Brenda combines the latest neuroscience, attachment styles, arousal regulation, memory reconstruction techniques having trained as a PACT Level 1 Couples counsellor with Dr Stan Tatkin, the Founder of the Psychobiological Approach for Couple Therapy.

Combining her experience as one of top Tantra teachers in Australia in the 90s and a pioneering counsellor training organisation Brenda develops unique processes combining techniques to elicit dynamic change in clients in a short period of time. For instance her 2018 Australasian Systemic Conference presentation of “My Sexual Self and I” combined research on womens’ Unique Sexual Arousal System (Emily Nagoski’s work) with Internal Family Systems Therapy (Richard Schwartz) and Structural Constellations to disentangle social conditioning, beliefs and familial loyalties affecting womens’ experience of sex and their sexual brakes.

Brenda runs the Systemic Constellation Facilitator Training program, the Certificate and Diploma in Holistic Counselling as well as training in Effective Communication and The Work of Byron Katie training programs & Family Constellation workshops. She is currently developing an online counsellor training program on “Healing Sexual Abuse Trauma: A Systemic Approach”

For more details: www.awakening.com.au

WORKSHOP 2 hrs

“Healing Sexual Abuse through Systemic Constellations: The Missing Piece
We very rarely talk about the actual systemic mechanics of conducting constellations addressing sexual perpetrators and victims (survivors). Often the burden is simply handed back but there are a number of essential components missing that make a huge impact on the metabolism of the events by the survivor. These components are the difference between a woman who had nightmares every night over 40 years to them completely stopping after one session or a woman completely consumed by the violation at 3 years old by an Uncle unable to move forward, to discovering herself anew, a stillness beyond ever experienced. Discover the steps often missing in healing sexual abuse trauma using systemic constellations.

Learning Outcomes
• Systemic Principles in operation contributing to Sexual abuse trauma
• Perpetrators: Who knew and who agreed?
• The child’s sacrifice for the family
• Burden carried
• Retrieval of Self
• Missing piece: Key movements
• Acknowledging the Love
• Case Studies from simple systemic visualisations
This is an interactive webinar where there is an opportunity for Q & A, and to either experience in breakout groups facilitating a type of constellation using these components, (not a sexual abuse one in this setting), or see one being facilitated.