The Pleasing to Fawning Continuum when Relationships are Threatening Workshop with Kate Williams

The fawning response is a protective relational 'way of being' to relational trauma & enmeshed patterns of relating. When a person fawns their Self has disappeared and they survive by moulding themselves to those around them. They tend to adopt the opinions, feelings and behaviours seeming like a chameleon. Fawning is much more common than we realise. It exists on the people pleasing continuum but it's at the severe end. Understanding this cognitively doesn't help the person who fawns and has learnt to lose themselves in relation to others. It's a bodily, nervous system response. The bodies physicality weakens in certain areas which means patterns of appeasing, pleasing and adapting continue. This then leads to poor boundaries and a lack of agency in the work. Workshop Details In this workshop you'll learn all about the fawning response, gaining a deeper understanding of the hypo-response and what areas of the body tend to weaken. You'll learn how to support your clients to claim back themselves, rebuild their boundaries and access their personal and physical power. Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Identifying the different stages on the pleasing to fawning contuum
• Learn how to help your clients strengthen their sense of self
• Learn how to help your client come out of hyporesponse and into a place off strength and centeredness

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Anyone who identifies on the pleasing to fawning continuum. Useful for therapists and trainees.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Help your clients to understand this very common relational pattern and trauma response and how to have a greater range of choice in relationship