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The Center
for Trauma and Contemplative Practice Presents
2015
Symposium On
Trauma & Contemplative Practice
Exploring
the Territory
Held May 1-2, 2015
At Harvard Divinity School
Speakers and
Panelists
Editors of
Mindfulness-Oriented
Interventions for Trauma:
Integrating
Contemplative Practices
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Victoria
Follette is Foundation Professor in Clinical Psychology in the Department
of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work has focused on
treating complex trauma using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. A Fellow
and a past president of the Western Psychological Association, Dr. Follette
is coeditor of Cognitive-Behavioral
Therapies for Trauma, Second Edition; Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral
Tradition; and
Mindfulness-Oriented Interventions for Trauma: Integrating Contemplative
Practices.
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Victoria M. Follette, PhD
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Keynote
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John
Briere is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and
Psychology at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern
California (USC), and Director of the USC Adolescent Trauma Training
Center, National Child Traumatic Stress Network. He is a recipient of the
Robert S. Laufer Memorial Award for Scientific
Achievement from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and
the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Trauma
Psychology from Division S6 of the American Psychological Association. Dr.
Briere has published widely in the areas of trauma, child abuse, and
interpersonal violence, as well as the application of mindfulness to
trauma therapy. He is co-editor of
Mindfulness-Oriented Interventions for Trauma: Integrating Contemplative
Practices.
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John Briere, PhD
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Keynote
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Deborah
Rozelle is a clinical psychologist who trains and consults widely on
psychological trauma, trauma therapy, and their relation to contemplative practice.
She is on faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and
Co-director of the Jewel Heart Buddhist Chaplaincy Program. She was Senior
Fellow for the Initiative for Transforming Trauma at Garrison Institute and
faculty and clinical supervisor at The Trauma Center at JRI, including as a
member of the clinical team for van der Kolk’s seminal 2007 research study
on EMDR. Dr. Rozelle is a certified therapist and approved consultant in
EMDR and is a Buddhist practitioner under the tutelage of Gelek Rimpoche.
She has a clinical psychology practice in Lexington, Massachusetts and is a
researcher at The Center for
Trauma and Contemplative Practice.
She is co-editor of
Mindfulness-Oriented Interventions for Trauma: Integrating Contemplative
Practices.
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Deborah Rozelle, PsyD
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EMDR & Buddhist Practice: A New
Model of PTSD Treatment
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Jim Hopper is an independent consultant,
clinician and researcher as well as part-time Instructor in Psychology in
the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He focuses on the effects of child
abuse and sexual assault, the nature of traumatic memories, the psychology
and biology of trauma, and the brain bases of meditation and other
spiritual practices. Dr. Hopper trains and consults with a wide range of
organizations and professionals. He is co-editor of Mindfulness-Oriented
Interventions for Trauma: Integrating Contemplative Practices.
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James W. Hopper, PhD
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Harnessing the Seeking, Satisfaction
and Embodiment Circuitries in Contemplative Approaches to Healing
Trauma
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Chapter Authors & Other Speakers
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Frank Anderson completed his residency and was a
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He currently is
the president of the Foundation for Self Leadership and has served on the
Research Advisory Committee as well as the Speakers Bureau for the Center
for Self Leadership. Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the
neurobiology of PTSD. He wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting
Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy- New
Dimensions. Dr. Anderson began as a staff psychiatrist at the Trauma
Center at JRI in Boston in 1992 where he continues as a lecturer and senior
supervisor. He maintains a private practice in Concord, MA.
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Frank Guastella Anderson, MD
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Internal Family Systems Therapy
(IFS)
“Healing Trauma and Living
Compassionately”
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Jeffrey Ansloos is Assistant Professor of
International Mental Health and Trauma in the division of Interdisciplinary
Inquiry at Lesley University. He is a consultant on education and mental
health program development in the global south, as well as the founder of
the Interdisciplinary Innovation Series. His areas of expertise are complex
psychological trauma, violence prevention, political and critical
psychology, and race, gender and religion. Dr. Ansloos is a member of the
board of directors for the Institute of Meditation and Psychotherapy and a
researcher in the Templeton Research Program on Chinese Psychologies of
Religion, with a focus on communal contemplative practices. From 2011-2014
he was a leadership fellow of the Max DePree Institute and a research
fellow of the Travis Research Institute-Center for Spirituality, Language,
and Transformation.
