Bessel van der Kolk

SAFE: A Personalized Plan to Recover From Trauma From the author of The Body Keeps the Score

A step-by-step, body-based toolkit to calm your nervous system, understand how trauma lives in the body, and build a routine you can actually stick with.

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What you will learn

  • How to calm your nervous system when anxiety is “always on”, using simple grounding practices you can apply in minutes, even on your worst days.
  • Why trauma doesn’t disappear just because you understand it - and how to calm what your body is still holding onto (tension, shutdown, hypervigilance, numbness).
  • The step-by-step method to identify your trauma patterns (reactivity, emotional overwhelm, sleep issues)… and finally stop being surprised by your own reactions.
  • How to rebuild a sense of internal stability through breath, posture, movement, and voice - instead of relying on willpower or “positive thinking.”
  • The exact tools to interrupt a trigger before it takes over, and regain control of your body and emotions in minutes.
  • How to create a personalized daily trauma routine you can maintain long-term, even if you struggle with consistency, motivation, or energy.
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SAFE: A Personalized Plan to Recover From Trauma From the author of The Body Keeps the Score

4 lessons Settling & Landing: Arriving
Lesson 1

Meet Bessel van der Kolk

07:07
Lesson 2

Navigating this masterclass

06:52
Lesson 3

Grounding Practices - Sitting & Mindful Breath

11:52
Lesson 4

Grounding Practice - Body Scan

12:08
12 lessons Awareness: Understanding What is Happening Inside Me?
Lesson 5

Becoming you

06:01
Lesson 6

Meet Licia Sky

11:36
Lesson 7

Orienting practices

09:53
Lesson 8

How is trauma relevant for your life?

06:11
Lesson 9

Self Talking/Self Holding practice

16:25
Lesson 10

Checking in with yourself

04:45
Lesson 11

Peripersonal Space: Proprioceptive Awareness

07:24
Lesson 12

Facial Massage practice

07:17
Lesson 13

Noticing current challenges

03:49
Lesson 14

Interoceptive Awareness

16:32
Lesson 15

What are my current resources? Waking up to life

07:44
Lesson 16

Tapping practice

07:38
17 lessons Feeling how trauma shapes the body and the self
Lesson 17

Attachment, Reciprocity and Attunement

20:13
Lesson 18

Side by side practice

17:48
Lesson 19

Yes and No practice

06:53
Lesson 20

Still face practice

07:32
Lesson 21

Palm to palm practice

09:18
Lesson 22

Heart sandwich practice

10:32
Lesson 23

Networks in the brain

10:24
Lesson 24

Yoga Based Movement practice

07:32
Lesson 25

Balance practice

05:38
Lesson 26

Body posture / attitude

12:42
Lesson 27

Standing practice

07:15
Lesson 28

A beginning Qi-gong practice

05:34
Lesson 29

Cultivating power practice (voice and movement)

03:48
Lesson 30

Need to know and name

04:29
Lesson 31

Vocal practice: vibration is awareness

12:49
Lesson 32

Vocal practice: Humming and toning non verbal vocalizations

10:29
Lesson 33

Connection to core practice

05:50
5 lessons Enroot reparative experiences in your life
Lesson 34

Imagination

03:34
Lesson 35

The consistent drawing practice

05:02
Lesson 36

Object-oriented free-write practice

07:08
Lesson 37

The importance of community

05:09
Lesson 38

See & Be Seen practice

07:57
10 lessons Bonus
Lesson 39

EMDR Practice

49:42
Lesson 40

EMDR

09:21
Lesson 41

Psychedelic Assisted Treatment

02:32
Lesson 42

The Path to Inner Safety - Day 1 Why Trauma Lives in the Body (with Gabor Maté)

83:09
Lesson 43

The Path to Inner Safety - Day 2 _ The Freeze Response (with Peter Levine)

76:32
Lesson 44

The Path to Inner Safety - Day 3 _ The Body can change the Score (with Bessel van der Kolk)

