Ep 116| Featuring: Desireé English

*Host's note - if you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.

This episode features our guest, Desireé English - senior trainer at GERI and Chair of the Board of GenderWorks in South Africa, an integrative trauma healing practitioner, and consultant.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her journey through her own trauma growing up with an alcoholic and abusive father, following her path to her broad spectrum of work as a trainer and facilitator, how she was drawn to people, her finding her place and passion working with youth development, women, and nonprofits
- Integrative approach to trauma healing
- TRE - Trauma Release Exercise
- The impact of what happens in the family and community when individuals find grounding and access to more calm
- How to change the perspective of your own trauma in your past
- What is possible when we hold space and give deep listening
- Safety = empowerment
- Empathy and compassion = co-regulation
- The trauma of the South African culture: apartheid, generational, fear and anxiety locked in bodies, gender based violence, and economic tension
- How to change a culture where men are taught not to listen to women's voices and when women learn it's not acceptable to be heard
- The power of safety allows you to tell your story
- Systemic changes, finding protection and resources that are available, seeking justice
- The balance of a whole person approach

GUEST RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. The POWER of saying what you need (to people or in prayer)
2. Finding connection in your area: Google "free emotional support near me", community & municipal programs, faith based organizations, mental health hotlines, local social workers & the like who give great direction of where to seek out help
3. Connect with one person, ask for the help you need, and the doors to other connections will open

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1.  GERI Website
2. GenderWorks info
3. FB
4. Email - desiree@grworld.org
5. GERI free events

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