This two-evening training with Mariah Rooney takes us beyond the limitations of traditional talk therapy into what recent research calls “bottom-up” healing approaches. With a liberatory, destigmatizing lens grounded in contemporary trauma neuroscience, we’ll explore:

Evening One: Understanding the Somatic Architecture of Survival

• How dissociation and plurality develop as creative adaptations to overwhelming trauma

• The neurobiological basis of parts work: what happens in the brain during “switching”

• Recognizing somatic memory when narrative memory is absent but the body remembers

• Moving beyond pathology to see multiplicity as survival intelligence

Evening Two: Clinical Applications and Somatic Interventions

• Using the therapist’s nervous system as co-regulatory instrument

• Parts-based dialogue that honors internal specialization

• Practical tools for working with fragmentation, shutdown, and somatic overwhelm

• Creating therapeutic relationships that can hold multiplicity without pathologizing

More information and registration can be found here.