Trauma and the Nervous System with Larken Bunce
Nervous System Deep Dive training for herbalists and nutritionists
October 21 from 5-6:30 pm ET
What you'll learn:
Chronic stress and trauma are present in all of our lives some degree. These experiences directly impact our clients’ health, both as causative factors and as obstacles to healing. Our own experiences and understanding of stress and trauma will naturally also impact how we show up as practitioners. So, it’s imperative that all practitioners be trauma-informed as part of ethical and effective practice that centers client needs and wellbeing.
This class will introduce the tenets of trauma-informed care and distinguish between being trauma-informed and treating trauma directly. We’ll discuss staying within our scope of practice, determining helpful supports and referrals, and centering client agency in the context of the mental healthcare system. We’ll also review the mechanisms through which chronic stress and trauma can cause and compound various conditions and negatively impact overall health and resilience through alterations in the nervous, endocrine, immune, and digestive systems and their constant interplay. (And, yes, our famous friend, the vagus nerve, will also make an appearance.)
Key approaches to support clients experiencing chronic stress and/or trauma as their primary concern or as part of a larger set of health goals will also be provided, including herbs, nutrition and somatic practices. Finally, we’ll address practitioner resources for working with stress and trauma in our own lives and communities, recognizing that our own unsupported trauma can sometimes pose the biggest obstacle to responsibly and effectively partnering with our clients.
A recording will be available to everyone who registers, so please sign up even if you can't attend live.
By the end of the session, you'll be able to:
Understand tenets of trauma-informed care as applied in the context of herbal and nutritional practice.
Distinguish between being trauma-informed and treating trauma directly and where each lies in relation to their scope of practice.
Understand the physiological mechanisms through which chronic stress and trauma can cause and compound various conditions and negatively impact overall health and resilience.
Identify key approaches, including herbs, nutrition and somatic practices, to support clients experiencing chronic stress and/or trauma as their primary concern or as part of a larger set of health goal
Identify different types of referrals for clients and practitioners to receive direct therapeutic care for unsupported trauma.
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You'll receive access to the live session, a recording of the session, slides, an extensive references list, and a quiz/certificate option for those who need continuing education hours.
Save $70 when you register for all 10 lectures in the 2024 Nervous System Deep Dive
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$42 USD
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Meet Larken Bunce
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Larken Bunce, MS is a clinical herbalist, educator, writer, gardener and photographer. She is executive director and core faculty at Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, which runs a full-time sliding-scale community clinic and training programs spanning self-care to clinical practice. Her practice and teaching draw equally from science and spirit, novel practice and tradition, clinic and garden, reflecting her diverse experiences in almost 30 years in the field. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical Herbal Medicine from MUIH (previously Tai Sophia Institute), as well as certificates in Zen Shiatsu and Swedish/Esalen Massage, and is an advanced-level intern practitioner of Somatic Experiencing. Her teaching interests lie at the intersections of liberation studies, ecopsychology, trauma studies and somatic therapies. Larken is passionate about accessible and inclusive care, bridging traditional medical systems with biomedical sciences, and restoring nature to culture through herbal medicine.
Learn more about Larken on her website and the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism here. You can also follow her on both Instagram and Facebook
Bloom & Grow Nutrition, LLC is accredited by the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists℠ (BCNS℠) to provide Nutrition Professional Continuing Education (NPCE) credits for Certified Nutrition Specialists® (CNS®). Bloom & Grow designates this activity/material for a maximum of 1.5 NPCE Credits.
