What I Stand For – No One Can Take Away
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Adaptive Strategies
• Brace/Freeze
• Fight
• Comply
• Avoid
• Dissociate
What is your most practiced adaptive strategy?
What did it take care of?
Adaptive Strategies under Stress
• Most practiced responses
• Lives in our body
• Often unconscious and primitive
• Triggered by many things- can knock us off center
Training our Sympathetic and Para -sympathetic nervous system
• Body Awareness
• Adrenaline Practice
• Curiosity – not judgment
• On-Going Practice
*Presented by Julie Harmon Ph.D. IMPACT Safety
*Based on the work of Suzanne Roberts, Master Somatic Leadership Coach, Unifying Solutions,
UnifyingSolutions.com
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IMPACT Safety, A Program of LifeCare Alliance
1699 w. Mound Street • Columbus, Ohio 43229
614-437-2884 www.impactsafety.org
OPEC 2016