Accessible Healing Tools
Hala emphasizes the importance of accessible healing practices, highlighting the Capacitar toolkit designed for trauma survivors. She shares influential figures in trauma work, such as Peter and Bessel, while discussing her focus on community psychology. By integrating self-regulation skills into educational settings, she aims to foster trauma-informed cultures that promote healing and understanding.In this clip
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What is Bessel van der Kolk's approach to trauma?
I've heard you mention before that you don't agree with the claims from Bessel Van der Kolk in his book, "The Body Keeps the Score." I'm very curious to know more about your opinion and how you understand the relationship between trauma and the body, considering there is a whole field of somatic psychology that directly relates to some central claims by Van der Kolk.
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right?