Applications for Spring REPAIR - Begins January 2025

There are many forms of interpersonal or relational trauma, including: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), intimate partner violence, complex trauma, attachment trauma, physical or sexual assault, and forms of abuse including physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, financial, and neglect.

Anyone who has been directly (personal experience), or indirectly (a loved one’s experience) impacted by interpersonal trauma; or provides direct professional or support services to people impacted by interpersonal trauma is welcome to join REPAIR.

In the REPAIR program, we work with participants to restore an inner experience of safety and wholeness that allows the ongoing experience of past trauma to resolve. 

People who have an experience of trauma in their past will benefit from participating in our program. However, people who are currently in the midst of an acute traumatic crisis will benefit more from resolving that crisis with crisis intervention support to secure external safety first, and then taking our program afterwards to work through internal repair. 

If you are in need of crisis intervention, find help here 24/7

One thing that all forms of interpersonal trauma have in common is that regardless of the original event that sparked the trauma, and no matter which observable behavioral or physical symptoms are manifested in an individual: the internal experience of carrying trauma in the body causes dysregulation in the autonomic nervous system (ANS). 

This dysregulation can look and feel like a sensitivity to triggers associated with memories of the painful event; a flight response that feels like an urgent need to flee from parts of your life or parts of yourself - even to the point of self-sabotage; a fight response that feels like a vengeful urgency to confront others or defend against perceived threats; or a freeze response that feels like a surrender or immobilization. Dysregulation can also manifest as a constant undercurrent in our experience that looks and feels like a constant anxiety bubbling under the surface, or a persistent depression that feels like part of our personality, or chronic fatigue.

The ongoing experience of living with this dysregulation interferes with our innate ability to recover from traumatic experiences. 

In REPAIR we will spend 13 weeks building up competencies through simple easy to learn practices that will ultimately help participants to be better able to self-regulate which results in a restored sense of safety inside of ourselves, in relationship with others, and in the world. Trauma sufferers who are able to integrate REPAIR competencies and practices ultimately experience the peace, joy, wholeness, freedom, and hope that they previously felt disconnected from.