This document provides information about the 26th Annual International Trauma Conference taking place from May 27-30, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference will explore new developments in understanding and treating psychological trauma, including developments in neuroscience, attachment research, and therapeutic interventions. It will feature keynote speakers and a variety of workshops covering topics such as sensory integration therapy for trauma, trauma-focused therapy for children, experiential interventions, and brain-computer interfaces. There will also be optional pre-conference tracks held on May 27-28 on subjects including sensory integration, sand tray therapy, and music therapy for trauma.

1. PSYCHOLOGICAL
TRAUMA
Neuroscience, Attachment
andTherapeuticInterventions
CONFERENCE DIRECTOR
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
MedicalDirector,TraumaCenteratJusticeResourceInstitute;
ProfessorofPsychiatry,BostonUniversitySchoolofMedicine
May 27 – 30, 2015
SPONSORS
Seaport World Trade Center
Boston, Massachusetts
26th
Annual
INTERNATIONAL
TRAUMACONFERENCE
PESI
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Eau Claire,WI 54702
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Justice Resource Institute
PLUS
Four Optional Pre-ConferenceTracks
TRACK I. SENSORY INTEGRATION (SMART)
(MANDATORY 2-DAY |WED., MAY 27 –THURS., MAY 28)
TRACK II. TRAUMA-FOCUSED THERAPY FOR CHILDREN
(THURS., MAY 28 | ONLY)
TRACK IV. BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACES(THURS., MAY 28 | ONLY)
TRACK III. EXPERIENTIAL INTERVENTIONS (THURS., MAY 28 | ONLY)

2. CONFERENCE
DESCRIPTION
For the past three decades we have examined how trauma
affects psychological and biological processes, and how the
damage caused by overwhelming life experiences can be
reversed. This year we will explore new frontiers in this work,
frontiers that transcend old paradigms of talking, analyzing and
administering drugs.
The study of psychological trauma has been accompanied
by an explosion of knowledge about how experience
shapes the central nervous system and the formation of the
self. Developments in the neurosciences, developmental
psychopathology and information processing have contributed
to our understanding of how brain function is shaped by
experience and the belief that life itself can continually
transform perception and biology.
The study of trauma has probably been the single most
fertile area in helping to develop a deeper understanding of
the relationship among the emotional, cognitive, social and
biological forces that shape human development.
Starting with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults
and expanding into early attachment and overwhelming
experiences in childhood, this endeavor has elucidated how
certain experiences can“set”psychological expectations and
biological selectivity.
We have learned that most experience is automatically
processed on a subcortical level, i.e., by“unconscious”
interpretations that take place outside of awareness. Insight and
understanding have only a limited influence on the operation
of these subcortical processes. When addressing the problems
of traumatized people who, in a myriad of ways, continue to
react to current experience as a replay of the past, there is a
need for therapeutic methods that do not depend exclusively on
understanding and cognition.
The objective of this course is to present current research
findings on how people’s brains, minds, and bodies respond
to traumatic experiences; how they regulate emotional and
behavioral responses; and the role of relationships in protecting
and restoring safety and regulation.
We will explore post-traumatic responses at different
developmental levels, as well as the treatment implications
of these findings. We also will explore how affect regulation
and the interpretation of innocuous stimuli as threats require
interventions aimed at restoring active mastery and the
capacity to focus on the present. Traumatic memories often
are dissociated and may be inaccessible to verbal recall or
processing. Therefore, close attention must be paid to the
development of inner resources to deal with dysregulation and
helplessness, as well as to the careful timing of the exploration
and processing of the traumatic past.
In closing, the course will examine cutting-edge treatment
interventions for various trauma-based symptoms.
May 27 – 30, 2015
OBJECTIVES
CONTINUING EDUCATION
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program.
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for the program. ASWB Approval Period: January 27, 2014-January 27, 2017. Social workers
should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education
credits.
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sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PESI maintains responsibility for this
program and its content. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for
partial attendance.
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regulations. You should save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the
activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.
