We are delighted to have our third conversation with Dr Maté for the Radical Recovery Summit. He has been tireless in his work educating people worldwide about trauma. In 2021, several million people viewed the movie The Wisdom of Trauma, featuring his work Compassionate Inquiry.
Adena Bank Lees is an experienced therapist who brings new light to Covert Emotional Incest, the hidden sexual abuse. Learn about safety in therapy and with others, and how innovative tools like psychodrama can help you access and heal your deepest fears. In her book, Covert Emotional Incest: The Hidden Sexual Abuse, Adena details the complex nature of CEI, its damaging consequences, and the path to restoration of health and well-being.
Adena Bank Lees is an experienced therapist who brings new light to Covert Emotional Incest, the hidden sexual abuse. Learn about safety in therapy and with others, and how innovative tools like psychodrama can help you access and heal your deepest fears. In her book, Covert Emotional Incest: The Hidden Sexual Abuse, Adena details the complex nature of CEI, its damaging consequences, and the path to restoration of health and well-being.
Adi Jaffe, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized expert on mental health, addiction, relationships and shame who authored The Abstinence Myth: A New Approach for Overcoming Addiction Without Shame, Judgment, Or Rules. He started IGNTD, a customized, personalized, virtual recovery program. “People need guidance and understanding, not judgment and stigma, and the sooner we realize this, the more lives we’ll be able to save.” ~ Dr. Adi Jaffe
Adi Jaffe, Ph.D. is a nationally recognized expert on mental health, addiction, relationships and shame who authored The Abstinence Myth: A New Approach for Overcoming Addiction Without Shame, Judgment, Or Rules. He started IGNTD, a customized, personalized, virtual recovery program. “People need guidance and understanding, not judgment and stigma, and the sooner we realize this, the more lives we’ll be able to save.” ~ Dr. Adi Jaffe
Dr Amy Johnson shares a groundbreaking new paradigm in mental health that has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world tap into their natural, innate health and resilience so they can overcome issues like habits and anxiety easily, with no willpower. She is a psychologist, coach, author, and speaker who shares a groundbreaking new approach that helps people find lasting freedom via insight rather than willpower.
Dr Amy Johnson shares a groundbreaking new paradigm in mental health that has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world tap into their natural, innate health and resilience so they can overcome issues like habits and anxiety easily, with no willpower. She is a psychologist, coach, author, and speaker who shares a groundbreaking new approach that helps people find lasting freedom via insight rather than willpower.
Annie Grace, is author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life a path to freedom from alcohol and The Alcohol Experiment: A 30-day, Alcohol-Free Challenge to Interrupt Your Habits and Help You Take Control. A person’s unconscious mind has been subjected to a lifetime of conditioning about the benefits of alcohol. The focus is not on staying sober, it is instead on just living and being happy.
Annie Grace, is author of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life a path to freedom from alcohol and The Alcohol Experiment: A 30-day, Alcohol-Free Challenge to Interrupt Your Habits and Help You Take Control. A person’s unconscious mind has been subjected to a lifetime of conditioning about the benefits of alcohol. The focus is not on staying sober, it is instead on just living and being happy.
Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, author and speaker specializing in complex trauma. Her work is focused on using the lens of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma in our lives. Deb’s work shows how an understanding of Polyvagal Theory applies to relationships, mental health, and trauma – and how we can use an understanding of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory to change the ways we navigate our daily lives.
Diane Poole Heller Ph.D. is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and expert in the field of child and adult attachment theory as well as trauma resolution. Her expertise in trauma healing has benefitted survivors and families of 9/11 and the Columbine shootings, making her a highly sought-after consultant, speaker, and presenter for organizations worldwide.
Guy Felicella grew up in a middle class home in Richmond but fell into addiction at a young age. He spent 30 years in the repeated cycle of gangs, addiction, treatment and jail. He spent nearly 20 years residing in the two block radius in the Downtown Eastside and using many resources, including harm reduction, to keep himself alive. Guy devotes his time and career to public speaking and advocating to reduce the stigma of harm reduction, and educate on addiction.
Guy Felicella grew up in a middle class home in Richmond but fell into addiction at a young age. He spent 30 years in the repeated cycle of gangs, addiction, treatment and jail. He spent nearly 20 years residing in the two block radius in the Downtown Eastside and using many resources, including harm reduction, to keep himself alive. Guy devotes his time and career to public speaking and advocating to reduce the stigma of harm reduction, and educate on addiction.
Joan Tollifson speaks about her earlier life through addiction, social activism and meditation. She has a radical lens and cuts right through to the heart of life, relationships, illness and death. Joan is interested in waking up to the aliveness of this moment, exactly as it is. Her bare-bones approach is open, direct, immediate and down-to-earth. She invites meditative exploration and encourages people to remain in the openness of not knowing.
