Living UnTriggered
Online Skills Course
What if there were simple, brief, daily practices that you could use when you're overwhelmed, stuck, or hopeless which give you a safe path to living a calmer everyday life?
There is a proven way to transform triggers into compassion
with Deirdre Fay, LICSW author of Attachment-Based Yoga & Meditation for Trauma Recovery and Becoming Safely Embodied Skills Manual; co-author of Attachment Disturbances in Adults
Getting triggered can be completely disruptive. Yet, the longing is still there to live free from triggers, reactivity, hopelessness and isolation.
To ease triggered symptoms people often turn to meditation hoping for a cure. Yet...without knowing how we've been imprinted, it's hard to shift. Meditation, if approached safely, can ease the triggered responses while also giving a way to live inside our skin safely, feeling solid, secure, and steady.
This four week journey can successfully support you in using meditation skills to dissolve triggered responses to life.
There are four fundamental components that provide the foundation for any good life. These same practices can give you life-enhancing skills to deal with triggers, reactivity, hopelessness and isolation.
In fact, research shows how meditation can rewire the circuits in your brain so you can access your own wisdom and be guided from within.
There is a quiet benefit that comes from using meditation skills consistently.
It's the benefit of growing and cultivating a solid, secure self inside that can withstand the highs and lows of life.
Integrated with ancient wisdom traditions, and informed by contemporary trauma and neuroscience research, you’ll find yourself:
- being able to think and feel without being overwhelmed
- reassured instead of pressured
- interacting more fluidly instead of frozen or rigid
- trusting appropriately instead of being afraid
Want to know how I learned this secret?
It was after my trauma history erupted while I was living for six years in a yoga ashram.
I started learning meditation skills well over thirty years ago, using them to heal my own history, become a psychotherapist and later a best-selling author helping thousands of people.
Over time, with practice, I've seen in my own experience -- and in the lives of thousands of others -- these skills can radically transform you from the inside, under your control and at your own pace.
Want to know how?
I’m Deirdre Fay and I’ve been teaching meditation skills to those who have histories of trauma since the 1980s. I was catapulted into this when my own history came up while I was living at a yoga ashram.
Teaching others these skills, it became clear...
when you can sort out the internal chaos,
you can sit with yourself, reflect, contemplate,
and listen to your own internal wisdom.
The more you trust your own thoughts, feelings, body and heart...
the more you'll feel safer and more secure, empowering you to live more fully in your life.
So that’s what this online course is about… are you ready to explore how these meditation skills can work in your life?
Simple, useful practices
When connections are broken we become disorganized
When connections are broken or betrayed, especially while young or in an affectively intense manner, the internal patterns become disorganized, remaining that way despite how one appears externally.
These underlying, unresolved body-mind patterns result in one of the main reasons triggers and post-traumatic stress disorder doesn’t resolve. The body, mind and heart, when affectively encoded with traumatic patterns, feels as if this is the only way it can be.
Since it feels so REAL, it's easy to feel stuck, caught in cycles of despair and hopelessness. The disorganizing effect trauma has on the body-mind-heart takes over our lives.
We need to understand:
- the disorganizing body-mind-heart of trauma
- how memory gets dislocated in time and space
- and the developmental disruption of attachment patterns that keep a person stuck in trauma reactivity.
Neuroscience combined with the ancient wisdom traditions gives a conceptual understanding of how the brain is encoded – and better yet, how to shift those body-based patterns.
There is a new path forward.
Combining cognitive understanding of trauma disruption, attachment theory, body therapies, neuroscience, meditation and yoga, we now have access to changing the non-narrative imprinting.
This course will look at the informal meditation skills we can apply through foundational practices of mindfulness, concentration, self-compassion and non-dual.
The story behind the course
Here's the thing...I’ve worked with thousands around the world to help reduce suffering from trauma. I've done this working individually with people, leading live and online workshops and trainings, and writing three books.
But when I first started out I was a mess, never wanting to get out of bed, frightened of people.
I learned the path out of the mess the hard way -- dealing with my own trauma history while also being a long term meditator whose trauma history would erupt during my practices.
