Trauma, Recovery + Whole-Person Care

FLOURISH: The Professional Series

Trauma, Recovery & Whole-Person Care (HPCSA CPD eligible)

Join Dr Portia Mazabane, Clinical Psychologist, Speaker and Mental Health Advocate, and Dr Anita Phillips, LCSW-C, Licensed Trauma Therapist and New York Times bestselling author of The Garden Within, for a multidisciplinary professional training focused on trauma, recovery and whole-person care. Designed for medical, mental health and allied health professionals, this training will explore how trauma can affect emotional, physical, relational, social, cultural and spiritual well-being, and how integrated, trauma-informed care can support recovery and human flourishing.

Dr Phillips’ keynote, Trauma Across Generations: Emotional, Physical and Relational Impact and Paths to Recovery, will examine trauma within historical and intergenerational contexts, including cumulative adversity, nervous-system and emotional processes, patterns of adaptation, whole-person impact and evidence-informed foundations for recovery.

The afternoon brings together perspectives from clinical psychology, psychiatry, medical physiology, social work, occupational therapy and trauma therapy to consider one central question: How does each discipline help us to view the whole person through a trauma-informed lens?

Topics throughout the day will include:

• Trauma across generations and the lifespan
• Emotional and physiological responses to trauma
• Mental and physical health comorbidities
• Family, caregiver and community experiences
• Social and cultural contexts of trauma
• Personality and individual patterns of adaptation
• Purpose, participation and everyday functioning
• Faith, diversity and professional boundaries
• Interdisciplinary care and appropriate referral pathways
• Recovery, resilience and human flourishing

The programme also includes a curated Conversation with Dr Anita Phillips, audience Q&A, multidisciplinary professional perspectives and an expert panel using a real-world clinical scenario to explore how whole-person care can be applied in practice.

Friday, 13 November 2026

09:00-14:00

Gateway Hotel, Umhlanga

Cnr Centenary Blvd &, Twilight Dr, Umhlanga Ridge, uMhlanga, 4319, South Africa

Registration and professional networking begin at 08:30. A networking lunch is included in the programme.

FLOURISH: The Professional Series invites professionals across disciplines to move beyond fragmented and symptom-focused approaches toward care that recognises the complexity of trauma, the strengths and resources people bring to recovery, and the many pathways through which individuals, families and communities can flourish.