Master’s Events Oxford Trauma Conference 2025

I went to this year’s Master’s events Oxford trauma conference with the intention of learning and being around likeminded colleagues.

What I didn’t expect, was the profound sense of community, the level of connection nor to experience such powerful personal shifts during the workshops.

The incredible 4 hour workshop with Ester Perel

Panel with Myira Khan, Linda Thai, Mike Niconchuk & Bessel Van der Kolk: Power, Freedom, and Belonging: Collective Healing in a Fragmented World -

Acknowledging these truths- We live in a systematically oppressive world

And that politics decides who has access to healing

Tara Swart & Poppy Delbridge: Rewiring Connection: Using Neuroscience, Tapping and Energy to Heal Relationships -

A beautiful demonstration of rapid tapped; showing the power of vulnerability and self compassion.

Gil Gomes Leal (The Grid) The Body as a Portal: Exploring Movement, Myth and Connection

This was quite simply the most powerful workshop I’ve done. Check out their website www.amenti.world

Linda Thai: An Expanded Conceptualisation of Secure Attachment -

‘A refugee is someone nobody wants’

‘We cannot grieve what we cannot name’

Bea Palya: Bless Your Body With Your Voice: Put Your Members Into Song

An incredibly powerful workshop - again, difficult to put into words the transformational power of this workshop.

Marissa Nelson: Reclaiming Connection: Exploring Intimacy, Vulnerability and Trust

The Closing

Ajoia - this incredible musical duo combine music with the work of Stephen Porges and the polyvagal theory- what an incredibly joyous way to end a conference!

There were many other amazing speakers. And I learnt so much! But it was the connections, the feeling of community that will really stay with me.