Health Events in Adelaide

Speaker Professor Sean Cain, a world-leading circadian biologist, presents new insights for improving wellbeing. Presented by Professor Sean Cain - Matthew Flinders Professor in FHMRI Sleep Health at Flinders University - this talk will help you to understand the newest scientific findings on the relationship of light exposure and mental health risk. In this session, you’ll learn: The biological mechanisms of light and mood – how light exposure directly influences emotion regulation and depression. Why our modern lifestyle may be harming our mental health – the consequences of spending our days indoors away from natural light and the over-illumination of our homes at night. Differences in light sensitivity – a mechanism for current depression symptoms and antidepressant mode of action. The circadian disruption-depression connection – how misalignment between our biology and environment contributes to mental health risk. Practical applications – how simple light interventions can improve mental health and treatment efficacy. What come’s next and how you can get involved?

A healing, educational workshop for therapists, practitioners and the general public. Dr Bessel van der Kolk supported by Licia Sky, Tania de Jong AM & Benny Holloway. This unique workshop will explore how trauma affects people’s rhythms within themselves and with their surroundings. Trauma changes the way the brain processes information and how the human organism engages with the world. This special event will explore the neurobiology of self-regulation and examine ways of befriending one’s body, voice and nervous system. Bessel will explore how the brain is shaped by experience and how our relationship to our sense of self is the product of our synchronicity with those around us. Healing may involve a variety of different approaches. He will share clinical experiences and world-leading research with psychedelic-assisted therapies, EMDR, yoga, meditation and bodywork, music and theatre, and neurofeedback. He will outline the efficacy of these various techniques in helping people overcome a traumatic past and regain the capacity to be fully alive in the present.