Licia Sky, Sue Carter & Donna Van Vleet Goelz – Fostering Self Relationship, Embodied Awareness and the Neurobiology of Love and Healing

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Speaker: Licia Sky, BFA |  Sue Carter, PhD |  Dr. Donna Van Vleet Goelz, PhD

Duration: 6 Hours 24 Minutes

Format: Audio and Video

Copyright: May 01, 2024  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

Masters of trauma therapy, Stephen Porges, Donna Lea Goelz, Sue Carter, and Bessel van der Kolk share a lifetime of research and experience.  Attendees will learn the developmental history of trauma treatment and current standards of care.  Learn how to identify and manage the different effects of developmental, chronic and adult-onset trauma and develop useful models for intervention with each.  You will have an extensive opportunity to practice a rich variety of continuum therapy interventions, including both proven and cutting-edge techniques.

Speaker

Licia Sky, BFA

Licia Sky, BFA, is a Boston-based somatic educator, writer, artist, singer-songwriter, and bodyworker who works with traumatized individuals and trains mental health professionals to use mindful meditation for attunement, healing and connection.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Licia Sky receives compensation as an Intuitive Energy Bodyworker and a peer counselor. She is the co-founder and CEO of Trauma Research Foundation. Licia Sky receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Licia Sky has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Sue Carter, PhD

Sue Carter, PhD, is currently a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia and a Distinguished Research Scientist and Rudy Professor Emerita of Biology at Indiana University. She has held Professorships at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Maryland, College Park (where she was a Distinguished University Professor), and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Between 2014 and 2019 she was the executive director of the Kinsey Institute.

Dr. Carter’s research was integral to discovering the relationship between social behavior and oxytocin. Her current work in humans and other mammals examines the developmental and epigenetic consequences of oxytocin and the role of oxytocin pathways in selective sociality and the management of social isolation, stress and trauma. She was the first person to detect and define the endocrinology of social bonds through her research on the socially monogamous, prairie vole. These findings helped lay the foundation for ongoing studies of behavioral and developmental effects of oxytocin and vasopressin and a deeper appreciation for the biological importance of relationships and sociostasis in human health and wellbeing.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sue Carter has employment relationships with the University of Virginia and the Indiana University. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sue Carter has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Dr. Donna Van Vleet Goelz, PhD

Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz, has a PhD in clinical somatic psychology and is executive director of Continuum Movement®, founded by Emilie Conrad Da’oud. She is the founder and owner of Cobalt Moon Center, a center for integrative health and Somatics education in Neptune Beach, FL., where she has been teaching Tai Chi for the past 30 years. She has taught and been on the faculty of several different educational institutes: University of Florida, University of North Florida, Esalen Institute, Hollyhock Educational Institute, Kripalu, and The Open Center. Currently she is involved in research at the University of Florida and University of North Florida.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Donna Van Vleet Goelz has employment relationships with University of Florida, Modules of Continuum Movement, T’ai Chi Foundation and School of T’ai Chi Chuan, Hollyhock Retreat Center, Colbalt Moon Center, and the University of North Florida. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Donna Van Vleet Goelz has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Contrast the effects of developmental and adult-onset trauma and select appropriate therapeutic interventions.
2. Structure and implement three continuum movement therapeutic interventions.
3. Establish safe settings that facilitate trauma processing.
4. Evaluate the relative influence of oxytocin and vasopressin in defensive responses and attachment.
5. Respond supportively when clients reexperience threat responses.
6. Teach parenting strategies that foster secure attachment.
7. Assess and differentiate the symptoms of acute and chronic trauma.
8. Develop appropriate timing for sequencing continuum experiences into therapy.
9. Address the specific needs of clients who find engagement with continuum exercises challenging.

Outline

• Donna Lea Goelz
  • The path of somatics to healing
    • The role of the body and movement in trauma
    • The process of recovery
  • Research into the role of oxytocin and Tai Chi in PTSD treatment
    • Brief therapy outcomes
  • Fostering self connections
    • Embodied awareness
    • Movement and continuum
    • Awareness, sensations and emotions
  • Continuum movement as human inquiry
    • Pleasure and pain experiences
  • Utilizing the sound breath for elevation and relaxation
    • Cultural antecedents
    • Body as fluid entity rather than mechanism
  • “O” breathing exercise
    • Responses to engagement and inhibitory factors
    • Processing sensations effectively
  • Using baseline work in groups
    • Breath and sound – tuning into sensations
    • Empowerment in somatic understanding
  • Establishing safety for independent practice of exercises
    • Working with challenging populations
  • Cave breath exercise
    • Moving into open attention and awareness
• Dr. Sue Carter
  • The healing power of love: The Oxytocin Hypothesis
    • Overcoming fear, trauma, and stress through neurobiology
  • The biology of love, birth, and transformation
    • The evolution of oxytocin, social bonds, and attachment
  • Impact of social media and increased communication
  • Humans are a highly social species
    • The role of social bonds and lasting attachments
    • Basic principles of love and connection
  • Evolution and chemistry in human development
    • Oxygen as double-edged sword in survival – oxidation and inflammation
  • Necessity of attachment and communication for homeostasis
    • “Sociostasis” – mammalian coregulation
    • Social relationships can come in many forms
  • Time and context matter – when fear and pain are no longer adaptive
    • Overreaction to chronic threat is maladaptive and requires social healing
  • Oxytocin and ventral vagal circuitry
    • Social support and co-regulation across the lifespan
    • Stress buffer for both males and females
    • Chemical composition
  • Role of autonomic-peptide pathways
    • Differentiating the effects oxytocin and vasopressin
    • Differential reactions to traumatic stress
  • Disorders linked to oxytocin deficiency
    • Balancing inflammation and probiotic bacteria
  • Triggers for oxytocin release
• Bessel van der Kolk
  • Use of touch and movement in trauma therapy
    • Cultural influences in treatment orientation
  • Role of early experience in shaping neural networks and reality perception
    • Automatic and habitual response patterns
    • Still Face Paradigm experiment
    • Imprinting of negative self perception by abuse and trauma
  • EMDR demonstration
    • Somatic reliving of trauma
    • Alternate movement therapies
    • Efficacy research related to EMDR outcomes
  • Developmental trauma vs adult-onset trauma
    • Identity and organization influences
  • Darwin and function of emotion
    • Visceral activation and impact of failed soothing resources
  • Repression of frontal lobe function in threat situations
    • Limbic involvement in defense systems
  • Neurological activation of different systems by threat and trauma
    • Dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex and planning for action
    • Medial pre-frontal cortex and interoception
  • Neural networks
    • Risks of mindfulness approaches for trauma treatment
    • Relative usefulness of DBT and Yoga for brain-body integration
  • Restoring sense of self through somatic interventions
    • Reprogramming the habitual status of the default mode network
• Stephen Porges, Donna Lea Goelz and Anthony Gorry
  • Stealth meditation – floating on a visceral sea
    • Releasing hypervigilance
    • Polyvagal music
  • Using acoustic stimulation to signal safety to the nervous system
    • Facilitating oxytocin production
    • Endogenous neural regulation
  • Polyvagal music demonstration
    • Contrasting traditional music presentations
    • Addressing sound sensitivity
    • Effects of tempo modulation
    • Recommendations for implementation
  • Theoretical basis and future directions for polyvagal music therapy
  • Psychedelic use in trauma treatment and neurochemical effects

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Physicians
• Social Workers
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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