Let’s roll up our sleeves and…enjoy! There is a new language of biology. We’ll learn to work in harmony with a biological intelligence that doesn’t register “trauma” in the way we think of it, psychologically. Discover what's really going on "under the hood", and what really helps.

Fight, flight and freeze are the symptoms. OI maps show you what coming out of chaos looks like — at each step along the way — so you know how to attune, how to help.

Tools that immediately help organize and stabilize a client at the biological level so the work can begin. These are the first steps of complexity science made practical — that’s the point, after all.

Once reorganization and relief take hold, we need a new language of facilitation. We’ll learn the timing to shift from relational attunement, to teaching tools of stabilization, to letting go into the wonder of natural auto-organization.

Advanced tools, like a 30 second assessment for organic resiliency are used here. Key therapeutic concepts such as differentiation, boundaries, and dissociation will be discussed in terms of biological function and clinical presentation. Demonstration: dental trauma flashback.

In therapy, there are thousands of observable data points. Learn to see the significance of what’s happening among the channels of Image, Sensation, Orientation, Meaning and Affect (ISOMA). Learn to see minute expressions in ISOMA that represent emerging biological impulses toward auto-regulation. Demonstration: choking trauma with 3 year-old.

Symptoms are held in place by a complex pattern of interactions. Social learning, frames of reference, and the “What’s Wrong Attention” cement a disorganizing feedback loop. On the other hand, we’ll also see how other equally valid frames recognize the client in an adaptive and life-affirming way — both. Understanding and embracing the interrelation of resonant layers of systems (biological, family, clan, species, nature and cosmos — from biology to cosmos!) is necessary to work with small “t” trauma, but especially to work well with intergenerational and systemic (fractal) trauma. Demonstration: nighttime attacker.

Join Steve Hoskinson in monthly conversations about OI's Mission to bring this paradigm of post-traumatic growth into a professional dialogue space. Paradigm shifting's not easy, but the conversation is open, respectful, and deeply informed.

Steve's experience and background puts just about everything on the table —family systems, cognitive, psychodynamic, complexity science, developmental psychology, eco-psychology, play therapy, justice & equity, strategic therapy, Ericksonian work, freeze and dissociation, spirituality, counter-transference, the singularity... Join live to bring a completely new topic of your choosing. 

These colloquia are conversations around the emerging paradigm of the Organic Intelligence Trajectory. All participants in the “PTSD: Post-Trauma System Development” course are welcome. The OI Trajectory is both experiential and practical, and supports people’s lives and practices.

These conversations can include discussion on personal support, but primarily for developing expertise in support of others. Our time together will include how to begin to orient your practice toward Post Trauma Growth, Q&A, sharing of further OI resources, and review/discussion of OI demonstration session excerpts.