Upaya Dharma Podcasts - Elaine Miller-Karas: 8-24-11: Coming to Our Senses: Connecting to the Body/Connecting to the World

Good stuff - I so wish I could attend the training. This is the work I do, or what to do. And I would so much love to learn it well. I think Jami wants to do it, too, so maybe we will bite the bullet and drop the dollars to do one of these learning retreats.

Elaine Miller-Karas: 8-24-11: Coming to Our Senses: Connecting to the Body/Connecting to the World

Speaker: Elaine Miller-Karas
Recorded: Wednesday Aug 24, 2011

How can we come to our senses after enduring life changing events? In this talk, Elaine MIller-Karas, co-creator of the Trauma Resiliency Model, shares her experience in treating the victims of disasters around the world.

Elaine Miller-Karas has 25 years of experience in health education, teaching, and clinical consultation. She is the Director of Training and Education for the Trauma Resource Institute (TRI), a non-profit center for trauma. She is on the faculty at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center’s Family Residency Program and has a private psychotherapy practice. She lectures nationally and internationally on innovative approaches to healing traumatic stress as well as the bio-psychosocial responses to chronic illness. She has been on disaster response teams in Thailand (post-tsunami) and Louisiana (post-hurricane). Most recently she presented a workshop on Trauma First Aide in Nairobi, Africa at the Conference on Female Genital Mutilation.

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 The Trauma Resiliency Model is promoted and taught by the Trauma Resource Institute, a non-profit organization. Here is their mission statement:

TRI Mission Statement

OUR VISION To restore resiliency after trauma by expanding bottom-up capacity OUR MISSION To take people from despair to hope through simple skills-based interventions based on cutting edge research about the brain.  To expand access to treatment by training the frontline service providers and responders who do the hardest work with the least resources. To build local capacity in diverse communities nationally and internationally so each may develop trauma resolution strategies that respond to their unique cultural needs OUR VALUES  As a trauma educational organization we are committed to the following values: Every individual, child and adult, has a natural-born resiliency When a traumatic event has resulted in symptoms, individuals are entitled to treatment that is gentle, effective and culturally-sensitive. High quality trauma education and intervention must be available to diverse populations and cultures. Treatment of individuals suffering from traumatic stress reactions must be accessible and affordable to all members of society. Enhancing the capacity of communities to provide for their own members rather than relying on outside "experts" creates resiliency-informed communities.