Transforming Trauma: A Community Approach to Healing
10 - 12 Apr 2024
Belfast
Corrymeela and Starling Collective are excited to announce a 3–day series of collective transforming trauma events in partnership with Dr James S. Gordon and Centre for Mind Body Medicine: Transforming trauma: A Community Approach to Healing.
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Day one:
A Community Approach to Trauma
Join us for a 3–day series of collective transforming trauma events in partnership with Dr James S. Gordon and Centre for Mind Body Medicine
Date and time
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:30 – 15:00 BST
Location
Long Gallery, Stormont Parliament Buildings
Corrymeela in partnership with Starling Collective have been leading on a ground–breaking transforming trauma project, delivering trauma informed approaches to practice training to over 160 professionals, practitioners and volunteers. Together with a consortium of partners, ANAKA Collective, The Hummingbird Project, Place to Wonder, Counselling All Nations, L.O.R.A.G and Belfast Massage Project, we have supported over 2000 people within asylum and refugee communities in the midst of trauma, and adversity.
Building on the project momentum of the last two and half years we are excited to be joined by international trauma expert, speaker and author, Clinical professor, Dr. James S. Gordon, Founder and CEO of The Center for Mind–Body Medicine.
Join us for an inspiring day of celebration to end the Trauma Project, share lessons learned, lived experience, and models of practice with multiple communities and organisations, throughout NI and beyond.
Wed 10th April at Stormont: Register Now
Day two:
Transforming trauma: An international model in practice
Learn how to heal from trauma through practical techniques at our event “Transforming trauma: A model in practice”!
Date and time
Thursday, April 11 · 9am – 5pm GMT+1
Location
Mac Theatre, Belfast: The Factory
Corrymeela and Starling Collective are excited to announce the partnering with world–renowned trauma expert and author Dr James S Gordon, and Center for Mind–Body Medicine, an international organisation using scientific evidence–based trauma healing throughout different conflict zones worldwide.
Join us for an exciting and unique opportunity to participate in a collective transforming trauma workshop.
About this event:
The Center for Mind–Body Medicine introductory workshop will provide an overview of mind–body medicine and will include a grounding in the science that supports it and practical experience of several self–care techniques.
Attendees will learn how stress and trauma impact physical and psychological health. They will practice several evidence–based self–care skills to address and reduce their stress. And they will learn how to use these skills with their patients, clients, and students.
This workshop will include both didactic presentations and experiential learning as well as an overview of how this approach has been integrated into community programs.
Learning Objectives:
- Appraise the core biology/science of mind–body medicine, stress, and trauma, as well as the benefits of mind–body skills.
- Explain the basic neurophysiological underpinnings of meditation and mental imagery, as well as the potential utility of using these mind–body skills with others to improve health and well–being.
- Practice evidence–based mind–body skills (breathing, meditation, drawings and guided imagery) that reduce the adverse effects of stress and explore some of its causes.
- Develop a personalised approach to utilising mind–body skills to support collective well–being.
Early registration recommended
Thurs 11th April at the MAC: Register Now
Day three:
Transforming trauma: Science, lived experience and practice collaborate
Join us for a community–driven event focused on healing from trauma together.
Date and time
Friday, April 12 · 2 – 5pm GMT+1
Location
Queens University Belfast, Canada Room
‘Trauma, sooner or later, comes to all of us’ Dr. James S. Gordon
Together, more than ever, reimagining accessible, cross–cultural, trauma–informed frameworks of healing is critical to a vision whereby communities can live in safety, dignity, equity, and hope, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.
Over the last two and half years Corrymeela and Starling Collective, alongside a consortium of partners have supported over 2000 people from asylum and refugee communities, including delivering trauma–informed training for 160 practitioners working in the field.
International trauma expert, speaker, and author, Dr. James S. Gordon will speak about the work of the Center for Mind–Body Medicine, an international scientific and evidence–based trauma–informed model of healing that they have been implementing throughout different conflict zones worldwide.
Join us for an afternoon of discussion exploring when science, lived experience and practice collaborate and listen together.
Guest speakers:
Dr. James S Gordon – The Center for Mind–Body Medicine
James S. Gordon, MD, a Harvard–educated psychiatrist, and a pioneer of mind–body medicine and integrative medicine, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Center for Mind–Body Medicine. He is a clinical professor at Georgetown Medical School and was chair of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (under Presidents Clinton and G.W. Bush). He is the author, most recently, of Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing.
Siphiwe Moyo, B.A Hons, M.A.– Empower IE
Siphiwe is currently employed by Empower IE, as a Community Development Worker supporting Refugees and International Protection Applicants, and is a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Advisory Board member.
Siphiwe is advocating for policy change and establishing an anti–racist network within the Republic of Ireland and beyond.
Holds a BA Hons in Community and Youth Work, and a Master of Arts in Refugee Integration
Denise Bradley, BSc Hons (1st) Psych. Trauma, LLM – Corrymeela
Denise has over 25 years of leadership, management, and practitioner experience in Northern Ireland’s community and statutory sectors working with trauma and healing within marginalised populations, including female survivors of domestic and sexual violence, gender–based violence, displacement, and conflict.
Denise is an accredited trauma–informed practitioner, and Programme Manager for Marginalisation at Corrymeela, and since joining the staff team has been leading in the development of implementing trauma–informed approaches as a critical peacebuilding mechanism, both regionally and beyond.
Fri 12th April at Queens: Register Now