It was hard. I couldn't understand what was happening. How was I able to be in my body before (training for triathlons, successfully practicing yoga and meditation multiple hours a day) to then not wanting to get out of bed, lost and confused?
What I hung on to
If all the great wisdom traditions said there was a path out of suffering... well then I wanted that path! I wanted the way out. Not just when I was feeling good. I wanted to know how to apply those great traditions when I wasn't feeling good.
Grappling with the complications, I had to parse out the great teachings, adapting them to my situation -to the fact that I was living with trauma.
I wanted back into my body. I wanted to live inside myself without overwhelming trauma symptoms.
I wanted the peace, calm, contentment that all the wisdom traditions say are possible -- and that I had before my trauma complicated my practices.
Obviously, now I’m in a different place, having integrated the practices I’ve designed to overcome my history...I now enjoy living in my present - and helping others do the same.
And it all started with the simple meditation skills I’m teaching in this course.
Now at this point, the big question for many people is “How can this possibly work for me? I’ve tried everything… and nothing's helped.” Here's what Jane shared...
Let your body, mind & heart guide you
There are skillful ways to use meditation practices to reduce and even dissolve triggers while building a solid, steady, secure self
Since the 1990s Deirdre has been researching, listening and teaching people who have trauma histories the most effective ways to use mindfulness, self-compassion, concentration and non-dual practices.
Used skillfully, meditation can help reduce triggers but a compass helps:
"Meditation encourages a letting go – and there is a part of me that is so careful not to go where I have gone in those terrible states before."
"Meditating on breath and parts of the body is especially hard – leaves me feeling dissociated, that I'm a failure because I can't do it how I'm 'supposed' to."
"Meditation teachers don't realize that life is happening 'outside of me'. I look like I'm there - but I'm really not. That's hard when I want to fit in.”
This online course can help you take the steps you want to ... Living UnTriggered
OBJECTIVES OF COURSE
Objectives
Shift symptoms
Identify how trauma patterns are non-narrative; when activated they often disrupt meditation
Function of Secure Attachment
Most basic to us all is an internal secure base. Without it meditation practices can be derailed.
Structure Building
Trauma-informed therapy builds self structure, containing what meditation uncovers so it can be integrated
Apply to Practice
Explore ways to apply to meditation and yoga practices with those who have trauma histories
Here's what I want for you -- to get better, faster
I want for all of us to have a life of ease, where it's safe to explore the world, where we feel seen, known, valued, have a felt sene of belonging, where we can love and be loved.
"Deirdre's courses are amazing. I listen to the audios over and over again. Each Friday I eagerly opened the next lesson - even if it felt I wasn't always able to do what thought I should. I like knowing I can return to your audios at any time and I love hearing what others have to say and your responses. It helps knowing we are all on the path together. Blessings to you, Deirdre -- and to all of us on the path.”
~ Rose S (Nova Scotia)
There's no one way. There's only your way.
This is all about learning to trust yourself & be guided from within
Overview of the Modules
This course, guided by Deirdre and the Living UnTriggered Mentors, is delivered on four consecutive Mondays, starting November 11, 2019 in the form of audios, videos, and handouts on a private course page.
You'll have the support you need to learn the skills and benefit from there.
Deirdre, and all the Living UnTriggered Mentors will listen carefully to your comments and feedback to better support your learning and healing.
