Trauma-informed dynamics are omnipresent. We are all shaped directly or indirectly by dynamics, mindsets, and worldviews that are informed or rooted in trauma-related patterns. 

Many current challenges are multilayered. Deeply embedded structures, habitual patterns, and power dynamics allow these challenges to often perpetuate. These patterns and structures are not the sources of, for example, imbalance, injustice, or power abuse, being it in our families, communities, ourselves, or across wide parts of our global society. 

Looking closer we can observe threads that lead to experiences somewhere in the past, sometimes centuries ago, that created a traumatic impact. If that traumatic experience was not given the right care to heal again, it most likely stayed in that particular system (personal, intergenerational, or collective) as a smaller or bigger knot. In the words of Peter Levine:

“Trauma is the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope with that causes feelings of helplessness, diminishes their sense of self and their ability to feel a full range of emotions and experiences. It’s not the severity of the event that causes a traumatic response but our ability and resources available to process or move through the stages of our body’s reactions to a dangerous event.” 

Therefore working with societal change requires us to look at, engage with, and understand what trauma is made of, how we can recognise trauma-informed dynamics, and what are appropriate ways to help unwind and shift it. Trauma can be a teacher showing us - like an arrow - where to step next and with a gentle gaze, approach hidden aspects that inform the current challenges we are faced with.

In this workshop, you will learn and be introduced to:

• What trauma is made of and how it can become visible

• The difference between individual, intergenerational and collective trauma

• Practices to build up our inner resources as individuals and teams

• How to respond adequately and consciously to trauma

This workshop is part of the Catalyst Lab journey and is open for the interested public.

The costs are as follows:

• CHF 20 for explorers

• CHF 50 for friends and team members of Catalysts

• CHF 100 for externals

Facilitators:

The workshop will be facilitated by Daniel Remigius Auf der Mauer, systemic coach, mediator and conflict counsellor, and Luea Ritter, co-host of the Catalyst Lab and process steward.

Where:

The workshop will take place online on Zoom.