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Becoming Trauma-Sensitive: Making Mindfulness and Meditation Safe for Trauma Survivors

  • Wednesday, September 11, 2019
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Webinar, Members $5/ Non-Members $19

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Becoming Trauma-Sensitive:

Making Mindfulness and Meditation Safe for Trauma Survivors 


Presented by David Treleaven, PhD

Wednesday, September 11th, 1pm EST, Time Zone Converter

Members - $5

Non-Members $19

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From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life: the majority of us will experience a traumatic event in our lifetime, and some will develop post-traumatic stress. While this may appear to be a good thing -- trauma is an extreme form of stress, and mindfulness is a proven stress-reduction tool -- the reality creates a complex challenge. 

Emerging research suggests that mindfulness interventions can help or hinder trauma survivors, raising a crucial question for mindfulness educators everywhere: How can you be prepared to minimize the potential dangers of mindfulness for survivors while leveraging its powerful benefits at the same time? 

Designed for wellness professionals, this webinar--led by author and trauma specialist, David Treleaven, PhD--will introduce you to the topic and begin to equip you with the tools you need to offer mindfulness in a safe, effective, trauma-sensitive way. 

You will leave the workshop: 

• Understanding why meditation can create dysregulation for people who’ve experienced trauma and specific ways you can prevent this; 

• Prepared to recognize symptoms of traumatic stress while offering mindfulness interventions; 

• Informed about current empirical research regarding mindfulness and trauma, including evidence-based interventions you can apply immediately to your work; 

• Equipped with tools and modifications to help you work skillfully with dysregulated arousal, traumatic flashbacks, and trauma-related dissociation. 

• Understanding the relationship between individual and systemic forms of trauma, including responsibilities to educate oneself about power, oppression, and social context. 

Whether you’re a beginning or veteran practitioner, anyone engaged in offering contemplative practices will benefit from this webinar, including therapists, coaches, and meditation, classroom, yoga, or religious teachers. 

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand why meditation can create dysregulation for people who’ve experienced trauma and specific ways you can prevent this; 

  2. Be able to recognize symptoms of traumatic stress while offering mindfulness interventions 

  3. Be equipped with tools and modifications to help one work skillfully with dysregulated arousal, traumatic flashbacks, and trauma-related dissociation 

David Treleaven, PhD, is an acclaimed author, educator, and trauma professional whose work focuses on the intersection of mindfulness and trauma.

Utilizing contemporary research to inform best practices, David has offered workshops on trauma-sensitive mindfulness at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, as well as keynote speeches at the Omega Institute in New York and the Institute for Mindfulness in South Africa in Johannesburg.

Trained in counseling psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, he received his doctorate in psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University. 


You can find him at https://davidtreleaven.com

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