January 11th 11am-1pm
Claiming Each Other (CEO) is a Somatic First-Response Training for our everyday relationships. It is for anyone who feels called to be a more healing presence by offering more skillful response-ability when confronted with intensity, crisis, complexity & trauma. Our model of somatic first-aid builds on established models of Psychological First Aid (PFA) by integrating somatic trauma healing, indigenous wisdom and embodied practice. Where PFA prepares people to respond after community scale natural disasters in order to mitigate the onset of trauma and PTSD, CEO acknowledges that most people are more likely to be exposed to 'domestic scale' crises in our everyday relationships and so prepares people to better respond there.
CEO intends to support people to be a healing presence for spouses, partners, friends, family, children, neighbors, colleagues and strangers when confronted with a great many relational challenges or difficult conflict patterns. However, we are particularly devoted to supporting people when confronted with challenges related to:
- War & Colonization
- Politics
- Sex and Gender Race and Culture
- Illness, Pain and Disability
- Grief and Death
- Trauma
- Separation & Divorce
- Depression
- Chronic stress
Lorie is an aspiring elder, future ancestor, mother, wife, daughter and anam cara. As an afro-boricua- lipan apache- chicano-americana woman of complexity, she leans deep into the rich tapestries of wisdom from her cultures of origin to support her in being a more healing presence in the world. She is trained as a somatic trauma therapist, scar tissue specialist, somatic bodyworker, somatic sec educator and herbalist while also practicing traditional medicines in respect to her indigenous lineages.