Release Trauma and Restore Your Body’s Wisdom
Learn from 13 of the world's leading trauma experts
Jeffrey Rutstein
PsyD, CHT
A clinical psychologist who has specialized in the treatment of trauma for nearly 40 years.
Deb Dana
LCSW
Deb Dana is a clinician and consultant specializing in complex trauma, and is the coordinator of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium.
Developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic approach to healing trauma and bestselling author of Waking the Tiger.
Resmaa Menakem
MSW, LICSW, SEP
Artist, psychotherapist, and author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies.
Ruth King
Author and Educator
Author, educator, and founder of Mindful of Race Institute
…and many more!
Konda Mason
Activist and Entrepreneur
Social entrepreneur, activist, spiritual teacher, and cofounder/founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland
Sará King
PhD
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An innovative teacher in contemporary spirituality and creator of the Realization Process.
Clinical psychologist, author, consultant, therapist trainer, and developer of Resilience-Informed Therapy.
Featured guest speakers
Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker.
Renowned speaker and bestselling author sought after for his expertise on addiction, stress, and childhood development.
Family therapist, credentialed teacher, and psychotherapist helping create harmony between families for over 30 years.
A Nine-Month Training to Regulate Your Nervous System, Embody Safety, and Become a Healing Presence
Jeffrey Rutstein, Program Host PsyD, CHT
A clinical psychologist who has specialized in the treatment of trauma for nearly 40 years.
Alter the way you relate to yourself. To the world. To your pain.
Trauma touches all of our lives—whether it is through natural disasters, war, acts of violence, early-life experiences, or even a car accident or major surgery. And right now we’re collectively experiencing the effects of traumatic events with global impacts. The pandemic, for example, ushered in a new experience of collective trauma … as well as being retraumatizing for so many.
And while the challenges of trauma are real—the anxiety, the fear, the stress, the worry—there is hope.
With The Healing Trauma Program, I invite you to participate in a transformational nine-month “blended learning” event combining virtual live sessions and self-paced learning to explore trauma—what it is, how it impacts us, and how we can cultivate skills to grow from adversity.
Featuring teachings and practices from some of the foremost names in trauma healing—including celebrated educators, researchers, and clinical practitioners—this program will give you the tools to deeply understand your responses to trauma, anticipate your triggers, and uncover the solid ground within you during times of upheaval. This program speaks to the pain, the trauma, the loss that was present from the pandemic, and also from all the events in our largely unstable world right now.
Devoting yourself to this program will be a gift to yourself and others—an enriching, life-changing training with effects that will ripple over generations. Therapists, educators, community leaders, massage therapists, yoga teachers, and other helping professionals will find the wisdom of this course to be invaluable: an important professional skill that allows you to teach and nurture others in a deeper, more compassionate way. Parents, volunteers, and community members at large will greatly benefit from becoming a healing presence and calming influence to friends, family, peers, and all they encounter.
I look forward to sharing this journey together.
Jeffrey
Here’s what Healing Trauma Program alumni are saying about the program
Jeffrey Rutstein, Program Host PsyD, CHT
A clinical psychologist who has specialized in the treatment of trauma for nearly 40 years.
"The Healing Trauma Program has helped me find consistency… it gave me the tools to check in with myself."
"The course has… a strong emphasis on how to be in our bodies, and I have found that very, very healing."
"We have all experienced trauma… we all go in and out of a regulated and dysregulated state. So this is appropriate for anyone."
"A program like this you really evolve with. So the first time you watch something you pick up one or two things, and then the next time you watch [you’re] going to learn something new."
The traumatization in the collective means that we grew up in a world where the water we were swimming in contained many trauma aspects that we normalized by living in that environment.
Who should enroll in the program?
Parents
Therapists
Leaders
Educators
Parents
Therapists
Leaders
Educators
Coaches
Essential workers
Caregivers
Health professionals
Activists
Coaches
Essential workers
Caregivers
Health professionals
Activists
Program participants will benefit from:
World-Renowned Faculty
Learn with a diverse faculty of experts drawing from their professional and personal experience to guide you through the curriculum.
Cutting-Edge Research
Benefit from the abundance of understanding and information that has resulted from the last two decades of research on trauma.
Skills, practices, and tools
Develop greater resiliency, inner peace, healthier relationships, and more—for self-healing and working with others.
Healing from all types of trauma
Explore the many types of trauma we encounter—intergenerational, personal, and collective.
Online learning
Access over 30 hours of content—some live, some prerecorded—from the comfort and privacy of your personal space.
Monthly Office Hours
Join two live Office Hours sessions with Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein for you to ask questions about the content or help address any struggles you may have along the way.
Monthly Practice Sessions
Participate in two live Practice Sessions featuring guided practices, community interaction, and time to share questions and insights with a dedicated facilitator.
Three trimesters of enriching, empowering content
Our opening trimester explores the importance of being able to self-regulate your body in the face of aggravating experiences large and small. Instead of being held hostage to the whims of an activated or traumatized nervous system, we will explore deeply experiential practices that aim to transform your body’s response, so that you feel more in control of every situation.
The Experts
Deb Dana, LCSW
Clinician and author of Polyvagal Theory in Therapy
Topic: Befriending Your Nervous System: A Polyvagal-Informed Approach
Konda Mason
Social entrepreneur, activist, spiritual teacher, and cofounder/founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland
Topic: Healing the Isolation of Judgment and Shame
Judith Blackstone, PhD
Author and founder of the Realization Process®
Topic: The Power of Embodiment
Special Sessions:
Peter A. Levine, PhD
Founder of Somatic Experiencing® trauma recovery
Topic: Trauma and the Body
Gabor Maté, MD
Renowned speaker and bestselling author sought after for his expertise on addiction, stress, and childhood development
Topic: Healing Trauma as a Journey Toward Freedom
Our second trimester explores trauma in relationships and how it impacts our ability to relate to ourselves and others. Because our bodies exist in one of two states—”protect” or “connect”—remaining in a “protect” state inhibits our ability to create deep, meaningful relationships. Includes MID-PROGRAM PRACTICE RETREAT.
The Experts
Deb Dana, LCSW
Clinician and author of Polyvagal Theory in Therapy
Topic: Co-regulation from a Polyvagal Perspective
Sará King, PhD
Neuroscientist, political and learning scientist, critical theorist, medical anthropologist, and social entrepreneur
Topic: Body, Mind, and Relationships: Interpersonal Neurobiology
NEW EXPERT TO BE ADDED SOON!
Special Sessions:
Susan Stiffelman, MFT
Family therapist, credentialed teacher, and psychotherapist helping create harmony in families for over 30 years.
Topic: Co-regulating with Children
Our final trimester encompasses healing those around us. As humans, we are constantly sending signals of safety or danger—and picking up on the signals of others. Therefore, in order to rise above the more defensive states of trauma, we must practice sending safer signals as we move toward collective healing.
The Experts
Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Clinical psychologist, EMDR and somatic therapist
Topic: Transgenerational Trauma and Post-Traumatic Growth
Thomas Hübl, PhD
Spiritual teacher, author, and founder of the Academy of Inner Science
Topic: Healing Collective Trauma
Ruth King
Author, educator, and founder of Mindful of Race Institute
Topic: The Body of Belonging: Trauma and the Inner Work of Racial Healing
Special Sessions:
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP
New York Times bestselling author and trauma specialist
Topic: An Embodied Approach to Healing Racialized Trauma
Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe
Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker
Topic: Life at the Center: An Indigenous Perspective on Healing Collective Trauma
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Not the world, not what’s outside of us, but what we hold inside traps us. We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.
