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The use of Art and Nature
in
Trauma
Ulrike Grünberg B.A. Dipl Psych CPS
Recovery
Love
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All Recovery is Trauma Recovery
Cultural Trauma
Generational Trauma
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Secondary Trauma
Individual Trauma
Developmental Trauma• the Absence of Positive : Neglect
• the Presence of Negative : Abuse
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Developmental Trauma•the Absence of Positive : neglect
•Emotional neglect, physical/behavioral neglect
•the Presence of Negative : Abuse
•Emotional/Verbal abuse, physical/behavioral abuse
knowing yourneurophysiology
to
reduce stigma
not a “choice”
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Trauma:an experience of
overwhelm
Understanding Trauma
dysregulationdisintegration
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Understanding Trauma• Neurophysiology: Stress Model
• Neuroanatomy: brain structure
• Attachment Theory : Attunement
Understanding Trauma• Integration
• Neuroanatomy; brain structure
• “Old” vs “new brain”
• Left vs Right hemisphere
Left Hemisphere Right hemisphere “right brain”
“New”
“Old”
Neo-cortex “human”
Limbic system Mammal
Brainstem Reptilian
Understanding Trauma & Trauma Recovery
language/imagination
motivation/emotion
Basic functions, arousal, pain
fight, flight, freeze
Receives bodily input
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Understanding Trauma & Trauma Recovery
“Left Brain” “Right Brain”
Logic
Linear
Language
Literal
Facts
“looks inward” contemplation
“looks outward”
Episodic, autobiographical
Spatial, symbolic, intuitive
Integration
Non-verbal
Imagery
“emotion”
Understanding Trauma
• Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
• Sympathicus : mobilizes energy, fight/flight, shaky, panicky
• Parasympathicus : conserves energy, relax, digest, regenerate
• Vagal Nerv 2 Strangs: major mind body communication
• Ventral “the social Nerv”, reestablish higher functions
• Dorsal “evolutionary older”, under threat, PNS immobilization,
• Regulatory Problem
• Neurophysiology; Stress Model
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Understanding Trauma• Attachment Theory
• Secure Attachment, avoidant, ambivalent
• Attunement with Self
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Understanding Trauma
• Securely Attached, integrated, regulated
• Avoidant, disintegration, “emotional desert”
• Ambivalent, disintegration, “unpredictable”
Understanding Trauma & Trauma Recovery
• Attunement
• Relationship with Self
• Integration & Regulation
Trauma TreatmentThree waves
• Good old Freud and Psychoanalysis
• Behavioral Approaches
• Experiential Approaches
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Trauma TreatmentThree waves
• Experiential Approach
• Integrative Medicine
• Whole Life Recovery
References
Siegel, Daniel J (2015)
Van Der Kolk, Bessel (2014)
Levine, Peter A. (1997)
Maté, Gabor (2010)
Forbes, Heather T. (2012)
Schwartz, Arielle (2019)
Ecotherapy• Nature based approaches to Healing
• Nature Deficit Syndrom: “brain” craves connection
• Core: Connection to Nature/Earth, Seismic shift
• Nature/Earth : self-righting capacity
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Art & Nature In Recovery
aids to integration & regulation
Forest Bathing
eg. First European Therapeutic Forest
2016
Animal assisted
eg. Equine Therapies
Therapeutic Gardening
Now officially prescribed
Wilderness Retreats
Various Art Therapies
Analytical to expressive
Eco Psychology
Conservation Projects
Nature Meditation
Art & Nature In Recovery
JustBeing
In Nature
The Use of Art and Nature
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The Use of Art and Nature
Not
TherapySolution
Treatment
The Use of Art and Nature
“Into the closet”
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The Use of Art & Nature
Mindfulness
Meditation
Contemplation
“in the closet”
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integration
i n t e g r a t i o n
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self-stigma
self-blame
self-blame
self
compassion care
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recovery
recovery
an
experience
mind
body
spirit
my
recovery
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recovery
art
recovery
emotion
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me
artis
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natureis
recoveryis
youare
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LOVE
Love
you
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Contemplation
c o m p a s s i o n
awe
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recovery
recovery happens at all ages
you
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You
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Recovery is possible
Love
Art
Recovery
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All recovery is trauma recovery
…recovery is
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still
appreciation
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Trauma
Trauma
an experience
of
overwhelm
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Trauma
an
experience
of
overwhelm mind
body
spirit
Love
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you
an occurence
recovery is
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recovery
recovery
return
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senseof
self
thankyou
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Love
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