Mapping Your Intergenerational Trauma

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Breaking the Cycle: Healing the Hidden Patterns Passed Down Through Generations

Have you ever wondered why certain patterns—conflict, distance, or over-responsibility—keep repeating in your family, generation after generation?

So often, the challenges we face in our adult lives are not only our own—they’re the echoes of unresolved wounds, loyalties and survival strategies passed down through our lineage.

In this free 90-minute webinar, internationally respected trauma experts Dr Diane Poole Heller and Dr Alex Howard will guide you through a powerful exploration of how intergenerational trauma shapes our lives, and how you can begin to change the story for yourself—and future generations.

In this experiential session, you'll discover:

How parentification shapes your sense of self, relationships and boundaries

The hidden dynamics of estrangement—and why distance isn’t always the “final answer”

How ancestral inheritance impacts your identity, emotions and life choices

Practical tools to begin mapping your family trauma patterns so you can move toward healing

Whether you’re seeking to understand your own family story, to deepen your healing journey, or to stop passing down patterns to the next generation, this session will give you clarity, insight and practical next steps.

Who is this program for?

You’ve noticed repeating patterns of conflict, disconnection or over-responsibility in your family and want to understand why.

You often feel like you’re carrying the weight of others’ emotions or struggles, even across generations.

You’ve experienced parentification—taking on adult roles or responsibilities as a child—and want to explore how it shaped your identity and relationships.

You’re estranged from a family member (or considering distance) and want insight into the deeper dynamics beneath that choice.

You sense family wounds, secrets or unresolved pain still affect your life, even if they happened long before you were born.

You’re on a personal healing journey and want to explore how ancestral and intergenerational patterns play a role in your growth.

You’re a parent, partner or caregiver who wants to stop passing down old patterns to the next generation.

You’re a therapist, coach or healer seeking to deepen your understanding of how trauma is transmitted through family systems.

You feel called to change your family story—to move from survival toward healing, connection and wholeness.

Meet your hosts:

Dr Diane Poole Heller

Dr Diane Poole Heller PhD is an internationally recognized speaker, author and expert in the field of attachment theory and trauma resolution. Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Repatterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.

Diane’s training programs, books, lectures and work as a therapist have helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.

As Senior Faculty for SETI, Diane studied with Dr. Peter Levine and taught Somatic Experiencing® trauma work internationally for over 35 years.

She is also the author of three books: The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships, a practical guide to restoring and reconnecting with our innate secure attachment as adults; Crash Course, on accident trauma; and the audio book, Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Relationships. Her film, Surviving Columbine, aired on CNN and supported community healing after the Columbine High School shootings.

Dr Alex Howard

Dr Alex Howard has spent the last 20 years working as a therapist and coach specializing in complex chronic illnesses, with an emphasis on working with trauma.

As the Founder and Chairman of The Optimum Health Clinic, Alex manages a team of 25 full-time practitioners supporting thousands of patients in 50+ countries, pioneering online treatment in the field since 2004.
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Aside from publishing academic research in the British Medical Journal Open and Psychology and Health, Alex has also authored three books: Why Me? (2003), Decode Your Fatigue (2021) and It's Not Your Fault: Why Childhood Trauma Shapes You And How To Break Free (2023).

When he’s not working with clients as the creator of the Therapeutic Coaching™ methodology, he documents his therapeutic work with real-life patients via his In Therapy with Alex Howard YouTube series.
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More recently, Alex has created some of the largest online conferences in the health and mind-body space, attended by over a million people—including the world’s biggest conference on trauma, the Trauma Super Conference.