Upcoming offerings

For decades, healing trauma was all about the head, and we have much to thank the traditional “talk therapy” for. More recently, the focus shifted to the body, and we have been blessed to have so many somatic (body-based) healing modalities available. Like in a “healing supermarket”, we can pick all sorts of breathwork, sound healing, immersions, hot and cold exposure, movement-based modalities, anger work/primal therapy, plant medicine and so on.

But this diversity hasn’t come without its challenges. We’ve learned (some the hard way) that without some fundamental knowledge of how it actually works, it is all too easy to get lost in the maze. At best, we can find ourselves jumping from workshop to workshop without much impact on our daily lives, bypassing the hard bits. And in some cases, we can let the genie out of the bottle and re-surface our traumas without adequate capacity, support, knowledge and resources to deal with them.

What’s even more exciting, is that now we’re at the new frontier of understanding and processing trauma. We’re learning, as Dr Lisa Feldman put it, that while the body is the scorecard, it is the brain that actually keeps the score. Turns out we need both the body AND the mind to heal safely and effectively.

Back due to popular demand and expanded, this hands-on intensive and interactive workshop packs years of practical hands-on somatic processing experience supported by the latest neuroscience, including the “prediction neurobiology” which sheds new light on the communication between the body and brain.

This workshop is for:

• Mental health and somatic practitioners who would like to deepen their knowledge and healing impact.
• People who have been doing “the work” for a while, but may be feeling lost, stuck, addicted to, traumatised or re-traumatised by it, or struggling to get results, integrate and embody.
• People who are starting to dabble into the somatic work and would like to know how to navigate it safely and effectively.
• People who would like to be better informed and resourced to get the most out of their trauma healing work.  

Packed with practical knowledge and ready-to-use tools, it will cover:

• Understanding of how predictions run by the brain affect behaviour and body state (including nervous system settings).
• Understanding of the brain’s natural update mechanism, and how we can harness it to process trauma.
• Deeper insight into the nervous system, psychosomatic capacity, emotions, trauma and shadow work.
• How to maximise the benefits, minimise the risks and avoid the traps of common somatic healing approaches, how to process emotions and create safety resource within your own body, and how to integrate and embody the experiences.
• A “trauma iceberg” framework which can be used as a blueprint to bring it all together.
• How to develop your own “roadmap” to map where you are now, reflect on where you’re headed (exploring the connection between trauma and purpose) and explore how you can get there, informed by the new insights from the workshop.

Plus, you will get to meet, connect with and learn from like-minded people.

Light and wholesome lunch is included, and a handout with key points, tools and resources will be provided.

Please also note that it is a mixed audience event, and while we’ll do our best to speak plain language, it might still be slightly on a geeky side :)

What to bring

• Water bottle;
• Journal or notepad;
• Comfortable clothes suitable for moving around;
• An additional layer or two to use if you get cold; and
• Anything you need for additional comfort (cushions, blankets etc).

About the facilitators

Sergey Volotovskiy

(Refer to this website :) 

Dr Tony Fitzgerald

Tony was awarded his PhD in Medical Physics in 1997. For the past 25+ years he has been working as an innovation scientist translating emerging science discoveries into valuable medical applications in Universities and Hospitals in Cambridge, London, Leeds, Brisbane and Perth. In that time he has authored dozens of scientific papers and developed 4 patents. 

He is now a proud and loving father of 2 gorgeous kids in Perth, with the mission to share the paradigm-shifting neuroscience of how our brain makes predictions to help professionals make a difference in mental well-being and human flourishing.

Find out more: https://predictingbetter.org/