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Holding Space Workshop; How to Crate a Safe Space for Trauma

Holding Space will offer professionals who work or plan on working with communities and individuals with an opportunity to learn the essential tools and methods that create a trauma informed space as well as how to integrate these foundational changes into their current and future work. Trauma is part of the human experience, so it is important to know more about it and to apply that knowledge consistently and accurately.  

This 2 hour workshop will break down our responsibility of self care as “holders of space”, offer a comprehensive mind/body definition of trauma, explore foundational anatomy and physiology of trauma with emphasis on the nervous system, discuss interventional tools and embodied practices for when trauma shows up, teach how to create a “safe space”, and the importance of self and co-regulation Participation will include both lecture based and experiential based learning in order to have an authentic experience with the material and to be able to more accurately apply their new knowledge to their personal and professional lives.

What is Trauma Informed?

Trauma-informed means taking into account past trauma and the resulting coping mechanisms when attempting to understand the behaviors of those we are working alongside. It means bringing empathy and compassion to every interaction and creating a safe and accessible space for all.

This workshop is mental health care focused and Yoga Alliance Certified.

You will learn:
✨ Responsibility of Self Care
✨ Definition of Trauma
✨ Physiology of Trauma
✨ Intervention Tools
✨Embodied Practices
✨ How to create and hold a safe space
✨ Importance of Self and Co-Regulation
✨The nervous system
✨Mind/body Connections

Investment: Online $40 USD


About your host

Kirsten Wilkinson is the Founder and Executive Director of Legacy Motion. She has over 20 years of experience working with moving bodies, trauma, and building trauma-informed curriculum.

MA, TCTSY-F, E-RYT 500, RCYT, Qi Gong and iRest Certified, Thai Yoga Massage Certified, Ayurvedic Health Practitioner, Mind/Body Practitioner, Breathe to Heal Facilitator 
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