Transform your trauma through art...
Transcending Trauma
ON DEMAND
This course offers
the unique opportunity to learn:
This course offers clinical examples and various suggestions for how to use the arts, imagination, and spirituality to support sufferers of trauma.
According to Freud, dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.
Trauma can easily evoke intense feelings that are difficult to speak about. The arts are extremely useful for approaching hard topics. They add possibilities for embodied healing, aesthetic value, and needed emotional distance. They soften taboo topics in ways that direct discussion cannot.
Modern researchers suggest the unconscious contains a wellspring of early memories, both verbal and nonverbal, which we can access and rework. A creative state of mind, dreaming provides portals into previously untapped wisdom.
We draw upon various modalities, including dreamwork, improvisation, theater, visual arts, I-Thou presence, fractal interconnection, and other spiritual techniques.
Join us to discover the value of art, creativity and embodied dreamwork for addressing trauma and empowering the self.
Yoga Philosophy
Participants in this course will learn how to:
COURSE INCLUDES:
4 On Demand Lectures
Recorded Q&As
Course Readings
Supportive Practices
Three Bonus Workshops
Visual Aids
COURSE OUTLINE
MODULE 1:
TRANSFORMING TRAUMA THROUGH ART
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Historically, the arts may have evolved from the healing and growth-promoting elements of the mother/child relationship. Psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott believed the origin of self, symbol, and culture came from the transitional space between mother and baby. The arts are inherently transformational, not only for the artist but also for the viewer. They introduce universal problems, helping us to feel less alone and isolated with our traumas. As we identify with an image in a painting or a character on stage, we gain the aesthetic distance to address the unspeakable and ponder possible solutions. This module explores the use of theater, film, coloring books, graphic novels, and art creation and exhibition for addressing trauma.
MODULE 2:
USING DREAMWORK TO ADDRESS CONFLICT
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According to Freud, dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. Modern researchers suggest the unconscious contains a wellspring of early memories, both verbal and nonverbal, which we can access and rework. A creative state of mind, dreaming provides portals into previously untapped wisdom. We consolidate memory and learning and form novel associations and connections, often leading to breakthroughs and “aha moments.” This module presents an innovative form of dreamwork called “Embodied Imagination,” which is useful not only for sufferers of trauma but also for anyone wishing to expand creatively. We demonstrate the technique itself through a video presentation and provide enough specifics for experimenting yourself, whether inside or outside of psychotherapy.
MODULE 3:
THE HEALING POWER OF METAPHOR & POETRY
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The foundation of imagination is metaphor. Metaphor helps develop empathy by playing with similarities and differences between self and other. Metaphor lends flexibility to distinguish past from present, helping people emerge from trauma. Metaphor reframes current circumstances and facilitates discovery of novel solutions. Daniel Stern suggested that central metaphors lie at the heart of every clinical case, where they not only reveal core problems, but also pathways toward solutions. Poetry formalizes metaphor to soften mental pain, develop emotional regulation, promote self-reflection, aid in mourning, and accept disavowed aspects of self. This module gives numerous case examples of how to use metaphor and poetry as healing tools.
MODULE 4:
TRANSCENDENCE & SPIRITUALITY
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This module concentrates on cultivating relationships and spiritual practices to honor one another and provide sacred spaces, rituals, and support for trauma sufferers. Trauma often emerges from the I-It mentality of using people as instruments. We contrast Martin Buber’s notion of I-Thou relationships with the I-It relationships of the marketplace. We introduce the creation of alters and breath practices from yogic traditions. We introduce an organic fractal framework of full interconnection and interpenetration where boundaries are blurred: I am in you, and you are in me. Meanwhile, the universe is full of uncanny resonances and unconscious communications between people.
Leanne Domash, PhD is a psychologist/psychoanalyst, playwright and Embodied Imagination practitioner. She has had a life-long interest in the creative process and has written and/or presented nationally and internationally on art, architecture, writing, wit and humor, theater, and spirituality as they intersect with the psychotherapeutic process. She recently published “Imagination, Creativity and Spirituality: Welcome to Wonderland” (Routledge, 2021). Leanne is Clinical Consultant, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Voluntary Psychologist, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, NY, NY; and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, NY.
Leanne Domash
Terry Marks-Tarlow
Terry Marks-Tarlow, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Monica, California. She is adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute and at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Terry conducts workshops and trainings nationally and internationally in clinical intuition, creativity, interpersonal neurobiology and nonlinear science. She is a prolific author and editor, including Mythic Imagination Today (Brill, 2021) and A Fractal Epistemology for a Scientific Psychology (Cambridge Scholars, 2020). She illustrates her own books, co-curates a yearly psychotherapist art exhibition, “Mirrors of the Mind: The Psychotherapist as Artist”, and attempts to maintain balance in life with piano, ballet, and yoga.
Three Bonus Workshops Available for a Limited Time...
We will learn how symptoms of imbalance such as addiction and eating disorders offer information about deeper patterns that can be responses to unrecognized trauma. We will explore how the methods of Depth Hypnosis follow symptoms somatically to their root causes – and learn how the catalytic processes in this model offer resolution of the symptoms by changing people’s relationship to them at their root.
In this seminar, we will use Continuum Movement’s Essential Elements of breath, sound, and movement to help alleviate the fixations and compensatory patterns that have become locked down in the tissue of our body because of trauma and stress. By engaging with breath and sound, we can stimulate a wide spectrum of sensations, and responses that allows us to return to our body relaxed, resonating as a fluid, vital whole.
Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Theory, Philosophy & Practice
Living with Trauma
Working with Polyvagal Interventions
The Symptom is the Teacher
with Isa Gucciardi
In this session, explore a foundational theory in trauma recovery and discover how yoga can respond to the needs of trauma survivors in studios, clinics, hospitals, and beyond. You’ll learn some of the different types of trauma, and common ways trauma manifests in the mind and body.
Living
with
Trauma
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