Healing Complex Trauma through Focusing & the Medicine Wheel - An Indigenous Land Based Approach

Presented by: Dennis Windego

Workshop description:

This one day workshop will introduce participants to an Indigenous Land Based Model steeped in ancestral teachings of the land and the medicine wheel.  This model incorporates the six steps of Focusing with the teachings of the land and the medicine wheel and is an effective and safe method for treating complex trauma.

Complex trauma also known as multiple interrelated traumas is a psychological and emotional injury caused by prolonged exposure to violence, oppression, abuse and entrapment often resulting in unhealthy self-soothing (addictions, anger) and unhealthy self-harming behaviors (suicidal ideations, gestures and attempts).   

Participants will learn how to create a healthy healing environment to unravel trauma.  You will learn how to work with overwhelming emotional reactions and empty the emotional energy safely. You will learn how to use the land as a healthy self-soothing tool in healing.  You will learn basic steps to work with speechless, frozen and collapsed trauma memory places and redirect it to empowerment and post traumatic growth.