Your courage to heal
A 2-month journey for women to empower their trauma recovery
8 live, weekly webinars
Self-paced course material
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Oct 6 - Dec 2, 2022
Are trauma patterns are holding you back?
Trauma is passed on intergenerationally through culture, as well as from individual events. That means we’ve pretty much all picked some up!
Trickily, however, trauma may not be obvious, especially when it’s been around a long time. Trauma can work to invisibly drive people, and really hold them back.
Women’s unique experiences also need to be considered, as sadly, most of what we’ve come to understand about trauma comes from a male perspective. This misses a lot! This can leave us feeling unseen, and leads to ineffective approaches to healing.
For women, trauma can often show up as habitually putting others first, losing touch with pleasure, poor boundaries, being “overly nice”, or lacking confidence. These patterns may once have kept us or our ancestors safe, but can become very limiting.
Do you feel like this?
More and more women are now recognising the undermining power of trauma, and wondering what can be done.
Trauma can leave us feeling trapped, helpless, disempowered or in a constant state of “fight/flight”, like we need to hide, justify or defend ourselves. It doesn’t allow us to relax, rest or enjoy our lives.
Other times it’s more subtle, at work in the background. Trauma can quietly undermine us, and lead to self-sabotage.
We can repeat unhelpful patterns, lack feelings of worth, or “play it small”. This can be frustrating and disheartening, and it’s all too easy to blame ourselves.
We often wonder if we’re alone in this experience, or if there’s anything we can do to escape behaviours that we can’t help repeating.
So, what do we do?
The good news: You are not alone, and there is something that you can start doing today.
The “bad” news: Even if we wish there was, there’s no quick fix or “hack” for trauma.
The first step is to identify the more insidious ways trauma shows up as women. I have been doing this with women for many years.
Next comes empowering women with practical tools they can use themselves. I’ve worked with many approaches, and while no one size fits all, I can support women to find what works uniquely for them.
This course will empower you to direct your own learning, within a community of other women. You’ll build a map of where you are, and implement day-to-day practice. You’ll be supported to find your courage to heal, and move beyond trauma.
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Beyond Women's Trauma
Direct your own healing and courageously move beyond trauma
Map out how trauma impacts your life
Learn day-to-day embodied practices
Connect with women around the world
Beyond Women’s Trauma is an online, embodied journey for women to map out the ways trauma is holding them back and provide day-to-day practices to give them the tools to direct their own healing.
There are eight weekly, live, 60-minute webinars. These will also be recorded and available to watch on replay for two months following each session if you can’t attend live.
For facilitators, there’s a 90-minute webinar with Mark Walsh on “Working with Trauma for Facilitators”.
The course also includes over seven hours of self-paced course material with Patricia Aguirre, split into two components:
- Introduction to Trauma
- Embody Your Boundaries
There is also an option to get only the self-paced material (no live webinars) as part of the Foundation of Trauma pack.
All course materials will be accessible on the Embodiment App and our custom-built course portal, so you can tune into sessions live, watch pre-recorded videos and interact with peers wherever you are.
With Beyond Women’s Trauma, you’ll be empowered to take control of your own healing journey throughout your life.
This may be for you if you...
Put others’ needs first
Can find it difficult to access pleasure
Support others on their healing journey
Take on a lot, but it's still never enough
Have done lots of work but feel like something's lacking
Struggle to feel at ease
What's in the course
The Foundations of Trauma pack consists of:
- "Introduction to Trauma" 3-hour course (worth $199)
- "Embody your Boundaries" 3-hour course (worth $249)
Introduction to Trauma
~3 hours
Includes common symptoms of trauma, the weird ways it shows up, trauma coaching and why trauma education is needed now.
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- Introduction
- What is trauma?
- Common trauma symptoms
- Trauma and the body
- The weird ways trauma shows up
- Paradigms of trauma
- Trauma, activism and victimhood
- Why is trauma education important and needed now
- What is trauma coaching
- Women’s trauma
- This is only the beginning…
- Top trauma tips (bonus)
Embody Your Boundaries
~4 hours
Includes exploration of internal & external boundaries, conditioning, handling discomfort and how to set boundaries in key areas of life. Split into four sections:
Internal boundaries
- Introduction to boundaries
- Boundaries & our relationship with ourselves
- Be compassionate with yourself when discovering your needs
- Internal boundaries, limits & self-respect
- Honour your own feelings & existence
- How we repeat negative patterns of feeling
- How we lose self-agency
- How postponing uncomfortable situations leads to increased discomfort
- How to step forward through uncomfortable feelings
- The importance of language for boundaries
- How taking too much responsibility is unrealistic
- Exercise: use self-care to build internal boundaries
Boundaries in relationships
- Boundaries in romantic relationships
- Why boundaries mean yes and no
- How to practise expressing your needs
- Why honouring your past is the starting point
- How to access your “yes”
- Why being over-boundaried can meet your needs
- Why under-boundaried can meet your needs
- Exercise: how boundaries show up in relationship
- Summary of boundaries in relationships
Why boundaries are so difficult
- Why boundaries are a practice throughout life
- How we’re conditioned to please others
- Why we feel the need to prove our worth
- Learn to grow through the uncomfortable
- What happens when you don’t express boundaries?
