. Unfortunately, many students come to us because they struggle to learn and have chronic absenteeism, addiction, insecure housing, food, etc. Striving to make their education more accessible, WE as a school need to address their trauma first. It is the great disrupter. Unfortunately, as teens, our students live within an ecosystem that doesn’t allow for safety and healing, outside of school. My goal is to have a toolbox for our students to access at any point, to empower them with skills to address their trauma and emotions as they bubble up. Healing for these young people will hopefully happen in time, but the ability to function is paramount to success. We operate at the tertiary level!
I caught about half of this program and it has greatly impacted my thinking. I am inspired to further my study — not just for myself, but for all the staff in our school. I thank you greatly!
One question, with regard to body presentation and movement in kids on the spectrum, what is your advice on assessing and helping them?
Warmest Regards,
Sarah Stockwell, BSN, RN
Seattle Public Schools
Hi, this session is great. It helps me understand better what happens with my patients .
To me , posture, movements and the body language are more important than words because more authentic, more real.
It helps for diagnostic and it helps assessing any change that occurs to my patients.
Thanks again
I’m going to recommend your website and channel to my therapist. I believe your wonderful work needs to be distributed to the world of therapists first.
Incredibly useful in my work as a psychotherapist and in the my personal life, thank
you!!
Amazing series
Sooo grateful for u All.
How can we connect with a therapist like u ?
Sooo grateful
I have a Masters in Psychology and I have been practicing as a therapist for 30 years. I appreciated the new language and terms associated with Trauma therapy. I have not had any training in these areas and it keeps coming up in my practice. So I wanted to begin to build some modalities and tools to help my clients. Many thanks. My brain is working on all the new information!!
I was alerted to this series by my wife, who is a victim of serial childhood trauma. I have read “The Body Keeps The Score”, so I knew that this series would be worth listening to. The book and this series have helped me understand more about dealing with my wife’s difficulties, and taught me a lot about what I have been doing wrong in interacting with her. Thank you very much for your work, and for sharing this series.
Thank you for your mission! It’s my mission too as a trauma-informed coach! The resources of each of your books, etc. are so valuable! As a survivor of child abuse and having a diagnosis of CPTSD, this series truly gives me more detail and understanding of my healing journey and how the particular therapies can add more depth to healing! The therapies in bodywork have been calling me for a while! Yoga has been transformative through releasing the tensions that have been stuck. Thanks, again! Continue the great work to heal our world!
Many Thanks for the Excellent presentations on the very important subject of Trauma. Many Thanks for Pat, Peter, Bessel, Ruth & Ruth. Pl keep doing such efforts with dedication for the alleviation of human problems. Best wishes and Stay blessed! Prof Dr Gulzar Ahmad, a counseling psychologist.
Thank You so very much. I really wish I could by the Gold Membership…but I cannot—impossible for me right now. But I am in immense gratitude for your generosity in letting me view this information. I wish it was used by everyone in the Mental Health Field. I am a Peer Mental Health Advocate, not a professional. I will however; let professionals know of your work. I believe it is right on target. I wish it was more financially supported. I wish you the best of luck and all of the professionals who spoke on this very important subject. The subject of Trauma and how to encourage integration and health. Thank You sincerely, Kathryn Fazio
I learnt two new concepts today, mid brain therapy and limbic system therapy and how to connect the lower and upper brain (thinking and emotional). Thank you for sharing all these resources. This will help me and my clients as well. Just one question: what if the client has done the processing of trauma incidents but is unwilling to do the interventions on it to heal and produces different issues in the sessions instead? any insights on that?
Have you assessed for avoidant attachment or current use of dissociation?
This was such a rich treasure chest of different ideas and thoughts and principles expressed in such a simple way. It fitted together so well and gave me much to think about and process. Sometimes even things you know and are very familiar with can be expressed differently, such that it’s like seeing them new, for the first time, all over again. Thank you so much. It was like opening a window and letting in the breeze- a real breath of fresh air!
I find this series very helpful personally and professionally. I had some helpful ah ha moments. Thank you for sharing the enormous skill and understanding of your presenters. I’m grateful for being given this experience and I will try to make manifest it’s worth appropriately in my life with others.