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Release Trauma and Restore Your Body’s Wisdom

Learn from 13 of the world's leading trauma experts

A clinical psychologist who has specialized in the treatment of trauma for nearly 40 years.

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.

Artist, psychotherapist, and author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies.

Author, educator, and founder of Mindful of Race Institute

…and many more!

Contemporary spiritual teacher, author, and founder of The Academy of Inner Science.

Social entrepreneur, activist, spiritual teacher, and cofounder/founding CEO of Impact Hub Oakland

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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.

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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

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

Emily J.

"The Healing Trauma Program has helped me find consistency… it gave me the tools to check in with myself."

Maggie G.

"The course has… a strong emphasis on how to be in our bodies, and I have found that very, very healing."

Linda M.

"We have all experienced trauma… we all go in and out of a regulated and dysregulated state. So this is appropriate for anyone."

Sandra T.

"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."

This journey has been without a doubt the most significant one I have chosen to join. I have found/learned ways/techniques to feel safe and grounded, and when I am not anywhere near feeling safe I still know I am not alone – WHICH IS HUGE – and that there is a way home to safety. Jeffrey’s presence and everyone he brings to each session are invaluable. I am not sure what or where I would be today without this gift.

I am very glad I participated in the Healing Trauma program. I feel more grounded. Calm and embodied after taking the program. I can self regulate with much more ease and I make it a consistent practice to self regulate throughout the day. Even in family situations that would trigger me before the program, I can stay self regulated, embodied and in a space of equanimity. I did realize though in this difficult meeting with family members, that I kept placing my hand on my heart in ways that I hoped did not seem too noticeable and I also kept hugging myself as I was just moving around to resituate myself in my chair when things got really heavy. It was with family kind of like Thanksgiving. Though things really did get very heavy. The amazing thing is I remained with awareness in my body and in a space of equanimity. All the worst stuff with family seemed to have come to the fore. Maybe that’s the Universe testing me?! Who knows. Thank you for this very effective healing and wonderful tools!!

When I first started the Healing Trauma Program, I was struggling with PTSD, chronic pain and sleep disorders. Then, during Module 2, my husband was diagnosed with cancer and subsequently underwent 3 surgeries. I cannot fully express how very grateful I am for the gentle nurturing strength and excellent support I received from this program on my own healing journey over the past 9 months. I was especially impressed by the level of expertise shared by each presenter and the research-based materials that were chosen to be the foundation for this program. I looked forward to every module and live session because each loving-spirited presenter made me feel so valued and welcome no matter what was going on in my life. As I learned to keep myself more consistently in my vagal ventral state, I was able to stop feeling panicked and scattered by adverse external circumstances and I began to create a welcome sense of ‘coming home’ to my calm, focused and solution-oriented best self. I have been sharing what I have learned with others and I am looking forward to continuing my learning & healing journey as I review the skills and practices and hopefully participate in the alumni program. I am very grateful that this Healing Trauma Program is offered to everyone, regardless of financial circumstances, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in becoming a healing presence within themselves and with others.

Attending “office hours with Jeffrey” changed my perspective on therapists and therapy and the power of embodiment. He masterfully demonstrated attuned presence. During the program I often thought if I had met him and the program years ago the trajectory of my life would have been improved, though now I realize it’s never too late to shift.

I have more tools to self-regulate and Co-regulate. I found more acceptance and compassion with myself towards what i have always labeled as my flaws. It is hard to choose what part or parts were more beneficial because all impacted me very much and with each felt like a break through into freedom and self-acceptance. In regards to what i would say to someone contemplating beginning their journey in the healing trauma: You have arrived. You are here, ready to open your heart to a safe healing. Congratulations for this big step of love towards yourself.

When I began the program, my life was only about the trauma of my marriage and separation. I was extremely anxious and depressed, could hardly feel my body, and could not sleep. With the help of HT, my sleep is now normal, I am taking good care of myself, my anxiety and depression are greatly reduced, and I am finally thinking about a life beyond the trauma.

Shame and self-compassion was the most important for me. It’s total game-changer in the way I relate to myself, others and life in general. Polyvagal theory normalized certain situations, stories and feelings, and wide-variety of practices available in the program gave me sense of agency in my life. I’m a therapist myself and I see tremendous improvement in the way I work and my ability to stay present, connected and influential in the life of my clients.

