The Details

Dates:

  • September 14th and 15th, 9 am - 5 pm

  • October 12th and 13th, 9 am - 5 pm

  • November 16th and 17th, 9 am - 5 pm

  • Zoom Calls every Thursday, 4 pm - 5:30 pm

Location:

130 Peyton Street, Winchester, VA, 22601

Tuition:

$900.00

$850.00 for Early Registration before July 15th 

In order to sign up and confirm your place in the program you must commit to participating in all three modules and weekly zoom calls.

Module 1:

Establishing a core practice of supporting the autonomic nervous system 

Summary:

Your first module will be focused on developing a core practice to support your autonomic nervous system. You will learn strategies to follow your nervous system through interoception and self-awareness. The first module will cover the Polyvagal theory and how to track and follow the different states of the autonomic nervous system. You will also learn about implicit responses to stress and trauma and how the autonomic nervous system holds onto stress from the past. 

During the program you will learn about safe and secure connection and how this relates to attachment. You will learn how healthy attachment develops the parts of the nervous system that are utilized for social engagement. Module 1 will give you a foundation for connecting with your nervous system, strategies to support yourself, tools to navigate triggers, and healthy ways to release and process stress and trauma. 

What will we cover?

  • Techniques and tools to support regulation of the nervous system

  • The foundations of tracking and following the nervous system through interoception

  • An overview of the nervous system through the Polyvagal Theory

  • Learning about attachment and reconnection with our core self

  • Understanding how trauma impacts the nervous system and how stress is held in implicit memory

  • Applying strategies to touch into our stress response while also maintaining connection to internal and external sources of regulation

Module 2:

The impact of trauma on our core self and forgiving our adaptive strategies

Summary:

Your second module will explore how trauma impacts the nervous system and how you form adaptive strategies to protect yourself. You will learn about how trauma shapes your personality and how adaptations protect you from the overwhelming experiences of your past. 

You will learn how your adaptive strategies keep traumatic stress locked in the body and keeps you stuck in the past. You will learn how to safely navigate the nervous systems protective memory and how to release through new experiences of healing and repair. Learning how to release patterns of shame, rupture, traumatic stress, and negative beliefs and opening to regulation and connection. You will learn how new patterns of healing and repair support your core self to thrive as we release and let go of past trauma. You will form new practical strategies to relate to life through regulation rather than past trauma. 

What will we cover?

  • Understanding how trauma impacts the autonomic nervous system

  • Learning about your adaptive strategies to stress and trauma

  • Strategies to release patterns of shame, guilt, and responsibility

  • Learning about generational patterns and healing through self-compassion

  • Developing practical strategies to regulate your autonomic nervous rather than repeat past patterns of self harm

Module 3:

Releasing the past and moving forward with self-forgiveness

Summary:

n module three you will forgive the ways that you coped and related to life through trauma. You will have a deeper knowledge of how your nervous system coped with past events, you will understand how the nervous system relates through your implicit responses, and you will have adopted new patterns of healing and repair for the nervous system. These new strategies will help you to safely navigate your stress response when you feel overwhelmed and triggered. You will also have deepened your understanding of how to support authentic connection and how your old adaptive strategies lead to self-protection and disconnection. 

During this weekend you will intentionally forgive those that may have caused trauma so you can move past these relational wounds. You will also intentionally forgive yourself for how you may have held onto the past and the ways that this impacted your life. In module three you will develop an understanding of how your healing through the program can shape your life in the future. You will define self-forgiveness for yourself as a step into a healing approach to life.  

What will we cover?

  • Understanding implicit responses and trauma

  • Exploring repair and regulation of the nervous system

  • Learning how to utilize somatic tools safely navigate triggers

  • Creating a practice around forgiving others to move past relational wounds

  • Creating a practice of forgiving ourselves so we can move past shame and guilt

  • Identifying what the future looks like through a healing approach to self care