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We can heal and prevent trauma on an individual level by learning to self-regulate our nervous system when its balance is shattered by traumatic events. Simple awareness can help our bodies discharge traumatic energy and return to normal.

Regaining this balance at the collective level can help us bring up our children in a safer world. Understanding these biological origins of trauma and violence can reshape our understanding of political conflicts, the costs of trauma; create a new political dialogue, a rethinking of education and social programs, and a global commitment to healing trauma.

These books are a series created to address the problem of and the healing of trauma at the global level. The books address each social sector (clergy, media, medicine, education, public, military, diplomats and NGOs) positioned to help protect us from the devastation of traumatic events and the damaging symptoms those events create.

This innovative process allows us to recuperate our physiological, emotional and mental functions.

SERIES OF BOOKS FOR ALL RELEVANT SOCIAL SECTORS

This series informs about the costs and healing of trauma at the national level by directing tailor-made information to the 10 social sectors that we identify and interfaces with trauma.

They present how trauma manifests and how healing can be promoted in each sector.

BEYOND THE

TRAUMA VORTEX

DIPLOMATS, NGO'S, FIRST RESPONDERS

PSYCHOLOGY AND

EDUCATION

CLERGY

MEDICAL

FIELD

MILITARY

*Ebook Available

GENERAL PUBLIC

*Ebook Available

MEDIA

*Ebook complimentary for the media

A GUIDE FOR YOU

מדריך בשבילך

Hebrew

DO TRAUMA A CURA

Portuguese

TRANSFORMER LE TRAUMA EN FORCE VITALE

French

A GUIDE FOR YOU

Due to the development of powerful new techniques to heal trauma, we may ber eady for the first time in 120 years of trauma studies to face trauma in a straightforward manner, institutionalize its healing, and end the cycles of awareness followed by denial of trauma in our collective consciousness.

The new understanding about trauma and its healing can revolutionize society. It can be the magic bullet for the 21st Century. A specialized sector of the mental health field, aware of trauma’s impact and the possibility for its healing, is working on changing society through the healing of trauma. We bring you the theories and methods that can change your life.

Since its discovery, an amazingly powerful technique known as Somatic Experiencing (SE), created by Dr Peter Levine, has changed the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world. We believe it can change the lives of millions. Originally developed as a technique for therapists to treat deep trauma, SE is now being widely used by the public as a tool for Emotional First Aids , stress release, and as a body/mind rebalancing technique. Just as you can use diet and exercise as a “way of life to being physically healthy,” you can use SE as a “way of life to being emotionally healthy and mentally balanced,” as well as to heal from trauma.

The strength of SE is its elegant simplicity of recognizing and encouraging the body’s own natural ability to self-heal from trauma and its inherent gentleness and compassion. So if you are reading this because of your own traumatic experience – whether assault, auto or industrial accident, war, terror, natural disaster, or childhood abuse – because of the traumatic symptoms of someone you love, or simply because of the stress and pressures of living in the 21st century, this technique can transform your life.

You can get immediate benefit and may even notice a shift even within the first hour; but as with diet and exercise programs, the lasting impact comes when you commit to its consistent application when needed.
While the technique may seem simple, there is a great body of knowledge and wisdom behind it. In general, people are introduced to this method by specially trained psycho therapists. This booklet introduces you to the part of the tool that you can “use by yourself to heal yourself.” You can also just read about trauma and this method and decide to do your work under the guidance of a SE professional. Referral information is given at the end of the book. There are also one-day trainings available for the public. In severe trauma situations, it is recommended that you only do the work with the help of a professional.

THE MEDIA

Gina Ross provides media professionals and others with an understanding of the effects of how trauma (whether natural or man-made) is reported and how the media can amplify or heal trauma, combined with an outline of some of the latest challenges in trauma reporting in the 21st century.
The book offers a non-judgmental, science-based understanding of the media’s difficult role in reporting trauma and its subsequent impact on the media. It includes a self-help technique called EmotionAid® that media professionals can use for their audiences and by the public, on-the-spot, anywhere, anytime. Self-help exercises in the book outline how to keep objectivity, build prevention and resiliency techniques, and how to help others heal in our 24/7 news media world.

THE MEDICAL FIELD

Gina Ross provides media professionals and others with an understanding of the effects of how trauma (whether natural or man-made) is reported, how the media can amplify or heal trauma, combined with an outline of some of the latest challenges in trauma reporting in the 21st century. The book offers a non-judgmental, science-based understanding about the media’s difficult role of reporting trauma and its subsequent impact on the media. It includes a self-help technique called EmotionAid® that can be used by media professionals, their audiences and by the general public, on-the-spot, anywhere, anytime. Self-help exercises in the book outline how to keep objectivity, build prevention and resiliency techniques, and how to help others heal in our 24/7 news media world

EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY

THE MILITARY

Training military personnel in self-regulation tools lessens the incidence of combat shock and the potential for spreading traumatic reactions among the troops. These same tools can be used after leaving military service to spare veterans, their families and community from unnecessary suffering, thus saving financial resources and helping society better support its veterans. This book provides:

Emotional first aid tools for active personnel to release stress within the context of military training
Tools to practice resiliency and to lessen the physical impact of military training
How to identify wide-ranging symptoms of psycho-biological and emotional trauma beyond the conventional definition of PTSD
Tools for commanders to enhance group morale
Guidelines to recognize a collective trauma vortex, and how to lessen trauma-driven violence and the resulting drive for revenge
Examples on how to address a collective trauma vortex from a military point of view.

THE CLERGY

DIPLOMATS AND NGO'S

As we are learning to assess the depth of trauma’s impact on society and its staggering cost, we are beginning to grasp its influence on world politics and conflicts among groups and nations.
Indeed, looking at the world through the lens of trauma and healing can help us understand what happens to individuals and nations under the spell of collective trauma.

This lens empowers us to promote healing rather than react in anger or despair when we confront the destruction trauma brings to its victims. This paradigm shift can diminish violence and support efforts toward peace.
To help alleviate suffering and despair and direct energies towards healing, hope and creative solutions, this booklet aims to inform of trauma’s nature and characteristics, introduce theories that will help understand it, and to provide healing methods to prevent personal and collective trauma.

To that end, we:

Provide information on the nature and impact of trauma on individuals and communities to help NGOs better assist their constituents.
Present tools to help resolve trauma.
Explore secondhand trauma’s impact on you and your work.
Show how to diminish a “collective trauma vortex” and engage a “collective healing vortex.”