Dr. Ian Mac Naughton: Transforming Trauma with Somatic Experiencing

Truth Talks with Amba Love

"Moving from reactivity to curiosity towards understanding." Ian Mac Naughton.

Ian Macnaughton MBA, PhD, FEA, SEP, has been a teacher and practitioner of trauma

resolution, mind-body and family systems psychotherapy for 50 years and is a

Bodynamic Analyst and trainer. He has worked with Somatic Experiencing since the

early 70’s and is Levine Legacy faculty with the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education. His

practice includes a high percentage of executives, medical practitioners and therapists

and others in the helping professions both for psychotherapy and supervision. He

maintains an ongoing training group for clinical practitioners, as well as delivering public

workshops for helping professionals.

Ian also has owned a number of businesses and maintains an active practice working

with business families, families of wealth, and various organizations. He is on the

teaching faculty for, and a Fellow of the International Family Firm Institute and his

clients have included many government ministries and corporations. He is the holder of

the Richard Beckhard Practice Award for contributions in the field of Family Business

Advising.

Dr. Macnaughton has taught at numerous universities and colleges, both undergraduate

and graduate levels in psychology and in business. His other publications include,

Embodying the Mind and Minding the Body, and Body, Breath and Consciousness: A

Somatic Anthology, also “Self, Other, and the System” in Catalyzing the Field. His other

writings on family business have been published in a number of venues as well as his

work in Systems Science published in Comprehensive Systems Design: A New

Educational Technology: NATO Workshop on Systemic Educational Design.

Contact information: www.transitionpoint.ca, [e-mail]

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His Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ian.macnaughton1/