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Jeffrey Ansloos, PhD
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Moderator for Panel on Mindfulness & Self-compassion and
Trauma
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Willoughby Britton is an Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry and the Director of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience
Laboratory at Brown University Medical School. She specializes in the
clinical neuroscience and development of novel treatments for major
depression and other emotional disturbances. As a clinician, she has
been trained as an instructor in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and has taught mindfulness
to both clinical and non-clinical populations, including prison inmates,
the terminally ill, drug abusing adolescents, and school-based mindfulness
programs. As a researcher, she has been studying the effects of
contemplative practices on the brain and body for more than a decade, with
a special emphases on practice-specific effects, or in other words “Which
practices are best or worst suited for which types of people or conditions
and why”. She is investigating the varieties of contemplative
experience, including adverse effects and difficult stages of the
contemplative path.
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Willoughby B. Britton, PhD
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Moderator for Panel on Somatic and Neuroscience
Approaches to Trauma
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David Emerson is the Founder and Director of
Yoga Services for the Trauma Center at JRI, where he coined the term
“trauma-sensitive yoga”. He was responsible for the yoga intervention
component of the first of its kind, NIH-funded study, conducted by Dr.
Bessel van der Kolk to assess yoga instruction with severely traumatized
adults. Mr. Emerson has extensive international experience in the
instruction of yoga with PTSD in various populations, and has developed and
run yoga groups for rape crisis centers, domestic violence programs,
residential programs for youth, military bases, survivors of terrorism, and
Veterans Administration centers and clinics. In addition to co-authoring,
Mr. Emerson is the co-author of several scholarly articles on the yoga and
trauma and the book Overcoming Trauma
through Yoga, and author of Trauma-Sensitive
Yoga in Therapy.
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David Emerson
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Yoga as a Treatment for Trauma
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Chris Germer is a clinical
psychologist in private practice, specializing in mindfulness and
compassion-based psychotherapy. He has been integrating the principles and
practices of meditation into psychotherapy since 1978. Dr. Germer is a
founding member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, a
clinical instructor in psychology at Harvard Medical School, author of The
Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, and co-editor of Mindfulness and
Psychotherapy and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening
Mindfulness in Clinical Practice. Dr. Germer lectures and conducts
workshops internationally on the art and science of mindful
self-compassion. His web site is here.
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Christopher Germer, PhD
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Cultivating Self-Compassion in
Trauma Survivors
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Jared Kass is Professor
of Counseling and Psychology at Lesley University, where he coordinates a
clinical training specialization in trauma-informed, culturally-responsive,
mind-body behavioral health. His research and clinical work focus on
resilience as a mediator of trauma. He is author of the Inventory of
Positive Psychological Attitudes (IPPA).
Dr. Kass was a staff member of the Person-Centered Approach Project
(1975-1981), working closely with Dr. Carl Rogers. He was a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard
Medical School (1985-1991), investigating the health effects of meditation
with Dr. Herbert Benson. He was a
Center Associate of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Other Drug Abuse,
and Violence Prevention (1999-2001), and has developed a
prevention-oriented curriculum for higher education, Know Your Self. He is a member of the Association for
Contemplative Mind in Higher Education and the Phi Beta Kappa Society
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Jared D. Kass, PhD
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Polyvagal Theory: Foundation for a
Neurobiological Model of Trauma Treatment (jointly with Sidney Trantham)
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Tony King is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Research at the University of Michigan Medical School, and faculty
associate of Institute for Social Research (ISR) and Trauma, Stress, and
Anxiety Research Group. Dr. King’s
research focuses on neurobiological, neuroendocrine, and epigenetic effects
of trauma exposure, and psychotherapeutic interventions for Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD), including Contemplative practices. He is lead
author of a clinical trial of MBCT for combat PTSD, and co-PI of a 5-year
federally-funded research program to develop a Mindfulness- and
Compassion-based therapy for PTSD in military veterans (Iraq &
Afghanistan), and test its clinical and neurobiological effects (e.g.
psychiatric assessment and fMRI brain imaging).
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Anthony P. King, PhD
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Mindfulness and Self-Compassion in
Group Therapy for Combat-Related PTSD
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David Lewis is a retired computer scientist, mathematician,
faculty at Brown University, Cornell University and Ithaca College, and
software engineer and manager. He is a long-time Buddhist practitioner
under the tutelage of Gelek Rimpoche and a student and independent
researcher of western and eastern philosophical and psychological
traditions. Dr. Lewis is co-author of the chapter, “EMDR and Buddhist Practice: A New
Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment” and co-author/presenter
of “PTSD and Buddhism: An Analogical Mapping Model” (Mind & Life ISCS
2014). He is a researcher at The Center for Trauma and Contemplative Practice.