Joan Tollifson speaks about her earlier life through addiction, social activism and meditation. She has a radical lens and cuts right through to the heart of life, relationships, illness and death. Joan is interested in waking up to the aliveness of this moment, exactly as it is. Her bare-bones approach is open, direct, immediate and down-to-earth. She invites meditative exploration and encourages people to remain in the openness of not knowing.
Nkem Ndefo, MSN, CNM, RN, is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit. She brings, a grounded approach to healing, strength and resilience, and a unique ability to connect with people of all types by holding powerful healing spaces, weaving complex concepts into accessible narratives, and creating synergistic and collaborative learning communities that nourish people’s innate capacity for healing, wellness, and connection.
Nkem Ndefo, MSN, CNM, RN, is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit. She brings, a grounded approach to healing, strength and resilience, and a unique ability to connect with people of all types by holding powerful healing spaces, weaving complex concepts into accessible narratives, and creating synergistic and collaborative learning communities that nourish people’s innate capacity for healing, wellness, and connection.
Irene Lyon synthesizes her training in Feldenkrais, Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Practice with decades of personal experience into programs like her powerful SmartBody SmartMind. Irene has a knack for making complex info easy for ALL of us to understand and apply to our lives. She is a nervous system expert who teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives.
Irene Lyon synthesizes her training in Feldenkrais, Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Practice with decades of personal experience into programs like her powerful SmartBody SmartMind. Irene has a knack for making complex info easy for ALL of us to understand and apply to our lives. She is a nervous system expert who teaches people around the world how to work with the nervous system to transform trauma, heal body and mind, and live full, creative lives.
Resmaa Menakem is a healer. He presents a clear picture of trauma and how it works in our bodies. In his excellent book, My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa refers to people like Malcolm X and James Baldwin as having settled bodies and focused minds. The book is about racialized trauma: white body supremacy, white bodies, black bodies, and police bodies. It is a fascinating study and insight into historical trauma and how that lives in and through our bodies.
Resmaa Menakem is a healer. He presents a clear picture of trauma and how it works in our bodies. In his excellent book, My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa refers to people like Malcolm X and James Baldwin as having settled bodies and focused minds. The book is about racialized trauma: white body supremacy, white bodies, black bodies, and police bodies. It is a fascinating study and insight into historical trauma and how that lives in and through our bodies.
Pete Walker, M.A., MFT is a licensed psychotherapist with degrees in Social Work and Counseling Psychology. Pete specializes in helping adults who were traumatized in childhood, especially those whose repeated exposure to abuse and/or neglect left them with the symptoms of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder [CPTSD]. His popular book Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving deeply explores the causes of CPTSD that range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse.
Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders.
Scott Kiloby is a noted international speaker, well-respected enlightenment (nonduality) teacher who has helped thousands of people all over the world, an entrepreneur, creative spirit, and author of seven books. Scott is an innovator in the addiction field and developed the New Model of Recovery that uses no shaming, judging or punishing people. The Kiloby Inquiries heal the pain that drives the addiction in the first place.
Scott Kiloby is a noted international speaker, well-respected enlightenment (nonduality) teacher who has helped thousands of people all over the world, an entrepreneur, creative spirit, and author of seven books. Scott is an innovator in the addiction field and developed the New Model of Recovery that uses no shaming, judging or punishing people. The Kiloby Inquiries heal the pain that drives the addiction in the first place.
Sabila Khan is a native of Jersey City, NJ, a mother of two, and works in the book publishing industry. She co-founded Covid-19 Loss Support for Family & Friends–the largest collection of Covid bereaved in the world–four days after losing her community activist father to the virus. Covid-19 Loss Support offers a safe space for members to grieve their losses and has been vital in connecting and amplifying advocacy efforts.
Sabila Khan is a native of Jersey City, NJ, a mother of two, and works in the book publishing industry. She co-founded Covid-19 Loss Support for Family & Friends–the largest collection of Covid bereaved in the world–four days after losing her community activist father to the virus. Covid-19 Loss Support offers a safe space for members to grieve their losses and has been vital in connecting and amplifying advocacy efforts.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. He is an expert on positive neuroplasticity who began meditating in 1974 and is the founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. He is an expert on positive neuroplasticity who began meditating in 1974 and is the founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom.
Michelle Cassandra Johnson (she/her) is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. She has led dismantling racism work in many settings for over two decades and has a background and two decades of practice as a clinical social worker. She focuses on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness, and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart.
Michelle Cassandra Johnson (she/her) is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. She has led dismantling racism work in many settings for over two decades and has a background and two decades of practice as a clinical social worker. She focuses on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness, and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart.
