This training is intended for all who want to learn more about trauma and its effects. We will consider the following questions: How do we define terms like trauma and resilience? What is the Fight/Flight/Freeze response and how does the brain produce this response? What are some of the areas of the brain are most affected by trauma? How do trauma-induced brain changes give rise to anxiety, fear, and emotional dys-regulation (meaning that following trauma we now struggle to maintain clear thinking and may slip easily into anxiety, depression or emotional shut down)? And finally, how do we help each other heal from such effects? 

The more we learn about the brain, the more we have come to understand how trauma affects us and how we can push back against those effects. Come for a discussion-filled exploration of trauma, the brain, its amazing capacity for plasticity and explore some simple techniques that can help us move towards flexible problem solving and emotional regulation even when significant threats arise. 

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Five Components
of the Training
 

1)  We zoom out to make sure we are all on the same page, exploring together what we collectively know about trauma, resilience, and other critical details

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2)  We zoom in to look at basic physiology of our stress response

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3)  We zoom in closer to explore the role of Prefrontal Cortex and Amygdala, what roles they normally play and how these roles change when trauma enters the picture

4)  We step into a construct that helps us all understand how we ALL respond under duress, trauma survivor or not. These teachings offer critical insights about our human condition and suggest routes of recovery.

5)  We finish by exploring routes of recovery that can help us move towards calm, emotionally regulated spaces where we can handle new challenges and not necessarily consistently move towards fight or flight.  And we finish with some additional teachings about resilience that can impact how we practice community together and serve each other in times of need.