Tag Archives: Trauma

Grounding Trauma Conference 2018 : Challenging Paradigms. 17th, 18th April 2018

Posted on January 18, 2018 by

Very pleased to have been invited to co-present with Jennifer Wynne a the CAST Grounding Trauma Conference 2018. Neither trauma nor difficult experiences that called names like “psychosis” are as mysterious or hard to understand as many experts would have … Continue reading →

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Workshop#1 Accepting Voices in Calgary- Sat 5th May, 2018

Posted on January 13, 2018 by

Workshop Accepting Voices a unique non-diagnostic and creative way of understanding a range of human experiences that have been mystified and made taboo and yet which are remarkably common and really not that hard to understand.
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revealing the trauma of war

Posted on May 18, 2017 by

Excellent article in National Geographic about application of very simple, powerful approach of encouraging vets to make and paint masks as a way to express their pain, their woundedness. As one says… “I THOUGHT THIS WAS A JOKE, I wanted … Continue reading →

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Still Trying – Nathaniel Rateliff

Posted on April 15, 2017 by

I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know a goddamn thing Continue reading →

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Canadian judge rules in favor of forcibly adopted First Nations survivors

Posted on February 14, 2017 by

Government is responsible for trauma of 16,000 indigenous children removed from families between 1965 and 1984, judge said. Continue reading →

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Understanding Trauma – Peter Levine and his Slinky

Posted on September 23, 2016 by

Peter Levine’s work unlocks our understanding of how trauma works within us – and how we can heal ourselves and find ways to support others in their healing, In this short [6min] clip he uses a slinky to demonstrate how … Continue reading →

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Disempowered and disconnected

Posted on September 6, 2016 by

The core experience of trauma is feeling disconnected and disempowered.
Ironic then, that so often our approach to mental health and the systems we build leave people feeling disconnected and disempowered. Continue reading →

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Thorns in the spirit…

Posted on July 28, 2016 by

Trauma means Wound The word “trauma” means “wound”. Trauma is not the thing that happened but the effect left within us by our experiences of what happened.  It can, though leave us experiencing life as if the thing that did … Continue reading →

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Trauma is not the thing that happened…

Posted on July 27, 2016 by

Trauma is not the thing that happened but, in fact, the effect left within us by our experiences
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Trauma means Wound

Posted on July 26, 2016 by

Trauma means “wound”.
That’s it, no shit. Continue reading →

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