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3. TRACK I. SENSORY INTEGRATION (SMART)
(MANDATORY 2-DAY | WED., MAY 27 – THURS., MAY 28)
PRE-CONFERENCE
DETAILS May 27 – 28, 2015
PRE-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
REGISTRATION
PROGRAM
LUNCH (ONYOUR OWN)
8:00 – 8:30 AM
8:30 AM – 5:15 PM
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Trust-Based Relational Intervention:
Creating Healing Environments
Sand Tray Use in Trauma Processing
MORNING:
AFTERNOON:
This workshop will guide participants to understand
more deeply the comprehensive, pervasive and holistic
environment required to bring deep and lasting healing to
children who have experienced complex developmental
trauma.
Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) has been used
in a plethora of environments with children of all ages,
and all levels of risk. We will discuss a set of behavioral
strategies to help disarm the survival behaviors of
previously traumatized children, which we call Correcting
Principles. Through video clips, research, and case reviews,
this session will discuss pragmatics of this trust-based
intervention and its application to any environment that
serves harmed children.
Karyn Purvis, PhD
TRACK II. TRAUMA-FOCUSED THERAPY FOR
CHILDREN(THURS., MAY 28 | ONLY)
Sand Tray Therapy can promote healing as clients create
“worlds”through the use of sand, water, and symbolic
miniature figurines. The sensory nature of this approach
through the moving, digging, and forming of sand within
the boundary of the tray can purposely focus our clients’
attention on the present moment, enhancing mindfulness
and facilitating grounding. This workshop will provide an
introduction to the approach, explore client sand trays and
create their own sand trays.
Robert Aikin LICSW
Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART) for
Traumatized Children and Adolescents
Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART) is an
innovative and comprehensive mental health therapy for
complexly traumatized children and adolescents for whom
somatic, emotional and behavior dysregulation are core
problems that prevent formation of secure attachments with
caregivers, as well as rhythms of engagement with others in
their lives. The goal of this therapy is to expand the repertoire
of regulating experiences for children and their caregivers.
Therapists will learn a new array of sensory motor tools utilizing
sensory integration equipment such as weighted blankets and a
spinning board, and other equipment such as big pillows, fitness
balls, balance boards and jump ropes for active and playful
experimentation.
Elizabeth Warner, PsyD & Heather Finn, LICSW
Henrietta
DON’T MISS! THURSDAY EVENING ONLY
A play about the history of
medicine and the legacy of slavery
$20 at the door
The Main Conference Room at the
Seaport World Trade Center
Curtain at 7:30pm
Licia Sky, playwright, presented by
Red Sage Works & Writing Allies.

4. PRE-CONFERENCE
DETAILS Thurs., May 28, 2015
The Red Kite Rising Model (RKR)
Kids 4 Harmony
MORNING PART 1:
TRACK IV. BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACES
(THURS., MAY 28 | ONLY)
Nested in a child and family service service agency with a
powerful social justice mission, the Kids 4 Harmony program
unites parents, family, school and community in a quest for
musical excellence and social and economic opportunity. It
integrates ensemble instrumental performance with the
individual and family insights, supervision, and clinical practice
of trauma-informed social work. This workshop will include
presentations from participating experts in music, social work,
pediatrics, and developmental and clinical psychology, utilizing
films, clinical and supervisory observations, evaluation data, and
stories of how K4H addresses conceptual, political and funding
challenges.
Eli H. Newburger, MD, Carolyn Newburger. Ed.D,
Carolyn Mower Burns, LICSW and Maria Tarajano Rodman MA
TRACK III. EXPERIENTIAL INTERVENTIONS
(THURS., MAY 28 | ONLY)
This track, experiential approaches to self-regulation,
competency and connection, will explore four experiential
programs that use the arts, movement, synchrony, and physical
engagement for traumatized children and adults.
RKR was developed to empower children and adults in
Philadelphia struggling with traumatic stress. Its premise is that
trauma is both an injury to the body and a disruption to relational
processes, and that somatic movement and guided exercise
can reset the brain’s overactive alarm system. RKR teaches
conflict resolution skill building, self-control, and body language
awareness in circle processes where survivors learn to set healthy
boundaries, read each other’s cues, and gain self-confidence.
Charlotte DiBartolomeo, MA, Carmen DiBartolomeo, BFA
& Sam Stone, Dir. Red Kite Rising
MORNING PART 2:
The Bard and the Brain: The Power of
Shakespearean Verse, Metaphor and
the Mask of Character to Re-connect
and Re-integrate the Emotional Self.
