Sep. 30. 21 – Oct. 3. 21
Oct. 4. 21 – Oct. 10. 21
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May. 14 – May. 15
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,
May. 16 – May. 16
May. 18 – May. 18
May. 19 – May. 19
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
May. 21 – May. 21
May. 25 – May. 25
May. 27 – May. 27
May. 28 – May. 28
Jun. 13 – Jun. 13
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
Jun. 13 – Jun. 13
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
Jun. 17 – Jun. 17
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.
Jun. 24 – Jun. 24
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
Jun. 25 – Jun. 25
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
Jun. 26 – Jun. 26
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
Oct. 16 – Oct. 17
Based on The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, the title of Dr. Maté's next book, being released September 13, 2022 and available for pre-order now.
Half of North American adults suffer from chronic illness - a fact Western medicine views largely in terms of individual predispositions and habits.
Western medicine imposes two separations, neither tenable scientifically. First, it separates m
Feb. 5. 23 – Feb. 11. 23
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Taming the Hungry Ghost: Trauma and Addiction / Science Meets Shamanism: Psychedelic Modalities in the Light of Modern Research
Apr. 15. 19
Plenary: 9am – 10am – Taming the Hungry Ghost: Trauma and Addiction
Q&A: 12pm – 12:30pm
Workshop: 3pm – 5:00pm – Forward Into the Past: Shamanism as Modern Healing
Taming the Hungry Ghost: Trauma and Addiction
Addiction is neither a choice, as the legal system presents it, nor an inherited disease of the brain, as the mainstream medical perspective has it. It is a complex psycho-physiological response to trauma, as the latter affects brain- and personality development. Fundamentally, it is a doomed attempt at self-regulation. Treatment needs to address the healing of trauma, and not focus exclusively on the
behaviors—substance use or not—related to addiction. Take home pearls will focus on the understanding interpersonal neurobiology in the causation of trauma and the essential importance of the therapeutic relationship as the basis of healing.
Science Meets Shamanism: Psychedelic Modalities in the Light of Modern Research
Shamanic modalities have been used in traditional cultures for hundreds of years and are now increasingly popularized in the industrialized advanced countries as well. Today, there is also great interest and study of the use of man-made psychedelics substances in healing. The principles on which such modalities are based have now been validated by Western scientific approaches such as psychoneuroimmunology and interpersonal neurobiology. While no panacea, shamanic and psychedelic treatments can offer an important and, frequently, transformative, approach to treatment. Clinical pearls here will emerge from the interactive portion of this workshop and include understanding the difference between various shamanic modalities for various clinical conditions.