BONNIE BADENOCH – Trauma and the Embodied Brain

Dear friends.

I want to let you know about my new online course. Trauma and the Embodied Brain is a training for healing trauma. . I want to share these ten weeks with you.

We are learning that trauma is more about who we are before, during, and after the event than it is about the event. We will be looking at the conditions that open a healing space for integration of traumas.

We want to deepen our capacity for nonjudgmental presence, the foundation of safety, as we learn about and experience how our embodied brains develop in health, trauma, and healing. We know that trauma can be found in our muscles, heart and belly brains. As we practice listening to sensation, the language of our bodies, we can deepen our receptive presence with ourselves and the people who come seeking relief from suffering.

The culture in which we seek to support restoration for survivors who come to us, foster our children’s unfolding, and partner with each other for a more humane world is indeed challenging at this moment in our history. As we cultivate the conditions for offering safety, we may each become a more receptive therapist, as well as a therapeutic presence in our daily walk in the world.

This can sound like a monumental task, and while that is true in some ways, the discoveries of neuroscience can provide a firm foundation for developing our innate capacity to be deeply present to one another. We will be looking at the relationship between the two hemispheres of our brains, Iain McGilchrist’s seminal work on the relationship between the two hemispheres of our brains, and exploring the work of scientists who tell.

This will be a healing and learning experience because we will be working with our own inner world. All of us who offer sanctuary for those who have been wounded need this kind of support.

I will be sharing this experience with you.

With a warm heart.

Bonnie is a PhD student.

The course comes with a one-year guarantee so you don’t have to worry. Upon completion, you can apply for up to 10 Continuing Education credits.