Transforming Triggers

Transforming Triggers

Join Lauren for an experiential exploration of how what’s triggering you can grow you. As you’re with the body feel of being triggered in a Focusing way, you create the conditions for tension to ease, insights to emerge and healing to happen.

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Thursday ,December 14, 2023
10:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
Location: Online via Zoom

Cost: This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30

Presented by The International Focusing Institute

December 14, 2023

Have you noticed how the holiday season has a way of intensifying the way we feel? For some, this time of the year feels uplifting, full of celebration and connection. And, for others this time of the year is hard, fraught with family tension, tenderness and loneliness. Perhaps, it’s more of a marbled mix. No wonder this time of year can be so triggering!

Join Lauren for an experiential exploration of how what’s triggering you can grow you. In the first half of this webinar, Lauren will offer a guided exercise to help you resource yourself. She’ll share with you the science behind resourcing and how it can support your ability and capacity to be with what’s challenging without getting overwhelmed. Then, in the second half of the webinar, Lauren will offer another guided exercise to help you turn towards and be with what’s triggering you in a safe and skillful way.

You may be wondering, Why would I want to do that? Great question! Feeling triggered is your body’s way of signaling that something in your present experience is activating an unhealed hurt from your past. There’s some good reason why you’re feeling explosive, panicky, helpless and/or pleasing and appeasing. As you’re with the body feel of being triggered in a Focusing way, you create the conditions for tension to ease, insights to emerge and healing to happen.

Lauren Taub Cohen is the founder of MetaMinds® and creator of Mindfulness Aloud®. She is a Certified Inner Relationship Focusing Professional & Trainer as well as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Prior to the formation of MetaMinds®, Lauren worked at 60 Minutes and was an elementary school teacher in NYC. She has a B.A. in English Literature from Boston University and an M.S. Ed. from Bank Street College of Education.

Transforming Triggers is part of Lauren’s six-week course, Coming Back to You: Combining Somatic Experiencing® & Inner Relationship Focusing to Help HeaI Developmental Trauma. That course will be offered in January 2024. For more information, visit https://www.metamindsnyc.com/comingbacktoyou