Transforming Trauma
Transforming Trauma
What do we do when we realize that the past is spilling into the present? Would you love to have a taste of who you would be if you were warmly supported by yourself and others? Experience the power of resonant language to support healing and change. Sarah Peyton, the author of the bestseller Your Resonant …
Restarting the volunteer programme after the summer I held a session to help reduce the ‘burn out’ experienced by community volunteers at Maryhill Integration Network (MIN). The workshop aimed to help them to understand the everyday effects of trauma on themselves and clients. Volunteers reported being sometimes caught-up in the difficulties experienced by the asylum …
This weekend I attended a two-day Complex Trauma workshop with the Complex Trauma Therapist’ Network in the UK led by Dzmitry Karpuk and Celia Dawson. They combine a Trauma informed model based on Herman and Van der Kolk with Gendlin’s Focusing in a person-centred, relational model. I was struck by the quality of the resources …
I am at the mid-point of my MSc in Person Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy. I am now a student member of the British Association for Psychotherapy and have nearly 40 client hours under my belt. I am well supported by two excellent supervisors, friends and my husband, who have needed to pick me up a …
A ‘caller’ listening into this week’s NVC Academy discussion on Privilege, this time from a woman’s perspective, asked the all female panel how each of them saw the link between physical violence against women and systemic violence (violence in the structure of our society, our economics, health, politics benefit men rather than the female experience). …
National Sorry Day is an Australia-wide observance held on May 26 each year. This day gives people the chance to come together and share the steps towards healing for the Stolen Generations, their families and communities. Stolen generations refer to Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their families and communities. It follows the ‘Bringing …
I am aware of some of my privilege as a white, English speaking university educated woman. I have lived in Asia for most of the past ten years and am aware that my difference leads people to respond positively to me. If I want something I can usually get it, by elevating my language and …
Self-regulation begins with evolutionary perspective because we need to start with what is hardwired in us and our basic brain system has been around a long time and links us together, so in different places across the world and in different parts of the world and at different times have all been rather similar. We …
Today I simply want to share this link to David Whyte’s poem ‘Sweet Darkness’ I strongly encourage you to listen to this poem, even if you have heard it already. We are constantly in a change of flow, so the you you are right now has never heard it. In light-polluted Hong Kong city I …