…mending is patient, steadfast, often unglamorous work — it is the work of choosing kindness over fear, again and again, in the smallest of everyday ways, those tiny triumphs of the human spirit which converge in the current of courage that is the only force by which this world has ever changed.
Maria Popova
We are born into, and received by, kinship, friends, collectives, communities, and the world at large. Our experience of belonging, for better or worse, was/is formed in these contexts by known and unknown events. The elation of being met, the despair of disconnect, and everything in-between influences how we live life.
Life’s ruptures and losses, especially neglectful, malicious, or violent ones, greatly affect individuals, couples, families, collectives and communities. They are the stuff that human trauma is made of. By way of generational transmission, untended trauma burdens our day-to-day and shapes futures. Systemic Traumatology assumes, ruptures –known and unknown ones– that left broken connections within a change-seeker’s embeddedness and belonging.
Therefore, personal pain, family conflict, communal strive, collective trauma, and generational entanglement, seen through a systemic lens, makes sense and allows us to see, often self-similar time-space patterns (fractals). Be it an Inner World Constellation, family of origin system, the fabric of our maternal/paternal lineages, partnership, workplace, and more.
A first systemic trauma conversation, therefore, gathers a change-seeker’s family lore, inviting whatever explicit and implicit memories emerge, while also observing, and noting, what occurs somatically. Collecting information leads to seeing a map and find the ruptured places, alongside what is ready to mend.
The mending process is carried by systemic trauma processing, includes systemic trauma education, highlights what is and has been right (rather than pathological), and always grounds the gradual change somatically.
My work is process oriented, attachment based, trauma sensitive, and, at heart, relational. My work enables and empowers my people to make changes. What form that takes leans into creativity and the diversity a given system requires.Yet, even in the worst of circumstances
“we will, must, do” attach.Collin A. Ross, MD (2009) Trauma Model
We/I serve individuals, couples, groups, and anyone who wish to address intractable conflict by providing a place to explore, process, play with, and bring their survival-based parts (Little Persons) and internal fragmentation home. It is a privilege to be part of gradual emergence of wholeness in my people’s relationship to self and other. It never ceases to awe me.
Systemic Traumatology Werkstätte℠ offers –– in collaboration with international colleagues –– individual sessions, group events, essays, and webinars for trauma-informed systemic explorations, as well as systemic traumatology apprenticeships.
Welcome to my site.
We hope to meet you soon.
Karin Dremel, MTS, HP, HC, NLP
Systemic Traumatologist
Heilpraktikerin (HP, Germany)
Humanist Chaplain (HC)
NLP# 6709 / StateLicense / Colorado, USA)