Songwriting With: Soldiers
Applied Neuroscience to Focus Mind and Brain
An experiential introduction to the work of Feast of Crispian
a therapeutic support program that utilizes theatrical
acting techniques and Shakespeare text in support of post-
deployment combat veterans and their traumatic and
substance abuse recovery issues. Feast of Crispian uses
simple yet powerful acting techniques that allow the physical
experience and the full emotional range available in scenes
from Shakespeare’s plays.
Bill Watson, Nancy Smith Watson & Bernard Plansky, MD
Songwriting With: Soldiers pairs award-winning,
professional songwriters with Veterans in retreat
settings to help turn experiences into song. Using
collaborative songwriting as a catalyst to build creativity,
connections, and strengths, the program has held
events for military families, female veterans, active-duty,
and retired veterans around the United States. More
than 150 songs have been written and can be heard at
songwritingwithsoldiers.org/music
Mary Judd, Mary Gauthier & Darden Smith
This applied neuroscience track brings together researchers,
engineers, clinicians and neurobiologists who are exploring
ways in which computers can assist in the modulation of
focusing, arousal, and filtering, thereby shaping mental and
physiological self-experience.
One of the oldest, and best researched, approaches for
improving self-regulation of the central nervous system
is neurofeedback, which has been applied in a variety of
settings.
In this workshop participants will be exposed to an overview
of arousal dysregulation in severe emotional disorders and
ways in which technology can be used to regulate arousal
and improve emotional and behavioral functioning. We
will explore the use of the quantitative EEG, and review
the development of instrumentation that can help with
“essential self-experiences”.
Ed Hamlin, PhD, Sebern Fisher, MA, BCN, Kelly Dobson, PhD,
Catherine Kerr, PhD, Linda Stone, Paul A. Frewen, PhD, C.Psych,
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, Eric Vermetten, MD, PhD,
David Hagedorn PhD & Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
AFTERNOON PART 1:
AFTERNOON PART 2:
ALL DAY:
PRE-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
REGISTRATION
PROGRAM
LUNCH (ONYOUR OWN)
8:00 – 8:30 AM
8:30 AM – 5:15 PM
12:30 – 2:00 PM

5. Friday, May 29, 2015
8:00 – 8:30 AM Registration
8:30 – 9:30 AM Connecting Neuroscience Research with
Effective Treatments for Traumatic Stress
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
9:30 – 10:30 AM Minding the Baby®: Trauma, threat, and the
clinical process
Arietta Slade, PhD
10:30 – 10:45 AM Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45 AM Treating Severely Dissociative Patients:
Insights from the Treatment of Patients with
Dissociative Disorders Study
Bethany Brand, PhD
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM Panel Discussion & Questions,
Edward Tronick, Dick Schwartz & Faculty
conference participants
12:30 – 1:45 PM Lunch (on your own)
1:15 – 1:45 PM Chair Yoga (optional)
David Emerson, E-RYT
1:45 – 2:45 PM Calming the Fear-driven Brain: An Insider's
View of Treating Developmental Trauma
with Neurofeedback
Sebern Fisher, MA, BCN
2:45 – 3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 – 5:00 PM Afternoon Workshops
1. Consultation time Arietta Slade, PhD
2. Consultation time Bethany Brand, PhD
3. Consultation time Sebern Fisher, MA, BCN
4. How to set up a Trauma informed clinic
Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD, Alexandra Cook, PhD,
Marla Zucker, PhD & Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
5. Trauma informed systems change in K-12 education– the
Washington State and California experience
Chris Blodgett, PhD and Natalie Turner, MS
6. Trauma Treatment Evolved: Understanding the Basics and
Integrating Cutting Edge Brain Interventions
Shelley Uram, MD, Deirdre Stewart, MSC, LPC, SEP
7.Trauma-related Dissociation: Consciousness, Neuroscience,
Treatment
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD and Paul Frewen, PhD, C.Psych
8:00 – 8:30 AM Registration
8:30 – 9:30 AM Creating a New Narrative: Voices of Young
