Conference Day 1
Understanding how trauma manifests as symptoms in the brain, body and behaviors
Impacts Of Trauma
The addiction inoculation
The root cause of pain
Navigating the living journey of grief
Trauma and immune responses in the brain
Transforming chronic pain
Managing stress and burnout after trauma
The 5 levels of compassion
Trauma, substance use and psychiatric disorders
Becoming free from dissociation
How trauma & PTSD can impact your sex life
Bonus Sessions
In therapy: What's your relationship with yourself?
Yoga: Coordinating breath and movement
Meditation to find presence
Conference Day 2
Therapies designed to help you feel whole again
Methodologies For Healing Trauma Part 1
Self-regulating for trauma healing
Tapping to release resistance to healing trauma
Healing complex PTSD using IFS therapy
The impact of microaggressions and how to respond
Modeling trauma techniques
Healing trauma with DBT & radical self-acceptance
Embracing our traumatized parts
Havening techniques for healing trauma
Becoming safely embodied
Hip hop therapy
Using the Change Triangle for emotional education
Bonus Sessions
In therapy: Rediscover who you are
Yoga: Grounding practice 1
Guided deep relaxation
Conference Day 3
Understanding intergenerational, cultural, social and institutional trauma
Collective Trauma
Healing our collective trauma
Trauma as a lens to understand cultural mistrust
Processing collective grief
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Trauma healing: remembering to forget
Why people don’t heal
Understanding and healing from gender trauma
Healing intergenerational trauma
Recovering from sexual assault
Trauma and oppression
Mental health and racial trauma
Healing organizational trauma
The trauma of concealment
Bonus Sessions
In therapy: What does your inner child feel
Yoga: Grounding practice 2
Cultivating deep rest
Conference Day 4
When trauma happens in our close relationships and families, it requires a relational approach
Relational Trauma
How to love and let go
Healing relational trauma
Recovering from narcissistic abuse
Restorative relationship conversations
The gifts of being an empath
Trauma informed nonmonogamy
Treatment for complex PTSD in children and families
Healing the trauma of the feminine
Kink and trauma
Recovering from betrayal
The 3 core emotional needs
Bonus Sessions
In therapy: Self-care builds self-esteem
Yoga: Pleasant scent and neuroplasticity
Meditation to cultivate self-love
Conference Day 5
Trauma healing is more than understanding, it requires full body integration
Trauma And The Body
Committing to the journey of trauma healing
Presence and awakening on the healing path
Yoga therapy for trauma & PTSD
Trauma sensitive mindfulness
You are the placebo
Healing sexual trauma
The science of stuck
Expressive arts therapy
The power of the exhale
Integration using the brain body connection
Neurodynamic breathwork
Bonus Sessions
In therapy: The power of vulnerability
Yoga: The breath and the parasympathetic response
Guided surrendering
Conference Day 6
Cutting edge psychedelics research and somatic approaches for treating trauma
Methodologies For Healing Trauma Part 2
Understanding obsessive compulsive disorder
Trauma and plurality
Healing trauma with psychoanalysis and buddhism
Healing internal family systems
The future of psychedelics for healing trauma
Resolve your anxiety with tapping
Why a somatic approach is so critical
Balancing the vagus nerve with essential oils
The myth of self-sabotage: getting unstuck
Trauma as a gateway to core transformation
Creating inner safety for healing trauma
Bonus Sessions
In therapy: It's okay to be you
Yoga: Developing a new relationship with your body
Gratitude meditation
Meditation for deep sleep
Conference Day 7
Supporting our healing from the inside out using nutrition, supplements and mindfulness
Functional Medicine
The 5 pillars of inflammation
Healing anxiety & depression with natural medicine
Healing the toxic effects of trauma
Food as medicine for healing trauma
The biology of trauma
Freedom from the trauma of aging
Neurotransmitter imbalances and high cortisol in PTSD
Ayurveda to heal & prevent illness after trauma
Using your thoughts actions and beliefs for healing
Uric acid and balancing your metabolism
Addressing ancestral and in-utero trauma
Bonus Sessions
In therapy: How to shift a negative state
Yoga: Moving body scan
Accepting the present moment
Simple guided meditation
A simple grounding exercise
Meet Your Hosts
Alex Howard
Alex is the founder of Conscious Life, and co-host of the world leading Super Conference series. He is also founder of The Optimum Health Clinic, one of the world’s leading integrative medicine clinics, which has a team of 25 full time practitioners supporting thousands of patients in 50+ countries.
Alex is an immensely experienced psychology practitioner, having delivered more than 10,000 consultations. He has also led the Therapeutic Coaching practitioner programme since 2005, training the next generation of psychology practitioners. Since March 2020, Alex has been documenting his therapeutic work with real life patients via his In Therapy with Alex Howard YouTube series.
Alex has published research in journals such as the British Medical Journal Open and Psychology and Health and is the author of two books, Why ME? and Decode Your Fatigue (published by Hay House). His third book, featuring his work on trauma, is being published in September 2023.
Meagen Gibson
Meagen Gibson is the CEO of Conscious Life. Her career includes award-winning journalist, educator and entrepreneur. Meagen’s enthusiasm and energy for personal development led her to take the leadership role at Conscious Life.
Meagen is passionate about taking complex concepts and distilling them down to simple, accessible applications we can use to take action in our everyday lives.
Meagen is an experienced teacher, facilitator, and speaker on the subjects of journalism, entrepreneurship, film and video as well as improv.
Her previous television work in the U.S. includes The Voice and Who Do You Think You Are.
Most recently, Meagen co-created and directed the series, How I Created A Cult, for Conscious Life. The series is currently available on Amazon Prime and Apple TV in North America.
Jaia Bristow
Jaia Bristow is a multiethnic queer content creator and group facilitator, who has been working in events and media production since 2010, and hosting groups around social identity since 2016. She is the creator of Beyond Boxes with Jaia Bristow, a podcast and youtube channel exploring labels and identity. Jaia runs in-person and online workshops on power, privilege and prejudice, and works as a diversity and inclusivity consultant. She has been practicing meditation since childhood, been a student of the Diamond Approach spiritual path since 2016 and training in nonviolent communication (NVC) since 2018.
Kirsty Cullen
Kirsty became CEO of OHC in 2020 after a decade of working within various departments within the organisation, including formerly as Director of Nutrition. Previously having worked in executive recruitment for 10 years, her interest in nutrition began as a consequence of health issues experienced by her own daughter, and her own mother's struggles with M.E/CFS.
Following her graduation in Nutritional Therapy, Kirsty embraced a number of different and exciting career opportunities through the establishment of her own nutrition clinic, which saw her undertake a number of nutrition roles within the professional sports arena. This included working as a Nutritional Therapist at St George’s Park National Football Centre and also for the League Managers Association, assessing and advising football managers and elite athletes on health, energy provision and injury recovery. Kirsty also worked as Lead Nutritional Therapist at Derby County Football Club, establishing an umbrella nutrition strategy for the club, in addition to providing one-to-one nutrition plans for all players.