Healing Trauma: An experiential and expressive online training workshop based on right-brain practices.

‘Trauma is located in the part of our brain that has no words’ (Van der Kolk, September 2020). 

Trauma is carried in the body and can leave a deficit in the left part of the brain which is responsible for speech. This explains why traumatic flashbacks can leave us speechless. The intentions of this workshop are inspired by the work of Bessel van der Kolk ‘The Body Keeps the Score’ (2014), who has highlighted the evidence-based, crucial role of right-brain interventions in the healing of trauma. Van der Kolk explains why left -brain-based therapeutic interventions that rely heavily on cognition and words can be limiting.

The right brain is emotional and spatial. Therefore, expressive therapeutic approaches that activate the use and expression of the senses in the here and now can be highly therapeutic. In this workshop, we will have the opportunity to practice specific right-brain inspired therapeutic interventions that support the healing of trauma. These include practices based on embodiment, body awareness (somatic practice), mindfulness, movement, expressive art, sound, visualisation, metaphors, enactment/role-playing.

Looking forward to our co-constructed right-brain space.

Nature of Group: Open to Various Practitioners including psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists, care-workers, psychiatrists, counsellors, guidance teachers, youth workers and more.

Maximum number: 24 practitioners

Location: Online Zoom (Participants who do not have zoom can still participate once they download the zoom app from a link I will be emailing you).

Fee: 80€; 70€ Early bird fee if you pay by 5th December 2020

Payment Options:

Payment on Revolut or Mobile Banking: 00356 99447307

Paypal: elainemarygrech@gmail.com

Online Bank Transfer

SWIFT Code: VALLMTMT IBAN:   MT60VALL22013000000040013125068

Booking Procedure

If you would like to book:

1.Text me on 0035699447307 or email me on elainemarygrech@gmail.com to confirm availability.

2. Be familiar with how to enter a zoom session through the invitation link I will email you.

3. Email me including the following information: Name, Mobile, email I will send you zoom invite on, Payment   Details (amount and where money was sent). Kindly write your name, email address and date of the workshop as part payment details. And please let me know the payment was sent.

4. Participants will be receiving a receipt of payment on the email provided and will receive a certificate of attendance after completing the workshop.