What makes the Resilience ToolBox Training unique, and better.

Would you like to feel safe? Would you like to be free from shame? Would you like the confidence to get a job, or a better one? How would it feel to be “alive,” or to feel “real” as some clients have reported? Would you like to be empowered? Would you like to heal developmental trauma, PTSDs, or adult trauma? Learn how to successfully complete stress cycles so they are gone, rather than manage the symptoms? Have you spent thousands and feel like little has been accomplished? Would you like to heal trauma without having to talk about it, or even remember it?

I get frustrated when I hear people, and especially professionals say that the best we can hope for managing our symptoms. Another frustration is when I hear you can heal your trauma in X number of sessions/hours/months.

Malarkey.

It’d didn’t develop that fast, and it certainly won’t go away that fast. When trauma and it’s symptoms do go away, they will go away for good.

The Resilience Toolbox training is an assessment based 12 month program that is for those willing to be responsible for their own healing from trauma (including secondary), and not to be just a survivor. This is about living with wellness in the unity of the emotions, intellect, body, consciousness, social relationships, and environment. As a neglected child, that later in life became a firefighter with PTSD, I know that this program heals developmental trauma as well as PTSDs.

Why a 12 month long program? Three reasons: One is to develop habits, which will fuel future growth and discipline, a second is to develop co-regulation, the foundation of all relationships, and to be able to see and track actual changes. This isn’t a microwave opportunity. I didn’t heal in a year. In a year though I laid a solid enough foundation where I could work on my own. Third, the development of therapeutic benefits. Being able to see your own growth over a year is quite exciting, and worth the investment! A couple other solid benefits include experiencing therapeutic healing in a caring and safe environment, which allows the body to attend to potential attachment and attunement problems that can develop from childhood neglect and/or abuse. And just now after 8 years I see that others are beginning to see the wisdom of a longer program, despite still being primarily a top down/talk approach.

The 12 months program consists of 4 weekly live in person (local) or Zoom calls, that teaches the use of several tools that create safety in the neurology, without which there is no healing at all. There are tools to deal with anxiety should it rear it’s head, and tools to help remain grounded in the present moment. In all the programs there is practice of these tools, live connection with the trainer throughout, and a peer Facebook page for each class cohort, and more. The program starts precisely where our issue starts - with the body. Not with talking about your trauma. The trauma process starts in the body, and creeps into the psyche. We start with the body, and allow the amazing self-healing human organism do it’s work, using the innate process built in specifically for this purpose. And yet, with a combination of body work, psychological exercises, and homework, one is able to displace and dissolve the negatives of trauma and replace them with the positives of a fully engaged life. And one will eventually be able to tell the stories, because that is the kind of species we are. When we own the stories, rather than them owning us, is when we can.

You will notice I didn’t say “cost.” For good reason. YOU are not a “cost.” You have worth, and value, just like an investment. An investment appreciates in value, a cost, like most vehicles, does not. Also, investments have return on investment.” (ROI) Healing your trauma can indeed have a literal ROI, as well as an intangible, and possibly even more valuable ROI. For example, if by healing your trauma you became a better employee (more emotionally present, more cognitively aware, not as sick, more engaged with co-workers), it would only require $1.37 an hour to make your investment a break even proposition. What if by healing, you launched out on your own dreams? In my case, I have reaped more than the $1.37 just in the last year alone, because not only am I a better employee, I look out for myself, I have started two of my own side businesses and those are having a far greater ROI already. You are not a cost, you are an Investment.

The national average for talk therapy, which has little of the above, and can drag on for years (were you talked into your trauma?), is $85 a session. I’ve heard up to $165, and New York City is in the hundreds! I considered the talk therapy/insurance route when I investigated how to heal my trauma, and between co-pays, premiums, and annual deductible, I was looking at $4000 - $6000 per year, and then there was the hassle of finding a therapist that was qualified, and in network. Which lasts until the employer decided to change policies, and one had to start all over. I said no thanks to that, and decided I had to go the route of a method I would pay for out of pocket, and worked.

That being said, the one time payment is $2500 USD, or $217 USD per month, through the end of 2023. As of September 24, 2024, the price will increase to $327 USD a month, or $3800 USD in a single payment.

Agency Training

The are a lot of variables that go into such an experience, so a consultation will cover all those. Agency training consists of education about stress and trauma, training in learning to down regulate it, and build employee retention and better customer service. Other focuses can be on professional development (combatting burnout) and client service.

Agencies and organizations that can benefit from this training:
- dispatch organizations
- police departments
- firefighter/EMT/rescue/paramedic departments/districts
- ER staffs
- medical flight crews
- coroners
- medical trauma centers doctors and nursing staff)
- court systems (juries preparation)
- legal firms (lawyers)
- veteran service organizations

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