This session is part of the 4th International Shakespeare in Prisons Conference (SiPC4) and was originally posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2021. Find out more about SiPC4 at shakespeare.nd.edu/service/sh....
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
**Warning: This discussion contains triggering conversations**
Join us for an in-depth conversation with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a psychiatrist, researcher, and one of the world’s foremost authorities on post-traumatic stress and its treatment and healing, featuring Curt L. Tofteland (founder of Shakespeare Behind Bars and co-founder of the Shakespeare in Prison Network) and Stephan Wolfert (founder of DE-CRUIT).
For over three decades, Dr. van der Kolk’s pioneering research has transformed our understanding of trauma through the interaction of attachment, neurobiology, and the developmental aspects of trauma’s effects on human beings. His innovative treatments offer new paths to recovery and healing by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity through neurofeedback, sports, meditation, yoga, theatre, and Shakespeare.
Dr. van der Kolk is the author of "The Body Keeps the Score" (a New York Times bestseller for 100+ weeks) which examines recent scientific advances that demonstrate how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, and compromises sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. Dr. van der Kolk explores the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal - and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.