81:30
Lesson 45

Inner Safety - Day 4 : Exclusive excerpts from the masterclasses of Gabor Maté & Bessel van der Kolk

79:54
Lesson 46

The Path to Inner Safety - Day 5 _ Trauma, Dissociation, and the Body (with Frank Anderson)

104:18
Lesson 47

Gabor and Bessel's opening ceremony

100:09
Lesson 48

An EMDR-Inspired Self-Guided Session Inspired by Bessel van der Kolk

15:32
2 lessons Closing & Integration: Your Next Steps
Lesson 49

Closing Grounding Practice

02:46
Lesson 50

You as a person: making it your own (conclusion)

08:06

Maybe you know exactly what happened to you.

Maybe you have already written about it.

Maybe you have even spent years trying to understand it.

And yet...

Your body still reacts as if the danger were still present.

You wake up tired, even after a full night's sleep.

You feel tense for no apparent reason.

You ruminate constantly.

You can't really relax.

You are easily upset.

You withdraw into yourself, you disconnect, you become insensitive.

Or, on the contrary, you explode, and afterwards, you don't even recognize yourself anymore.

Sometimes you say to yourself: "I should have moved on by now."

But trauma doesn't work that way.

Because trauma isn't just a memory, it's a state.

A state where your nervous system remains on high alert... even when life seems “normal” on the outside.

That's why so many people feel stuck.

Not because they haven't tried, but because they've tried to solve a physical problem with their minds alone.

They've tried therapy.

They've tried talking about it, understanding it, “staying positive.”

Of course, that helps... to a certain extent.

But deep down, something doesn't change.

The feeling of disconnection is still there.

The anxiety and sleep disorders are still there.

And the worst part is that after a while, people stop believing that change is possible.

They start to think: “Maybe this is just how I am now.”

This masterclass was created precisely for that moment.

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, world-renowned psychiatrist and author of “The Body Keeps the Score,” has spent decades studying a fundamental truth:

Trauma is written into the body.

And if you want real change, you need more than just awareness.

You need practice.

Not random exercises found on the internet, not a generic morning routine that lasts three days,

But a clear method,

A set of structured tools,

And a step-by-step approach to discovering what really works for you.

That's what this masterclass offers you:

A practical trauma management program,

With grounding exercises, breathing exercises, movement exercises, vocal exercises, relational tools, and trauma integration practices...

All designed to help you reduce feelings of being overwhelmed, reconnect with your body, and create a routine that you can actually maintain, even when you're tired, stressed, or emotionally exhausted.

Because your biggest obstacle isn't information, it's putting it into practice.

It's knowing what to do when you feel overwhelmed, when your body reacts with fight, flight, or freeze.

This training is designed to help you.

It offers a structured set of exercises and a personalized method for identifying the tools that really change your state and how to integrate them into your daily routine.

Because trauma is not resolved through awareness alone.

It is resolved when the body learns to react differently.

Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk

Dr. Bessel van Der Kolk is one of the world’s leading experts on trauma.

For over 40 years, he’s helped people heal from post-traumatic stress disorder, emotional wounds, and the hidden scars of the past.

A pioneer in body-centered therapy, Dr. van Der Kolk has dedicated his life to understanding how trauma reshapes the brain, the body, and our ability to feel safe and connected.

His groundbreaking book, The Body Keeps the Score, has transformed the way millions of people understand trauma, revealing why it isn’t “just in your head,” and how you can finally reclaim your life, your peace of mind, and your sense of self.

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  • Anna Runkle

  • Anne Tuffigo

  • Bernard Thellier

  • Bessel van der Kolk

  • Boris Cyrulnik

  • Christophe André

  • Christophe Caupenne

  • David Laroche

  • Dr Réginald Allouche

  • Fabien Olicard

  • Fabrice Midal

  • Frank Anderson

  • Frédéric Lenoir

  • Gabor Maté

  • Isabelle Filliozat

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