🚨 5 Days Free Online Event — Limited slots.
How Trauma Lives in the Body – and How to Feel Safe Again
Stuck in survival mode? Here’s why your body won’t let go.
5 days to understand trauma through the body and nervous system
With the world’s leading trauma experts
Gabor Maté, Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine & Frank Anderson
Physician & Bestselling Author
World-Renowned Trauma Expert
World-Renowned Trauma Expert
World-Renowned Trauma Expert
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March 10, 11, 12 and 13 at 7pm and March 15 at 6pm (New York time)
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The Program
Tuesday, March 10 at 7 PM (New York time)
Why Trauma Lives in the Body, and How to Get Out of Survival Mode
With GABOR MATÉ
- A powerful real-life story showing how trauma can stay stored in the body long after the event is over.
- The science behind the trauma-body connection: why your nervous system keeps reacting even when life feels safe.
- Why trauma often begins with disconnection from the body – and how that disconnection shapes anxiety, shutdown, and chronic tension.
- Why you can't simply "move on": how trauma keeps your body stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or collapse, even years later.
- Live exercise with Gabor Maté: a simple body-based practice to reconnect with yourself and create inner safety.
- Live Q&A with Gabor Maté
Wednesday, March 11 at 7 PM (New York time)
The Freeze Response: The Missing Piece in Trauma
With PETER LEVINE
- Why humans stay stuck in trauma while animals don't: what the body is designed to do after danger.
- Freeze, fight, flight: how an incomplete survival response keeps your nervous system locked in tension, fear, or shutdown.
- The hidden mechanism of trauma: why the thinking brain often blocks the body's natural recovery process.
- Titration and pendulum explained simply: why "going slowly" is not avoidance but the safest path forward.
- Live practice with Peter Levine: a guided exercise to reconnect with body sensations and begin releasing stored survival energy.
- Live Q&A with Peter Levine
Thursday, March 12 at 7 PM (New York time)
The Body can change the Score: How to Calm Your Body’s Stress Response After Trauma
With BESSEL VAN DER KOLK
- How widespread trauma really is: why it affects far more people than we think, often starting in childhood.
- What trauma does to the body and nervous system: how it reshapes stress responses, emotions, sleep, and the ability to feel safe.
- Can the trauma response be changed? what it looks like when the body and nervous system finally begin to shift.
- Why body-based practices can succeed where talk therapy fails: yoga, movement, breath, EMDR and other approaches explained in simple terms.
- Live practice: a guided exercise to shift how the body holds the past
- Live Q&A
Friday, March 13 at 7 PM (New York time)
Special Session: Exclusive excerpts from the masterclasses of Gabor Maté and Bessel van der Kolk
With GABOR MATÉ & BESSEL VAN DER KOLK
- Gabor Maté : What trauma really is (and why it’s not what you think)
- Bessel van der Kolk : How trauma still shapes your daily life (without you realizing it)
- Bessel van der Kolk : Tapping practice to calm the nervous system
- Live Q&A
Sunday, March 15 at 2 PM (New York time)
Trauma, Dissociation, and the Body: Why You Shut Down (and How to Come Back)
With FRANK ANDERSON
- Why trauma creates dissociation: how the mind and body disconnect as a survival strategy.
- The parts of you that take over: what IFS reveals about anxiety, numbness, people-pleasing, and self-sabotage.
- How trauma shows up physically: fatigue, tension, chronic stress, panic, shutdown, and why it's not "in your head."
- Why your symptoms are actually protectors: how your body reactions are driven by parts of you trying to keep you safe.
- Live practice with Frank Anderson: a guided exercise to identify the part of you that triggers anxiety, numbness, or control, and reconnect with your body safely.
- Live Q&A with Frank Anderson
When the past still weighs on you… even years later.
Trauma doesn’t always look the way people imagine.
It doesn’t always come with clear memories, dramatic flashbacks, or a story you can easily explain.
Very often, trauma shows up somewhere else.
In your body.
In your nervous system.
In the way you react to life, relationships, stress… and even happiness.
It can show up as constant fatigue that never really goes away.
As tension you can’t fully release.
As a sense of being on alert all the time, even when nothing is wrong.
Or, on the opposite end, as emotional numbness… like you’re watching your own life from a distance.
You may recognize yourself in some of these situations:
- You overreact… or shut down completely, without understanding why.
- You keep repeating the same patterns, even when you know they're unhealthy.
- You feel anxious, tense, or overwhelmed far more often than you'd like.
- You struggle to feel safe in your body, even in calm situations.
- You crave connection, but something inside keeps pulling you away.
- You can't fully relax, as if your body never got the message that the danger is over.
- You carry shame, guilt, or a constant feeling of not being "enough," without knowing where it comes from.
- You've done therapy, read books, worked on yourself… but something still won't shift.
- And sometimes, right when things start getting better, your system pulls you back into survival mode.
If this feels familiar, it’s not a lack of willpower.
And it’s not a personal weakness.
It’s often what trauma leaves behind: invisible imprints that stay stored in the body and nervous system.
During 5 live online evenings, alongside some of the world’s leading trauma experts, you’ll discover a body-based approach to trauma, and learn why real change begins when the body starts to feel safe again.
You’ll finally understand what’s been happening inside you… and how to move forward, with more calm, clarity, and inner stability.
