Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness
An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Richard Schwartz and Peter A. Levine, PhD, and hosted by Dr. Scott Lyons
MAY 22ND, 2024 FROM 2-3PM ET (U.S. Eastern Time)
This free, online conversation can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings. All class times are posted in U.S. Eastern Time / New York time zone.
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ABOUT THE EVENT
Join Richard C. Schwartz, PhD founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and author of No Bad Parts, and Peter A. Levine, PhD the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), with Dr. Scott Lyons, author of Addicted to Drama and founder of The Embody Lab, in this intimate online conversation to explore the power of somatics and Parts Work to release the burdens of trauma and restore wholeness!
The Internal Family Systems (Parts Work) model is a non-pathologizing framework that instils hope and the power to release the burdens of trauma. It is both a gentle, yet powerful, healing system that trusts and empowers the Compassionate Self.
At its heart, Parts Work (IFS) holds that every individual possesses an intact core Self, resilient to the impact of traumatic events.
Healing, according to Parts Work, becomes a process of liberating individuals from the constraints imposed by reactive and defensive "parts" of themselves. These parts, though originally attempting to help or protect, often exacerbate problems.
Dr. Schwartz observed that when these parts felt safe and could relax, individuals would naturally embody qualities of confidence, openness, and compassion, which he termed the Self.
Somatic Experiencing (SE™), developed by Peter A. Levine PhD aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, SE helps us release, recover, and become more resilient.
“The more we can learn to recognize and honor all of our parts, the more we can find inner peace and balance.”
— Dr. Richard Schwartz
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
In this 60-minute FREE online conversation with Peter A. Levine, PhD the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), Richard Schwartz, PhD, the founder of Internal Family Systems Therapy (Parts Work) and facilitated by Dr Scott Lyons, we’ll explore:
Exploring your parts and their relationship with trauma
Learn to notice from where in their body their inner critics seem to be broadcasting and understand the process that facilitates a compassionate relationship between these parts.
Parts Work as radical self-compassion. How to build compassion for all parts — even the parts that cause challenges or stand in the way of giving and receiving love fully.
Somatic tools to enhance resilience
Techniques to access the state of Self to facilitate healing.
Tips to keep grounded and openhearted in the face of the intense provocations and challenges of modern life.
How to establish safety and nurturing Self-to-Self connections in individuals, couples, and families
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn directly from Richard Schwartz, PhD and Peter A. Levine, PhD - the founders of these transformational approaches to healing trauma!
“How can we, with all the intense provocations to which we’re subjected day in and day out, keep ourselves firmly grounded and openhearted? To do this, we have to be able to tap into something at the core of our being.”
— Dr. Richard Schwartz
ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUESTS & HOST
Dr. Richard Schwartz
SPECIAL GUEST
Dr. Richard Schwartz began his career as a family therapist and an academic at the University of Illinois at Chicago. There he discovered that family therapy alone did not achieve full symptom relief and in asking patients why, he learned that they were plagued by what they called “parts.” These patients became his teachers as they described how their parts formed networks of inner relationship that resembled the families he had been working with. He also found that as they focused on and, thereby, separated from their parts, they would shift into a state characterized by qualities like curiosity, calm, confidence and compassion. He called that inner essence the Self and was amazed to find it even in severely diagnosed and traumatized patients. From these explorations the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model was born in the early 1980s.
In 2013 Schwartz left the Chicago area and now lives in Brookline, MA where he is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Peter A. Levine, PhD
SPECIAL GUEST
Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing® International.
Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received multiple Lifetime Achievement awards, including from Psychotherapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. His work has been taught to over 50,000 practitioners in over 42 countries. He is currently a Senior Fellow and consultant at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona, and continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally. To learn more visit somaticexperiencing.com.
Dr. Scott Lyons
OUR HOST
Dr. Scott Lyons is a licensed holistic psychologist, educator and author of the book Addicted to Drama: Healing Dependency on Crisis and Chaos in Yourself and Others, with Hachette publishing. As a renowned body-based trauma expert, Doctor of Osteopathy (Spain) and Mind-Body Medicine specialist, Scott helps people to break free from cycles of pain, limited beliefs, and trauma. Scott is an innovator in transformative wellness and trauma therapy, teaching over half a million people internationally over the past twenty years how to relieve stress and restore vitality. Scott has worked with many of the country’s top leaders and CEOs as an executive coach and wellness consultant.
Scott is the creator of The Embody Lab—the largest online learning platform for body-based trauma therapies—and developer of Somatic Stress Release™, a holistic process of restoring biological resilience, taught in over 20 countries. Scott is also the founder and progressive designer of Omala, a wellness brand dedicated to creating sustainably sourced tools for transformation.
Scott is a Certified Body-Mind Centering™ Teacher and Practitioner, Cranio-Sacral Therapist, Visceral Manipulation Therapist, Neuro-Developmental Therapist, Infant Developmental Movement Educator, Registered Movement Therapist and Educator, Trauma Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Thai Massage Practitioner, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Mindfulness-based Executive Coach, Experiential Anatomy/ Developmental Movement and Yoga Practitioner, and a 500-hour registered yoga teacher. Additionally Scott holds a BFA in Theater/Psychology, MFA in Dance/Choreography, MS in Clinical Psychology, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology and Mind-Body Medicine.
