2021 Trauma Conference Keynote Speakers
Karlen Lyons-Ruth, PhD
Presentation: Beyond Fight, Flight or Freeze: Threat of Abandonment and Its Developmental Consequences-A 30-Year Longitudinal Perspective
About: Professor of Psychology, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School. Director, Biobehavioral Family Studies Lab Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
Presentation: The Restoration of the Hijacked Self: Toward Embodiment and Connection
About: professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario; Canada, co-editor, The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic & Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience & Treatment.
Tania Singer, PhD
Presentation: Plasticity of the Social Brain: How to train Mindfulness, Compassion and Perspectives on the Self
About: Scientific head, Social Neuroscience Lab, Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the hormonal, neuronal, and developmental basis of human sociality, empathy and compassion, and their malleability through mental training. She is the principal investigator of a large-scale, nine-month longitudinal meditation based mental training study, The ReSource Project, and investigates how psychology can inform new models of Caring Economics.
Michael Mithoefer, MD
Presentation: The evolving science of the use of psychedelic substances in the treatment of PTSD
About: Clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. In 2009 he has completed the first FDA approved clinical trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment-resistant PTSD and is conducting a second study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy in military veterans, firefighters and police officers with PTSD.
Resmaa Menakem, MSW
Presentation: My Grandmother’s hands: Racialized Trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and Bodies
About: President, Justice Leadership Solutions. Author, My Grandmother’s hands, Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Rock the Boat: How to use Conflict to Heal and Deepen Relationships; and 101 Tips for Emerging Justice Leaders. He trains community activists, police, CEOs, healthcare professionals, educators, government and judicial leaders, etc how to do the embodied work to gain the cultural maturity to build community within themselves, their groups, organizations and movements.
Patricia Vickers, PhD
Presentation: Trauma treatment in Native American communities: a comprehensive approach to healing
About: Dr, Vickers belongs to the Eagle clan from the village of Gitxaala, British Columbia and carries two feast hall names from her village and from the Nuxalk in Bella Coola, British Columbia. With the help of neurofeedback she teaches spiritual transformation, healing trauma, awakening, forgiveness and unearthing layers to find the authentic self.
Frank Corrigan, MD, FRCPsych
Presentation: Shock and terror: tracking (down) their persistent clinical effects through Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
About: Independent psychiatrist in Scotland. Co-author, Neurobiology and treatment of traumatic dissociation and of The Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM): novel approaches to the healing of complex trauma. Developer, Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) as a therapeutic modality for the clinical sequelae of early attachment disruptions and for other post-traumatic presentations.
Deborah Korn, PsyD
Presentation: The Transformation of EMDR: From Technique to Comprehensive Psychotherapy
About: Private practice in Cambridge, MA, adjunct training faculty member at the Trauma Research Foundation; Faculty of the EMDR Institute for the past 28 years. Her new book about EMDR Therapy (co-authored with Michael Baldwin) is Every Memory Deserves Respect.
Tina Champagne, OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Presentation: Going Beyond Regulation: Exploring Sensory Integration & Processing and Implications in Developmental Trauma
About: CEO, Cutchins Programs for Children and Families. Professor for American International College’s Post Professional Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program. Vice President, MA Association for OT, Fellow. American Occupational Therapy Association. Author, Sensory modulation & environment: Essential elements of occupation (3rd Ed.).
Matthew Sanford
Presentation: The effects of trauma on the mind-body relationship in everyday life (posture, balance, self-awareness, sensory integration, giving and receiving)
About: Yoga teacher, founder, Mind Body Solutions, and a paraplegic for the last thirty-nine years. He is the author of Waking: a memoir of trauma and Transcendance. He teaches people around the US living with trauma, loss, and disability how to re-inhabit their bodies. www.mindbodysolutions.org
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Presentation: The Alchemy of Apology
About: Tony award winning playwright, performer and activist. Author, The Vagina Monologues, published in 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries, and of I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life Of Girls Around The World, In The Body of the World and The Apology. With women in Congo, V-Day opened City of Joy in Bukavu, Congo, a revolutionary center for survivors of gender violence.
