Healing Intergenerational Trauma: Opening to the Possibilities

Your client has a lot of symptoms of traumatic stress, and no history of trauma. Are the memories repressed? You’ve tried the evidence-based protocols for treating trauma and building resiliency, without clear cut or lasting change in the symptoms. Are they being resistant or manipulative? Could your client instead be carrying the embodied impacts of intergenerational trauma? Perhaps what’s needed is more than meeting benchmarks of cognition and behavior. Could we need a new paradigm for healing? Could we need a process more grounded in the restoration of wholeness, and harmony with nature?

This in-person workshop is an opportunity to experience a healing model that embraces the non-duality of mind and body and recognizes that our ancestral traumas are embodied in our present, and that our present moment flows rather seamlessly into the trajectory of our open future. If the stream of our life flows from past, present, and future, we can use the present moment to heal the ruptures and pain from the past to change the present, and hence a changed present changes the trajectory of our future.

In this workshop you will:
– Experience a new decolonized model of healing intergenerational
trauma and how to use this process to facilitate healing for your
clients
– Learn a process for the repair of the ancient soul wounds of ancestral
trauma
– Learn a process that integrates mind, body and essence, expressive
arts, imagery, and reflection, that is restorative and healing, builds
resiliency and diminishes shame
– Experience the power of recognizing and accepting the gifts of the
ancestors in shifting to a sense of self with increased value and
power

Facilitated by Anita Mandley (she/her) M.S., LCPC

Anita Mandley is an Integrative Psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience in the field of Mental Health. Anita’s specific areas of special interest and expertise is in working with adults who struggle to manage their moods and those who have had significant experiences of invalidation, including experiences of trauma, violence, abuse, and neglect. The complexity of such experiences necessitates complexity in treatment. Anita’s integrative perspective and treatment approach is based on her belief that you need to treat clients’ distress in the context of their whole self: i.e. body, brain, mind, and spirit. Anita uses the dynamic Collaborative Stage Model, developed by Mary Jo Barrett to organize treatment in a way that increases efficacy, while avoiding the treatment pitfalls of the extremes of chaos and rigidity. Anita leads the Center’s Adult Integrative Trauma Team and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Team. She also does training and consultation for groups and individual clinicians at the Center. She also presents workshops at agencies and in the community on topics such as: Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Post-traumatic Slavery Syndrome, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Cultural Diversity, among others.