Example: 16-week Course Curriculum

 

Module 1

week 1:  Understanding + Releasing Stress (part 1)

• Building a cohesive group: Meet and greet; agreeing on Group Guidelines

• Understanding Stress: Healthy stress, Cumulative stress, Stress > Trauma

• Releasing stress by moving the Physical Body

  • Tuning in to the Psychological Function of "Sensation"

  • Touch: Self-Massage, Reflexology, Acupressure Points

  • Breathing and Breath work, Humming, Qigong Shaking

  • Walking and Dance: Ecstatic Dance, Contact Improv, Gaga

  • Tai Chi, Yoga, Pilates

  • Alexander Technique: Lengthening, Widening, Undoing

• Tuning in to the Psychological Function of "Need, Impulse, Desire"

  • Play and Sleep 

• Rest, Be, Grieve

week 2:  Releasing Stress (part 2)

• Releasing stress by moving the Mental Body

  • Journaling, Talking, Sharing​

  • Mindfulness and Meditation

  • Reset your mind through Reframing

    • CBT tool: ABCD method​

    • Intro to Psychosynthesis​

      • Egg Diagram, Subpersonalities, Both/And​

    • Forgiving, Compassion, Gratitude (exercises)​

• Rest, Be, Grieve​

week 3:  Releasing Stress (part 3)

• Releasing stress by moving the Emotional, Spiritual, and Energetic Bodies

  • Tuning in to the Psychological Function of "Feeling, Emotion"

    • Accessing Emotions and Increasing Emotional Intelligence

    • Moving Emotions and "Whimper Cry"

  • Tuning in to the Psychological Functions of "Intuition" and "Imagination"​

    • Accessing Transpersonal Qualities​

  • Ecotherapy in 3 Cultures. Nature and Negative Ions

  • Chakras and Chakra Meditation

  • Qigong, Energy Medicine, Aura Clearing

• Rest, Be, Grieve​

week 4:  Pouring out stress for all: Moving toward Systemic Change

• Extending Self-Care Tools

• Systemic Degrees of Stress, Marginalized peoples, Oppression, Privilege

  • the Privilege Walk​

• Allyship and Becoming a strong Social Justice Ally

  • the Triangle of Social Justice Allyship

  • Interrupting Bias: Calling In and Calling Out

  • DO's and DON'Ts of Allyship

• Changing Culture​

 

Module 2

week 5:  Understanding Personal + Racialized Trauma

• Defining Trauma

• Understanding Somatic Experiencing of Psychological Trauma

  • The Nervous System

  • The Vagal Nerve

  • Micro Aggressions

• Trauma Retention, Responses, and Re-enactment ​

  • Soul Wounds​

  • PTSD

  • Intergenerational, Historical Trauma

• How Trauma Affects Culture

• Racialized Trauma

week 6:  Spiritual Allyship: Moving toward Systemic Change (part 2)

• Review Stress Management and Trauma

• The Collective Unconscious and ​Engaging the Will

• Communication Skills

  • Non-Violent Communication (NVC)​

  • Guidelines to Listening and Active Listening

  • Communication Enhancers and Blockers

  • "I" Statements

• Clean Pain vs Dirty Pain​

• Calling In and Calling Out

  • Understanding and Interrupting Unconscious Bias

• Understanding "Culture"​

  • Whiteness and White Culture​

• Essential Aspects of Creating/Changing Culture​

• 8 Steps for Moving Toward Systemic Change

week 7:  Healing Trauma

• The Do's and Don'ts of Healing Trauma

  • Slow down, Focus on Comfort, Ability, and Connection in the Present Moment

  • Strengthening the Unifying Center

  • Reframing and Building New Pathways

• Tools to Heal Psychological Trauma

  • "Parts" work

    • Psychosynthesis, Psycho Drama, Shadow Self, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Integral Life Practice

  • Sharing | Giving Back | Symbiotic Healing​

  • EMDR

  • Tapping

    • Bilateral Stimulation, Butterfly Hug

  • Entheogenic Medicine and Holotropic Breath Work​

  • Recommended Books

week 8:  Healing Trauma (part 2)

• Shaking out Trauma

  • Qigong Shaking, TRE (Tension stress Trauma Release), Somatic Experiencing​

• "Release and Replace"

• ​Healing Affirmations

• Restorative Yoga and Alexander Technique

• More on the "Soul Nerve" (Vagal Nerve) ​

• Healing Personal and Intergenerational Trauma

• • more on Clean Pain, The 5 Anchors, "Stop, Drop, and Roll"

  • Settling and Activation​

  • Harmonizing with Other Bodies

 

Module 3

week 9:  Understanding + Accepting Loss

• The Universality of Loss and Lack of...

• Understanding Equality. Equity, and Liberation

• Death, Cumulative Loss, Expressing Loss

• Building Tolerance​, Presence, and Acceptance

  • Loss and Found

  • Striving for a Resilient Mindset

• "Loving ourselves while not being OK is enough"​

week 10: Understanding + Allowing Grief

• The many reasons to grieve

• Uncovering Hidden Grief 

• Collective Grief, Redemption, and Reciprocity

• What is Grief and Grieving?

  • The Spectrum of Grief and Secondary Losses

  • Circular Stages, Phases, and Characteristics of Grief

• Do's and Don'ts when Supporting the Bereaved

• Gifts of Grief and Grieving

• Normalizing and Allowing Grief and Grieving​

week 11:  Synthesizing Grief and Life

• Both/And Exercise

• The Four Questions (with regards to Grief)

• Adapting to a Changed Reality

• Grieving in our Daily Lives

week 12:  Creating Avenues for Grieving​

• Opening to Grief through Deep Journaling

 

Module 4

week 13: Creating Avenues for Grieving (part 2)

• Review: Stress, Trauma, Loss, Grief

• Looking back: the Ancestors and the Big Bang

• Looking forward: Trauma is Passed Forward; Trauma becomes Culture

• Healing and Grieving: Looking back, forward, and Present

  • Guided Meditation and Writing to your Ancestor​

    • Completing the Action that was thwarted

    • Using the 5 Anchors while doing Trauma Healing work

  • Guided Meditation and Healing in the Present

    • Harmonizing with Others

  • Guided Meditation and Writing from your Descendant

week 14: Creating Avenues for Grieving (part 3)

• Creating Space for Wisdom to Enter: "Mistakes", Shamanic Healing and Polyrhythms

• Understanding and Creating Rituals

  • Cultural Rituals​

  • Creating a Personally Meaningful Ritual

week 15: Creating Avenues for Grieving (part 4)

• Review: How trauma becomes culture and Building a culture of resilience and flow

• ​Essential aspects of Creating Culture

• Moving toward systemic change through cultural change

• Creating a compassionate culture for healing + grief

  • Guided Meditation and Writing with the Future Compassionate Council​

  • Creating a Strategic Plan with Steps

  • Collaboration

week 16:  Implementing our Compassionate Action Plan

• Review TCR Course 1 material

• Action plan: forming collaborations

• Survey