I just added a new Trauma MasterClass on the site. There have been many questions lately about group care: what should I do if something bad happens at work (a colleague crashes; a suicide in my classroom); how do I then catch my team, my students? In the MasterClass "Group Care and Debriefing:...
Next week I will be working, through an interview, on a book about "Absent fathers," where journalist and author Christina Van Geel, highlights the topic from different angles. I get to contribute from the perspective of trauma. In good company, with psychiatrist Dirk de Wachter, psychologist Guy Bosmans, grief expert Uus Knops, among others. The book appears...
Hi everyone, if you are interested: below you will find the link for the podcast "Cocktails and Courageous Conversations" with Rikke Kjelgaard from last week: about trauma, about my book The Healing Power of Pain. Hi everyone, if you are interested: below you'll find the link for the podcast "Cocktails and Courageous Conversations" with Rikke Kjelgaard...
Good morning, just to let you know: Thursday evening I'm guest at the podcast by Rikke Kjelgaard, (among others): ACT master, psychologist and author. Again, exciting! Looking forward (although, always a bit anxious about my English 🤨 😁 ) Subject: The Healing Power of Pain; my book, and surely other matters in the field of...
Recently had nice and good interview with Annelore De Donder on intergenerational/transgenerational trauma. If all goes well, in the November issue of Feeling!
Hello dear people, it's the last days of the "Early Bird" ticket discount for the MasterClass Planetary Pain by Lara Schmelzeisen in October. Until July 30, you will receive 50 euros discount on the MC, which will be held on October 10 and 11. The MC is given following Lara Schmelzeisen's newly published book,...
Nerve-wrecking 😁 a podcast in English, but I did it! The fact that GINA GARDINER RADICAL CHANGE CATALYST AND LEADERSHIP ADVISOR has over 3 million followers/listeners didn't put my mind at ease much as you might understand 😅 , but thanks to Gina Gardener, who is a kind and friendly host, we had...
Course year 2023-2024 is over! It was again beautiful and enriching to greet so many interested colleagues during the trainings, supervisions and other occasions! A few more things to finalize (and I need to stay busy for a while with - the podcasts and interviews for - The Healing Power of Pain) but then it's...
Good morning! Friday, May 31, the book Planet Pain by Lara Schmelzeisen, Ybe Casteleyn and Jill Marchant will be presented in Brussels. In October, Lara will give her first MasterClass on the theme/book: (Recovering from) Planet Pain. About loss, recovery, trauma-sensitive grieving, rituals, connection and difference between grief, trauma and ecological crises. For therapists and certainly for anyone who...
On June 20, I may host a webinar for the ECoD: a European institution. You can sign up via the link at the bottom of this post. The webinar is in English. Following is the text from the organization: "This year we are not organizing a Family Poverty Trefdag, but are hosting a session for the European City Network with this super interesting webinar:...