People of Color
John Rich, MD, MPH
9:30 – 10:30 AM Contributions of Energy Medicine to the
Treatment of Traumatic Stress
David Feinstein, PhD & Donna Eden
10:30 – 10:55 AM Panel Discussion
10:55 – 11:15 AM Coffee break (after this the group will split
into an adult and a child track)
11: 15 AM - 12:15 PM Child Track: Trauma & Healing: Nurturing
the Whole Child
Karyn Purvis, PhD
11:15 AM –12:15 PM Adult Track: Mind Fitness Training in
high stress environments and with
Predeployment Troops
Elizabeth Stanley, PhD
12:15 – 12:30 PM Discussions & Questions
12:30 – 1:45 PM Lunch (on your own)
1:15 – 1:45 PM Chair Yoga (optional)
David Emerson, E-RYT
1:45 – 3:45 PM Afternoon Workshops
3:45 – 4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00 PM The Spiritual: An African American
Response to the Trauma of Enslavement
Ysaye M. Barnwell, PhD
5:00 - 5:30 PM Closing: Quaker Style Sharing & Debriefing
(Optional)
1. Early Childhood Trauma; A 30,000 ft. Perspective- Who is
Doing the Research, How, and Who Funds it? Ellen M. Perry
2. Trust-Based Relational Intervention: Creating Healing
Environments Karyn Purvis, PhD
3. Healing Hurt People: A Trauma Informed Approach to Urban
Violence John A. Rich, MD, MPH and
Theodore J. Corbin, MD, MPP
4. Energy Medicine in the Treatment of Trauma
Donna Eden and David Feinstein, PhD
5. Discussion of Mind fitness training Elizabeth Stanley, PhD
6. Making schools trauma-sensitive – the Washington State and
California experience II Chris Blodgett, PhD and
Natalie Turner, MS
7. Trauma Treatment Evolved: Understanding the Basics and
Integrating Cutting Edge Brain Interventions
Shelley Uram, MD, Deirdre Stewart, MSC, LPC, SEP
Saturday, May 30, 2015
FRIDAY WORKSHOP OPTIONS
SATURDAY WORKSHOP OPTIONS

6. Robert Aikin, LICSW, Staff Clinician at Trauma Center, Acton, MA.
Ysaye M. Barnwell, PhD, Professor at the College of Dentistry at
Howard University and a vocalist and/or instrumentalist with
Sweet Honey In The Rock for the past 30 years. Her workshop
“Building a Vocal Community®: Singing in the African American
Tradition”has been conducted on three continents. She has
been involved in numerous choral, film, video, dance and
theatrical projects including“Sesame Street,”Dance Alloy,
David Rousseve’s Reality Dance Company, The New Spirituals
Project, GALA Festival Choruses, MUSE and The Steel Festival:
Art of an Industry.
Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD, Director of Training, the Trauma
Center at JRI; co-author, Treating Traumatic Stress in Children
and Adolescents: How to Foster Resilience through Attachment,
Self-Regulation, and Competency.
Chris Blodgett, PhD, Director of the National Child Traumatic
Stress Network’s CLEAR Trauma Center at Washington State
University with trauma informed systems change in education,
early learning and primary health care.
Bethany Brand, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Towson University,
Director of the Clinical Focus Program at Towson University;
Principal Investigator of the TOP DD study. Director of
Psychological Assessment and Senior Consultant for Trauma
Disorders Research, Sheppard Pratt Health System.
Carolyn Mower Burns, LICSW, President and CEO of Berkshire
Children & Families. Founder Kids 4 Harmony, Pittsfield MA.
Alexandra Cook, PhD, SMART team member; Associate Director
& Senior Supervisor, Trauma Center at JRI; co-author, With the
Phoenix Rising and a white paper: Complex Trauma in Children
and Adolescents.
Theodore J. Corbin, MD, MPP, Associate Professor, Emergency
Medicine & Health Management and Policy, Drexel University
College of Medicine/School of Public Health. Founder and
Director, Healing Hurt People hospital-based violence
intervention, Co-Director, Center for Nonviolence and Social
Justice.
Charlotte DiBartolomeo, MA, studied post-conflict
reconstruction in Bosnia after war and genocide. Developer
peace education for Arcadia University’s International Peace
and Conflict Resolution Department. Faculty, Drexel University.
Chief executive officer of Red Kite Project.
Carmen DiBartolomeo, BFA, martial artist, co-instructor, RKR
healing system.
