A complete 6+ hour video training by Dr. Gabor Maté offering you a unique opportunity to deepen your skills in attuning and reaching others, even the most difficult clients. This Masterclass was developed for professionals and individuals who want to become more familiar with Gabor’s approach and techniques. This masterclass training for healers includes a comprehensive introduction and overview of Gabor’s unified philosophy on the origin of disease and mental illness, with detailed video lessons that offer a diversity of tools, techniques, and psycho-education focused on helping healing professionals to cultivate deeper attunement, connection and healing with their clients. Gabor is passionate about changing the narrative around the international crisis of addiction. In each lesson, Gabor thoughtfully presents his work through the lens of treating trauma, addictions, and expands on the special issues when treating substance abuse. This masterclass is a “must have” for anyone that works with people and is interested in learning more about Gabor’s work and approach.
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The question is not ‘why the addiction’ but why the pain.
Dr. Gabor Maté
Wholehearted Thought Leader | Best-Selling Author | Renowned Addiction Expert | Childhood Development Expert | AD(H)D Expert
LECTURE ONE: THE POWER OF CONNECTION & THE MYTH OF NORMAL – 67 MINUTES
Gabor weaves together the role of early childhood trauma, difficulties and stresses in the household, the wounds that parents carry and inadvertently pass on to their children, as well as societal and environmental stresses. Drawing on well-documented research in biochemistry, neurology, and physiology, Gabor ‘connects the dots’ in explaining how these factors influence us and contribute to asthma, heart disease, hypertension, diseases of the gut, cancers, addiction and more. He invites us to use curiosity to explore and understand ourselves and our clients, and through this new understanding, paints a path to begin making the fundamental societal change that can positively impact the next generation.
LECTURE TWO: THE MIND-BODY CONNECTION – 51 MINUTES
Gabor explores how the mind influences our physiology, and how our perceptions create our world, but before that, our world influences the creation of our perceptions. When we help our clients to rewrite early messages, not changing what happened, but understanding it as a necessary decision for survival, we can change our current perceptions and behaviors. This impacts physiology, psychology, relationships, and virtually all of our perceptions of the world. By learning how to use a combination of tools and techniques to educate and reach our clients, we enhance our capacity to reach them. At the most basic, fully accepting and embracing compassion for our clients with unconditional positive regard — which requires looking at our own self-judgments and wounds — opens up a new and much deeper capacity for healing with our clients.
LECTURE THREE: THE FIVE LEVELS OF COMPASSION – 60 MINUTES
Gabor describes the five levels of compassion, and the blocks within us as professionals that often keep us from reaching the deepest and most profound attunement with our clients, which, in turn, limits our ability to do our best work. By unpacking and exploring these blocks — which even the most experienced therapists and counselors, with decades of self-work can benefit from — we heal ourselves, and in so doing, find greater understanding and deeper regard for our clients and their stories and wounds.
LECTURE FOUR: COMPASSION AND UNDERSTANDING – 73 MINUTES
Gabor explores the common fears around self-disclosure and the balance between appropriate client-therapist boundaries, on the one hand, and the benefits of deeper empathic connection that can come from appropriate self-disclosure that enhances therapeutic attunement by deepening empathy.
LECTURE FIVE: STRESS AND TRAUMA ON THE DEVELOPING CHILD – 65 MINUTES
An exploration of our own wounds of codependency and how, even when we are self-aware, these behaviors can show up in our work enable us to explore and, with curiosity and self-compassion, understand where these behaviors might be hiding in our work, where they came from, and how we can bring greater awareness to them. Even most therapists with decades of self-exploration will gain new insights that can enable a deepened sense of connection with clients, with a clearer understanding of how our wounds get in the way of doing our best work. By understanding our own self-judgments and practicing self-compassion in letting them go, we free ourselves to do better work.
LECTURE SIX: THE ROLE OF ATTACHMENT FROM BIRTH TO ADULTHOOD – 55 MINUTES
Gabor explores why he does not view addiction as a disease of the brain, and how compelling evidence points to traumas and other experiences early in life set the stage for survival strategies that impact the development of neural pathways that ultimately lead to not only risk of addiction, but many other psychological disorders and even physical diseases. By understanding what addictive behaviors do for us — finding the underlying pain, solving the pain in one way or another that we have experienced — and changing these patterns we developed, cultivating attunement not only in the therapeutic environment, but in a client’s daily life, we can re-pattern and change the function of the brain and replace the ineffective strategies and behaviors with more effective ones. A discussion of the neurotransmitter and brain pathways that are involved helps provide a clear biochemical basis for the origin of the problems and offers hope for long-term change.
Who is Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté, Medical Doctor
Dr. Gabor Maté is an author, speaker and thought leader in the fields of addiction and trauma, well known for his research into the connection between mind and body health, and for his innovative approaches to treatment. Notably, he worked with patients challenged by drug addiction, mental illness and HIV in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for over a decade. Throughout his career, he has been a passionate advocate for social change in the prevention and treatment of addiction. Dr. Maté has partnered with Wholehearted.org to create and offer premium video education series for the public and healthcare professionals.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. The learner will be able to name two examples of the interconnection between developmental theory and the biopsychosocial science of trauma, and how childhood trauma impacts adulthood.
2. The participant will give one example showing how the social environment influences our understanding of trauma.
3. Participant will give two examples of the importance of early life experience in treating trauma.
4. Participant will provide two examples of how reframing early life experiences enhances coping capacity and well being.
5. Participants will name the five levels of compassion, and describe their importance in facilitating attunement with the client.
6. Participants will name two specific levels of compassion that could present obstacles to their work with clients.
7. Participant will provide one example each of appropriate and inappropriate self-disclosure.
8. Participants will provide one illustration from their own perspective of how self-disclosure can improve their capacity to empathically connect to their clients.
9. Participants will provide one example of Gabor’s perspective on ADHD as a coping strategy for stress and/or trauma in childhood.
10. Participants will give an example of a childhood trauma and how it might later manifest as a distorted perception or ineffective behavior.
11. Participants will describe three ways in which attachment can impact neurophysiology and its role in the onset of substance use disorders.
12. Participants will construct three psychoeducational statements about neurophysiology and its relationship to substance use or mental health disorders that could be presented to clients to help them gain deeper understanding into their diagnoses.
Who should takes the course
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Medical & Mental Health Professionals
- Students
- Teachers
Why You Should Take This Course
If you’re a therapist, counselor, healer, or simply someone who works with people in pain — this masterclass is an essential guide to understanding and addressing the deeper roots of trauma, addiction, and disconnection.
Led by world-renowned trauma and addiction expert Dr. Gabor Maté, this 6.5-hour training will radically shift how you see your clients — and yourself. You’ll learn to recognize the hidden wounds behind challenging behaviors, reframe “problematic” coping as survival strategies, and develop a healing presence rooted in compassion, curiosity, and connection.
This course empowers you to:
Reach even the most difficult clients through deeper attunement
Integrate mind-body insights into your healing work
Navigate trauma, stress, and addiction with science-based compassion
Heal the healer — by exploring your own emotional blocks and self-judgments
Build a more humane, trauma-informed practice
Whether you’re a licensed mental health professional or an individual seeking transformation, this course gives you tools, perspective, and clarity you won’t find anywhere else.
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Addiction is pretty simple. It’s what happens when people don’t get what they need, and end up soothing themselves.
Dr. Gabor Maté
Wholehearted Thought Leader | Best-Selling Author | Renowned Addiction Expert | Childhood Development Expert | AD(H)D Exper
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