Sep. 30. 21 – Oct. 3. 21

Discovering the Wisdom of Trauma

Join Dr. Gabor Maté for this 4-day participatory, interactive online workshop on understanding and healing trauma. Gabor will share decades of research and experience. He will guide us to discover the root cause of our trauma. We will begin building a relationship with it, so we can start to uncover the wisdom and reconnect to our true selves beneath the hurts and adaptations.

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Oct. 4. 21 – Oct. 10. 21

The Wisdom of Trauma movie broadcast

Join us for the second broadcast of The Wisdom of Trauma, a film about Gabor's life's work. He will be joining Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo, the film directors and producers, to introduce the film. It runs from October 4 - 10, 2021.

To register, and for more information: https://gabormate–sand.thrivecart.com/supporter/

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May. 14. 22 – May. 15. 22

The Tragic Tension Between Authenticity and Attachment / Compassionate Inquiry

Gabor will be presenting two sessions during the Harvest Kaplankaya event in Milas, Muğla, Turkey on May 14 and May 15, 2022.

May 14: The Tragic Tension Between Authenticity and Attachment:

Different points of view does not mean conflict. Disagreement doesn't mean conflict. We confuse ourselves with our point of view and feel threatened when there is an opposing point of view. How does it happen that we identify as our points of view? That identification is the loss of the authentic self,

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May. 16. 22 – May. 16. 22

The Wisdom of Trauma documentary screening

The film will be screened from 6:00pm - 7:30pm, with Dr. Maté providing a Q & A session from 7:45pm - 9:45pm.

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May. 18. 22 – May. 18. 22

The Wisdom of Trauma

A conversation between Gabor and The Wisdom of Trauma film's producers followed by a Q&A.

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May. 19. 22 – May. 19. 22

Compassionate Inquiry

Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic method developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world.

Using Compassionate Inquiry, the therapist unveils the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal.

Through Compassionate Inquiry, the client can recognize the unconscious dynamics that run their lives and how to liberate themsel

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May. 21. 22 – May. 21. 22

The Wisdom of Trauma film screening

Join Dr. Maté and the film producers, Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo, for a Q&A following the screening of the film.

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May. 25. 22 – May. 25. 22

The Wisdom of Trauma film screening

The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Gabor.

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May. 27. 22 – May. 27. 22

The Wisdom of Trauma film screening

The film will be screened, followed by a Q&A with Gabor.

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May. 28. 22 – May. 28. 22

Trauma Healing for World Peace

In this keynote Gabor Maté, physician and author, will discuss the interlocking and mutually reinforcing dynamics of trauma and war. That the latter causes trauma is self-evident; that trauma—individual and collective—can help fuel military conflict is less apparent but also essential to understand. On the most obvious level, people who have worked through their trauma can let go of their attachments to herd thinking and chauvinistic identifications and, as a result, are less likely to be m

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Jun. 13. 22 – Jun. 13. 22

Compassionate Inquiry

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Jun. 13. 22 – Jun. 13. 22

Trauma: A Path To Self-Realisation

Most of us aspire to live in states of peace, happiness and joy. When these states are challenged, people are ill-equipped to face the mental and emotional challenges that past trauma can awaken.

Western society in general looks at medicine as the answer and tends to treat mind and body as separate entities—a view that disregards the insights and teachings of ancient human wisdom. Paradoxically, such dualism also ignores the findings of modern science. The brain and body systems that proces

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Jun. 17. 22 – Jun. 17. 22

When The Body Says No: Mind/Body Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection

Based on the book When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (U.S. subtitle: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection)

Stress is ubiquitous these days — it plays a role in the workplace, in the home, and virtually everywhere that people interact. It can take a heavy toll unless it is recognized and managed effectively and insightfully.

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Jun. 24. 22 – Jun. 24. 22

The Hungry Ghost: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism

Based on the book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

For twelve years Dr. Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where he worked with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV, including at Vancouver Supervised Injection Site. In his most recent bestselling book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, he shows that their addictions do not represent a discrete set of medical disorde

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Jun. 25. 22 – Jun. 25. 22

When The Body Says No: Mind/Body Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection / Compassionte Inquiry

When The Body Says No: Mind/Body Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection
Based on the book When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
(U.S. subtitle: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection)

Stress is ubiquitous these days — it plays a role in the workplace, in the home, and virtually everywhere that people interact. It can take a heavy toll unless it is recognized and managed effectively and insightfully.

Western medicine, in theory and practice, tends to tr

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Jun. 26. 22 – Jun. 26. 22

The Biology of Loss: What Happens When Attachments Are Impaired and How to Foster Resilience

This presentation, based on the best-selling Scattered Minds, Hold on To Your Kids, and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, outlines the mental health implications of early childhood emotional loss, whether due to abuse in the family or simply of stress on the parents, on the subsequent loss of attunement with the child.

Childhood developmental disorders such as ADHD, ODD, and other mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, personality disorders, etc. can all be traced to either negative

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Sep. 11. 22 – Sep. 11. 22

Canadian Launch of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture

Join Gabor Maté for the September 11, 2022 Canadian launch of his next book: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture.

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Sep. 19. 22 – Sep. 19. 22

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture (book tour)

Commune presents a special day with Gabor Maté @ Commune Topanga in celebration of Dr. Maté's new release: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture.

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Sep. 22. 22 – Sep. 22. 22

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture (book tour)

In conversation with Nancy Burgoyne, PHD.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Sep. 26. 22 – Sep. 26. 22

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture (book tour)

Gabor's internationally bestselling books have altered perspectives on the way we look at addiction, and shifted conversations around stress, trauma, parenting and more. In perhaps his most ambitious and urgent book yet, The Myth of Normal, co-written with his son Daniel, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society, and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Uncover new pathways to wellbeing in what is sure to be an enlightening conv

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Beyond Trauma: Approaching Ourselves with Compassion

Name: Beyond Trauma: Approaching Ourselves with Compassion
Start: 2023-06-14T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-06-18T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Zen Rocks Mani

Jun. 14 @ 8:00 pm - Jun. 18 @ 8:00 pm

Dr. Maté will be presenting at the Zen Rocks Mani, Greece on June 14-18, 2023.

Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic method developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world.

Using Compassionate Inquiry, the therapist unveils the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal.

Through Compassionate Inquiry, the client can recognize the unconscious dynamics that run their lives and how to liberate themselves from them.

Dr. Maté will model the process of Compassionate Inquiry with course participants and instruct therapists in the practice of this powerful technique to help clients access deep healing and transformation. This will be both an experiential, participatory workshop where participants will be guided through their own personal process, as well as a training to teach the method of Compassionate Inquiry to health professionals, therapists and social workers.

Moving Beyond Trauma: Approaching ourselves with Self-Compassion

We can look at our distress or illness or affliction in two ways: as misfortunes of fate that be fall us for no reason, or as manifestations of something in our life that needs to be understood and responded to with insight and compassion.

The first approach may lead to resignation, passivity or desperate resistance.

The second opens the pathway to healing.

The word crisis comes from the Greek Krisis, which means turning point in a disease, a watershed moment which can lead to either healing or death. In many spiritual traditions, a crisis is seen as an opportunity to experience more of reality and of ourselves, to live more truthfully, to wake up and see the world with fresh eyes. What is the wisdom that shines through the cracks of this crisis?

At this retreat, we will create a safe space together where we can meet beyond right and wrong, challenge old beliefs and step into new ways of being.

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