We explore what safety means: What does it look and feel like? What happens when we get triggered and lose it? Why is this so dangerous?

We begin to develop your capacity to attune to, and recognise when this arises, both in ourselves, and others.

By gaining an understanding of the Window of Tolerance, and the ‘safe enough zone’, we look at the resources we can use to support ourselves and others, as well as the ways to reduce triggers.

We identify numerous ways to increase a felt sense of safety in our classes, workshops or one-to-one sessions, whether they are online, or in-person.

We look through the lens of psychobiology and polyvagal theory, diving deep into the body's stress, survive, and shut-down responses.

Exploring how these cause connection and safety, or separation and fear, learning somatic practices to help shift people towards friendly and free, where thriving becomes a reality.

We learn about the need for interoceptive awareness and explore the somatic vocabulary of the nervous system, the underlying ‘sensations’, and unconscious statements we make via idioms, which illuminate what is happening in our neurophysiology, so we can attune to what is happening in our students and clients.

While teaching a class, or facilitating a session, we need to be able to quickly assess embodied safety.

We explore the visual cues, body language, breath, behaviors, eye movements, and other ways we can detect the nervous system state in participants, so we can adapt accordingly to promote harm-reduction, and tailor our offerings to anchor them back to connection and safety.

Chronic stress and trauma affect our ability to feel and detect what is happening inside our own skin.

Increasing interoceptive awareness is the key to resolving trauma, and cultivating the capacity to notice sensation, which tells us about the state of our own nervous system.

However, embodiment practices and medical procedures can trigger this to happen too fast, or to unlock painful memories from the past that can push us into dissociation, rage, and panic, or depressive emotional floods.

We learn how to titrate this, give choice to prevent this and return to a felt sense of safety when this occurs.

We explore how chronic stress and trauma create a coping mechanism of dissociation and how this affects relationships, communication, and embodiment.

We look at the links between ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and the associated likelihood of dissociation in your students and clients, and why this is essential information, that you can attain through specific questions during your in-take process.

We learn the key signs of dissociation, so you can ensure you avoid unintentionally pushing people into a place where they may isolate, become numb, shut down, or move into passive or active suicide.

We learn how to avoid the shadow of consent: to prevent unhealthy or unethical dynamics, when our attempt at giving, becomes an unconscious act of taking.

We begin to explore the different types of embodied consent and how trauma affects our ability to notice needs, boundaries and capacity to communicate them.

Through the lens of the Wheel of Consent, we explore the challenges of verbal consent, the activation levels that arise when touch is bought into practice, and the power dynamics of student-teacher and peers that can affect the ability to truly express an embodied boundary.

Exploring how to avoid getting stuck in the pain of the Drama Triangle, when someone is triggered and slips into wounded child mode (yourself included)..

Discovering ways to prevent and resolve difficult client dynamics using ‘connecting’ communication techniques, so you can become conflict-confident.

We learn to accept that dysregulation and a loss of safety will happen for you and your clients, but present and practice somatic skills that will ensure you are competent in returning them, and yourself, to the ‘safe zone’.

We explore the kind of referral resources available to help you stay inside your scope of practice, and get support to aid your clients’ or students’ recovery, when needed.

We prepare you to integrate these newly acquired techniques directly into your professional practice upon graduating from the training.