Peter Levine – Peter Levine PhD on Trauma, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

International trauma expert and author, Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. will teach you how sensation-based treatment (as opposed to emotional or rational-based treatment) can be effective for trauma treatment. He discusses the important principles in successful trauma treatment, and uses his own successful renegotiation of a personal traumatic event as an example.

Representing the full scope of his life’s work, Dr. Levine discusses the evolutionary underpinnings of trauma. This recording includes an in-depth review of how trauma is related to the ethnological concept of tonic immobility, as well as the roadmap of the Polyvagal system – a fascinating neurophysiological model for understanding how we shift between the states of fight-or-flight, shutdown, and social engagement. Dr. Levine provides simple containment tools to help you develop your awareness of these state changes in order to more effectively engage your client in trauma therapy.

Articulate the four major developmental stages that increase vulnerability to trauma and how to recognize them in your clients.
Determine the naturalistic mechanics of trauma and survival responses of flight, fight, freeze and collapse as it relates to clinical treatment.
Discover the evolutionary underpinnings of trauma and the Polyvagal theory and their clinical implications.
Demonstrate the importance of “Bottom-up” processing versus “Top Down” processing to improve treatment outcomes.
Summarize the process of how overwhelming stress leads to somatic and emotional syndromes in clients.
Incorporate Dr. Levine’s simple containment tools in order to more effectively engage your client in trauma therapy.
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Child Development: The Signs of Trauma in Each Developmental Period:

Pre-Natal
Hormonal interactions between mother and child
Birth Stress
Year One
Safety, affection and containment
Proprioceptive development
The Dopamine System
The space to explore one’s effect on the world
The formation of a self that is different from Mom and Dad
Testing boundaries
Age 3-5
The Biology and balance of shame
The importance of shame in society
The signs of overshaming
The signs of undershaming
The initial forays into sexuality
The importance of flirting
How these sames stages replay themselves out in later life
The Naturalistic Mechanisms of Trauma

Understanding our primary survival tactics and how they play out in the body: Flight, fight, freeze and collapse
500 million years of evolution: Our Polyvagal underpinnings
How the Dorsal Vagal System is related to shutdown and collapse
Fight or flight: Sympathetic/adrenal System mobilization, Returning to our Mammalian birthright: The Ventral vagal system and social engagement
How we get “stuck”
Tonic immobility – The fallback to freeze
Freeze couples with Fear
Dissociation
Bracing and terror
Euphoric dissociation
Collapse
Somatic and emotional – syndromes and complexes
Emotional – anxiety, depression
Somatic – chronic pain, fibromyalgia
Autonomic – migraines, irritable bowel
Resolving Traumatic Reactions

The importance of “Bottom-Up” processing
The Paul MacLean’s Triune Brain
In an Unspoken Voice
Somatic Experiencing©
Renegotiation vs. Reliving
Restoration of self-regulation
Trauma isn’t about the event, but the body’s inability to process and integrate the nervous system charge
The importance of developing a felt sense
The nine basic stages of trauma treatment
Containment of strong sensation and emotion
Pendulation – The dual opposites of sensation
Titration – going gradually
Completion
Renegotiation of active for passive responses
Simple exercises that you can use in your practice
Spirituality and Trauma

Trauma as one of the 4 avenues to enlightment
Lessons from the Kundalini
A feeling of “okayness”, wholeness and trust in the world
And other side effects of effective trauma treatment
The importance of maintaining balance in one’s life

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