Trauma is not just ‘a bad thing that happened’: it is an experience or a situation which so overwhelms our nervous system that we are not able to process and integrate it. And our neurobiology shifts instead to a state of ceaseless threat: ‘danger mode’ rather than ‘daily life mode’.
We cannot recover from trauma by simply ‘choosing’ to: we have to ally with our nervous system, to gently show it and persuade it that the threat is over. To do so we need another human being to come alongside us, to lend us their nervous system as a guide for our own.
‘Working with Trauma’ is not about techniques and tools. It’s about one human being coming alongside another, to whisper to the traumatised nervous system that it’s okay now. It takes compassion and it takes care.
And that’s what I look at on this four-part webinar series, first launched during the pandemic. How do we work with trauma in a time of trauma? How do we work with trauma that has become stuck? How do we work with trauma triggers and flashbacks? And how do we work with traumatic memories?
Join me on to find out how to help survivors of trauma move out of a chronic sense of threat back into the ‘neuroception’ of safety. Lifetime access, 10 hours’ CPD total and downloadable resources – pre-recorded content so start and stop whenever you like, and complete the course at your own pace.
