Trauma: Uncovering The Story Through Breathwork Workshop with John Paul Mason

We all carry stories.

There’s the stories of our life experience. There’s the stories we tell ourselves of what has happened to us. There’s the stories about our family and the stories of our culture. There’s the story of who we are.

What happens to our stories when we experience trauma?

Trauma disrupts story.

When we experience trauma it disrupts our ability to create an autobiographical narrative of what happened. It fragments our sense of self. It disconnects us from who we are. We have an incomplete story.

We may also have an entire other story hidden from view in our bodies, waiting to be retrieved. There’s always a deeper story. A truer story. A more healing story.

We may have created stories. Popular stories might be ‘My family was just a normal happy family’. ‘I’m okay really’. ‘It wasn’t important’. Or perhaps the story might be ‘they were never there for me’.

One way to create a more accurate story is through breathwork. Conscious Connected Breathwork enables us to access the subconscious and bring to light the missing pieces of our story. It enables us to integrate the stories we carry in our bodies into a coherent narrative, for a more complete sense of who we are, what has happened in our lives and what it means now. It helps us to create more helpful stories.

When we can tell our story we are liberated.

In this workshop, we will be exploring the practice of Conscious Connected Breathing as a way to help clients who have experienced trauma recover their story. Drawing on neuroscience and case study examples, we’ll see how breathwork can help clients find a more accurate story that reflects who they are and what they are here for. You will leave with a context for understanding trauma that puts the client and their story at the heart of the healing process.

This work will be part theory and part experiential. You will get the opportunity to explore Conscious Connected breathing for yourself with some breathwork exercises, including a 20-30 minute guided session. For the guided session please have somewhere comfortable to sit or lie down, with cushions/pillows and a blanket so you can really allow yourself to relax and get the most from the session.

Contraindications

The breathwork process is mostly a deep relaxing experience but can also result in physical or emotional release. As such, certain conditions are contraindicated. Please inform Onlinevents either before the workshop or John Paul during the session if you have any of the conditions below. You can still participate in the workshop and John Paul will guide you appropriately.

• Cardiovascular disease including angina, previous heart attack or stroke
• Epilepsy
• Aneurysm in the brain or abdomen
• High Blood Pressure (not controlled with medication)

• Uncontrolled thyroid conditions and diabetes
• Asthma – if you are asthmatic bring your inhaler to the session.
• First trimester of pregnancy
• Glaucoma or detached retina
• History of psychosis, bipolar or schizophrenia

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• To learn how breathwork can be used to help clients integrate trauma to a place of resolution
• To provide a framework for understanding trauma and how it relates to the brain and the body
• To lean how Breathwork may be combined with your current
  therapeutic practice

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• Counsellors, psychotherapists, coaches and holistic practitioners with an interest in finding new ways to work with trauma

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• This workshop will help expand your awareness of how to work with trauma and will give you a tool you can immediately use with your clients.