ALL UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuning In: Discerning Safety, Discomfort, and Readiness in Trauma Healing
How do we tell the difference between feeling uncomfortable and feeling unsafe, especially in the context of trauma healing? This experiential workshop explores the subtle yet essential skill of discernment. Through guided reflection, small group dialogue, and somatic inquiry, we’ll explore the difference between trauma stabilization and processing, and how to recognize readiness for deeper healing work. Together, we’ll cultivate a more nuanced awareness of internal signals, strengthen self-trust, and explore what it means to stay with ourselves in the presence of discomfort without crossing into overwhelm.
Embodied Ethics of Power
Embark on a transformative journey to unearth personal narratives and connect to the emotional and somatic experiences that shape how we both wield and shrink from power. Through intimate reflections and focused discussion, we will unpack historical power dynamics and our embodied realities of power and powerlessness, exploring the tensions between the destructive and generative capacities of power.
Beyond Fawning: Appeasement is the Fourth F
The four F’s—fight, flight, freeze, fawn—are commonly shared as the range of human stress and trauma responses, but fawn is actually a subcategory of appeasement. This interactive session will explore appeasement as a biological and cultural response to threat in response to power imbalances and social hierarchies. We will tease apart the differences between fawn and appeasement, unpack internalized and relational appeasement dynamics, and examine potential approaches to mitigate harm and create alternate ways of relating across power imbalances.