A PLACE TO BELONG AMONG THE TREES

This four-hour session is an opportunity to explore and untangle the embodied experience of being misunderstood, a deeply human response to trauma. Together, we’ll gently challenge the belief that being misunderstood means we are broken or inadequate. Instead, we’ll recognize that while trauma is universal, the real pain comes from carrying it alone. Through somatic practices, intention setting, and guided exercises in co-regulation, we’ll explore how miscommunication and feeling unseen show up in the body, and how to create steadiness and self-trust in the face of it. We’ll learn to identify survival patterns that lead to contraction or self-doubt and begin to shift them through connection, celebration, and touch. In the final practice, each participant will experience the support of many hands, offering a powerful moment of being held, seen, and loved back to life. We’ll end by anchoring this sense of safety and belonging into our own bodies so we can carry it with us into our lives.