Healing Broken Bonds - A DCTCT podcast series
How does trauma impact a person and their relationships? How does trauma impact our capacity to connect, feel close, safe, and love and be loved?
The Healing Broken Bonds podcast is seeking couples who would be interested in exploring these questions in conversation with Dr. Heather B. MacIntosh on a podcast about the unique experiences of trauma survivors in our lives and relationships.
Selected participants will be invited to participate in this podcast through conversations with Dr. MacIntosh that are educational and informative. These podcast recording sessions will be taking place in March and April of 2024.
Dr. Heather B. MacIntosh is one of the leading experts in the area of childhood trauma, couple relationships, and couple therapy. She works with trauma survivors to help them learn and grow in their healing from trauma and its impacts on sexuality, security, safety, and closeness.
Participation in this podcast will be informative and educational in nature and will not represent a clinical relationship in the present or future. Additionally, each participant will be invited to create an alias
Participants need to be available to interview in person in Toronto, Ottawa, or Montreal in March and April 2024.
Interested participants should fill out the application form. If you have questions, please email mcgillcftclinic [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Healing%20Broken%20Bonds) .
Thank you!
FAQ
What precautions will be taken to protect my anonymity?
Each participant will be invited to make an alias name - a name that can’t easily be traced back to the real you (e.g., we don’t recommend using a middle name) - that we will use to refer to one another during the recording. Also, we may cut or record a quote again, asking for it to be rephrased to remove personal identifying content (like places, names, etc). That being said, we will be using people’s real voices, so someone close to you could still recognize you.
What are the intentions of the podcast?
The aim for the podcast is to share relatable struggles we have in relationships when trauma makes it more challenging and how one may address them with a relational and trauma informed approach.
The podcast is funded by FAVAC to support the dissemination of Dr Heather MacIntosh’s research on the efficacy of the model she created: Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma.
What does it mean to talk about my trauma and/or its impacts in a public format?
An important consideration for anyone thinking about talking about personal and potentially sensitive or even painful things in a public forum is that once your story is out in the public domain, we can’t control what other people do with it. That means you might run into other people discussing your story in ways you might object to without knowing it’s about you. We recommend thinking about this carefully, and making compassionate choices about the things that you may want to keep private vs. the things you are comfortable making public.
Tentative Timeline
- December - February: Call for participants
- Late February: Application reviews and interviews with potential podcast participants.
- Late February to early March: Pre-production call to discuss process, content, and participant needs. Schedule interviews (March 2024).
- Late March to early April: Record interviews in Toronto, Ottawa, or Montreal
- Late April to early May: Post interview call
- Summer 2024: Podcast release
