The Trauma Response Workshop Series: The Flight Response

The Trauma Response Workshop Series: Class Two: The Flight Response

Trauma responses are involuntary physical, emotional, and cognitive reactions to intense, stressful, or life-threatening events, rooted in survival instincts. These mechanisms help traumatized people manage danger when they are subject to it but can become long-term, ingrained behaviors even when the individual has achieved safety.

People with Complex PTSD often experience automatic, intense, and, at times, inappropriate fight, flight, freeze, fawn, flop/fatigue, fine and flood/faint responses when triggered, as their nervous system perceives danger where none exists. In this 7 part series we will be exploring these trauma responses in depth and what we can do as trauma survivors when these activate and/or present themselves in daily life.

The second trauma response we will discuss is the FLIGHT response. The trauma reaction presents as a an intense, instinctive urge to escape, run away, or avoid a perceived threat or danger. In this course we will discuss:
- what the flight response entails physically and psychologically
- what makes one more prone to the flight response when triggered
- behavioral signs of the flight response
- when flight manifests as avoidance and procrastination
- when the flight response becomes maladaptive
- how to curb the fight response when triggered
- common misconceptions about the flight response

This course will come with a companion Power Point that will be distributed post class.

YOUR ORGANIZER: Kerrin began her legal career as a public defender and represented patients who were facing involuntary detention or commitment in a mental health facility. Throughout her 20 years as an attorney since she has worked with social workers, and mental health professionals to guide criminal defendants toward treatment and community supervision as an alternative to incarceration. She is also the daughter of a narcissistic mother and believes many of the mental health issues she's struggled with on her own were brought about by long term emotional abuse. After being diagnosed with C-PTSD in 2021. she has worked with several therapists in creating The C-PTSD Workshop : a 6 part Series which uses the teachings and recommendations of Dr. Judith Herman in her book Trauma and Recovery to guide participants through understanding and treating Complex Trauma.

COST: $15.00 per session, non refundable. Open to non established members.
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