TRAUMA-SENSITIVE SUPPORT
Trauma-sensitive support is an approach to discipleship and community development that meets people where they are through body-awareness exercises, personal reflection, and integration.
At Resilient Communities, we believe lasting change happens not in isolation, but in the integration of our whole selves. Whether you're a leader, a learner, or somewhere in between, trauma-sensitive support offers a path toward growth that is personal, practical, and transformative.
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Have you felt tightness in a part of your body? Do you find yourself feeling emotions of fear or anxiety when approaching people who formerly gave you a sense of joy and connection? Are you numb to the latest local or global news? You might be experiencing compassion fatigue or second-hand trauma.
Ministry and social impact professionals give so much of themselves to the people and communities they serve. As a result, 95 percent of leaders express concerns over burnout. Another study reported that 56 percent of social impact workers find ineffective outlets to process their experiences and 46 percent feel uncomfortable admitting burnout or fatigue to their supervisors.
How
Finding time to decompress, process, and renew is a critical component of sustainability.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation with our mental health coach.
Personal Coaching
Receive individualized peer support for your holistic wellbeing, with a focus primarily on mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
How to Experience Trauma-Sensitive Support
Group Movement
Utilize intentional breathing techniques and embodied movements to connect with your body as you process emotions, thoughts, and experiences.
Our Instructor
Meet Rachel Wintenburg Cheng. She is an E-RYT200 yoga instructor (YogaRenew) and a trauma-informed mental health coach (American Association of Christian Counselors).
Who
Why Trauma-Sensitive Support Matters in Discipleship
Jesus summarizes all of the ways of God through the framework of loving God with all of our body, soul, intellect and emotions, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. This is an invitation of integration.
It is marked by love and made possible through his Spirit. Who you are is what is replicated more than what you would like to pass on. To invite others to imitate you is an invitation to be self-aware and create an inventory of where you are thriving relationally, emotionally, physically and spiritually, and where there is need for repair and healing.
Personal Development
Trauma-sensitive support uses a strengths-based approach to guide you in goal setting and decision-making. As an advocate, your mental health coach will help you develop a mental health plan and support system. Your mental health coaching can serve as a bridge to the mental health system as needed.
Resilience Building
Your trauma-informed movement coach will gently guide you through stretches and exercises that bring strength, balance, and alignment to your body. Through each session, you will experience low-impact exercise, internal reflection, and community-peer support.
Replicating Flourishing
While receiving treatment for trauma-related symptoms, Rachel began to understand the complexities of trauma on both the mind and the body. This led her to seek out both personal and professional development around trauma approaches.
Rachel combines mental health, community development, and trauma-sensitive embodied coaching in her practice. Her approaches to healing are holistic and integrated and make it possible to pass this on to others.
Why
What to Expect with Trauma-Sensitive Support
What
Relieve tension and points of stress and integrate the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical parts of yourself.
Coaching
Mental health coaching is an action-oriented partnership between you and a coach that is focused on building coping skills, improving emotional well-being, and achieving your goals.
During our initial 15-minute consultation call, your coach will outline, with more detail, what the coaching sessions look like. It will also serve as a way to get to know your coach and decide if mental health coaching is the right step for you. You and the coach can decide if you want to meet virtually or in-person.
Each package includes 5 one-on-one sessions and begins with the goals you have for your wellbeing. Your coach will gather history and context as it relates to your goals and ideal plan. You will walk away with actionable steps after each session with support you need to accomplish them.
Pricing
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Free 15-minute introductory call to see if it’s a good fit
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$500 / 5 sessions
Movement
Embodied awareness and movement group classes combine mental health coaching with gentle exercise and stretching. You will spend 60 minutes on your exercise mat working through themes around mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being.
Each class includes prompts, invitations for reflection, quiet contemplation, and gentle practices of moving, balancing, stretching and breathing. Each session takes place in a welcoming, judgment-free atmosphere with other individuals seeking the same experience as you.
Group classes are held weekly. See the group schedule.
Pricing
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$20 to try your first class
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$125 / 5 classes
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$230 / 10 classes
When we Integrate Trauma-Sensitive Support
There are four relational dimensions that we prioritize through both coaching and movement:
Intellectual
Notice this prompt in your story
The primary may of affecting change originates in how closely aligned an idea matches our experiences. Through introducing a prompt with reflective questions, we invite your story to make room to this idea.
Physical
Notice what you are sensing
By naming where we notice sensations like the tightening of the jaw or a quickening in our breath, we can bring awareness and connection to that part of ourselves.
Spiritual
Notice how God is orienting toward you
Part of healing a moment of stress is rediscovering that you were not as alone as the experience felt. We gently pose a suggestion of where you might find Jesus in the midst of the point of pain or area of stress in your life.
Emotional
Notice what you are feeling
Our experiences get stored in our bodies. Sometimes those get stuck - especially when those experiences are very stressful. Acknowledging what we are feeling is part of the process of allowing that experience to work through our system.
Our Embodiment Coaching is designed to give you experience in creating and facilitating trauma-sensitive support in your life and on your teams. Consider how this training might be brought into your existing organizational and professional goals.
Allow yourself to imagine the potential not only in the communities you serve, but in the body God has given you.
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