11th Annual Zurich Traumadays
This year, the 11th Zurich Trauma Days in Zurich are dedicated to the important theme of dignity and the wounding of the soul
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Traumadays: Overview
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Program Overview
September 17 - 19, 2020
Dignity and the Wounding of the Soul
Support for self-development and self-healing after difficult experiences
Thursday, September 17th, 2020
Overcoming Shame and Rediscovering One's Own Dignity
Dr. Peter A. Levine
Friday, September 18th, 2020
The Unfolding of Our Innate Potentials
Unfolding our potentials through the reorganisation of established patterns in the brain
Prof. Dr. Gerald HütherSaturday, September 19th, 2020
The Healing Power of Love
Prof. Dr. Gerald HütherEvery person brings two basic needs to the world from his prenatal experiences, which determine his entire life path: the need for connection on the one hand and the need for autonomy on the other.
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Programm for day 1 Thursday, September 17th, 2020
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Day 1 - Dr. Peter A. Levine
Thursday, September 17, 2020
10.00 - 13.00 and 14.30 - 17.30
Shame and Dignity
Dr. PETER A. LEVINE
Chronic shame is a highly destructive emotion that people often experience for a long, long time. It is comparable to a cancer. First there is a "tumor" - perhaps it comes initially from a severe scolding by a parent or teacher, along with a loss of contact and trust. The shameful part "metastasizes", spreads, infects the entire organism, makes the body collapse, contaminates the mind and undermines our basic sense of well-being and dignity.
This long worn toxic shame is associated with a very specific posture and a corresponding autonomous pattern. It is a pattern similar to that of experienced trauma - including states of over- and under-excitation, as well as separation and isolation. The opposite body experience of shame is the direct experience of the somatic/autonomous posture of dignity and pride. It is physiologically impossible to hold shame in oneself for a long time if we as human beings carry within us a rooted and embodied feeling of inner dignity (and also of pride). If we use this dynamic relationship in a therapeutic alliance, shame can be transformed into a core sense of self-esteem and compassion for oneself. This integrative process is essential for the promotion of overall health and a newly emerging sense of dignity and selfhood.
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Programm for day 2 Friday, September 18th, 2020
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2nd day - Prof. Dr. Gerald Hüther
Friday, September 18, 2020
10.00 - 13.00 and 14.30 - 17.30The Unfolding of our Innate PotentialsFrom entanglement to development:Unfolding our potential through the reorganization of ingrained patterns in the brain.
After birth, the neuronal connections initially formed in the human brain are structured according to the experiences made with the respective relationship persons. Inevitably, this leads to entanglements between one's own inherent abilities and the relationship patterns found around us, which are set by adults. These more or less pronounced entanglements prevent the development of the potential inherent in a person. Therefore, development, i.e. the release from the respective entanglements, is the critical prerequisite for getting a process of development and unfolding going again.
Such a development would have to be actively sought by the person concerned, i.e. wanted by him or herself. The aim of "reconnecting the disconnected" requires a reactivation of these inhibited and thus disconnected parts via the respective neural networks. The person concerned would therefore have to rediscover what s/he has suppressed in the course of socialisation (e.g. joy of life, desire to learn, creative will). Standardised therapy methods are not suitable for this. The decisive impulse for such a developmental, evolutionary process is the deep contact with one's own split-off parts.
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Programm for day 3 Saturday, September 19th, 2020
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3rd day - Prof. Dr. Gerald Hüther
Saturday, September 19, 2020
The Healing Power of Love
10.00 - 13.00 and 14.30 - 17.30Every human being is born with two basic needs, which determine his entire life: the need for connection on one hand and the need for autonomy on the other.
In a world that is constantly changing through our own actions, we can only remain healthy if we, as cognizant people, are prepared to constantly change ourselves as well. And we are able to do so. At least we have a brain that enables us to do so.
What makes us sick is not the mental stress, the physical wear and tear or the many pathogens that are everywhere. We get sick because we arrange our lives according to ideas that make us sick. In order to stay healthy, we must free ourselves from these ideas. But we will only be able to do so when we find (or rediscover) something that is much more important and attractive to us than all of the convoluted and disease-causing ideas we have pursued so far.
Fortunately, there is something that will inevitably, i.e. on its own, free us from all these entanglements and lead us into an evolutionary development when we find it within ourselves or better: find it again or maybe just allow it. This universal remedy has a name: It is love.
But before you sink into your chair with a transfigured look on your face: This love, which we refer to here, has nothing to do with what most people think it is.
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