Trauma’s Everyday Impact – The Embodiment Portal

Course Content

Day 1

How trauma makes you “nice” (trauma and people pleasing)

How trauma can keep you from reaching a truly meditative state

How trauma controls your fight/flight response (trauma and conflict)

How trauma can give you coaching superpowers

What every movement teacher needs to know about trauma

The one thing that works best

Where today’s stresses really come from

Intergenerational trauma [how your ancestors are causing you to overreact

What you don’t know about trauma and how it can hurt you

It wasn’t that bad (How trauma impacts even “normal” people)

The subtle damage emotional abuse leaves

How not to use yoga and meditation as an emotional “bypass”

Revealing your invisible stress baseline

Q&A with Roger Mills 1

Q&A with Patricia Aguirre 1

Day 2

Your culture’s hidden trauma (trauma and cultural factors)

The weird things you do that you don’t recognise as trauma

Take the power back (trauma and forgiveness)

How to move beyond trauma (what works)

How to be the parent you know you can be (trauma and parenting)

How trauma is stopping you from putting yourself out there (trauma and marketing)

Traum(a) Teamarbeit? (Trauma im Arbeitskontext)

Where your sleep problems really come from (trauma and sleep)

Why am I always sick? (trauma and persistent health issues)

Engaging the Body’s Safety Circuit: A Polyvagal Guide to Connection

How forgotten trauma shows up today

How to eat what you actually want (trauma and food)

Why everyone else is stupid and wrong (trauma and anger)

Are you confident or compensating (trauma and pride)?

Q&A with Roger Mills 2

Q&A with Patricia Aguirre 2

Day 3

Erika – Saying ‘no’ and still being loved (trauma and boundaries)

Mark – Trauma healing is mainly sexy and makes you look cool (trauma and masculinity, a light hearted exploration)

Daniela – How not to burnout (and why trauma can ensure it)

Ilan, Paul, Vilya [1-hour] – You’re not broken (trauma and sexual violence)

Patricia & Erika – You’re worth more than you give yourself credit for (trauma and self-esteem)

Daniela, Ilan, Florian, Hendryk – Trauma im kulturellen Gedächtnis

Mark & Mel – Post-traumatic growth: turning your trauma into superpowers

Patricia & Daniela – Taking the stick out of your a** (trauma and perfectionism)

Patricia – Why you’re anxious

Mark – Healing subtle trauma to find your life purpose (trauma and purpose)

Mel – Why do I feel guilty for this? (trauma and guilt)

Mark & Ilan – Why you can’t stop it…and how to (trauma and addiction)

Q&A with Roger Mills 3

Q&A with Patricia Aguirre 3

Day 4

Ilan – The next step of healing: from good enough to great, as a facilitator

Mark – The hidden gifts inside your trauma

Erika – You’re probably not good enough for this session (self-doubt and trauma)

Ilan – How people who annoy you reflect your own trauma

Ron – How to bend not break (trauma & resilience)

Ilan – Du bist mehr als deine Traumata

Patricia & Erika – Why you don’t self-care (trauma and self-care)

Mel & Karin – A traumatised person’s guide to sitting calmly with yourself (trauma and meditation)

Ilan – Unleashing your creativity through healing

Paul Linden – From powerlessness to wholeness and joy

Mark – How trauma is stopping you being the leader you can be

Christina – How not to give a damn about other people’s stinky opinions of you

Q&A with Roger Mills 4

Q&A with Patricia Aguirre 4

Day 5

Christina – Warum dir die Meinung anderer Leute auf dich egal sein darf

Jane – Inner strength (trauma and the female pelvis)

Florian – Rainbow trauma (trauma for LGBTQ+)

Mark & Patricia – How trauma impacts your love-life (trauma and intimacy)

Ilan & Christina – A lust for life? (Trauma and passion)

Lucas Forstmeyer – Traumata in der Kindheit – Möglichkeiten im Jetzt

Patricia & Daniela – Being successful without having to be (trauma and workaholism)

Mark – Are you spiritually bypassing your trauma?

Betsy Polatin – The trauma that will never heal

Mel & Florian – How Covid makes trauma’s symptoms worse

Mel – How to cope with losing people close to you due to differing political views

Ilan – How to talk to yourself like a friend (trauma and the inner critic)

Paul – How to actually feel safe (trauma for martial artists)

Mark & Daniela – On the front lines (trauma for healthcare professionals, emergency responders and humanitarians)

Q&A with Roger Mills 5

Q&A with Patricia Aguirre 5

Day 6

Mark – What many trauma teachers suspect but don’t discuss: trauma and mysticism

Mark – How to really let go (trauma and control)

Mark – How your trauma keeps you poor (trauma and money)

Mark & Paul – Making trauma healing playful

Mark & Patricia – Why you don’t think first or think too much (Trauma, procrastination and impulsivity)

David Berceli – What even most professionals misunderstand about trauma

Mel – Why you’re afraid to open up (trauma and vulnerability)

Daniela – Zoom “fatigue” and anti social media (trauma and the internet)

Mel – How to finally get your sh*t together (trauma and internal chaos)

Patricia – Interrupting the vicious cycle (how not to pass on trauma)

Ilan – The next step of healing: from good enough to great, as a facilitator

Q&A with Roger Mills 6

Q&A with Patricia Aguirre 6