Gabor Mate – Compassionate Inquiry in Action: An Experiential Course for the Healing of Deep Traumatic Wounds
Join renowned trauma expert Gabor Maté and experience how to quickly get to the core of client suffering — to achieve profound, lasting transformation.
As clinicians, we need to be able to identify and understand our clients’ issues at their deep and complex roots.
That can be incredibly challenging and time-consuming, often requiring therapists to search, week after week, in the hopes of uncovering the true source of pain.
Renowned speaker and physician Gabor Maté is an expert at achieving rapid breakthrough results with even the most difficult mental health problems.
After spending decades working with drug addiction and mental illness from an up-close, personal perspective, he developed Compassionate Inquiry — an approach that takes the simple act of asking questions…
…and transforms it into a powerful intervention that gets to the heart of client suffering more quickly and effectively than you likely ever imagined possible.
Now in this unique online course, you’ll experience Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry
approach in action with multiple, real client scenarios.
Get a front-row seat as Gabor demonstrates his method by working with dozens of audience members, one at a time, without any prior awareness of their struggles.
You’ll learn the methods he uses to address substance abuse, infidelity, relationship issues, trauma, childhood attachment wounds, and so much more…
…while establishing a healing environment that even includes dance, laughter, and music.
What You’ll Learn In Compassionate Inquiry in Action
Join Gabor Maté for four highly engaging modules where you’ll experience his Compassionate Inquiry approach in action as he works with multiple, real clinical issues, including: substance abuse, infidelity, relationship issues, trauma, childhood attachment wounds, early childhood ruptures, and more.
Discover first-hand how he achieves rapid connection and insight, leading to breakthrough results!
Module 1 | Getting to the Truth of Trauma Using Compassionate Inquiry
In this module, Gabor explains exactly how to help clients discover the roots of their suffering. Going beyond individual experience, he also reveals how civilization and culture have fueled fear and disconnection, making us more vulnerable to trauma.
Watch as Gabor demonstrates the discovery process using case examples and live interaction. You will learn how to use Compassionate Inquiry to help your clients:
- Rethink their behavior
- Get to the root of addiction
- Develop a better understanding of themselves
- Increase self-compassion and awareness
Module 2 | Developing a Deeper Understanding of Trauma
In the second module, Gabor begins by providing a new way of defining and understanding your clients’ experience with trauma. Watch as your peers get their specific trauma questions answered through a series of dialogues with Gabor. Then see, first-hand, how Compassionate Inquiry leads clients to:
- Find compassion for their pain
- Reclaim authenticity after trauma
- Move from guilt to forgiveness
Module 3 | Moving Beyond the Past to Find Well-Being in the Present
Discover how to confidently guide your clients through painful emotions to reconnect with their “True Self.” Go even deeper into the method of Compassionate Inquiry through lecture, conversation, and demonstration as you learn how to:
- Create a sense of safety in the therapeutic alliance
- Decode a client’s present experience by understanding their past
- Help clients release anger and move towards healing
- Assist clients in safely reconnecting with themselves
Module 4 | Bringing Authenticity into Compassionate Inquiry
In this final module, Gabor provides even more insights into the development of suffering by exploring the multigenerational transmission of trauma. Take your confidence with Compassionate Inquiry to the next level as you explore the many levels of compassion and review the “Stepping Stones” of this powerful method. Gabor continues to bring Compassionate Inquiry to life as he demonstrates:
- How to work with emotional avoidance in treatment
- Exactly what to do if you and your client share similar pain
- How to lead your client from the pain of the past to liberation in the present
About Gabor Mate
Gabor Maté, MD, is a renowned speaker and bestselling author. Dr. Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development.
His Compassionate Inquiry approach draws from his professional work as a physician as well as his personal experience, having suffered trauma as an infant in Nazi-occupied Hungary, and his adult struggles with behavioral addictions, depression, and an ADHD diagnosis.
As an author, Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books published in more than 20 languages on five continents, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction; When the Body Says No: Exploring The Stress/Disease Connection; and his newest book, The Myth of Normal.
Among other honors, Dr. Maté has received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction; an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Simon Fraser University, and the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian distinction.
