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Trauma Skills Summit.
August 17–26 2020
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Trauma Skills Summit.
August 17–26 2020
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August 17–26 2020
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Day 3
Day 3 will be available Wednesday, August 19, 2020.
Transmuting Trauma and Oppression: Embracing Our Wholeselves
traci ishigo, MSW
Therapist, yoga and meditation teacher, organizer
Embracing our intersecting identities is essential in the ongoing process of trauma healing, especially for individuals with multiple marginalized experiences. As a queer, nonbinary therapist of color who actively engages in community organizing, traci ishigo will share personal anecdotes and discuss themes of how creative action, solidarity, and transformative justice can support a sense of wholeness, hope, and healing—particularly around trauma that is intergenerational and perpetuated by the state.
Session Highlights:
- Why an intersectional and systemic perspective matters in your process of finding healing, wholeness, and empowerment
- The risks of and threats to creating safety and trauma healing for individuals and communities with intersecting marginalized experiences
- A grounding meditation and creative reflection to invite remembrance and reconnection with your values, resourcefulness, and purpose
traci ishigo, MSW
traci ishigo is a politicized therapist, trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher, and creative community organizer. As a queer, nonbinary femme, survivor, Japanese American, Buddhist, and associate clinical social worker, ishigo is committed to deepening the sense of interconnectedness in healing and living with dignity. Her approach to intergenerational and intercommunal healing includes cofounding Vigilant Love, which creates spaces for connection and grassroots movements to protect the safety and justice of communities impacted by Islamophobia in the greater Los Angeles area. Through her private practice called Webs of Well-Being, ishigo provides individual and couples psychotherapy; trauma-informed yoga and meditation; and politicized, healing-centered consulting with community-based organizations. ishigo has completed 200-hour yoga teacher training, along with additional trauma-informed yoga trainings with Zabie Yamasaki and Hala Khouri, and she has shared trauma-informed yoga and meditation throughout various communities in Los Angeles. She earned a master’s in social work from the University of Southern California, where she specialized in studying adults, mental health, trauma, and wellness.
Relationship Trauma
Rob Fisher, MFT
Therapist, Hakomi trainer, professor, author
One of the most common causes of trauma is generated by issues in our intimate, family, friendship, and work relationships. Classical symptoms of PTSD—flashbacks, emotional flooding, rumination, sleep disturbances, and startle responses—are often present, intense, and inescapable. In this session, Rob Fisher explores the causes and effects of relationship trauma, along with practical tools for addressing the symptoms and underlying issues involved from a mindfulness-based, somatic perspective.
Session Highlights:
- Discovering the similarities between relationship trauma and PTSD
- Exploring the causes of relationship trauma, both developmentally and from shock
- Learning how to repair relationship ruptures that can lead to traumatic reactions
- Preventing relationship trauma by understanding the tender places in your own relationships
Rob Fisher, MFT
Rob Fisher is the author of Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples: A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist and a number of book chapters and articles published internationally on couples therapy and the psychodynamic use of mindfulness. He is also the founder of Mindfulness-Centered Couples Therapy. An advocate of the use of mindfulness and present experience in psychotherapy, he is an adjunct professor at JFK University. As the codeveloper of the Mindfulness and Compassion in Psychotherapy Certificate Program at California Institute of Integral Studies, he has brought together many of the leaders in the realms of mindfulness and psychotherapy in one of the only programs in the US that not only teaches the skills of psychotherapy but helps participants develop their internal state as well. He is a speaker at conferences and workshops around the country such as CAMFT, USABP, Psychotherapy Networker, the Couples Conference, and the Relationship Council where he presents as a peer, master, or keynote speaker. Teaching internationally, he is a Hakomi Mindfulness-Based Experiential Psychotherapy trainer and a director of the Hakomi Institute of California and the Hakomi Institute of China. For more information regarding his workshops and trainings, please visit robfishermft.com/workshops-and-trainings.
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Traci,
Your words of wisdom are so inspiring.
I related to you speaking of children that will suffer attachment trauma when separated from parents at boarders.
It brought tears to my eyes.
I suffer attachment trauma from my childhood.
It’s difficult to live life.
I’m wondering why this event does not invite Resmaa Menakem as one of the speakers? Because we need his wisdom on racial trauma at this current moment
Thank you feeling inspired and hopeful.
Thank you Traci, again, a very insightful message.
I’m deeply disturbed by the ‘ism’ emegence in these days.
I’m a female, white, 56 year old, survivor of 5 years of sexual abuse in childhood, immigrant to New Zealand, and have experienced first hand ‘isms’ that i would never believe existed.
I challenged my own beliefs and values and was shocked to reveal that there are deep rooted ‘isms’ in my being.
I’m motivated to explore their origins, and begin to unravel and challenge them both for me and my community.
I wish the speakers recognized indigenous people equally….