Gina Ross, MFCT, is Founder/​Pres­i­dent of the Inter­na­tion­al Trau­ma-Heal­ing Insti­tute in the US (ITI-US) and its Israeli branch (ITI-Israel). Born in Alep­po, Syr­ia, Gina has lived in eight dif­fer­ent coun­tries on four con­ti­nents. A spe­cial­ist in indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive trau­ma, she cre­at­ed Emo­tion­Aid®, a self-reg­u­la­tion tool for laypeo­ple that allows peo­ple to release stress and trau­ma on the spot, any­time, any­where. She also cre­at­ed Free from Con­flict, a pro­to­col for Con­flict Res­o­lu­tion, which com­bines medi­a­tion skills and prin­ci­ples with emo­tion­al reg­u­la­tion. She authored a series of books, Beyond the Trau­ma Vor­tex into the Heal­ing Vor­tex, as vehi­cles to sup­port her Ross Mod­el©, which tar­gets 10 social sec­tors impli­cat­ed in ampli­fy­ing, heal­ing, or both. Gina is an inter­na­tion­al senior train­er of Somat­ic Expe­ri­enc­ing, which she intro­duced in the Mid­dle East. Gina focus­es her ana­lyt­i­cal and advo­ca­cy work on the impact of col­lec­tive trau­ma on con­flicts and behind polit­i­cal polar­iza­tion. She is a fre­quent con­trib­u­tor to many inter­na­tion­al journals.