Module 1
Self-Compassion
- Positive mental health or wellbeing protects against negative states of mind
- Self-compassion continuously provides a warm, acepting, and kind approach to suffering
- Cultivate your own resilience mechanism
- Enjoy an adaptive emotion regulation strategy that protects against depression, anxiety, stress -- leading to behaviors we later regret
- Research: practicing self-compassion leads to feeling better and functioning better in life
Module 2
Concentration
- Develop focus, training your mind, body and heart to go where you want to go -when you want to go there
- Orient to where you want to go DESPITE triggers pulling you away
- Cultivate laser-like focus
- Learn 5 steps to develop better concentration
Module 3
Mindfulness
- Reduce reactivity
- Activate new skills when triggered
- Gain more mental and emotional space in your body, heart, and mind
- Release the velcro effect of negative thoughts and feelings
- Cultivate an observing self
- Learn the pitfalls to mindfulness for those with trauma
- Befriend (as hard as it might seem) painful thoughts and feelings
- Generate ease and the feeling of being at rest
Module 4
Non-dual / Secure Connection
- Access inner wisdom
- Be guided from within
- Dissolve dissonance: learn to trust what you see, what you hear, what you sense
- Develop access to the unifying field, the transformational catalyst unifying heart, mind & body
- Activate the quiet, calm, gentle ease of mind and body
- Savor coherence - when everything inside works together
- Dissolve chronic pain and trauma triggers
- Form an internally secure base, healing attachment wounds
"The course has helped me feel stronger, as though something fundamental had changed. I feel like each time I apply the practices I make a small step towards becoming more detached from whatever was so troubling. It had shifted. I can only think it is because you have been unflinchingly understanding and supportive." ~ Mary (Perth, Australia)
Here's what you'll get out of this online course:
- Protected training environment
- Interactive learning
- Feeling less alone
"One of the best parts of the course was knowing that there were others like me. Reading what they wrote, how you interacted with them on the calls, your responses online, seeing others try on different practices and noticing the changes people were having helped me take the steps I needed to. Thank you!" ~Cathy, UK
- Easy to use, highly accessible, evidence-based skills to calm your body, ease your mind, and open your heart
- Group coaching calls with Deirdre who has walked the path for over 30 years and knows the many ways people get hijacked -- and ways to get back on track more easily
- Highly accessible videos
Educational videos to explore each module that engage you in a multi-dimensional way.
"The videos helped me understand in a different way. They were short and to the point making it easy to try them on without getting overwhelmed or confused." ~Colin (San Francisco USA)
- Audio practices for download
Audio sections to go with teaching to make the concepts practical and useful in your life
"The audios were astonishing, mainly because they seemed to answer questions I've been sitting with. After the second week, I felt remarkably calm and peaceful... I know I'll really value these practices. Thank you for making the recordings." ~ Jane (New York)
- Handouts for you to download & use
Handouts add another way to learn. Some are informational, some are for journaling or other forms of writing.
"I use the handouts all the time, referring back to them when I feel lost." ~ Alison (Glasgow, Scotland)
Registration ends midnight Pacific, Sunday, November 10, 2019
The course starts on Monday, November 11, 2019
Rich array of pre-course material made available to you upon registration
Gifts you receive with Living UnTriggered Course
Cultivate Self-Compassion Online Retreat (recorded)
Self-compassion Online Retreat (recorded)
A series of 7 simple video practices to keep you connected to yourself
My go-to practice that I still use every day
Coloring pages as a fun way to engage your concentration
FREE access to the Safely Embodied Learning Community to help solidify your practices through December 31, 2019.
LIVING UNTRIGGERED ----USING MEDITATION SKILLFULLY
Who is this online course for?
Sometimes we don't know how our history is effecting us --until something happens.
When compensatory strategies are relaxed, underlying time capsules of history can flood us, making what was previously manageable no longer workable.
This course is suitable for all levels of meditation practitioners.
- Anyone interested in meditation who gets triggered or has a trauma history
- Psychotherapists interested in meditation & yoga
- Meditation teachers
- Yoga teachers
- Body oriented therapists
- Acupuncturists
- Physicians, nurses
- Educators
CE Information 10 Continuing Education units have been approved through Commonwealth Educational Seminars for the following professions:
Psychologists: Commonwealth Educational Seminars is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Commonwealth Educational Seminars maintains responsibility for these programs and their content.
Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors: Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to award continuing education credit for Licensed Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Please visit CES CE CREDIT to see all states that are covered for LPCs/LMHCs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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If applicable: Social Workers – New York State Commonwealth Educational Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. #SW-0444.
Nurses: As an American Psychological Association (APA) approved provider, CES programs are accepted by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). These courses can be utilized by nurses to renew their certification and will be accepted by the ANCC. Every state Board of Nursing accepts ANCC approved programs except California and Iowa, however CES is also an approved Continuing Education provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider # CEP15567) which is also accepted by the Iowa Board of Nursing.
