Narrative Practices, Trauma and Embodiment: Evolving ideas in action
Care Coordinator
“People are not passive recipients of trauma; they respond to trauma in the best way that they know how”.
– Michael White, 2007, Toronto
Therapy with traumatic experiences requires a skillful balance between re-visiting without re-traumatizing, re-living resiliency without the powerlessness, re-connecting with the body without slipping into fight, flight or freeze. This skillful balance can be better achieved with knowledges of narrative practice concepts and maps, understandings of the socio-cultural factors shaping the meaning of the event, and the brain-body ramifications of having been faced with an integrity threatening incident.
In this workshop Marie-Nathalie and Jim will present foundational narrative practice concepts that reconnect people with their preferred identities and examine when narrative practices benefit from additional ideas to address non-verbal ties to embodied reactions.
New findings in Interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) and the fields of embodiment offer rich possibilities of expanding our narrative practices in ways that can empower people in more effective and lasting ways. Pausing foundational narrative conversations to insert moments relying on IPNB knowledges and embodiment approaches can sometimes re-energize the re-authoring of preferred identities, and lead to more sustainable changes.
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