- Resentment & asserting your needs
- What are unhealthy ways that we try to get what we want?
- How to develop range in relationship
- Ending relationships
- Exercise: how to confidently stand for what you want
Boundaries with family & throughout life
- Summary of boundaries in relationships
- Why family boundaries are hard
- How dynamics work within the family system
- Exercise: How much space do you feel to set a boundary
- What are you willing to sacrifice
- Watch your hidden motives
- Build a healthy, supportive community
- Exercise: practise being with uncomfortable feelings
- Exercise: yes and …
- Why some people are more difficult to set boundaries with
- Exercise: finding stability and centredness
- Exercise: testing your boundary
- Finding your voice within the family dynamics
- How to understand the reactions to your boundaries
- Summarising boundaries
The Beyond Women’s Trauma course consists of:
- Eight, 60-minute live webinars, which are recorded and available for two months if you can't watch live (schedule below)
- Bonus 90-minute live webinar with Mark Walsh on "Working with Trauma for Facilitators"
- Two live Q&A sessions during the course (send in questions if you can't be there live)
- "Introduction to Trauma" 3-hour course (worth $199, see above)
- "Embody your Boundaries" 3-hour course (worth $249, see above)
- The "Giants of Trauma" library, for further support and to inspire facilitators (worth $299)
The "Giants of Trauma" library
Access to exclusive talks from The Embodiment Conference when you buy "Beyond Women's Trauma."
Gabor Maté
Compassionate inquiry
Irene lyon
Functional freeze explained
Peter Levine
In an unspoken voice
Stephen Porges
Embodiment through the lens of polyvagal theory
Alanis Morissette
Trauma keynote panel
Bessel Van Der Kolk
The body keeps the score
Ruby Wax
And now, the good news
Dan Siegel
Leadership from the Body
Babette Rothschild
Balancing the Autonomic Nervous System
Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
Cancel Culture' is Another Name for How Stuck We Are
Richard Schwartz
Parts in Internal Family Systems
Dr Martha Eddy
Small steps for moving stress and trauma out
Live webinars schedule
All webinars are 60-minutes long, starting at 7pm UK time (2pm EDT) on Thursday October 6 and continuing every Thursday for 8 weeks. Sessions are recorded if you can’t make it live.
Week 1 – October 6: How we disconnect (an introduction)
- Fight-flight-freeze models
- Disconnection from self and my needs
- Disconnection from others and experiencing authentic intimacy
Week 2 – October 13: Why we don’t feel at ease
- Defensiveness
- Tiredness
- Compulsive doing
Week 3 – October 20: Reconnecting to body wisdom
- Developing intuition (not paranoia)
- Restoring safety and connection
- Natural, body-based instinctual wisdom
Week 4 – October 27: Male culture vs female biology
- Cultural expectations
- Female biology
- Finding what works for you
Week 5 – November 3: Your right to pleasure
- Why trauma makes pleasure difficult
- Enjoying sensuality and sexuality
- Self-care
Week 6 – November 10: Trauma’s impact in relationships
- Neediness
- Avoidance
- Boundaries
Week 7 – November 17: Perfectly imperfect
- How trauma manifests as perfectionism
- The benefit of failures
- Being comfortable with imperfection (being human)
Week 8 – November 24: Expression & creativity
- Reconnecting and integrating into life
- Trolls and your inner critics
- Your next steps towards self-expression
BONUS for facilitators with Mark Walsh
Week 9 – December 2: Working with Trauma for Facilitators
90-minutes on Friday, December 2 at 5-6.30pm UK time (12-1.30pm EST)
What women say about our courses...
"I wanted to connect with my femininity and with my sisterhood as part of this process. This course has been a wonderfully positive experience of depth and play in so many diverse ways. I've taken steps towards being more centred and spacious in both my personal and professional life!"
"This course was a lovely experience. Now I can really feel the courage to show up and take more space."
"What a "shifting" course you created, bravo! During that course I did a great shift regarding my blockages that are holding me back to show myself to the world. I am really grateful to you and to the team for all information and knowledge, rituals, exercises and tips that you shared with us."
"More understanding and feeling of the existing parts and possibilities. A lot of tools and insights for practice. Great structure to use. Lots of motivation."
