Natalia Rachel’s Courses
Trauma-informed Human Online - Module 1 of Human Intelligence Program
6x Live Learning Sessions with Natalia +
6x Recorded Lessons and Resources +
6x Self-led Learning Experiences
Unlock your innate human intelligence and become an embodied part of the solution.
Learn twelve relational philosophies that will change the way you perceive, relate, express, and harness the power of relationship for healing.
When approached with conscious intention, relationship is the remedy.
WHAT IS HUMAN INTELLIGENCE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM?
Human Intelligence Leadership Program is a journey of unearthing all our unconscious trauma and bias-fuelled relating tendencies, and re-patterning ourselves to become the resources we need.
In order to co-create a kinder, more intelligent world, we need to go back to the beginning, meet our origins of threat and exclusion, and co-create a new template for living, relating and creating that stems from safety and belonging.
Join Natalia Rachel and the next global cohort of human leaders.
Harness the power of your perception and presence for social change.
Somatic Self Care Video Series
USD $19.99
Based off Natalia's book with Penguin Random House, "Why Am I Like This?", Natalia's somatic self care video series shares the somatic healing exercises and expands them for deeper application for your self care.
25 videos and somatic exercises from the book for somatisation and embodiment
3 hours of content for learning to explore at your own pace.
Setting Boundaries for Empowered Leadership
Gen|Connect|U
USD $97
Dive deep and discover how to revolutionize your leadership style with actionable lessons and exercises that will empower you to use boundaries effectively. By integrating and upholding boundaries, you’re not just setting limits; you’re unlocking a path to a more harmonious and productive professional life.
Key Takeaways:
Boundary Mastery: Grasp the profound impact of boundaries in creating a culture of trust, belonging, and mutual respect within teams.
Exploring Boundary Dimensions: Unravel the various facets of boundaries, from personal spaces to work-life dynamics, and understand their significance in holistic well-being.
Tackling Boundary Challenges: Arm yourself with the confidence to set boundaries, navigate associated emotional hurdles, and steer clear of the pitfalls of over-accommodation.
Hands-on Boundary Tools: Dive into practical techniques that guide you in recognizing, establishing, and reinforcing boundaries in diverse professional scenarios.
Empathy at the Helm: Unearth the synergy between empathy and boundaries, and how this powerful duo can elevate team dynamics, fostering understanding and collaboration.
Step into a leadership style that champions balance, clarity, and empowerment, ensuring a fulfilling and productive professional trajectory.
Trauma-informed Courses
Trauma-informed Fundamentals Workshop
USD $29
Looking through a trauma-informed lens will change the way you relate to the world. In this short workshop, your empathy levels are bound to soar! If you have a family member, friend college, or employee that may have experienced trauma, you’ll start to understand their experience AND discover ways to best support them, while maintaining healthy boundaries.
Topics covered will include:
What is trauma really?
Trauma has become the latest buzzword. We will cut through the noise and get to the point.
Where is the intersection of trauma and mental health
Learn when mental health conditions may have origins of trauma and when to dig deeper.
How does trauma show up?
Discover clear markers that indicate possible trauma. We will look at physical symptoms, mental & emotional symptoms & relational symptoms.
Toxic or traumatized?
We are quick to label someone as toxic. Discover how trauma may often be behind someone’s bad behavior
How to relate to a traumatized person
Learn how to relate in ways that have ‘intent not to traumatize’ and may help de-escalate a trauma response.
We will look at three categories:
1) Anxiety attack
2) Silence & disconnection
3) Boundary breaches/misconduct listed here to find out more about how the course is structured and what is offered.
Trauma-informed Facilitation Workshop
USD $29
About the Trauma-informed Facilitation Workshop:
In this online workshop, Executive Director Natalia Rachel will answer the important questions: ‘what is trauma-informed care, really?’ AND ‘As a therapist/facilitator how can I be sure that I’m engaging with a trauma-informed approach'.
