What if psychological pain isn’t abstract at all, but a real injury living in the nervous system—and what if listening to symptoms could change everything? We curated a week of powerful sessions that trace a clear arc: first the biology of trauma, then the context of identity and systems, and finally the intimate terrain of shame, fertility, death, and the will to live. The aim is simple and ambitious—give you precise tools and deeper frameworks so you can meet clients with steadier hands and wider eyes.

We start with practical, science-backed methods for regulation. EMDR and somatic psychotherapy specialist Joshua Isaac Smith offers techniques like digiting and savoring that help the parasympathetic “slow system” come back online, restoring executive function and connection. Building on that, Winnie E. Maduro maps the cumulative nature of stress, treating burnout as depletion rather than moral failure. Her approach blends strengths-based assessment with insights from neuroimaging to reveal what’s truly happening beneath the surface and where to intervene first.

From physiology, we zoom out to cognition and culture. Dr Lilia Wheatcraft reframes “weak central coherence” as a distinct, detail-focused cognitive style within autism, showing how context, clarity, and sensory-aware design unlock performance and dignity. Then Professor Patrick Vernon confronts systemic racism’s creation of social death, calling for culturally sensitive grief support and sustained anti-racist practice across healthcare and education. These sessions push us to refine our methods and our ethics in equal measure.

We close with the most human subjects of all. David Bedrick recasts symptoms as activism from the psyche, asking us to attend rather than erase. Sarah Crowley brings tenderness and structure to fertility work, turning isolation into shared language and choice. And in conversation across two sessions, Dr Nancy Hakim Dowick and Professor Emmy Van Dersen explore death as a field of meaning and the hard road from losing the will to live back to a resilient bond with life. Every piece is designed to be actionable and humane, so you can carry insight from the library straight into the room.

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