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
Course Content
Presenter
Kate Williams has been in therapeutic practice since 2009 with a background in counselling in further education. She currently runs a busy private practice, works with NHS clients and enjoys running workshops for onlinevents and staff wellbeing workshops for NHS Hull & Humberside.
Kate is centre manager for the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies where she teaches on the CPCAB L5 in Somatic Trauma Therapy course & L2 Award in Breathwork Coaching as well as the Level 4 in Therapeutic Counselling.
Kate has a passion for bringing the body into her practice supporting clients to release the trauma that is held within their bodies. Kate is know for her relaxed teaching style, experiential somatic practices and skill of bringing theory to life and making it applicable.
