"Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness": July '18 ACMHE webinar with David Treleaven
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024
- Originally broadcast on July 11, 2018.
Note: the live webcam image starts up at 23:55
Anywhere mindfulness is being practiced―including college classrooms―someone in the room is likely to be struggling with trauma: a majority of us will experience a traumatic event in our lifetime, and up to 20% of us will develop posttraumatic stress.
At first glance, this may appear to be an opportunity for healing, since trauma creates stress, and mindfulness is a proven stress-reduction tool. But the reality is not so simple. When practiced without an awareness of trauma, mindfulness practice can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. When instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner world, survivors can experience flashbacks, dissociation, and even retraumatization.
This raises a crucial question for mindfulness teachers, trauma professionals, and survivors everywhere: How can we minimize the potential dangers of mindfulness for survivors while leveraging its powerful benefits?
In the July ACMHE Contemplative Education webinar, educator and trauma professional David Treleaven will draw on a decade of research and clinical experience to discuss safe, transformative ways of teaching and practicing mindfulness with an awareness of trauma. David will review of the histories of mindfulness and trauma, including the way modern neuroscience is shaping our understanding of both, and explore case studies and examples illustrating the ways mindfulness can help―or hinder―trauma recovery.
Webinar participants will learn about modifications designed to support survivors’ safety and stability that can be applied to higher education settings. The result is a groundbreaking and practical approach for practicing mindfulness in a safe, transformative way.
About the Presenter
David TreleavemDavid Treleaven, PhD, is a writer, educator, and trauma professional whose work focuses on the intersection of mindfulness, trauma, and social justice. A visiting scholar at Brown University, he received his master’s in counseling psychology at the University of British Columbia and a doctorate in East-West psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. This year he’ll be offering workshops on trauma-sensitive mindfulness at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at UMass Medical School, Omega Institute’s Mindfulness and Education Conference, and Mindfulness Montreal in Canada.
Links mentioned in the video:
davidtreleaven.com
Tree of Contemplative Practices: www.contemplati...
Article on VCE Study: journals.plos.o...
Meditation Safety Toolkit: www.brown.edu/...
Zabie Yamasaki (Implementing trauma-informed yoga for sexual assault in higher ed programs): www.zabieyamasa...
About ACMHE Webinars
The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACMHE) is an initiative of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (CMind). The ACMHE’s free webinars allow you to view a live presentation online; you can listen to the presenter over your computer speakers, headphones, or VOIP headset, or by dialing in to the audio with your phone. Questions and comments may be submitted to the presenters during the webinar.
David, Thank you for your work and empathetic, compassionate clear thinking. In the US, we have huge sources of trauma associated with generations of war and soldiers exposed to experiences of combat, oppression of themselves and others, homelessness, and loss of tribe upon return home; and gun violence, both direct and indirect. Immigrants and POC of course usually are traumatized constantly, especially with the cultural wars going on now. You are very fortunate in Canada!
I truly loved this! As someone who works in this space (trauma-informed yoga, etc.) and is learning and growing, I this was thoughtful and I felt your authenticity in your delivery. Very timeless considering this was 2 years ago and everything that is happening in the world right now. Thank you!
24:19 Definition of Trauma Informed Care
28:48 Modifications
44:47 Definition of Trauma (DSM 4 + more)
55:22 Bummer. Attachment problems is where I'm at.
If I survive the Cancer I have now as a result of the Trauma that I am constantly put thru by certain people, "Free services" and Service Workers and paywalls in front of things I need in order to heal myself, I will use as much of this as I can to change the situation! If I have to earn a living doing it, then I will be sure to frame that inside of a disclosure process and offer a deserved apology to people who have no access and are thus dis-empowered. I must find a way to Internalize the risk/cost/etc. of the dis-empowered while offering a service. This is just part of the bottom line of Serving Others going forward into a Post-Capitalist Future. We should all seek this Way.
I feel like he didn't even really hear or clarify the question about attachment trauma.
great talk - wish i'd seen this sooner. many thanks.
Thank you so much for doing what you do...this has brought in so much clarity and hope 🙏🌼
Wonderful presentation! Would it be possible to post the links in the comments here?
@John
Your question is valid.
Unfortunately, the monitization of information privileges people who pay money, and those who don't pay money are - using this new word I've just learned - "Invisiblized". So, their lack of response *_is the response._*
I'm working on getting some of these links for my own benefit and I will gladly share them with you and whoever else who may not have any money. I'll post them in a second comment just in case it gets jammed in the spam filter.
@@DarkMoonDroid Oh, I'm sorry! Honestly, my lack of response was simply that I never saw an alert to John's original comment. Here are the links that I believe he's referring to? (These links are available on our website where this webinar was archived along with the 50+ others that we offer for free, & I just added them to the video description, too!). ~ Carrie @ CMind
- www.davidtreleaven.com
- Tree of Contemplative Practices
: www.contemplativemind.org/practices/tree
- Article on VCE Study: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176239
- Meditation Safety Toolkit: www.brown.edu/research/labs/britton/resources/meditation-safety-toolbox
- Zabie Yamasaki (Implementing trauma-informed yoga for sexual assault in higher ed programs): www.zabieyamasaki.com