"A wonderful course with great teachers who lead you through inner and outer journeys on your way to new insights about yourself and the world. I highly recommend this course for anyone who wants to be a leader of your own life and make a difference in the world."
"This course helped me to better understand myself, my patterns, my needs and also my fears... And through this understanding to support and understand my closest ones rather than judging them."
"I’ve most appreciated getting to work again more with the body with clients and going to to offer workshops for women for self empowerment , connection to self and others"
"The body is amazing for both exploring experiences, beliefs and habits and also breaking patterns that no longer serve us. I love the fast, practical tools I now have access to, which benefit both my clients and myself."
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What you'll learn
- How to recognise trauma in the body
- How to restore systems damaged by trauma
- Introductory Polyvagal Theory, including fight-flight-freeze models
- How to manage the interplay between the environment (culture and upbringing) and our (female) biology
- What to do during nervous system dysregulation
- How to access pleasure and start fully enjoying life
- How to change the impact trauma has had on our attachment patterns in relationships
- Why trauma leads to disconnection and how to rewire learned trauma responses over time
- How to reconnect to creativity and self-expression
- Emergency tools to restore safely when facilitating clients impacted by trauma
After two months you will...
- Be more responsive rather than reactive
- Perform better under pressure
- More easefully enjoy rest and pleasure when you choose
- Navigate competing demands with less stress
- Have the tools to take control of your own healing journey
- Cultivate better boundaries in relationships
- More freely express your needs
- Build greater confidence and knowledge in your facilitation practice
How this course will help
Connection & Support
Be part of a community that'll be there for you when things are tough, and keep you accountable when you're ready
Empowerment
You'll learn tools to practice daily so you take control of your own healing, rather than only relying on others
New paradigms
You're not broken. See any coping mechanisms you once developed as potential "superpowers" once you learn to harness them appropriately.
Course facilitators
Patricia Aguirre
Therapist & Family Constellations Facilitator
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Patricia is co-lead trainer of the Trauma Coaching and Courage to Lead courses and works extensively with women through private sessions and workshops.
She combines deep processes of shadow work through different models of therapy and trauma work with almost two decades on the spiritual path.
Patricia weaves both of these visions into her work where she leads women into states of strength and empowerment, peace and fulfilment in life, as expressed by many of the women she has worked with.
Daniela Welzel
Women's Coach & Mindfulness Facilitator
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Daniela brings her unique blend of embodied experience to everything she does. She is authentic, honest and fearless in her work and honours whatever arises with grace, patience and presence.
Daniela has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a diploma in police leadership science. She served in a bilateral training mission in Afghanistan, teaching Afghan police officers methods and didactics, psychology and code of conduct.
Daniela also holds a black belt in Aikido, and is a certified MBCT trainer. She regularly teaches workshops and courses on embodied self-defence and mindfulness, along with offering individual coaching.
Mark Walsh
Founder - Embodiment Unlimited & Sane Ukraine
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“Mr Embodiment” (Mark Walsh) is the author of Embodiment, Working with the Body in Training and Coaching, and Embodied Meditation.
He hosts The Embodiment Podcast (1 million+ downloads), The Embodiment Channel on YouTube (over 15M views), and led The Embodiment Conference (1000 teachers, 500,000 delegates). Seeing a theme yet?
He co-founded the Embodied Facilitator Course, and the online Certificate of Embodiment Coaching. He has certified over 1000 embodiment coaches.
Mark gained an honours in psychology (despite been an alcoholic at the time), and has taught widely in the corporate world where he pretended to be a grown up for years, including with blue-chip companies (e.g. Google, Unilever, Shell, Axa, L’Oreal) some of whom he charged wayyyy too much as they made him wear a suit.
Mark has over 25 years of experience of extensive embodied practice. This includes several years of residential live-in aikido training, experience in a bunch of other martial arts, loads of yoga, bodywork, improv comedy, body therapy, conscious dance, experiential anatomy and meditation.
He has also triggered… sorry, taught… many yogis, NGOs, police officers, The NHS and several militaries (e.g. in Sierra Leone).
Mark has taught in over 40 countries (most of which will even let him back in), worked in various war zones, and taught over 50,000 children. He has headlined International Coach Federation events, taught at universities, in The House of Lords, lived with the circus in Ethiopia, founded the Sane Ukraine trauma education charity, and kissed a princess.
Embodiment is his obsession, life’s work, and frankly at this point he couldn’t get a job doing anything else. He dances like your dad at a wedding, impresses cats with his stroking, and offends pirates with his swearing.
He is now tired of writing in the third person. It’s getting weird. You get the point.
Why I'm doing this now...
“Trauma hurts women. It impacts all of us in direct and indirect ways.
