"Learn Your Value" is a body, mind, and brain (Somatic Experiencing) trauma-informed, culturally responsive healing program designed to serve the behavioral health and healing needs of Black, BIPOC, and Immigrant communities, who have historically been underserved or excluded by our healthcare systems. While we welcome everyone from any background who seeks our help, our program is tailored to address the complex needs of marginalized communities.
The "Learn Your Value" bottom-up program includes somatic bodywork healing group sessions, classes, and individual coaching and mentoring to help participants heal from intergenerational, developmental and personal trauma and build resilience in a supportive community setting. "Trauma" can be anything that compromises our physical or emotional safety. Traumatic events trigger a cascade of hormones and nervous system responses that, if left to continue, can be harmful or even debilitating. Thanks to the science of epigenetics, we now know that the effects of trauma can even be passed down intergenerationally. "Resilience" describes an individual's capacity to return to a state of equilibrium following trauma, which is key to healing. Resilience is also a skill - not an innate quality - and it can be learned and strengthened with practice and compassionate support.
The "Learn Your Value" program is grounded in neuroscience, epigenetics, adverse childhood experiences, and resiliency, and it is informed by what Polyvagal Theory tells us about how trauma impacts the nervous system.
Unlike talk-therapy-centered programs, "Learn Your Value" follows a "bottom-up" approach to healing the body, mind, and brain that places the autonomic nervous system (ANS) at the center of the healing and recovery process. The healthy development of the ANS in infancy and childhood can be compromised by abuse and neglect, by environmental stressors like poverty, violence, crime, and food insecurity, and even by intergenerational trauma from prior generations’ experience of slavery or war. When the ANS is bombarded with trauma, fear, and stress early in life, resilience is lost and physiological/somatic nervous system response patterns develop that are geared toward protection and isolation instead of connection and interaction. This can lead to unhealthy outcomes including insecure attachment disorder, substance use disorder, self-harm, depression, and chronic illness.
The good news is that the ANS can be retrained from the bottom-up and reconnected to respond from a place of safety and connection instead of a place of fear and protection. This autonomic nervous system retraining, in turn, helps heal the effects of trauma and chronic stress on the brain, body, and mind and helps us learn new, somatic healthy behavior patterns. A critical component of this re-learning is co-regulation - the "good vibes" we get from connecting positively with a community that supports us in a healthy and healing way. Love truly heals our body, mind, and spirit, and that is what we're about.
For a great introduction to the Polyvagal Theory and the ANS, check out Deb Dana's video at www.RhythmofRegulation.com/polyvagal-theory, and please visit our website for more information about the League of Extraordinary People: www.TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryPeople.org or www.tloep.org
The "Learn Your Value" bottom-up program includes somatic bodywork healing group sessions, classes, and individual coaching and mentoring to help participants heal from intergenerational, developmental and personal trauma and build resilience in a supportive community setting. "Trauma" can be anything that compromises our physical or emotional safety. Traumatic events trigger a cascade of hormones and nervous system responses that, if left to continue, can be harmful or even debilitating. Thanks to the science of epigenetics, we now know that the effects of trauma can even be passed down intergenerationally. "Resilience" describes an individual's capacity to return to a state of equilibrium following trauma, which is key to healing. Resilience is also a skill - not an innate quality - and it can be learned and strengthened with practice and compassionate support.
The "Learn Your Value" program is grounded in neuroscience, epigenetics, adverse childhood experiences, and resiliency, and it is informed by what Polyvagal Theory tells us about how trauma impacts the nervous system.
Unlike talk-therapy-centered programs, "Learn Your Value" follows a "bottom-up" approach to healing the body, mind, and brain that places the autonomic nervous system (ANS) at the center of the healing and recovery process. The healthy development of the ANS in infancy and childhood can be compromised by abuse and neglect, by environmental stressors like poverty, violence, crime, and food insecurity, and even by intergenerational trauma from prior generations’ experience of slavery or war. When the ANS is bombarded with trauma, fear, and stress early in life, resilience is lost and physiological/somatic nervous system response patterns develop that are geared toward protection and isolation instead of connection and interaction. This can lead to unhealthy outcomes including insecure attachment disorder, substance use disorder, self-harm, depression, and chronic illness.
The good news is that the ANS can be retrained from the bottom-up and reconnected to respond from a place of safety and connection instead of a place of fear and protection. This autonomic nervous system retraining, in turn, helps heal the effects of trauma and chronic stress on the brain, body, and mind and helps us learn new, somatic healthy behavior patterns. A critical component of this re-learning is co-regulation - the "good vibes" we get from connecting positively with a community that supports us in a healthy and healing way. Love truly heals our body, mind, and spirit, and that is what we're about.
For a great introduction to the Polyvagal Theory and the ANS, check out Deb Dana's video at www.RhythmofRegulation.com/polyvagal-theory, and please visit our website for more information about the League of Extraordinary People: www.TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryPeople.org or www.tloep.org
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