Past Events
October 18, 2019 - Canadian Center for Victims of Torture: TCTSY Facilitation of a Women's Group (Survivors of domestic abuse, discrimination, and/or torture) , Toronto ON
Practitioner: Nicole Brown Faulknor
Group Therapy: 6 week - Frontline Workers and First Responders, Kitchener ON
A non-traditional group therapy approach to explore healing and/or lessen symptoms.
September 13, 2019 - YGT (Youth Got This) Presents: Human Trafficking; A Community Awareness & Education Information Event, Mississauga ON
Wounds 2 Wings collaborating to increase knowledge of human trafficking crime through education.
August 30, 2019 - 98.5 CKWR: Frontline Forward Radio Show, Kitchener ON
Guest (Nicole Brown Faulknor) interview with Bryan Stevens:
Meeting people (first responders and their families and friends) who may be in need of services from where they are - at home, work and/or in isolation. True heart work - and connection to our community!
Group Therapy: Mindfulness, Interoception and Trauma Yoga Towards Inner Child Work. "Embodied Workshop Towards Self-Discovery and Healing," Ajax ON
Facilitator: Nicole Brown Faulknor
7 Sessions:
Wednesday July 3, 10, 17, 31 (5:00-6:30pm)
Saturday July 27 (4:00-5:30pm)
Saturday August 17, 24 (4:00-5:30pm)
June 22, 2019 - Frontline Forward Grand Opening, 45 Shirley Ave, Kitchener ON
Grand Opening at Frontline Forwards, Wounds 2 Wings Trauma, Body and Psychotherapy Services. Tour is from 11:00am-4:00pm.
May 30, 2019 - Wilfred Laurier University FSW Spring Lecture, Waterloo ON
Presentation by Nicole Brown Faulknor: Expressions of Yoga, Mindfulness and the Inner Wounded Child
February 20 & 27. 2019 - Lang's Community Center, Cambridge ON
Anxiety and Depression Workshop: Supportive education for parents of children and youth / adolescence
Podcasts by Nicole
1. The Inner Wounded Child
The Inner Wounded Child may be a construct. It is a part of who we are. It is a part of our identity. If you are not sure you have one perhaps just ask yourselves:
1. When was the last time you just freaked out and surprised yourself?
2. A time that you were so upset and emotional about something that it felt like it sucked the life right out of you?
3. A feeling of 'hollowness"/emptiness thats unexplainable?
1. When was the last time you just freaked out and surprised yourself?
2. A time that you were so upset and emotional about something that it felt like it sucked the life right out of you?
3. A feeling of 'hollowness"/emptiness thats unexplainable?
2. The Inner Wounded Child: Part 2
Trauma may not only be about the incident or incidents, it may actually be about the individuals nervous system and the brain function to process the intensity of the overwhelming and distressing of whatever is happening in the experience. The impact of fear on attachment and unmet needs/developmental stages introduction to psychological trauma.
3. The Inner Wounded Child: Part 3 - Intergenerational Trauma
A mechanistic view of trauma theory from the lens of PTSS (Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome). Cultivating cross-cultural non-oppressive dynamics and practices - 'Birds Eye View' of racism as trauma and oppression/repression as trauma and/or re-traumatization with possibly no emotional closure around the events of the African American racial heritage and historical context.
4. The Inner Wounded Child: Part 4 - Formation of Identity and Development
How does the CORE SOMATIC SELF become to be? Our inner world may be our core somatic self perhaps based on attachment injuries that effect the child's/adult survivor neurological response to attachment (fear, shame, anger), fatal flaw (my needs are wrong cause mom and dad are unable to sense my needs) and loss of identity. Our identity may be formed around unmet attachment meaning when there are unmet developmental needs it is easier to survive if it's 'my fault' (as a child) and I am the problem = survival strategies/constructs that form around the wound/core somatic self. The magic in the need for empathy, the need to be seen and understood clinically to perhaps begin re-wiring neurons for the client in pursuit (varying visual and visceral techniques) to address the current theory of mind.
Blog: traumayogaandpsychotherapyservices.wordpress.com
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