This is an experientially oriented retreat focused on healing developmental trauma. The primary focus of the course is to feel safe and protected in an embodied way while being reparented by the perfect nurturers (imaginary parent-like figures).

Going over the basics of attachment and what causes developmental trauma.

The difference between developmental trauma and later, non-developmental trauma.

Looking at the core schemas of disorganized attachment.

• mistrust & abuse
• subjugation
• punitiveness
• incompetence
• dependency
• defectiveness & shame
• enmeshment & underdeveloped self

Looking at the tumultuous structure changing or switching between self-states that is coming within disorganized attachment from a parts work perspective (schema modes)

List of guided meditation practices:

• safety grounding embodiment exercises
• to combat depersonalization and derealization symptoms (DPDR)
• creation of perfect nurturers with emphasize on their ability to protect you
• agency / self-efficacy as counterbalanced to fear and lack of safety
• SRM on mistrust and abuse schemas
• recognising all the schemas listed above
• getting comfortable with healthy touch / identifying healthy touch
• Recognizing our fearful and aggressive parts as adaptive responses to an unsafe environment and now, in the present, as adults giving those parts a “lived, emotionally corrective experience” of safety and protection