Dr. Marina Kostina

“It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.”

What if healing actually begins when the fun and games come back?

In this deeply personal, highly engaging, and refreshingly original presentation, Marina Kostina introduces a groundbreaking approach to trauma recovery that blends neuroscience, gamification, motivation psychology, and emotional healing into a framework designed to help clients reconnect with joy, engagement, and momentum after trauma.

Drawing from her own extraordinary journey surviving a near-fatal skydiving accident — followed by four years of recovery and 24 reconstructive surgeries — Marina understands firsthand how trauma can pull people into survival mode and disconnect them from pleasure, motivation, curiosity, and emotional aliveness.

Trauma doesn’t just create pain.
It often steals:

• Joy
• Playfulness
• Motivation
• Creativity
• Engagement
• The ability to experience reward and progress

Many clients become emotionally numb, disconnected, and stuck in cycles of fear, avoidance, or hopelessness — even after traditional therapeutic work begins.

Marina’s solution?
Gamification.

Backed by emerging research on reward circuitry, engagement psychology, and nervous system regulation, this presentation explores how game-based strategies can dramatically improve motivation, participation, emotional resilience, and treatment adherence within trauma healing work.

This is not about trivializing trauma.

It’s about strategically reintroducing:

• Pleasure
• Curiosity
• Momentum
• Reward
• Progress
• Safe engagement

…into the healing journey.

In This Interactive Session You’ll Discover:

✔ The foundations of Marina’s Trauma Gamification Framework
✔ How trauma disrupts reward circuitry and emotional motivation
✔ Why many trauma clients lose interest, drive, and emotional engagement
✔ How gamification can improve healing participation and momentum
✔ The 6 major gaming archetypes and how they influence healing styles
✔ Ways to match therapeutic rewards and experiences to individual psychotypes

Marina also shares how she successfully integrated research-based gamification principles from her background as an online course trainer into her trauma therapy practice — producing remarkable increases in client engagement, motivation, and emotional participation.

This presentation is interactive, experiential, and filled with practical applications attendees can immediately begin using in therapeutic, coaching, hypnosis, and personal development settings.

Attendees Will Leave With:

• A new perspective on trauma recovery and motivation
• Practical gamification tools for healing work
• Greater understanding of reward systems and emotional engagement
• Strategies to increase client participation and consistency
• Tools for creating more hopeful, energizing healing experiences

For practitioners looking to move beyond traditional models and bring more creativity, engagement, and emotional momentum into trauma work, this session offers a bold and innovative framework that attendees are unlikely to forget.

Because sometimes healing doesn’t begin by pushing harder…

Sometimes healing begins by helping people feel alive again.