Three Fields Growth Strategy
Hippies like to frolic in fields and Mary has three fields in particular which are her favorite frolicking grounds!
Field of
Mindfulness
Every collaboration is based in a steady mindfulness practice. Looking at ourselves with a non-judgmental lense as we explore our inner, outer and upper worlds, grounds us in reality and helps to set the stage for deeper work.
Embodiment
Field
Every collaborator's actual physical body is a playground for trauma work! When we can stop over-thinking and let our bodies do the talking, great things can happen in our growth journey!
Field of
Concretization
Whether it's on the ministage, on a white board in Zoom, or using objects at home, concretizing what's in our heads so we can get it out where we can better see and examine it can provide a life-altering perspective shift!
Meet the Modalities
Meet some of the many ways we might frolic in the fields of Mindfulness, Concretization and Embodiment!
On the ministage we can concretize all those swirling thoughts and feelings onto the stage using fun figures. This is a great way to get out of your head and gain perspective!
Mini Stage
The furry auxiliaries are ready and waiting to play any role you need to get unstuck. They're not just for kids - they love to provide adults with a dopamine boost too while they're on the job!
Furry Auxiliaries
Some days we may use interesting images as a starting point for our work. The Learning Lab's image library includes a variety of carefully curated postcard images, Tarot and Oracle decks.
Working With Images
Research shows the more we get in our bodies with trauma work, the faster we find relief. You may find yourself rocking, swinging, exploring your embodied feelings through body sculptures or any other way your body wants to move in the moment!.
Playful Embodiment
The three most used psychodrama techniques in Mary's collaborator sessions are doubling, mirroring, and role reversals. When psychodrama techniques are applied 1:1 they put no pressure on the collaborator to perform, only to respond with agency and self-reflection.
Psychodrama Techniques
Janina Fisher's TIST model helps people with dissociative disorders to create better communication with their internal parts. Using trauma response terms to get to know these parts better, helps to understand how and why they have developed. With this understanding, we can move forward with renegotiating their role in your inner world.
**Mary uses an adapted form of TIST that better takes into account Lived Experience.
Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment
Occasionally it's necessary to get out of the body and back in the head, Mary believes in providing collaborators all the psychoeducation they need to understand the hows and whys of the work we do!
Psychoeducation
Tapping on meridian points on the head and torso activates the body's parasympathetic nervous system and helps regain regulation. Tapping can increase spontaneity and move the work through stuck places.
Clinical EFT (Tapping)
Using Australian mindfulness mentor John Shearer's book - Mindful Insights - Mary will guide you through weekly reflections on staying present, open and non-judgmental toward self.
Mindfulness Mentoring
Havening Techniques involves gently stroking the face, hands and sides of arms while working through specific scripting techniques. This method is proven to activate the body's natural regulation functions.
Havening Techniques (TM)
Following the flow of the breath through the body is the core of embodied mindfulness. Breathwork can mean anything from simply enjoying a deep sigh to intentional breathing techniques.
Breathwork
This ancient Chinese yoga form is rooted in the natural world and links the breath with slow, intentional movement.
Qigong
As an energy psychology practitioner, Mary believes that anything that shows up in our space is usable. The energy field may provide us with your pet or your two year old, internet problems, or even one of Mary's crowing roosters! It's all fair game to be included in the content of collaborative work.
Working In The Field
For less dissociative collaborators, parts language can be quite helpful. For OSDD/DID systems, noticing the various self-states in the headspace, mapping out their roles and existences, and learning to communicate from within is absolutely vital.
Parts Work, System Mapping,
and Inner World Communication