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Trauma Skills Summit.
August 17–26 2020
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August 17–26 2020
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Day 5
Day 5 will be available Friday, August 21, 2020.
Transforming the Six Disguises of Rage
Ruth King
Author and Founder of Mindful of Race Institute, LLC
Rage sits at the crossroads of personal transformation. Those of us seeking spiritual enlightenment will inevitably stumble upon rage along the path. Rage is not to be understood as a useless emotion, empty of insight. Rather, rage is fierce clarity and untapped fuel. It is the descendant of traumas, the twin of shame, the burden of denied history, the language of emotional pain, and the wisdom that helps us heal. When we push rage away, we can’t transform it. Embraced with mindful attention and compassion, the energy trapped in rage becomes an intimate and empathic teacher of stability and integrity, greatly enhancing our relationships and our service.
Session Highlights:
- Exploring how we distinguish rage from anger
- Discovering the six disguises of rage, the reasons we wear them, and the wisdom behind them
- Learning mindful practices for befriending the energies of rage
- Establishing an aspiration that ripens emotional maturity for personal and social well-being
Ruth King
Ruth King is an international teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition, serving on the Teacher’s Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. King formally managed training and organizational development at Levi Strauss and Intel corporations, consulting to leaders on cultural change initiatives. Currently, King teaches the Mindful of Race Training Program nationwide to teams and organizations, combining mindfulness principles with an exploration of our racial conditioning, its impact, and our potential. King has a master’s degree in clinical psychology and is the author of several publications, including Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible and her most recent book, Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out. For more, visit ruthking.net.
Body, Brain, Breath, and Trauma: How Yoga Can Help
Ashley Turner, LMFT
Licensed therapist, yoga and meditation instructor
This session is for anyone who wants to gain a working knowledge of the basic neuroscience of trauma, including some of the latest scientific research. Yoga and breath work are powerful tools when it comes to working with trauma—and the benefits become even clearer when we look at the neurobiology of our experiences. Join Ashley Turner to dive into a deeper understanding of the body-brain-breath connection in this fascinating presentation.
Session Highlights:
- Understanding the basics of neuroscience and trauma, the physiology of stress, and more
- Exploring the science of trauma-informed yoga—including how yoga soothes the HPA axis, increases GABA, affects the amygdala, and more
- Best practices for incorporating yoga, meditation, and breath work into both clinical interventions and personal treatment
- A coherent breathing and compassion meditation
Ashley Turner, LMFT
Ashley Turner is a yoga-meditation expert, licensed psychotherapist, writer, facilitator, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Yoga.Psyche.Soul.™ (YPS), an innovative yoga psychology training for teachers, clinicians, and dedicated students, which fuses yoga, mindfulness, depth psychology, shadow work, and neuroscience. YPS has fast become the go-to resource for evidence-based yoga and meditation for mental health. Turner has graced such lists as 100 Women in Wellness to Watch from mindbodygreen, 100 Most Influential Yoga Teachers in the US from Sonima, and the Top 100 Psychotherapy Blogs from Feedspot. Turner is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and presenter at conferences and events worldwide. Her mission is to integrate yoga and meditation into the mainstream health care and education systems by training highly skilled professionals and helping them build fulfilling, highly profitable businesses. Through cutting-edge online courses and live trainings, Turner has built YPS into a world-class, scientifically grounded, and soulful yoga therapy training. Learn more at ashleyturner.co and yoga-psychology.co.
Leadership in Challenging Times
Monica Sharma, MD
Physician and epidemiologist
A 20-year veteran of the United Nations, Dr. Monica Sharma is an international expert on leadership for sustainable and equitable development. Her approach, Radical Transformational Leadership, which is established worldwide, teaches us to source our inner capacities to manifest change—change that embodies the universal values of dignity, compassion, and fairness. In this session, Dr. Sharma explores how we can simultaneously transform unworkable systems and cultural norms as we solve problems in equitable and enduring ways.
Session Highlights:
- Discovering how Radical Transformational Leadership can help us address trauma as we build resilience
- Recognizing our innate inner capacity as a foundation for strategic action in the world
- Understanding the interdependence of systems and cultural norms within the context of healing and resilience
- Becoming empowered to take action for preventing trauma, engaging healing, and building resilience
Monica Sharma, MD
Dr. Monica Sharma is trained as a physician and epidemiologist, and she worked for the United Nations from 1988 to 2010. As director of Leadership and Capacity Development at the United Nations and in other large-scale programs (UNDP and UNICEF), she designed programs for whole-systems transformation and leadership development worldwide. Currently, as an international practitioner and expert on leadership development for equitable and sustainable change, she works with the United Nations, universities, management institutions, governments, nongovernmental organizations, business, media, and other organizations. Dr. Sharma has designed and directed large programs globally and lived and worked extensively in both developing and developed countries. She has led teams for policy formulation, strategic direction, and program development in 60 countries, building multistakeholder partnerships with governments, media, civil society, and business. Her unique approach has generated equitable and sustainable results worldwide. She is the author of the book Radical Transformational Leadership, which shows how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values of dignity, compassion, and fairness, and that simultaneously transforms unworkable systems and norms in order to solve problems.
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Sorry I forgot to reference my comment above to Dr Monica Sharma’s presentation “Leadership In Challenging Times”. Thank you Dr Sharma!
Found rage skills very good especially the part on the breath. I had a spitting head after the rage skills but it went in seconds.
Very thought provoking talk, thank you! I appreciate you framing the possibility of change in the context of different cultures coming together. I believe that so often we encounter intense emotions when we talk about these different cultures, histories and experiences that people bring to the table, especially when they have to do with. oppression, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia. etc, There is usually trauma that shapes the interaction and conversation, and one person’s trauma can trigger the other person’s trauma. Citizens and even more importantly LEADERS can benefit from self reflection, understanding oneself, one’s culture, self compassion and empathy.
I like the exercise in self reflection and questioning of what it is that is most important to us, what we care about, what we are working towards, and understanding how our trauma history may shape what we care about. I see many leaders who appear to need control others perhaps to make the world safer for themselves and others but their style of leadership can be alienating or polarizing. So a question I think that is important to reflect upon is how do we want to go about promoting the things that we care about while preserving connection vs disconnection and increased polarization ?
Thank you Ruth for the discussion of the wisdom under our disguises. I have heard for years about the wisdom in our neuroses and never understood it. Of course the wisdom under the disguise that I most identify with still doesn’t make much sense to me, but now I have something to work with. Thank you also for the meditation.
Many thanks Ruth. Your wise insights into rage and its profound significant was very helpful. And your guided mindfulness was a lovely blessing.