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Meditation—A Healing Response To Trauma
An online course with descriptions of how, and why, meditation helps heal trauma. All are invited to explore this healing journey.
This course is for anyone who wants to learn how meditation can help heal trauma.
When you bring together trauma survivors, staff who work with traumatized people, neuroscientists, a neuro-psychiatrist, a Benedictine priest, and more, you get a well-rounded view of how and why meditation can heal trauma, in the body, mind, and spirit.
I highly recommend this course not only to survivors of manmade trauma, interpersonal violence, and to refugees, but also to everyone who has been, or is working with,
trauma survivors. The faculty are world-renowned, and the presentations are top quality.
Dr. Omar Reda
MD, Libyan-born Psychiatrist
What you will discover in this course:
Overview
Scope of the Course and Why Trauma?
From first-hand accounts of how meditation has been beneficial for individuals recovering from trauma to neuroscience on healing the human brain and how individuals can approach it, this course offers robust teaching on how meditation can assist healing from trauma.
We focus on trauma because it is all too present across our planet, prompting many experts to call it a public-health crisis.
Introduction
Course Format and a Contemplative Approach
The course offers two sections:
- The Art and Science of Meditation As a Healing Response
- Developing a Meditation Support Group for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Each section begins with a brief opening talk and meditation, then a first-hand account of how meditation helped the speaker heal from their trauma. Afterward are the presenters for that section, followed by responses and some questions.
Our suggested, contemplative approach to the material is also described here.
Section One
The Art and Science of Meditation As a Healing Response
Section One has these lessons:
- Introductory Meditation: Fr Laurence Freeman
- My Experience With Meditation: Ashok Gurung
- How Meditation Is A Healing Response To Trauma: Fr. Laurence Freeman
- Meditation and Attachment: Dr Gregory Fricchione
- Meditation and Empathy: Dr Richard Mollica
- Response to the Previous Presentations: Dr Omar Reda
- Response to the Previous Presentations: The Rev. Jerry Streets
- Response to the Previous Presentations: Celia VanDeGraaf
- Closing: Fr Laurence Freeman
Each lesson has reflection questions you are invited to respond to, which will help you process the material and take it to a deeper level.
Section Two
Developing a Meditation Support Group for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Section Two has these lessons:
- Overview and Short Meditation: Fr Laurence Freeman
- How Meditation Has Been Helpful to Her: Odile Boekwa
- Implementation of Two Trauma-Centered Meditation Groups: Marie Carlson
- Principles and Practice of Trauma-Informed Meditation: Tim Kelly
- Sharing Trauma-Centred Meditation with Asylum Seekers: Ailsa Adamson
- Preparing the Body for Meditation: Giovanni Felicioni
- Response to the Previous Talks: Radhika Khara
- Response to the Previous Talks: Dr Robert Marlin
- Response to Robert Marlin: Tim Kelly and Ailsa Adamson
- Response to the Previous Talks: Terry Doyle
- Responses to Terry Doyle: Giovanni Felicioni and Tim Kelly
- Follow-On Questions Part 1
- Follow-On Questions Parts 2 & 3
- Closing: Fr Laurence Freeman
Each lesson has reflection questions you are invited to respond to, which will help you process the material and take it to a deeper level.
Conclusion
Where To From Here
In our Conclusion you are invited to review the course material, especially those portions that were most valuable to you. Suggestions are also made for how you can carry this course with you as you continue your spiritual journey.
This course with its content and experiential programs of applying meditational practices is invaluable and important. The course is needed because as a society and world we need not only to survive, cope with the anxieties of daily living but to focus on human thriving.
Dr. Frederick (Jerry) Streets
Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Yale Divinity School
This course is not just another educational resource among many but is a very practical toolkit that will be extremely helpful as you walk with traumatized individuals, families, and communities on a journey towards healing.
The course is also extremely helpful for caregivers who are commonly wounded healers themselves, it reminds them to nurse their own wounds while caring for others.
Dr. Omar Reda
MD, Libyan-born Psychiatrist
What’s Included with the Course:
PEER DISCUSSION GROUPS
Expand your perspective by engaging in peer discussions around learning objectives, or start your own topic.
SEARCHABLE GLOBAL NETWORK
Search our global network of meditators and find local groups to support you in your spiritual journey.
RESOURCE LIBRARY
Get access to our vast and ever-growing resource library to supplement your practice at every stage.