Guided by the masters
Guided by the masters
5 days to understand trauma
Dr. Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-Canadian physician, author, and speaker renowned for his work on addiction, trauma, stress, and childhood development.
Born in 1944 during the Holocaust, his early experiences of trauma shaped his perspective on the mind-body connection and the impact of early childhood stress on lifelong health.
Gabor worked as a family physician and later in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, providing compassionate care to marginalized populations struggling with addiction and chronic illness. He redefines addiction as a response to emotional pain and emphasizes the link between unresolved trauma and physical or mental health issues.
His bestselling books, including In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and When the Body Says No, explore these themes and advocate for holistic healing.
A sought-after speaker, Gabor Maté inspires a compassionate understanding of health and well-being, addressing root causes rather than symptoms.
Though retired from medical practice, he continues to influence global conversations on trauma and recovery.
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.
Dr. Peter A. Levine is one of the world’s leading pioneers in trauma healing and the developer of Somatic Experiencing, a body‑based, neuroscience‑informed approach to resolving traumatic stress.
Drawing on more than 50 years of clinical practice and research, he has shown how trauma lives in the nervous system—not just in thoughts and memories—and how gentle, titrated work with bodily sensations can restore safety, resilience, and aliveness.
A biophysicist and psychologist by training, Dr. Levine has consulted for institutions ranging from NASA to international trauma‑relief programs and has helped shape the modern understanding of stress, PTSD, and recovery.
He is the bestselling author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma and numerous other books, which have brought somatic trauma work to millions of people worldwide and inspired a new generation of practitioners.
Dr. Frank Anderson is one of the world’s leading experts on psychological trauma and dissociation. For over 30 years, he has helped people heal from post‑traumatic stress disorder, deep emotional wounds, and complex trauma.
A Harvard‑trained psychiatrist and a key figure in the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, he has dedicated his life to understanding how trauma rewires the brain, the nervous system, and our capacity to feel safe, connected, and fully alive.
Author of Transcending Trauma and To Be Loved, he has helped transform how both clinicians and the public understand trauma: why it’s not “just in your head,” and how you can reclaim your inner power, your peace, and your sense of self.
Over 500,000 people have already attended MentorShow webinars
I have feelings of excitement, adventure and fear all wrapped up inside me as I embark on this journey with you, Gabor. But I'm also grateful for the opportunity to heal.
I truly wish the Maté HEAL Method was practiced in mental health facilities everywhere. As a therapist, I can say I learned more to help clients through this program than in graduate school.
So grateful to Dr. Maté for sharing his wisdom.
Through your work I finally found answers about myself and my biography after 30+ years of searching. And know I try to pass this understanding on to my patients every day. So – THANK YOU Gabor! 🙂
I really enjoyed this self awareness practise in doing it regular settles me.
Each one of these lessons is just amazing. Thank you Dr. Mate for doing this class, and for having the workbook and the summary slides at the end of each lesson. Clearly I'll be doing the class more than once to catch all of the teaching!
The happy childhood exercise was amazing, really gave me a lot to think about as I would be in the same space as this woman shared. Amazing, hadn't thought of this series of questions before but they are very powerful.
I do have access now to the Gabor Mate's Masterclass. Please, extend my gratitude with all the team that make this masterpiece possible. It changed my life and I am quite sure it will do the same for too many people around the world.
Twenty years of therapy didn't come close to the healing I received listening! Whole parts of my personality were explained after 60 years on this glorious planet! Oh please always remember how precious and important you are. You brought me answers to questions I didn't even know I had about why I automatically respond to others. Do you know how important you are in my healing journey???!! Yes, it was Dr Maté's words but I would not have received this amazing gift if not for you. Thank you from my entire spirit and soul and mind. Man, I love you guys!
I joined MentorShow last month specifically to take Dr. Gabor Maté's course on The H.E.A.L. Method: The Breakthrough Protocol for Healing from Trauma and Transforming Your Life. It was incredibly insightful and helpful—so much so that my husband downloaded it on his own computer just to follow along with me. We both found Gabor to be down-to-earth, compassionate, intuitive and genuinely easy to connect with. He has a way of explaining how inner trauma impacts our bodies and minds that feels both deeply personal and easy to understand. His authenticity and warmth really shine through. I'm also looking forward to exploring other courses on the platform, which cover a range of topics—from food and health to spirituality and healing. Another great bonus: you get access to all the content for an entire year.
I experienced such insight in this exercise, that I channelled automatic writing at a very deep level of understanding. Showing me wisdom, and releasing trauma to heal. Thank you Gabor for this wonderful course and blessings to everyone participating!
Even if I work as a psychotherapist, as a mentor, I'm learning how speak deep on me with compassion, how to follow with love my thoughts and feeling, how give that to my son too. Be here, listening to you is my gift to that little girl inside of me.
Thank you to Dr. Gabor and your team and guests for a tremendously life changing Masterclass. Thank you for your time, vulnerability, compassion, generosity of words, resources, tools, book recommendations which will become part of my life moving forward.
I found this lifeline late in life. But it will have an effect on all my life anyway – because I understand much more of my whole life now. I see my family in another way, and also myself. Thanks Gabor. And I will try to remember: Do it!
How beautiful is this! The way and tone that Gabor speaks makes it easier for me to understand what lies beyond his words.
All my gratitude to Dr. Gabor Maté for his generosity, and to everyone who made this Masterclass possible. I am truly happy to have taken this program.