Workshop with Dr. Gabor Maté and Douglas Brady, M.Ed
March 2 – 4, 2012
Held at Earthrise Retreat Center, Petaluma, California

Join us in this illuminating workshop with Dr. Gabor Maté, renowed physician, inspiring speaker, and internationally published best selling author and Douglas Brady, a somatic psychotherapist and visionary healer.

Dr Maté lucidly summarizes the latest scientific findings about the role that stress and individual emotional makeup play in an array of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, cancer, and ALS, among others. He will present the latest findings of modern science.

You will learn that that our body and our mind are not separate, and there is a great wisdom in your body. You will learn that you can access this powerful wisdom and bring your life and your health back into a healthy alignment and live a more stress free, pain free life.

• Can a person literally die of loneliness?
• Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer’s?
• Is there such a thing as a “cancer personality”?
• How does the inability to say no impair the functioning of our immune system?
• How does being a chronic “pleaser,” “caretaker,” or ” pusher” create subtle inner stress that compromises our immune system and lead to chronic illness?

In clear, easy-to-follow language, best selling author Dr. Gabor Maté will provide answers to these and other important questions about the effects of stress and repressed emotions on health and the immune system.

• Discover the key characteristics that promote health and wellness
• Learn about the personality traits that are associated with illness
• Explore the nature of stress and its physiological consequences
• Learn how to recognize hidden stress patterns and transform them

Offering profound insights into the link between emotions and disease, Maté’s bestselling book, When the Body Says No, presents scientific evidence that a connection exists between the mind and the immune system—along with illuminating case studies from his years as a family practitioner that reveal how one’s psychological state before the onset of disease may influence its course and final outcome.

“When we have been prevented from learning how to say no, our bodies may end up saying it for us.”

Dr. Maté explains how the dynamics of self-repression operate in all of us. With the help of dozens of moving and enlightening case studies and vignettes drawn from his two decades as a family practitioner, he provides poignant insights into how disease is often the body’s way of saying “no” to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge.

This one day workshop promotes learning and healing, and helps improve physical and emotional self-awareness—which, Dr. Maté asserts, is at the root of much of the stress that chronically debilitates health and prepares the ground for disease.”

Dr. Maté will be joined by Douglas Brady, M.Ed, an expert somatic psychotherapist and creator of the “Psychology of Symptoms” healing process. Douglas will  be doing a live demonstration of his cutting edge psychospiritual healing work. You will have the opportunity to witness how survival patterns become engrained in our physiology and lead to stress patterns and eventually disease. You will learn how to access states outside of these survival stress patterns that allow your physiology to relax, heal and embrace a new way of being… All healing involves a shift in who we are being.

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Gabor Maté M.D. is a physician and bestselling author, highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics, from addiction and attention deficit disorder ADD to mind-body wellness, adolescent mental health, and parenting. As a writer and speaker, he is widely known for the power, insight, clarity, candour, compassion, humor, and warmth of his presentations.

Douglas Brady, M.Ed is a somatic psychotherapist and visionary healer. Douglas specializes in the “Psychology of Symptoms,” a profound adjunct to western medical treatment, synthesized over 30 years of study and experience. He teaches nationally at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and Shambhala Mountain Center.