Kelly Dobson, PhD, Chair, Rhode Island School of Design's
department of art and technology, Digital + Media, and
its MFA program. Her work focuses on our relationships
to each other and our apparatuses of self-support and
connection, using Medical Device Design, Critical Care
Medicine, and Mindfulness.
Donna Eden, is among the world's most sought after, most
joyous, and most authoritative spokespersons for Energy
Medicine. Author of Energy Medicine, has been translated
into 18 languages.
David Emerson, E-RYT, Yoga Instructor; Director, Trauma
Center Yoga Project. Author Overcoming Trauma through
Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body.
David Feinstein, PhD, Clinical psychologist, author, Energy
Medicine: Balancing Your Body's Energies for Optimal Health,
Joy, and Vitality, The Energies of Love: Using Energy Medicine
to Keep Your Relationship Thriving, Energy Medicine for
Women: Aligning Your Body's Energies to Boost Your Health
and Vitality.
Heather Finn, LICSW, Assistant Clinical Director at the
Trauma Center at JRI, an experienced trauma therapist and
a SMART trainer and consultant.
Sebern Fisher, MA, BCN, Psychotherapist and
neurofeedback consultant, Northampton, Mass. Author,
Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma:
Calming the Fear- Driven Brain.
Paul A. Frewen, PhD, C.Psych, Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of
Western Ontario; Chair, Traumatic Stress Section, Canadian
Psychological Association. Author of 35 papers on trauma,
affect regulation, mindfulness, dissociation, and the self.
Co-author (with Ruth Lanius), Healing the Traumatized Self:
Consciousness, Neuroscience & Treatment.
Mary Gauthier, Americana Troubadour, singer and
songwriter.
David Hagedorn, PhD, President, Chief Executive Officer,
and Chief Science Officer, Evoke Neuroscience, Inc,
Assistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine
and Family Medicine at Uniformed Services University of
the Health Sciences - School of Medicine.
Ed Hamlin, PhD, Clinical Director, Institute for Applied
Neuroscience and Director of Education, EEG Education
and Research.
Mary Judd, Executive Director, Songwriting With: Soldiers.
Specializing in creative programming and Positive
Psychology, she has developed custom tools and
programs for schools and social workers.
Catherine Kerr, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of
Family Medicine, Director of Translational Neuroscience,
Contemplative Studies Initiative Brown University.
FACULTY

7. Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry,
University of Western Ontario, Canada; Co-editor (with Eric
Vermetten and Clare Pain); The Impact of Early Life Trauma
on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic. And Healing the
Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience & Treatment
(2015).
Carolyn Moore Newberger, Ed.D, clinical and developmental
psychologist Clerk, Board of Berkshire Children & Families.
Eli H. Newberger, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at
Harvard Medical School and leader of Eli’s All-Stars, is a
pediatrician and professional musician. Former medical
director, Boston Children’s Hospital Child Protection Program
author: The Men They Will Become: The Nature and Nurture of
Male Character.
Ellen Miley Perry, entrepreneur, educator, and consultant,
founder of ECSC- Early Childhood Stress Collective, an initiative
devoted to helping translate the neuroscience of trauma into
understandable and actionable information for parents and
educators, author of A Wealth of Possibilities.
Bernard Plansky, MD, general practitioner in Rochester NY.
Karyn Purvis, PhD, developmental psychologist and researcher,
director of the Texas Christian University Institute of Child
Development, co-author of The Connected Child: Bringing Hope
and Healing to Your Adoptive Family, and co-developer of Trust-
Based Relational Intervention, a relationship-based model of
healing for harmed children.
John A. Rich, MD, MPH, Professor, Health Management and
Policy, Co-Director of Center for Nonviolence and Social
Justice, Drexel University School of Public Health. Author,
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of
Young Black Men. Recipient, McArthur Award Recipient.
Maria Tarajano Rodman, M.A., Vice President of Berkshire
Children & Families. Director, D.H.H.S. Office on Women’s
Health“Trauma-Informed Training Curriculum”
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, Developer of the Internal Family
Systems Model; Author of You Are The One You Have Been
Waiting For. Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard
Medical School.
Arietta Slade, PhD, Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study
Center; Professor Emerita City University of New York. Editor of
the six volume set, Major Work on Attachment, and Co-Director
of Minding the Baby®, an interdisciplinary reflective parenting
home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their
families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing.
