Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
Making Meditation Safe for Trauma Survivors
Join David Treleaven, acclaimed teacher and author, for a powerful collection of sessions that will equip you to immediately integrate trauma-sensitive mindfulness into your life and practice.
Through David’s clear and compassionate guidance, you will experience firsthand how to hold the trauma others have experienced with kindness and care, and how to guide them safely on the path of healing.
In Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, you’ll gain an immediate appreciation and experience of the potency of trauma-sensitive mindfulness, and learn by meditation can be harmful to trauma survivors as well as how to help prevent this. You will also gain the ability to recognize symptoms of traumatic stress while offering mindfulness interventions—all based on current research and evidence-backed trauma interventions so that you can work skillfully with dysregulated arousal, traumatic flashbacks, and trauma-related dissociation
This course is for you if you want to:
- Have a greater understanding of what trauma-sensitive mindfulness is
- Learn the signs of traumatic stress during meditation
- Discover practical methods to regulate a hyper/hypo focused nervous system
- Take a deeper dive into the current research on mindfulness and trauma
This self-paced course includes:
- 10+ video lessons based on three core topics:
- Exploring Mindfulness and Trauma Sensitivity
- From Regulation to Dysregulation: Knowing the Window of Tolerance During Meditation
- Practices to Invite Regulation, Calming the Nervous System
- Supplementary bonus materials, including:
- Guided audio meditations
- Course summary PDF
- Chapters from David Treleaven’s book
- Q&A content
Your Instructor
David Treleaven, PhD, is a writer, educator, and trauma professional whose work focuses on the intersection of trauma and mindfulness. He is author of the book Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing (W. W. Norton, 2018). Trained in counseling psychology at the University of British Columbia, he received his doctorate in psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University.