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We are pleased to share our NEW animation on the Window of Tolerance. Find out how a traumatised child swings from fight/flight to freeze/collapse; and what adults can do to help bring the child back into their window of tolerance so they can be at their personal best. Thank you to Ben at Bensound.com for allowing his track 'Memories' to be used in this way. Full credits can also be found at the end of the animation.

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

Short film presentation explaining the four core healing practices-- movement, sound, storytelling through image, and silence through contemplative and self-regulatory practices. This is an introduction to the implicit experiences found in expressive work and particularly expressive arts therapy that is used as a way to understand and repair the body's experience of trauma. Opening presentation for arts, culture, and trauma session for the United Nations Geneva Switzerland, by Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, psychologist and expressive arts therapist, author of Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process [Guilford, 2020] For more information see https://expressive-arts-therapy.thinkific.com/ Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute Learning Center The Institute website at http://www.trauma-informedpractice.com The website of Cathy Malchiodi, PhD at http://www.cathymalchiodi.com To find Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process, go to Guilford Publications for a free sample at https://www.guilford.com/books/Trauma-and-Expressive-Arts-Therapy/Cathy-Malchiodi/9781462543113