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Jan. 19
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Four two hour classes. Daily Schedule: 7-8am: optional yoga 7:30-9am: breakfast 10-noon: class hours 12:30-1:30pm: lunch 2-4pm: class hours 6-7:30pm: dinner 8-10pm: evening events
Find out more »Feb. 19
The Hungry Ghost: A Biospsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism
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...
Find out more »From Individual to Community: Changing the Narrative of Healing
Addiction in mainstream Western terms is seen as an individual problem, whether of “bad” behavior or of inherited disease. This approach separates the mind from the body and the individual from the environment. By contrast, traditional ...
Find out more »Mar. 19
Beyond Spiritual Bypass: Compassionate Inquiry Meets Kundalini
The program will feature Gabor’s unique therapeutic work and teaching, Compassionate Inquiry, joined by yoga practices led by a colleague and friend, highly experienced yoga teacher, Sat Dharam Kaur. We will explore emotional realities an...
Find out more »When The Body Says No: Mind/Body Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection / The Myth of Normal: Depression, Anxiety and Addictions from a New Perspective
Friday, 7pm-9pm: Conversation/interview about life & work (Register here for Friday conversation: https://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/public-programs-event-calendar/mate-gabor-convo-ss19) Saturday Workshop, 10am-5pm: When The Body Say...
Find out more »Walking Toward Hope
Join Gabor and Jenara Nerenberg in an intimate conversation on transforming personal and societal traumas in this challenging time. Hear first-hand stories from Gabor's own life, how he reconciles the hopes of his family and his life's work...
Find out more »In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Contrary to what is often claimed, the source of addictions is not to be found in genes, but in the early childhood environment where the neurobiology of the brain’s reward pathways develops and the where the emotional patterns that lead ...
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Overarching: The World Congress on Complex Trauma: Research, Interventions, and Innovations
Find out more »Apr. 19
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Find out more »Taming the Hungry Ghost: Trauma and Addiction / Forward Into the Past: Shamanism as Modern Healing
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 neit...
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This is a private event.
Find out more »Jun. 19
Fostering Resilience in a Stressed Culture / In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Fostering Resilience in a Stressed Culture: Many more children than in the past are diagnosed these days with various learning and behaviour difficulties and many have problems learning from negative experiences. Schools are also having to ...
Find out more »Returning to Ourselves: Trauma and Resilience
What is meant by trauma? Many people are not unwell enough to be hospitalised but continue to struggle at work, in relationships and socially. Clinical intervention is more likely to involve medication or limited therapies - but just what w...
Find out more »Jul. 19
Peer Orientation: Why Children are Stressed, Why Parents and Teachers Are Disempowered and How To Restore a Healthy Balance in Adult-Child Relationships / Fostering Resilience in a Stressed Culture
Opening keynote: Peer Orientation: Why Children are Stressed, Why Parents and Teachers are Disempowered and How To Restore a Healthy Balance in Adult-Child Relationships. Parenting and teaching are much harder these days than they used to b...
Find out more »Sep. 19
The Biology of Loss: What Happens When Attachments Are Impaired and How To Foster Resilience / Illness & Health in a Toxic Society
Plenary: The Biology of Loss: What Happens When Attachments Are Impaired and How To Foster Resilience Workshop: Illness & Health in a Toxic Society
Find out more »Oct. 19
Fostering Resilience in a Stressed Culture
8:30am-4:30pm
Find out more »The Hungry Ghost: A Biospsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism
9am - 4pm
Find out more »The Hungry Ghost: A Biospsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism
Private event at McGill University Overarching Topic: Compassion, Addiction and Culture Change
Find out more »Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and their Adult Children
Father-and-son Gabor and Daniel Maté lead this candid and probing inquiry into what it means to outgrow and transform past-based dynamics in adult parent-child relationships. The American teacher and author Ram Dass once said, "If you thin...
Find out more »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 cl...
Find out more »Nov. 19
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Find out more »Dec. 19
Peer Orientation: Why Children are Stressed, Why Parents and Teachers are Disempowered and How to Restore a Healthy Balance in Adult-Child Relationships
Parenting and teaching are much harder these days than they used to be, and than they should be. In Hold On To Your Kids, Dr. Gabor Maté (with developmental psychologist Gordon Neufeld) forward a provocative and important view of why this ...
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