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IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

ignoring the Dreaming is an undiagnosed global epidemic.

Arnold Mindell • Dreaming While Awake

Given the extent of overlap between the conditions, the under-diagnosis of females who instead present with anxiety, depression or eating disorders, and the estimated prevalence of each condition, a reasonable estimate of all neurominorities within the population is around 15–20%, i.e. a significant minority.

Nancy Doyle • Neurodiversity at work: a biopsychosocial model and the impact on working adults

Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Being Awake and Aware in Your Dreams (1985)

Andrew Holecek • Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep

in all Asian languages, the word that is translated into English as “mind” could also be translated as “heart.”

David Rock, Linda J. Page • Coaching With the Brain in Mind

The following model of how we contract and compartmentalize was developed by Wilhelm Reich (Austrian, 1897–1957). He was a student of Elsa Gindler (German, 1885–1961). Many Western-based somatics traditions use this model.

Staci Haines • The Politics of Trauma

This is dissociation mode. People who enter this mode leave their bodies psychologically. Many, like me, may appear present, interacting with others, though mentally be far off on their own ‘spaceship’. Some detach so completely that they view the event as a dream. Others develop amnesia.

Nicole LePera • How To Do The Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

Body-Mind Centering, developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen,

Abigail Rose Clarke • Returning Home to Our Bodies

In designing your workshops, you’re co-creating the conditions for self-discovery in a supportive community using liberating practices. You’re offering a safe space for individuals like Melanie to practice becoming choosers and deciders, and to realize that they have freedom in how to relate to themselves, others, and the world.