Safety and Presence in the Therapeutic Space with Bonnie Badenoch
Transforming Trauma
Brad Kammer
4.6 • 140 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Bonnie Badenoch is a therapist, mentor, teacher, author, and has spent the last fifteen years integrating the discoveries of relational neuroscience into her therapy practice. She's the co-founder of the nonprofit agency Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind. For twenty-five years, she has worked with trauma survivors to reshape their neural landscape to support a life of meaning and resilience.
Through exploration of her own developmental trauma, Bonnie was able to receive the support that she needed and was inspired to help others.
Bonnie reflects on the importance of true safety, true presence, and connection as essential elements for healing — and she believes it's vital for therapists to do their own work in order for them to be healthy enough to be present, safe, and connected to themselves and their clients in the therapeutic space.
Bonnie's approach, similar to NARM, is grounded in a therapist's capacity for humility, which has to do with the way therapists meet their clients with openness and curiosity, and not as experts or being focused on "fixing their clients". Bonnie gives a couple examples of clients and the growth that they have experienced due to the relational focus in their therapy.
Safety, curiosity, and space for clients to connect to their own inner wisdom - which in NARM is part of the agency process - can lead to profound healing and transformation. Bonnie reflects on the power of the therapist "really respecting space and trusting the wisdom inside the person — and if we can just sit together and keep holding space, what needs to come forward will come forward, and it'll come forward at a pace that's manageable for the person."
Bonnie reflects on what gives her hope amidst all the fear and devastation that goes on in the world and between one another. She believes that who we are inherently yearns to orient towards connection and health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Transforming Trauma podcast. |
| 0:07.8 | Transforming Trauma is presented by the NARM Training Institute. I'm your host, Sarah |
| 0:12.4 | Boino, and I'm delighted to have you join us today. Hi, Transforming Trauma listeners. |
| 0:18.0 | Do you want to join the international NARM community in support of trauma-informed |
| 0:22.0 | care? If so, please consider joining us for the NARM online basics training to become a NARM-informed |
| 0:27.9 | professional. In this online training, participants will learn more about the changing field of trauma, |
| 0:33.6 | a deeper understanding of the impacts of ACEs and complex trauma, and how NARM, one of the first |
| 0:39.6 | model specifically designed to address C-PTSD, can support professionals in the growing trauma-informed |
| 0:45.6 | field. If you are looking for more advanced training and understanding the impacts of attachment, |
| 0:51.2 | relational, developmental, and intergenerational trauma, and you're working in |
| 0:55.7 | health care, education, substance abuse recovery, or allied fields, please join us for this |
| 1:01.4 | level one NARM training to become a NARM-informed professional. The next NARM online basics training |
| 1:07.1 | is starting in September 2021 and will run one weekend a month through December 2021. |
| 1:13.3 | Register now to reserve your spot. Please visit www. narmtraining.com slash online basics. |
| 1:20.0 | We hope you'll join us in learning how to transform trauma. Today's guest is Bonnie Badnock. |
| 1:27.8 | Bonnie is a therapist, mentor, teacher, and author, and has spent the last 15 years integrating the discoveries of relational neuroscience into the art of therapy. |
| 1:38.0 | She's the co-founder of the nonprofit agency nurturing the heart with the brain and mind. |
| 1:43.2 | For 25 years, she has supported trauma survivors |
| 1:46.0 | and those with significant attachment wounds to reshape their neural landscape for a life of |
| 1:51.4 | meaning, resilience, and warm relationships. These days, Bonnie takes joy in offering immersion |
| 1:57.0 | trainings for therapists and others through the development of deep listening and the |
| 2:01.7 | embodiment of the principles of interpersonal neurobiology. So please enjoy my conversation with |
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