CEs: It is the participant's responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.
Informed Consent: You understand that this workshop is not psychotherapy, doesn’t presume to be psychotherapy, and won’t be used as psychotherapy.
Cancellation Policy: Full refunds for seven days after purchase by emailing support@dfay.com. No refunds after seven days with no exceptions.
Grievance Policy Safely Embodied seeks to ensure equitable treatment of every person and to make every attempt to resolve grievances in a fair manner. Please submit a written grievance to Deirdre Fay at 661 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 14, Arlington, MA 02476. Grievances will initially be directed to the training instructor. Grievances would receive, to the best of our ability, corrective action in order to prevent further problems. If you have questions or concerns, contact Deirdre Fay at support@dfay.com.
Accommodations for the differently abled: This is an online course. Videos are generally not subtitled and there are no transcripts available.
If you have any outstanding questions about this online course, please email us at support@dfay.com.
INTEGRATING ANCIENT WISDOM TRADITIONS & CONTEMPORARY TRAUMA TREATMENT
About Deirdre Fay
Deirdre Fay, LICSW has over 30 years experience exploring the intersection of trauma, attachment, yoga and meditation. Having meditated since the 70’s and lived in a yoga ashram for six years in the 80’s and 90s Deirdre brings a unique perspective to being in the body.
In the 90’s Deirdre was asked to teach yoga and meditation to those on the dissociative unit at McLean Hospital. Having amassed skill sets in trauma treatment (as a supervisor under the guidance of Bessel van der Kolk at the Trauma Center), attachment theory (13 years of training with Daniel Brown), body therapy (as a trainer in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy) Deirdre now teaches an integrative approach which Chris Germer calls “a radically positive approach to healing trauma.”
Deirdre founded the Becoming Safely Embodied skills groups and is the author of Attachment-Based Yoga & Meditation for Trauma Recovery (W.W. Norton, 2017), Becoming Safely Embodied Skills Manual (2007), and co-author of Attachment Disturbances for Adults (W.W. Norton, 2016) as well as the co-author of chapters in Neurobiological Treatments of Traumatic Dissociation.
What people have to say about Deirdre's work...
INTEGRATING TRAUMA THEORY
Dip In & Dip Out
"Your use of meditation seems quite natural and undemanding, dip in and dip out --a terrific phrase to help us titrate what has been unbearable and unknowable. I went on and listened to your reading from the intro to your book. Despite my vow to not buy another book until I make a dent in my stack of the unread, I fell and fell hard for yours. I will reset the no buy book intention again --Tomorrow."
Richard
MEDITATION, YOGA, PRANAYAMA, & TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICES
Body based practices
"Grounding in the spine as an option to grounding in the feet. Halleluja! Finally an option to this 'grounding of the feet-business' that never ever seemed to be working and was of no interest what so ever.... I mean utterly non-useful, in my case. Grounding in the spine - NOW! There is an option of interest that works! :-)"
Kerstin Palmer - Psychotherapist, Sweden
UNDERSTANDING ATTACHMENT THEORY
Integrating attachment
"I’m absolutely loving your book! Your gentle, supportive spirit comes right through the page, and so helpful to me to have more written from this perspective…"
Beth Frier- Psychotherapist, New Jersey
“Dear Deirdre, I have received great benefit from all the practices I've learned from you. I have felt like I have truly turned a corner toward healing and peace. This is the work that I came here to do and I am happy for every learning." ~ Darla (Michigan, USA)
Registration Information
Find out how to use four simple meditation skills in your daily life to live free from stress, reactivity, hopelessness, and isolation.
2,000 people have expressed interest in this Living UnTriggered course starting November 11, 2019. I never know how many people will sign up, but space is limited to ensure that me and my wonderful mentors can really be with participants...if you're interested it's probably good to sign up early.
One payment of $497
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Two payments of $274 ea.
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Caveat: This course does not take the place of psychotherapy, nor does it mean you are in psychotherapy with Deirdre Fay, LICSW either individually or as group psychotherapy. By registering for this course you are acknowledging your agreement with this constraint.
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