You’ll leave this workshop equipped with knowledge in the following areas:
Definitions
Clarify clear definitions of trauma, relational trauma, abuse, neglect
Threat responses & their relational markers
Overview of polyvagal theory – fight, flight, freeze, ventral vagal, miscalibration & the faux window of tolerance and how to identify them in a client
Fragmentation & Dissociation
Learn what happens in the brain, body, and psyche when a traumatic event is not processed
The fawn response
Understand the tendency to seek safety through self-abandonment and how this may show up in a client or group session
Re-traumatization & regression
Understanding and spotting signs of re-traumatization and how to pro-actively avoid these
Relational resonance & boundaries
Understanding transference and the importance of a relational approach in trauma-informed care
Trauma-informed Group Facilitation Workshop
USD $199
In this online workshop, you’ll learn the essential elements of trauma-informed group facilitation.
This will ensure that you can:
- Work with intent not to re-traumatize.
- Spot signs of trauma.
- Respond to individuals without disrupting the group.
- Contain the potential domino effect of trauma in groups.
- Engage with trauma-sensitive language.
- Provide supportive self-care tools to your participants.
- Understand when touch can help and when touch can harm.
These are the key areas that we will cover:
- Embodied trauma: through authentic sharing, we will understand the way trauma lives and breathes in the body, the psyche, relationships, and groups.
- Relationship as the crucible for recovery - we will explore the often relational origins of trauma and how to harness our relationship with our clients/participants as a means for healing.
- Somatics - explore the mind-body connection, the split that happens as a result of trauma, and an approach for re-integration.
- Fragmentation and unexpressed desires - working with the impulses and expressions that are not safe to express.
- Somatic shapes for safety - working with shapes/poses will help if trauma is triggered.
- Touch for safe containment and grounding - how to use touch to help if someone is triggered.
- Affirmations for safety.
- Self-care solutions for trauma triggers.
- Resources and further support - where to send someone of trauma has been triggered.
- Boundaries in groups - understanding the function of group work, interpersonal boundaries, and your boundary as a facilitator.
Trauma-informed Relational Somatics
TIRS is an integrative somatic professional development training that focuses on attunement above all, and blends talk and touch therapy to support clients recovering from trauma, and moving into post-traumatic growth, and transformation.
Trauma-Informed Relational Somatics is the foundation training created by somatic therapist, Natalia Rachel.
Certification by Illuma Health provided, pending post-training assessment and case submissions.
For more information on certification please contact us.
Experiential Training
As this is an experiential training, participants should come ready to explore their own stories through vulnerable sharing and somatic exploration. As always, it is through our embodied experience, that we can best integrate our learnings and go on to share in the world!
Who would benefit from this training?
Talk therapists/counselors seeking to integrate a trauma-informed and somatic approach to care.
Somatic practitioners interested in deepening their touch skills and somatic listening capabilities.
Movement & Embodiment facilitators interested in cultivating a trauma-informed practice and enhancing 1-1 space holding capabilities.
Health professionals who want to expand their toolkit and adopt a trauma-informed approach to care.
Working with Sexual Abuse Workshop
Working with Sexual Abuse (Workshop for Practitioners)
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Time to Heal
Time to Heal
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Shift from coping and surviving, to healing and thriving. Understand what mental health really means and how to a create a true and sustainable change for yourself and the people around you. In this session, Natalia Rachel shares her experience as a patient-turned-therapist-turned-clinic director, and take the conversation of mental health to the next level.
The Non-Linear Path of Healing
The Non-linear Path of Healing
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Healing, recovery, transformation, change. These do not happen all at once. It develops in layers, in pockets, in a non-linear manner.
Sometimes before we can reach calm or resolution, there needs to turbulence, disruption and expression. Our ability to navigate our own distress, is the gift that will transform our experience.
Natalia shares, from her experience of recovering from physical and mental illness how to build a map of healing; to look for the signs of progress and imminent change, to create a conscious container for integration, in order to integrate the body, mind, and spirit to process and assimilate newfound patterns.
Sign up to ‘Trauma-informed Relational Somatics’
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Get In Touch
For more information or to book a session click below or contact: natalia@illumahealth.org or WhatsApp Illuma Health: +6590068393
Endemic World - Healing as a Way of Life
‘Why Am I Like This?’ by Natalia Rachel