Trauma and the Brain: Actionable Neuroscience for Stress, Anxiety and Trauma

Trauma and the Brain: Actionable Neuroscience for Stress, Anxiety and Trauma is organized by PTSD Trauma Workshops and will be held on May 15, 2025.

Description:
Understanding the neurobiology of intense anxiety, stress and trauma can help us re-frame the often highly distressing responses of our brain, nervous system and body. Far from being pathologising, it can be profoundly helpful to understand the mechanisms behind the threat response. In addition, it is empowering to know that we can translate this knowledge into practical applications to push back against the stress response.

Specifically, we will be taking a tour of  this fast-evolving field, including:

• Understanding three types of stress (2 helpful, 1 unhelpful)
• Understanding the cascade of reactions that deposit adrenaline, acetylcholine and other chemicals into the body
• Understanding the way our early attachments calibrate our stress system
• Learning practical applications that we can use ourselves / with clients to manage our state of alertness.
• Understand how distinct breath patterns affect feelings of stress and alertness. Plus how we can utilise them.
• Understand how the visual system affects stress and alertness and how we can use the visual system to decrease threat arousal.
• How to work alongside our biological clock to promote effective stress coping
• How sleep interacts with the stress response
• Understanding the effect of physical exercise on stress reactivity.