How does dissociation work? How prevalent is it? What does it have to do with yoga?
Join CYTR Founder Lisa Danylchuk and guest presenter Dr. Mary Anne Kate in this compelling workshop on dissociation, yoga, and embodied healing.
Dissociation remains the frontier of trauma treatment. Many clinicians, researchers, and people across disciplines still have a hard time understanding what it is, and why it happens.
In this two hour workshop, Dr. Mary Anne Kate will share her expertise in this area. Based on rigorous research, she will help you to see:
- What dissociation is
- What causes dissociation, and how we can predict it
- How we can create a healthy and healing environment for folks with Dissociative Disorders (DD's), and
- How yoga can help (not hurt!) those experiencing dissociative symptoms
In her own research with over 300 college students and people diagnosed with DDs, Mary Anne was able to predict half of a person’s dissociative symptomology based on specific childhood experiences of abuse, parent-child dynamics, attachment style, and their parents’ response (or role in) any abuse. In this session, Mary-Anne will share her findings from this research as well as her meta-analysis of dissociative experiences in nearly 32,000 college students. She will also share vignettes from her in-depth interviews with inpatients with a DD to describe the lived experience of growing up in a family environment in which dissociation occurs. Mary-Anne's findings will provide participants with an understanding of the situations that led to clinical levels of dissociation in the past, which helps to identify the types of experiences that may trigger a dissociative response in the present.
In this session, you will learn:
• How to recognize different symptoms of dissociation
• What somatoform dissociation is, and how it connects to yoga
• How therapeutic yoga can respond to the needs of those experiencing dissociation
• How to recognize the specific types of childhood maltreatment that are predictive of dissociation
• How to identity the types of parent-child dynamics and attachment styles that are predictive of dissociation
• Examples of embodied healing as they relate to dissociation
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Your Guest Presenter – Mary-Anne Kate
Dr. Mary-Anne Kate is a researcher specialising in interpersonal trauma, attachment and post-traumatic disorders. She has worked for over a decade as a Public Policy Analyst, Senior Policy Officer and Policy Advisor assessing and developing national and European Union policies and practices to improve quality of life outcomes for vulnerable client groups. Mary-Anne is a Scientific Committee member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). She is the lead author of the Dissociative disorders and somatic symptom-related disorders in Wiley's Australasian edition of Abnormal Psychology. Mary-Anne was recently awarded the Chancellor's Doctoral Research Medal from UNE and the David Caul Award from the ISSTD for her PhD on childhood maltreatment, parent-child dynamics and dissociation. Mary-Anne is currently teaching on the Mental Health Masters course at Southern Cross University.