Embracing the Possibility of Post-Traumatic Resilience

with Christopher Willard, PsyD

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What you'll learn

  • Explore post-traumatic growth and how to nurture it without encouraging toxic positivity, helping the client focus on becoming the person they want to be during challenging times.
  • Discover the role of co-regulation in therapy through the turbulence metaphor, and learn how staying calm and creating a safe environment can enhance emotional support for clients.
  • Explore practical strategies for your own well-being, including the CALM technique, exercise, and gratitude practices, to support mental health, manage negative emotions, and stay focused on the goals of therapeutic work.

About the speakers

Christopher Willard, PsyD

Christopher Willard, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, author, and consultant based in Massachusetts. He has spoken in over thirty-five countries, and has presented at two TEDx events. He is the author of twenty books, including Growing Up Mindful(2014), How we Grow Through What We Go Through (2022), and Feelings are Like Farts (2024). His thoughts on mental health have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, mindful.org, cnn.com, and elsewhere. He teaches at Harvard Medical School.  

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  • Thank you, Chris, for sharing! I was wondering how you work with clients who are socialized in a top-down culture and have, therefore, difficulty making sense of the equitable/moderately top-down relationship concept.

  • Chris has such healthy and positive energy! “You cannot pour from an empty cup” – taking care of yourself should be a priority!

  • As you said we have to have compassion for ourselves in order to give it. I smudge sage in between sessions and it helps us both to come in a good way with an open heart.

  • I like that Chris talks about the need to model self-compassion for our clients. It’s important to give our clients hope and help by sharing our struggles and successes and providing them with insights into our experiences.

  • This was my favorite of the many wonderful presentations! I so appreciated Chris’ willingness to be so vulnerable. I found what he had to share incredibly valuable. Thank you, Chris!

  • Thank you so much this was very inspiring. It gave me a new and refreshed outlook on how to help my students and myself as a School Counselor.

  • I did not find this talk helpful. It wasn’t very deep for me. I’ve been a therapist for 43 years and was hoping for more specifics and in depth examples.

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