The HTP program has been a life changer by initially understanding the origins of trauma and then subsequently learning the tools through wonderful teachers to address long standing unresolved attachment/developmental trauma. Jeffrey exemplifies a compassionate healing presence and he is the reason I signed up for the alumni program and will continue forward with the next cohort. Jeffrey and the program are co regulators and a grounding resource in my life. Even simply attending the live sessions as an alumni have been invaluable and supportive of my healing journey. A word to those contemplating joining the next cohort would be – take advantage of this unique educative, insightful and supportive program that provides the learner with a multitude of benefits that culminate into finding direction for living your best life. It’s never too late to start the healing journey for oneself and then paying it forward to the collective. A big thank you once again to Jeffrey for being our brilliant and heartfelt leader. I can’t say enough about him. I believe what makes this program so special is Jeffrey’s healing presence and wisdom coupled with the many valuable teachings from some of the best trauma experts in the field. The practice sessions with Solay have been a great resource and addition this year. Thank you HTP 💗 Thank you Jeffrey. Grateful to have found you !!

Jeffrey Rutstein’s Healing Trauma Program has changed my life, my way of inhabiting myself, my way of inhabiting the world. I recommend it without reservation. The 9 modules were so thoughtfully arranged, beginning with beautifully simple explanations of how the human nervous system works to deeply subtle ways the individual ‘inherits’ trauma from one’s family, one’s larger community, one’s race, our world at large. The practices accompanying each module have helped me know myself deep inside my body, giving me a new understanding of who and how I am, and how to heal wounds I had thought were beyond healing. Through this course, I have learned how to treat myself with tenderness and kindness, which has all by itself extended into a kinder way to tend to all of my relationships. Jeffrey is a remarkable teacher, deeply committed to his cohort of course participants. He is living proof of how this knowledge and these practices can heal. The teachers Jeffrey has bought on board for HTP, each with their particular ways of approaching trauma, brought such richness to the course. Nine months ago, I had thought that I would never have access to a way of being beyond the shame, sadness, grief, and frustration that has accompanied me throughout my life. But over these 9 months, the accumulation of many “small” things presented in HTP feels like the beginning of something huge, a new felt sense of myself, and of what connection actually means. I give thanks to Jeffrey, his cohort of fellow-teachers, as well as the whole Sounds True team for this newfound sense of optimism, sovereignty, and compassion, which I take deeply into myself, and out into the world.

It was quite a journey for me! I learned a lot from theory regarding vagus nerve, co-regulation.. etc., from many practical method to deal with different emotions, to work with the body, to breathe, how to work with the shadow of our heavy emotions, theoretical aspects related with intergenerational trauma and some practical methods to deal with it, meditations, body work in order to “find my way back home” in ventral state….I put in practice as many methods and techniques as I could learned within this program by working with myself first and then working with others…. I am now much more in contact with my body and much more aware and in contact with myself and I am helping others when possible to learn to work in this manner. And yes I would recommend this program to as many people as I can. This program is a life changing one. One of the most important aspects related with this program was your compassionate attitude, your openness and your capacity of containing and alchemizing so many emotions. Through this program a beautiful community was build. It was amazing to interact with people from different continents, cultures, from different ages with different experiences and different backgrounds…

The HTP was instrumental in my moving through the first year following my husband’s death in September of 2022. I am a complex trauma survivor of childhood domestic violence, which has impacted my adult life in many ways. I have been proactive, over the years in finding resources to guide my healing journey, always trusting my gut instinct. Joining the HTP was the right call at the right time. Every aspect of the program has provided me the container I needed, as I found myself often dys-regulated during my grief journey. Most especially, the Office Hours and Going Deeper sessions with Jeffrey R and my cohorts!And yes I would recommend this program to as many people as I can.

This program is a gentle, explorative, and empowering experience. Learning to self-regulate, learning to live comfortably in your body, and learning how to reach out meaningfully in our world — all of these are part of the transformative nature of this work. We are not alone, and we are all important. With the tools we obtained, and the practices we were taught, we can make a difference.

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.

Thomas Hübl, PhD

Who should enroll in the program?

Program participants will benefit from:

Learn with a diverse faculty of experts drawing from their professional and personal experience to guide you through the curriculum.

Benefit from the abundance of understanding and information that has resulted from the last two decades of research on trauma.

Develop greater resiliency, inner peace, healthier relationships, and more—for self-healing and working with others.

Explore the many types of trauma we encounter—intergenerational, personal, and collective.

Access over 30 hours of content—some live, some prerecorded—from the comfort and privacy of your personal space.

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.

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

Trimester 1 Trauma and the Body

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

Trimester 2 Relationships and Connecting with Others

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.