The Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Workbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Mindfulness Teachers
Book Details
- Publisher : WW Norton & Co
- Published : April 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 336
- Category :
Trauma and Violence - Catalogue No : 98153
- ISBN 13 : 9781324030645
- ISBN 10 : 132403064X
Also by David A. Treleaven
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The formative, step-by-step guide to trauma-sensitive mindfulness practice.
Unbeknownst to many, mindfulness can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner-world, people struggling with trauma can experience flashbacks, dysregulation, or dissociation.
Here, trauma specialist David Treleaven builds on his pioneering work to offer a practical guide for integrating trauma-sensitivity into mindfulness practices. From the nuances of trauma’s impact on the individual to adapting mindfulness in diverse contexts, Treleaven provides step-by-step guidance, practical exercises, and real-world applications to ensure mindfulness is both safe and transformative. Structured to deepen understanding and skill, this comprehensive resource covers foundational principles and specialized adaptations, empowering mindfulness teachers with cutting-edge tools and insights. This is an essential guide for anyone looking to navigate the complexities of trauma with mindfulness and to foster environments of healing, resilience, and inclusivity.
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An essential upgrade for anyone who thinks of themselves as a mindfulness teacher or is in training to become one. Respect for the ubiquity of trauma in our world and its multiplicity of harmful and enduring aftermaths is essential in teaching any mindfulness-based intervention to others, particularly in large and diverse classes, whether in person or online. David Treleaven has done us all a great service by articulating the landscape of trauma so clearly and compassionately and suggesting how to navigate it in skillful and emotionally intelligent ways while also recognizing and honoring in every moment the sovereignty, profound strengths, and potential for resilience of even the most wounded of us—the wholeness and beauty that holds the scars and invites great healing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of MBSR and author of Full Catastrophe Living and The Healing Power of Mindfulness
Full of detailed and practical wisdom, this wonderful book shows how teaching mindfulness can provide a safe and supportive environment without fostering a sense of fragility or helplessness. David Treleaven points us toward the choices available within mindfulness practice, which become the foundation for unlocking a person’s inner capacity for healing and recovering a fullness of life they hadn’t thought possible. This is a book that all mindfulness teachers will want to keep close at hand.
Mark Williams, emeritus professor of clinical psychology, University of Oxford, and coauthor of The Mindful Way Through Depression
David Treleaven does it once again in The Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Workbook and provides healing practitioners with a practical guide for offering mindfulness in a safe, effective, compassionate, evidenced-based, and trauma-informed way. Written with deep integrity and care and providing detailed scripts, empowering language, intake forms, and supportive guidance—I do not know a more detailed or comprehensive workbook that exists on this framework. I am in awe. Accessible to mental health professionals and mindfulness teachers alike, this resource will provide confidence and tangible support to so many looking to add trauma-sensitive mindfulness to their healing toolkit.
Zahabiyah Yamasaki , MEd, RYT, trauma-informed yoga educator, consultant, and author of Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault
So wise and empowering! This book takes readers into the mindand the heart of a pioneer in trauma-sensitive mindfulness. In his warm and balanced way, David Treleaven unpacks for mindfulness teachers everything they need to know to work safely and effectively with trauma. Even seasoned teachers will feel empowered by this special book. I sincerely hope it lands on the desks of mindfulness and compassion teachers throughout the world.
Christopher K. Germer, PhD, lecturer on psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and codeveloper, Mindful Self-Compassion program
About the Author(s)
David A. Treleaven, PhD, is an author and trauma professional specializing in the intersection of mindfulness, meditation, and trauma. An international teacher, his work empowers practitioners worldwide with tools for trauma-informed mindfulness practice. He resides in Berkeley, California.
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