Darden Smith, Founder, Songwriting With: Soldiers. Austin-based
singer-songwriter with fourteen critically acclaimed albums in
a career that spans almost three decades, exploring new and
innovative ways to use the craft of songwriting in education,
entrepreneurship studies, and service.
Nancy Smith-Watson, A trauma informed Somatic Body
worker, professional actress and Founder and Director of
Milwaukee based Feast of Crispian.
Elizabeth Stanley, PhD, Associate Professor of Security
Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service and Dept. of
Government Georgetown University; Founder, Mind
Fitness Training Institute.
Deirdre Stewart, MSC, LPC, SEP, Director of Trauma
Resolution Services at The Meadows, Wickenburg, Arizona.
Linda Stone, former VP Microsoft Corporation, and
Apple Computer, adjunct faculty in NYU’s Interactive
Telecommunications Program. Member Advisory Board,
Chill.com, Semi-Linear, Vital Connect, Leviathan Security,
Flipsicle, World Wildlife Fund, Pew Internet, American Life
Project, MIT Media Lab and part of the TED BrainTrust.
Her work focuses on Essential Self-Skills, Practices, and
Technologies - technologies that support autonomic
resilience and a sense of healthy embodiment.
Sam Stone, curriculum developer, lead instructor and
director of Red Kite Rising.
Natalie Turner, M.S., Associate Director of the National
Child Traumatic Stress Network’s CLEAR Trauma Center at
Washington State University.
Shelley Uram, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Founder and
Director of the Trauma elective for CHA/Harvard Medical
School Psychiatry Residents at The Meadows, Senior
Fellow at The Meadows.
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, BUSM;
Medical Director, Trauma Center at JRI; Past President,
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; Co-
Director, National Complex Trauma Treatment Network
(NCTSN); Author, The Body Keeps the Score: Mind Brain and
Body in Healing from Trauma (Viking, 2014).
Eric Vermetten, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry University
of Leiden, Head of Reseach Military Mental Health,
Ministery of Defense - Netherlands, Co-Author of The
Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease and
Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiology and Treatment.
Elizabeth Warner, PsyD, is the SMART Project Director at
the Trauma Center at JRI, and lead author of The SMART
Manual and related publications, and has trained in the US,
Canada and Hong Kong.
Bill Watson, Associate Professor of Theatre, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Actor, director and Co-Founder
of Milwaukee based Feast of Crispian that uses Theatre,
Acting processes and Shakespeare text and performance
to support somatic and emotional re-integration for post-
deployment combat veterans.
Marla Zucker, PhD, Clinical Director, Trauma Center at
Justice Resource Institute.

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(*MC/VISA/Discover: last 3-digit # on signature panel on back of card.)
(*American Express: 4-digit # above account # on face of card.)
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for office use only
ADA needs: Please contact The Meadows at (928) 684-4077 for ADA needs;
at least three weeks prior to event.
Hassle-Free Cancellation Policy: An administrative fee of $60 is deducted for
cancellation. Refund requests must be made in writing, fax or email to PESI,
and must be postmarked by May 1, 2015. No refunds will be made thereafter.
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Reg. 30 Days Before
Main Conference
+ One Pre-ConferenceTrack
Main Conference
+ Sensory IntegrationTrack
Main Conference Only
Select Track
See pages 2 – 3
Sign-up for main conference afternoon workshops on-site.
REGISTRATION OPTIONS FULL PRICE EARLY BIRD
RESIDENTS,
FELLOWS IN TRAINING,
FULL-TIME STUDENTS
■ $480 ■ $405 ■ $315*
■ II ■ III ■ IV
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4
May 29 – 30 ■ $375 ■ $305 ■ $225*
May 29 – 30
May 29 – 30
May 28
May 27 – 28
May 27 – 28
Sensory IntegrationTrack Only
*Letter of verification is required.
■ $365 ■ $315 ■ $225*
■ $575 ■ $495 ■ $395*
3
5
One Pre-ConferenceTrack Only
Select Track — See pages 2 – 3
■ $240 ■ $175 ■ $150*
■ II ■ III ■ IV
May 28
HOTEL CONFERENCE LOCATION
Seaport World Trade Center
200 Seaport Blvd | Boston, MA
02210 | 617-385-5000
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