March 18 & 19, 2019 | 9:00AM to 4:30PM
at The California Endowment 1000 N. Alameda St, Los Angeles CA 90012
About the 2019 Conference
The theme of our 2019 annual conference was ‘Trauma Recovery: Community Evidenced Practices’. Participants were able to explore a variety of new and traditional forms of body-based healing.
We celebrated survivor resilience and survivor empowerment from the
get-go with a screening of the music video “Don’t Silence Me”.
Ana Gomez was our opening keynote. She specializes in EMDR for children and is bringing this trauma recovery modality to her native South America.
We closed the day with Dr. Pico who talked about the genocide of Native Americans and how indigenous wisdom helped him find healing from historical trauma.
Day two opened with Carol Kelson who taught us about neurofeedback. We also learned about EFT (tapping) from Victor Lee Lewis and gut health from Echo board member Renaldo Wilson.
Some of the most moving moments were in Laura Som’s workshop on connecting to the earth – a story about recovery from life under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The breakouts also showcased two of Echo’s upcoming trainings – Yoga for Trauma Recovery with Viviana Valin and Havening with Dr. Kate Truitt.
Sad that you missed it? Don’t worry – save March 11-12, 2020 in your calendars for our conference next year!
Meet our Speakers
Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy is an internationally recognized clinician, author, and Trainer. He is also the Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York City where he maintains a private practice specializing in working with traumatized and oppressed populations. Dr. Hardy is the former Director of the Center for Children, Families, and Trauma at the Ackerman Institute in New York City, and formerly served on the faculty at Syracuse University where he held numerous positions including Director of Clinical Training and Research, as well as Chairperson of the Department of Child and Family Studies.
Rachel Yehuda, PhD, is the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Yehuda is a recognized leader in the field of traumatic stress studies. She has authored more than 250 published papers, chapters, and books in the field of traumatic stress and the neurobiology of PTSD. Her current interests include the study of risk and resilience factors, psychological and biological predictors of treatment response in PTSD, genetic and epigenetic studies of PTSD and the intergenerational transmission of trauma and PTSD.
Dr. Monique Marrow is a child clinical psychologist and serves as a training specialist for the Center on Trauma and Children. She has worked for several years in the field of juvenile justice as a clinician, administrator and national consultant. Dr. Marrow serves on National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s Steering Committee, Affiliate Advisory Board, Community Violence, Complex Trauma and Justice Consortium Committees. She is co-chair for the Juvenile Justice Treatment Sub-Committee and recently co-authored a training curriculum with members of this committee entitled “Think Trauma: A Training for Staff in Juvenile Justice and Residential Settings.”
Jim Rendon is a freelance journalist who covers business, science, design, the environment and plenty of other topics. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and newspaper, Mother Jones, Marie Claire, Fortune, Men’s Journal, Rolling Stone, Outside and other publications. His newest book Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth explores the life-changing implications of post-traumatic growth—an emerging field of psychological research that shows how the suffering caused by traumatic events can be harnessed as a force for self-improvement and success rather than destruction.
Tonier Cain was the subject of the powerful documentary “Healing Neen” and is the founder of Healing Neen, Inc. She is the former team leader for the National Center for Trauma-Informed Care, with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. After surviving a childhood of unspeakable sexual abuse, unrelenting violence, and betrayal by systems that were charged with helping, Ms. Cain stands before audiences today, a testimony to the resiliency of the human spirit exemplifying the innate human instinct to survive.
