2nd Annual Conference on Trauma and Embodiment

The Conference on Trauma and Embodiment introduces participants to innovative, cutting edge, research-based applications of body-first interventions to understand and treat trauma in a wide variety of individuals and communities. Our keynote speeches are "Promoting Intersectional Disability Rights" by Ellice Patterson and "Strong in the Broken Places: Coping With Trauma, Addiction and Mental Health," and breakout sessions including: ReScripted: Theater-based Trauma Healing for Youth; Discipline and Healing: Boxing, Trauma, and Embodied Critique; Unraveling: Unlearning Trauma at Work + Re-imagining Generative Workplace Cultures; Embodied Eating; Healing a Traumatized Body through Expressive Flamenco©; Secondary Traumatic Stress and Professional Resilience; Rebuilding the House by Tending to the Harm: A Conversation To Heal Organizations; Trauma Informed Weight Lifting; Integrating Yoga Into Peer Support Groups for Survivors of Sexual Violence; The Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Studio of the Future: A Foundation for Person-Centered Psychospiritual Maturation; Community Healing Embodied, and Embodied Healing: Survivor and Facilitator voices from the practice of Trauma Sensitive Yoga.