Thank you for this most recent post. I've appreciated all of them, but this EM work is something I would really like to invest in. Looking to do GGN, and hope it makes continuing my climate change-related work more feasible in terms of the emotional toll it's taken on me. Also, I found Hamilton's thesis through a google search. Didn't share the link in case that was a mere oversight on the part of her institution.
I love the Good Grief Network's 10 Step template!. Myself and some members of our local Nature Association used it and found great benefit...and continued well past the official 10 week timeline. The format can be peer to peer and no cost although some groups charge nominal facilitator fee. Looking forward to doing it again!
Here, again, is where I would also lift up the two main threads of Somatics as additionally useful EM's -- or one might coin Body-Emotional-Methodologies. The two main lineages as I see it are the Peter Levine/Resmaa Menakem and others on the more psychological side, and Richard Stozzi, Staci Haines, Prentis Hemphill and those who are more focused on the body side. Staci's book, the Politics of Trauma, is an enormously valuable, encyclopedic overview of how Somatics can be applied not just to our individual lives but also to social movements, organizations, and communal change.
My experience also points to the necessity of engaging each EM depending on where one is on the journey.
Thank you for this most recent post. I've appreciated all of them, but this EM work is something I would really like to invest in. Looking to do GGN, and hope it makes continuing my climate change-related work more feasible in terms of the emotional toll it's taken on me. Also, I found Hamilton's thesis through a google search. Didn't share the link in case that was a mere oversight on the part of her institution.
I love the Good Grief Network's 10 Step template!. Myself and some members of our local Nature Association used it and found great benefit...and continued well past the official 10 week timeline. The format can be peer to peer and no cost although some groups charge nominal facilitator fee. Looking forward to doing it again!
Here, again, is where I would also lift up the two main threads of Somatics as additionally useful EM's -- or one might coin Body-Emotional-Methodologies. The two main lineages as I see it are the Peter Levine/Resmaa Menakem and others on the more psychological side, and Richard Stozzi, Staci Haines, Prentis Hemphill and those who are more focused on the body side. Staci's book, the Politics of Trauma, is an enormously valuable, encyclopedic overview of how Somatics can be applied not just to our individual lives but also to social movements, organizations, and communal change.
My experience also points to the necessity of engaging each EM depending on where one is on the journey.