While all people can benefit from healing of trauma, and there are many individual differences, I’ve found over the years that it’s hugely helpful for women to explore how trauma shows up in their experience as a group.
I have seen time and again the specific struggles women face as a result of trauma. This trauma may’ve come from individual situations, but it’s often passed on culturally and intergenerationally as part of our experience growing up in this world.
If you’ve ever found yourself behaving in ways that do not always serve you – whether putting others first, finding it difficult to access pleasure, taking on too much, never quite feeling at east, feeling the need to constantly defend yourself, … it goes on – then trauma may play a part.
Let’s be honest, there’s no “quick fix” trauma work, but this course will provide a way to map where you are now, support you to start your healing journey, and give you the tools to direct your own healing ongoing. Over time, trauma’s impact can be lessened for women. This is my passionate wish for the world.”
Patricia Aguirre
Lead Trainer – Beyond Women’s Trauma (Mexico)
What some leaders in the embodiment field say...
Embodiment is an essential component of healing and Embodiment Unlimited does valuable work bringing its importance to the public.
I have enjoyed working with this innovative organisation.
I have enjoyed working with this innovative organisation.
The embodied work that Embodiment Unlimited does is both creative and practical.
As a facilitator, I get a lot from teaching alongside them and always enjoy the mix of humour and pragmatism.
As a facilitator, I get a lot from teaching alongside them and always enjoy the mix of humour and pragmatism.
Embodiment Unlimited bring embodiment to life with passion, irreverence and grit.
It makes a body want to celebrate!
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The Embodiment Unlimited team provide a learning experience which draws on many forms of embodiment, then integrates it in a way that forms a more whole process for growth.
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Bonuses
Bonuses available until Tuesday September 27
Moving Beyond Trauma
~3 hours
This course gives you practical models and techniques to transform your trauma, and get inspired with powerful insights and direction to help you as you learn and grow.
Consists of three modules, with content on resistance, shaking, befriending anger & fear, and facing your shadows.
Worth $149
Trauma is Your Superpower
~4 hours
Transform the worst things that have happened to you into your greatest gifts for helping yourself and others.
This course gives you the inside stories of facilitators who have also made this journey.
While your trauma healing will likely be different to theirs, listening to them will give you powerful insights and direction to help you as you learn and grow.
Where most trauma courses aim to help you get to ‘good enough’, this course focuses on helping you go beyond what you thought was possible in your life.
Worth $399
Discover your courage to heal
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Foundations of Trauma package:
Start your healing
Self-paced | 7 hours
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- "Intro to Trauma" course (worth $199)
- App & platform to connect with community
- "Embody Your Boundaries" course (worth $249)
Full price
$458
Beyond Women's Trauma:
Empower your healing
LIVE | Online | 2 months
6th Oct - 2nd Dec
- 8 live weekly webinars
- "Giants of Trauma" library (worth $299)
- App & platform to connect with community
- Bonus 90-min live webinar for facilitators (worth $49)
- "Intro to Trauma" & "Embody Your Boundaries" (worth $458)
Full price
$999
Need instalments? See your options here
Beyond Women's Trauma: reduced-rate scholarship
Empower your healing
LIVE | Online | 2 months
6th Oct - 2nd Dec
- 8 live weekly webinars
- "Giants of Trauma" library (worth $299)
- App & platform to connect with community
- Bonus 90-min live webinar for facilitators (worth $49)
- "Intro to Trauma" & "Embody Your Boundaries" (worth $458)
Please note: this option is ONLY for people who genuinely can't afford full-price for this course
Want to make sure this course is the right fit for you? We do too.
Contact support@embodimentunlimited.com
Important notice:
If you’ve experienced recent trauma, are in active crisis-mode, or you’re simply not well-resourced to do group education work right now, then the course may NOT be for you at this time.
That’s okay, many of us have been there, but therapy may be what you need at this time.
The self-paced course pack may be a better fit.
FAQs
All the webinars are live, but they’ll be recorded and available on the learning platform for you to watch for two months following the sessions.
Two self-paced courses – “Introduction to Trauma” and “Embody Your Boundaries” are optional but recommended parts of the live course, and they are pre-recorded.
This includes two self-paced courses – “Introduction to Trauma” and “Embody Your Boundaries” – and no live courses.
It starts on October 6th and ends on November 24th.
However, there is a bonus 90-minute webinar for facilitators on December 2.
No, the course will benefit all women wanting to take control of their own trauma healing. If you’re in a really tough space right now, it may not be for you at this time though.
Between 3 and 5 hours a week including homework.
Each class is 60 minutes.
The sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the learning platform, but you’ll gain the most from the course by attending as many live as possible.
As this is not a certification, there is no minimum requirement to graduate, but we find that the live interaction is better for both learning and accountability.