Location: Tubman
4432 Chicago Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN. 55407
Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Cost: $400
(For alternate payment options please contact TRI at info@transgenerationalregenerationinstitute.org)
Facilitator: Ame Cutler, PhD
Local organizer: Birgit Kelly, LICSW bkelly@tubman.org (612) 805-1426
This is an in-person offering. If you feel sick the day of the workshop please let us know so we can make arrangements for you to join at a future date.
2 Day Workshop: Explores the fundamental concepts and practice of the Regeneration Process Method. This workshop is designed to be both regenerative and stimulating for participants who are curious about how they can engage in resolving the climate crisis through regenerative actions that help heal transgenerational trauma and co-create personal and global systemic change.
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Abstract
When we look to our natural environment, we can see its need for us to make large scale changes to mitigate global warming and balance the relationships we have with one another as humans. The disparity in basic survival needs is sharp when we see the global concerns of ecological destruction. Eco-Anxiety is felt by our children the most when they try to see a future in which they have a solid sense of opportunity. Thus, the question of our current times is, how do we create regenerative change on a large scale? How do we support the individual to make the necessary changes and choices that will not only benefit their family, but aide in the regeneration of the larger world in which we all live?
The tools we are provided with from Western psychological theory and psychotherapy practice are insufficient to address the persistence of the cycles of violence, oppression, racism, and consumption of natural resources that continue to escalate today. Perhaps even the way we attempt to create change must change. Now is the time in our shared human history to re-member the principles of regeneration, to understand what it means to live a regenerative life, and to apply this understanding to taking regenerative action that benefits the individual and the collective. Persistent systemic legacies of transgenerational trauma often leave us in a position to view change as happening to us; thus, faced with a fear of losing control, our animal defenses are engaged to flee or fight it, freeze or submit to it, rather than inviting change as a necessary element of spiritual growth and human development.
Although much has been addressed in acknowledging and treating PTSD over the last several decades from a somatic psychotherapy framework, it has not adequately addressed the need to heal the legacies of trauma inherited from our Ancestral lineage. It is essential that we expand those psychotherapeutic tools, and call for a fourth phase to the treatment of trauma (Cutler, 2014) in which the Ancestral legacies of transgenerational trauma become visible, acknowledged, and ultimately healed--for both the oppressed and the oppressor, the survivor and the perpetrator of violence. It is only through healing both sides of the cycle of violence that we will have the possibility to live in a shared existence of peace and reciprocity as humans-in-relation.
The Regeneration Process Method [RPM] is positioned as a tool for a fourth phase in the treatment of trauma expressed by Herman (2023) as a phase of seeking social justice for harms done. To create this possibility, we must ensure that a fourth phase of trauma treatment includes more than survivors seeking justice, it must also include the deconstruction of internalized beliefs based in an oppressive system, for both the survivor/perpetrator, oppressed/oppressor. A fourth phase of treatment must address the healing of transgenerational trauma in-community, the reconnection of the individual to the natural world and its principles of regeneration, and bring about planetary well-being for generations to come.
The Regeneration Process Method [RPM] provides a framework for this fourth phase through the process of deconstructing what has impacted our ability to live in a reciprocal relationship with nature and embrace the principles of regeneration, which are embedded in our Indigenous roots. Through deep inquiry in community, RPM is a somatic-spiritual approach to transformation. RPM is designed to support each participant in the commitment, deconstruction, and illumination necessary to transform outdated ways of co-existing so that we may expand our ability to take regenerative actions that benefit nature and the whole of humanity. RPM is a comprehensive process that restores our personal and collective energy, giving us more vitality for lasting systemic change. In an ecosystem, what heals one, heals all.
Learning Objectives
This is a two-day workshop on the Regeneration Process Method. Through lecture, demonstrations and experientials the following learning objectives will be met:
Explain the implications of transgenerational trauma on our current social, racial, and ecological crises.
Review the three-phase trauma treatment model as the standard of care.
Discuss the application of a fourth phase of treatment in creating systemic change.
Discuss why racial equity and reconciliation is a leading goal of regenerative action.
Define large scale systemic change and its leading emotional and psychological barriers, assessing them from within a prominent model of trauma-imposed dissociation.
Compare the goals of transformation through the lenses of Western psychology, Eastern philosophy, Spirituality and Shamanism.
Discuss how both body and spirit are essential when engaging in psychological and emotional processes of change.
Define the six phases of the Regeneration Process Method, and apply beginning techniques to:
Challenge privilege and confront systemic racism and oppression.
Work with eco-anxiety, helplessness, and grief in your community.
Integrate spirituality as a necessary means to lasting change.
Engage in collective healing through regenerative action.
Identify a beginning understanding of one’s own regeneration needs and pathways to meeting them.
The Regeneration Process Method can be applied as a complimentary framework to current psychotherapies or engaged as a standalone method. It is designed to support the systemic regenerative change of an individual, group, business, community, and society. Please join us in creating a community of regenerators!