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Are you struggling to implement Forward-Facing principles and skills into your therapy and/or coaching practice? Do you have clients with whom you know Forward-Facing would be helpful but cannot seem to get it delivered to them in a way that is palatable? Are you unsure when and how to introduce Forward-Facing to your clients? Would you like some support and assistance practicing and mastering Forward-Facing in your own professional and personal lives? Would you like to develop a support...

Donna Jackson Nakazawa, author of six books and longtime friend of PACEs Connection, joins the History. Culture. Trauma. podcast this week in an excerpt from the launch of her sixth book, “Girls on the Brink—Helping our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression and Social Media.” "Anyone caring for girls today knows that our daughters, students, and girls next door are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before,” said Nakazawa. But the...

Note: PACEs Connection is in dire financial straits. A funder who’d promised $500,000 reversed course and we are asking for help, from you, our 57,400+ members, to help cover the loss. Pay and hours have been cut for our staff – most of us will be laid-off for the month of December. Since sounding the alarm this summer, we’ve raised about $22,000 . To get a sense of who your fellow members are, who is donating, and why, please enjoy our first in a series of donor profiles, and be like Lois:...

🍃 Befriending your Nervous System, a non-clinical approach to achieving post-traumatic growth. 🍃 Hosts: Jenny Brackman and Emily Hedrick 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭: https://forward-facing.com/event/module-3-of-the-post-traumatic-growth-specialist/ Hope to see you there! ➡️ 4PM AZ | 5PM MT | 6PM CT | 7 PM ET

Welcome to virtual Rx Healing Circles! This session serves as an opportunity for building the beloved community and fostering healing through a shared humanity perspective. We invite you to join us in sharing a connective space for people to offer compassion and experience unity. Join us Wednesday, November 16, 2022 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Please register here : bit.ly/RxHealingCircle11-16

During six weeks at the Blackfoot Reservation in the 1930’s, 30-year-old Abraham Maslow did not find support for his theory that social hierarchies are maintained by dominance. Instead, he saw a tribal community where “…levels of cooperation, minimal inequality, restorative justice, full bellies, and high levels of life satisfaction…” were the norm. During my career in Alaska, I watched a transformation of villages from substandard houses with outhouses and honey buckets to places with more...

"Game changing. Strategies that I know will improve my practice & improve the experience that students have at school." “I’m Safe. I Belong. I Matter.” This is the way every child needs to feel in order to learn. How can you, as an adult who works with youth, help them experience emotional safety? Especially when our own nervous systems are overwhelmed. In our online, interactive Reimagining Resilience workshop , we cover the three R’s critical in building positive relationships with...

By Aatish Bhatia, Francesca Paris, and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, October 25, 2022 The first two years of the Biden administration have included huge legislative victories: a major bipartisan infrastructure deal, a technology bill, a veterans’ health bill, a gun safety bill, and a package of new investments in climate and health care. Of course, President Biden didn’t get everything he wanted; no president does. Even with these major bills, he has fallen substantially short of...

By Jessica DuLong, Photo: Maskot/Getty Images, CNN Health, October 24, 2022 Straight away, Nora McInerny noticed core differences in how people responded to the coronavirus pandemic. For some, the deadly virus and its upheaval constituted the “first big thing they’d ever been through.” Meanwhile, McInerny and others whose lives had been shaped by grief, loss or tragedy had long known that “life is fragile and our pace in this modern world is untenable.” McInerny’s first husband, Aaron, died...

By Phoebe Weston, Photo: Emilio Naranjo/EPA, The Guardian, October 24, 2022 Industry groups representing some of the world’s largest companies are “opposed to almost all major biodiversity-relevant policies” and are lobbying to block them, according to a new report. Researchers found that 89% of engagement by leading industry associations in Europe and the US is designed to delay, dilute and block progress on tackling the biodiversity crisis, which scientists say is as serious as the climate...

What's the difference between listening and hearing? We can’t control what we hear. Hearing is second nature. Listening requires focus. Imagine you’re standing in line at a coffee shop while music plays overhead. Everyone in the shop hears the music, but only a few of them might be listening to it. Who are our listeners? Most likely, the patrons in line with nothing else to do except wait will be listening. The busy barista can’t focus on the music, so they aren’t listening. The same is true...

When there is alcohol or substance-abuse in the family, it is often a central theme around which the entire family is organized. Yet for the most part, treatment is just with the individual and does not actively involve the entire family. This free webinar by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want concrete tools to bridge the gap from individual to family trauma treatment for substance-abuse issues. Case examples and handouts will be provided. DATE: Wednesday, November 16 TIME: 12 - 1 pm...