Such intense violence as happened last week in Amsterdam is deeply unsettling for many; it can readily shake our foundational sense of safety and security, all the more so on the night of Kristallnacht activating older layers of trauma connected to persecution and antisemitic violence. Furthermore it comes at a time when old and fresh collective traumas are already trying our resources and challenging our nervous systems.
We know from history and research that the shock and impacts of such violence are best tended and digested in safe relational and communal spaces, so we invite those who are reeling from these attacks to a communal zoom space for connecting, resourcing, and trauma integration. We’ll walk through some guided practices to support nervous system regulation and facilitators will hold space to help connect around and process the reverberations of last week’s attacks.
This space is not a substitute for professional mental health support.
The space will be held in English on Zoom and is free of charge
ZOOM: Thursday, November 14 20:00-21:30 CET
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Facilitators
Danny Cohen
Danny is an Israel-based therapist and mindfulness teacher who runs trainings based in Nonviolent Communication and trauma integration with personal connections to Amsterdam. He has studied since 2015 with global leader in collective trauma healing, Thomas Hübl, and is currently participating in the Collective Trauma Facilitator Training. Danny’s therapy training includes trainings in Hakomi: mindful somatic psychotherapy, Organic Intelligence trauma integration, and Primary Attachment therapy, amongst others. Danny was the founding director and is a senior teacher with Or HaLev: Center for Jewish Spirituality and Meditation and regularly teaches retreats, as well as offering courses and trainings through his platform artofcommunication.life. He has a particular passion for healing, empathy, and living and teaching the kind of relating that makes life feel worth living.
Bas Snippert, MSc
Bas is an Amersfoort-based coach, therapist, and expert in trauma healing, with training in NARM (the NeuroAffective Relational Model), Somatic Experiencing, and Organic Intelligence. Bas is also a stress and vitality expert and provides coaching and training from his company Optimize Me focused on resilience, vitality and well-being of managers, teams and professionals. As a counselor he helps with processing developmental trauma, chronic stress and burnout. Bas uses scientific insights into self-regulating capacity, the vortex effect of stress and the upward spiral of vitality. Bas is the author of the book ‘De Vitaliteitrevolutie’ and the forthcoming 'Mens-zijn in de Machinemaatschappij’. Bas is passionate about supporting the life forward impulses that arise in people moment-to-moment and that help generate a sense of aliveness, meaning and depth in our personal and collective lives.
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