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David J. Lewis, PhD
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Mahayana Buddhism and Trauma
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Barbara Phillips is a clinical social worker with expertise in
the treatment of adults who carry the legacy of childhood trauma. A firm
advocate for the integration of body, emotion, and mind, Dr. Phillips
consults to individuals and groups on the use of somatic interventions in
trauma treatment. She is a certified Sensorimotor psychotherapist, approved
consultant, and certification coach. Dr. Phillips is past President of the
New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation (NESTTD).
Her recent presentations include “Three Storytellers in Search of a
Listener: The Words, the Body, the Emotions” (Harvard Grand Rounds) and “Deconstructing
Shame: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Approach to the Treatment of Trauma”
(NASW Biennial Symposium). Dr. Phillips serves as Dissertation Chair for
the Psy.D Program at JFK University College of Graduate and Professional
Studies. She has a private practice in Arlington, MA.
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Barbara E. Phillips, PhD, LICSW
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A
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Approach to the Treatment of Trauma:
Embodying
the Foundational Principles
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Jenny Phillips is a cultural anthropologist, filmmaker, writer
and psychiatric nurse. She has a psychotherapy practice in Concord, MA,
specializing in crisis intervention, family and marriage therapy,
behavioral medicine, and mindfulness training. In 2002 Phillips successfully brought a 10-day intensive Vipassana meditation program inside a maximum-security
prison in Alabama. In 2008, to
raise public awareness about the potential for personal transformation
among prisoners, she produced and directed The Dhamma Brothers, a documentary film based on the prison program, with a national theatrical and public television release. She is currently directing a new
documentary, Beyond the Wall,
which follows the stories
of a small community of men released from prison and attempting to rebuild their
lives with inadequate support from the criminal justice system.
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Jenny Phillips, PhD
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Trauma Treatment via Vipassana
Meditation Inside a Maximum-Security Prison
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Susan
Pollak is a clinical psychologist. She
received her degree in Comparative Religion from Harvard Divinity School,
her doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University, and her clinical
training through Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pollak has been a clinician
and Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School for 20 years,
specializing in the integration of meditation and psychotherapy. She has
had a meditation and yoga practice since childhood. She is the co-editor of
The Cultural Transition, contributing author to Mapping the Moral
Domain, a contributing author to Evocative Objects, a
contributing author to Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, Second Edition, and
co-editor of Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness Based
Psychotherapy. Dr. Pollak writes a
popular blog
for Psychology Today.
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Susan M. Pollak,
MTS, EdD
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Moderator for Panel on Individual Psychotherapy for
Trauma
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Ron Siegel is Assistant Professor of
Psychology, Part Time, at Harvard Medical School, where he has taught for
over 30 years. He is a long-time student of mindfulness meditation and
serves on the board and faculty of the Institute for Meditation and
Psychotherapy. Dr. Siegel teaches internationally about mindfulness and
psychotherapy and mind-body treatment, has worked for many years in
community mental health with inner-city children and families, and
maintains a private practice in Lincoln, Massachusetts. He is the coauthor
of Back Sense: A Revolutionary Approach to Halting the Cycle of Chronic
Back Pain, which integrates Western and Eastern approaches for treating
chronic back pain, coeditor of Mindfulness and
Psychotherapy and Wisdom
and Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical
Practice, and coauthor of Sitting
Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy.
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Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD
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How Trauma Creates Chronic Physical
Pain
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Sidney Trantham is Associate Professor of
Counseling and Psychology at Lesley University. He is a neuropsychologist,
providing integrative psychological, neuropsychological, and gender
assessment as well as long-term psychotherapy. His areas of expertise include work with
gender variant children and adolescents.
Dr. Trantham’s interest in trauma began
with research on the impact of early childhood sexual experiences on the
psychological functioning of adult males.
He has been a Harvard Clinical Fellow (1996–2000), where he
completed a clinical psychology internship, neuropsychological
post-doctoral fellowships, and conducted research identifying early
cognitive markers of HIV-related dementia.
He recently co-authored a book chapter with Jared Kass,
“Perspectives from Clinical Neuroscience: Mindfulness and Therapeutic Use
of the Arts”, that introduces mind-body clinicians to the neuroscience of trauma
and somatic memory.
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Sidney M. Trantham, PhD
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Polyvagal Theory: Foundation for a
Neurobiological Model of Trauma Treatment (jointly with Jared Kass)
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