From Margin to Center: Reimagining Trauma Informed Care with Mercedes Mack
Join Mercedes Mack in an exploration of trauma informed healing that centers the genius of black folx healing and queer wisdom. She’ll share how she creates spaces where clients//folx processing trauma can move from margin to center, co-creating an opportunity to deliver tangible meaningful care.
Herbs and Somatic Practices for Stress, Trauma and Resilience
with Larken Bunce
Herbs and somatic practices pair powerfully to address the neuroendocrine, immunologic, and digestive dysregulations, as well as the emotional and spiritual challenges, associated with stressful and traumatic experiences and ongoing traumatizing conditions. Drawing on the latest insights in psychobiology and principles of trauma-informed care, we’ll explore the role plants and somatic skills can play in modulating the stress response, healing trauma, and building resilience. Simple, teachable practices will be shared, with rationale and indications for immediate application in the context of herbal practice.
To see presenter bios, and more information about the weekend, click here
Tentative Schedule:
9-9:30: Registration/Tea
9:30 -10: Welcome in
10-12: Larken Bunce: Herbs and Somatic Practice for Stress, Trauma, and Resilience
12-1245: LUNCH with space for Topic Based Conversation
1245-1:30: Conversation groups on topics continued or Gentle Yoga Movement with Noah Weisman
1:30-3:30: Mercedes Mack: From Margin to Center: Practices in Human Connection Informed Care
3:45-4:00: BREAK
4:00-4:45: Collective Space Sharing LEADS into next steps…
4:45-5 PM: CLOSING
Cost:
$55 for Saturday's event
$75 Sunday's event
$111 for WHOLE WEEKEND COST
***with full and partial scholarships available for BIPOC/Trans Identified Individuals. BIPOC- Black. Indigenous. Persons of Color. For more info, please contact HerbalJusticeVT@gmail.com
TRAUMA INFORMED LEARNING WEEKEND: SUNDAY- Dancing with the Cannibal Giant; Healing Our Collective Trauma and Reconnecting with Our Spiritual Source with Sherri Mitchell, 2-6pm
Sunday will be for all folks interested in hearing Sherri Mitchell's perspective on collective and personal trauma through an indigenous lens.
