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Trauma Informed Mindfulness: The First Do No Harm Training Program

 

"...We look at the psychology and neurobiological mechanisms of meditation. Most of my research is about how meditation strengthens the prefrontal cortex and how the prefrontal cortex can control or down-regulate the limbic system and the amygdala, which is a really great thing if you have too much emotion and you feel like you need to regulate it. But that same process can blunt all emotions, including positive ones. If people know how meditation works, then it helps them understand the symptoms.

The whole last day is the management module, and that is an introduction to trauma-informed approaches. David Treleaven just wrote a book called Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, which contains a lot of very practical, concrete things that minimize the risk.

The trauma-sensitive approach has been the direction that all mindfulness is heading in. At Jack Kornfield’s Spirit Rock Meditation Center, they require all of their instructors to do trauma training in order to be dharma teachers."

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I think meditation is excellent and I also think trauma-informed practices have to include psychoeducation on emotions and how they work in the mind and body to cause symptoms or wellness, based on the way we work with them. When people meditate they find emotions and sensations that have meaning based on past experiences. I teach a trauma-informed tool called The Change Triangle. It is mindfulness with a map for how to understand what we find when we go inside ourselves: core emotions (anger, fear, sadness, joy etc.), inhibitory emotions (guilt, anxiety, shame) or defenses (thoughts, behaviors, and anything else we do to avoid core emotions). I cannot imagine my life or my trauma psychotherapy practice without this emotional health tool. I hope you'll check it out and share it with others. Free resources on my website.

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