Uprooting the Lie of Separation: Trauma-Sensitive Survival Strategies

We are ...a community of mental health workers, clinicians, psychiatrists, current and prior users of mental health services, advocates, artists, and survivors of trauma and adversity, who are interested in exploring the link between personal and societal transformation.

Institute for the Development of Human Arts

Part of IDHA's 2024 virtual training series  TOPOGRAPHIES OF (DIS)CONNECTION

<h3>*ASL and captioning provided*</h3><h3>NOTE: 2.75 CE credits are available for this class (click <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/topographies-of-dis-connection-ce" title="https://www.idha-nyc.org/topographies-of-dis-connection-ce" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> for more information)</h3><h3>To learn more, please visit: <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/topographies-of-dis-connection" title="https://www.idha-nyc.org/topographies-of-dis-connection" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.idha-nyc.org/topographies-of-dis-connection</a></h3><p><br></p><h2>Class Description</h2><p>As a result of settler colonialism and extractive capitalism, we are experiencing disconnection on an unprecedented scale. This can play out on multiple levels and in multiple arenas – as disconnection from nature, seasons, and ecological rhythms; from one’s own emotions, sensitivities, and body wisdom; and from the collective. Climate catastrophe is a significant manifestation of this, further unmooring our relationship to land and ritual. Meanwhile, more people are attuning to the “lie of separation,” challenging the belief that we are fundamentally disconnected from each other and the earth. As old stories become undone, people may find themselves stuck in the space between stories, manifesting in pain, grief, and an overall lack of meaning. As our hearts are softened by suffering, how can we attune to these deep wounds?</p><p>This class will focus on the role that colonialism has played in creating widespread and chronic disconnection, exploring helpful and non-helpful survival strategies from a trauma-informed nervous system lens. This includes honoring the wisdom of dissociation, which can help people cope with the weight of a world in crisis. Rooted in Indigenous wisdom traditions of the African diaspora and body-based deep liberation practices, faculty will contextualize human disconnection on several levels, unearthing our inherent interconnectedness as a way to open up more choice, possibility, and healing. Participants will learn strategies for uncovering physical and emotional pain in order to gain access to parts of the self that previously were inaccessible, gain new perspectives, and usher in radical transformation.</p><p><br></p><h2>Learning Objectives</h2><ul><li>Define the “lie of separation,” and apply it to mental health practice contexts</li><li>Specify the function of different survival strategies (e.g. fight, flight, freeze, dissociate)</li><li>Review how traumatic experiences, internalized oppression, and habitual emotional patterns rooted in old beliefs can hold people back from transformation</li><li>Review strategies to cultivate deep grounding, skillful boundaries, and how to resource our healing through tending relationship with the land where we are</li><li>Identify practices to settle the nervous system in order to effectively tend to personal and collective well-being in community</li></ul><p><br></p><h2>Faculty</h2><p><strong><strong>Langston Kahn </strong></strong>is a liberation artist and community weaver specializing in radical transformation, ancestral healing and the restoration of an authentic relationship with our emotions. He stands at the crossroads, his practice guided by somatic modalities, contemporary shamanic traditions, initiations into traditions of the African Diaspora and his helping spirits and ancestors weaving it all together. He is a co-leader of the Cycle Community, a collective of people striving to live in alignment with ancient animist principles and applying them in service of personal and collective liberation. He is the author of <em><em>Deep Liberation: Shamanic Teachings for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma</em></em>.</p><p><strong><strong>Selin Nurgün</strong></strong> (they/she) is a somatic coach, educator, and bodyworker working at the intersection of embodiment, anti-oppression, and climate resilience based in Asheville, NC. They hold the significance of body-centered transformation as key to collective healing and liberation. In her practice she supports people to partner with their bodies in order to show up in the world with dignity, power, and in alignment with what they care most about. She holds a Master's of Science degree in Environmental Behavior, Education and Communication, with a focus on the psychological dimensions of climate change. Their commitment to centering underserved and vulnerable communities has led them to explore non-western, non-institutional, anti-carceral, trauma-sensitive healing approaches that break down barriers to care.</p><p><br></p><h2>What You Get</h2><p>Registration includes the 3-hour class session, an optional 90-minute discussion group one week after the live class (Sunday, January 21, 2024 from 12-1:30 pm EST), and access to IDHA’s School for Transformative Mental Health on Mighty Networks (our virtual learning community where you’ll have the opportunity to engage with other students and your faculty).</p><p><br></p><h2>Questions?</h2><p>Email us at contact@idha-nyc.org</p>

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