Tuning In: Discerning Safety, Discomfort, and Readiness in Trauma Healing
This class can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings. All class times are posted in Eastern Time / New York time zone.
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ABOUT THIS MEMBERS CLASS
How do we tell the difference between feeling uncomfortable and feeling unsafe, especially in the context of trauma healing? This experiential workshop explores the subtle yet essential skill of discernment. Through guided reflection, small group dialogue, and somatic inquiry, we’ll explore the difference between trauma stabilization and processing, and how to recognize readiness for deeper healing work. Together, we’ll cultivate a more nuanced awareness of internal signals, strengthen self-trust, and explore what it means to stay with ourselves in the presence of discomfort without crossing into overwhelm.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Nkem Ndefo, MSN
Nkem Ndefo is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation in an ecologically sensitive framework and social justice context. She brings an abundance of experience as a clinician, educator, researcher, and community strategist to innovative programs that address trauma and inequity, build resilience, and shape liberatory change for individuals and organizations throughout the US and internationally. She is particularly interested in working alongside people most impacted by violence and marginalization.
Nkem has lent her expertise in the embodied trauma-informed and resilience-oriented (eTIRO) approach, embodied anti-oppression, and healing justice to a wide range of projects. She served on the Los Angeles County Trauma-and Resilience-Informed Systems Change Initiative Workgroup. She led an embodied diversity, inclusion, and antiracism initiative for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. Recently, she developed a trauma-informed program for Palestinian students of An-Najah National University in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as supported a global participatory youth-led grantmaking learning collaborative with Children’s Rights Innovation Fund. She directs the Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification Training Program and Tender Love Doula eTIRO Learning Community.