Trauma, Colonization, and Collective Healing: A Revolution in Mental Health
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šļø New Episode: Healing Trauma, Dismantling Whiteness, and Building Community with David Archer
Welcome back to Empowered Through Compassion. You wonāt want to miss this powerful and deeply inspiring episode.
Today, I sit down with David Archer, a brilliant voice in trauma-informed care, to explore the vital intersection between personal healing and collective liberation. We dive into what it means to practice trauma-focused care in a way that honors ancestral wisdom, community connection, and cultural context.
Together, we examine the construct of whiteness and white supremacy in Americaānot just as historical realities, but as living systems that shape how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the land. David invites us to consider how colonization continues not just through land and violence, but through language, ideology, and the very ways we understand healing.
We reflect on how internal healing fuels social change, and how reconnecting with indigenous perspectives and ancestral cycles can lead us to greater joy, justice, and wholeness. As David beautifully shares, healing is not just personalāitās communal, spiritual, and revolutionary.
David is currently collaborating with Thomas Zimmerman, developer of the Four Blinks approach to Flash. David himself is the creator of the Rhythm and Processing strategy, and together, theyāve developed a groundbreaking presentation:
š āFoundations of Trauma-Focused Careā ā an experiential training designed to support healing from complex trauma and dissociation.
This innovative approach invites you not only to learn, but to become part of a growing community of healers. Participants engage in real-time practice and biweekly consultation groupsāforming a movement toward a more connected, compassionate, and inclusive model of care for the 21st century.
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