Transforming Trauma: Healing Meets Activism

This event has sold out. Please contact us to be placed on the waiting list.

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Ready to be a catalyst for healing in your community?

Join us for Transforming Trauma Foundation Level 1: Trauma recovery, resilience, and self-care for healing practitioners, community leaders, and activists

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This training is based on a "community access" model to trauma recovery that believes that everyone has the capacity to heal oneself and others. It blends together several healing modalities: somatic awareness, mindfulness, creative arts, and social rehabilitation - together with the healing wisdom that lies within each one of us.

Benefits:

• Learn the core principles a grassroots, group-based, trauma recovery model that you can use with your community
• Be guided through a journey of individual and collective transformation
• Examine how culture and identity inform our work as healers and activists
• Explore how to create safe spaces for healing in your community
• Learn self-care practices to sustain a lifetime of activism
• Forge powerful connections with a community of healing activists to support your continued personal and professional growth.

Workshop Facilitators:

Amy Paulson - Executive Director and Co-Founder, Global Gratitude Alliance

Lakiba Pittman, MA - Professor, artist, poet, and facilitator of Stanford University's Compassion Cultivation Training

Lemny Perez, Psy.D. - Director of Behavioral Health at West Oakland Health

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Note:

Limited scholarships are available based on financial need, demographic served, and impact. Apply here.

All confirmed participants will be invited to a private Facebook group.

Further workship info including what to bring, logistics, carpooling, and pre-training homework will be sent approximately 30 days before the start of the workshop.

FAQs

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Who is this training for?

This is a training for healing practitioners and community activists to learn the core principles of a group-based model for trauma recovery, resilience, and transformation.

Where can I get more information about the workshop?

Visit our website here.

What's the refund policy?

For cancellations up to 30 days before first day of training, refund is 100% less $50 nonrefundable processing fee.

For cancellations within and including 30 days before first day of training, refund is 50% less $50 nonrefundable processing fee.

No refunds for cancellations on or after training start date.

Where can I stay if I need a hotel room?

The training venue (Best Western Corte Madera Inn) is offering single rooms for $161 + tax per night for training participants. To access this rate, book your room by calling 1-800-777-9670. Let them know you are attending the Global Gratitude Alliance training.

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Email amy@gratitudealliance.org with any questions or concerns.

*** Disclaimer: By participating in the event you are granting permission for your image and likeness to be filmed, photographed, edited, copied, exhibited, published or distributed by Global Gratitude Alliance (GGA). We will not use audio or video that shows personal or confidential trauma stories or emotional releases.

If you do not wish to be photographed and/or filmed, please inform GGA onsite or prior to the day of training and we will accommodate your wishes. ***