This mixed presentation will provide participants with a concrete model for facilitating true healing in a mainstream setting. Presenters will provide presentations about aspects of the overall holistic model. Participants will be given important basics about the impact of trauma on humanity. Participants will also be given an experiential as to the state of peace one needs to be in for healing to occur. They will take away the ideas that it is possible to accomplish this and a general road map of how to make this happen.
So many of the world’s problems could be defined by looking through the lens of trauma data: oppressors are generally acting out what has been done to them, they are stuck in the biology of, and so mind-set of power over and control of others (adrenalines), victims become stuck in their patterns and feel powerless against their oppressors (opioids and oxytocin), most people have lost site of the original wound (trauma stores in the part of our brains that record unconscious memory and the chemistry of trauma damages passages in the brain responsible for memory), rationalization, justification and intellectualizing abuse and oppression become the norm (the result of not being able to remember the original wound and defending one’s irrational ideas and actions) and repeating it all, as that is the nature of trauma. Truly resolving the impact of trauma will result in the root causes of oppression and victimhood to be dissolved. No longer reacting to past pains is a critical first step in building a foundation for a better world.

The information that will be presented is compelling. When someone is provided the basic information as to how trauma impacts a human being, there is always some aspect that fully resonates as there are very few people on the planet that haven’t suffering overwhelming life events. When someone is provided real solutions and road maps, engagement is intensified.

The presentation will be conducted in English. I don’t have the resources to provide translation but someone else from VSC could provide the presentation in Spanish at another time. We will make handouts available in English and in Spanish.

The biggest challenge for innovative and truly life-changing programs is funding. The main adversaries that we’ve encountered have come in two main packages: funding sources don’t have categories for us and many services offered in our world are very shallow and ineffective. Delivering an in-depth and life-changing service makes one a target for those who are afraid of change or revealing some past secret. Perseverance has been the best strategy, along with using mainstream measurements to prove effectiveness.