Natural Disaster Trauma Debriefing with Prashant Goel

Tuesday, Nov. 12th, 2024  •  6:30-8 pm

Join us in person for this informal, informative discussion 

By Donation • all proceeds go to BeLoved Asheville

Gain a common language and a deeper understanding of our experience of Hurricane Helene as we continue to move forward, rebuild, and grow stronger as a community.

This Fall we’ve had the opportunity to learn more about our community and community members. While the experience of living through Hurricane Helene and the aftermath has been devastating on so many levels, we experienced ourselves – and keep hearing from students – the ways in which community members have been there for each other. This feeling of togetherness and community was palpable in the first few days and continues today as we move through the next stages of grieving, rebuilding, and recovering. We are so pleased to host a presentation by Prashant Goel, one of our students at the studio, that will be an opportunity to understand more about what we’ve been through and what the paths forward can look like. We’ll let Prashant tell you a little bit about what to expect during his Tuesday presentation.

From Prashant:

This presentation is from Patti Elledge, trauma therapist extraordinaire and Asheville local who was in one of the first cohorts ever of Somatic experiencing nearly three decades ago. She has studied and taught several other modalities, and was on the 1^st Trauma Outreach Team for SE International in 2004 when Katrina/Rita flooded New Orleans, where she and her team learned so much in those first 9 days working with grief-stricken folks from the inner city, 9th Ward, NOLA Rape Crisis Center, and more.

Patti has been sharing this presentation with local groups like Mountain Biz Works and Chai Pani.  She convened a group of us pro bono to further share it pro bono and spread this understanding in our beloved community. The intention of this presentation is to help folks navigate these times by having a common language and a deeper understanding, and normalization, of our common responses.  These body states are out of our control and part of the Autonomic Nervous System  in circumstances such as these  (i.e.  shock, freeze, dissociation etc) because of overwhelm, but by understanding that these are Gifts of the Instinctual Body, we can feel safer and a deeper compassion for ourselves and one another.  And understand how to make sense of them, and track when we are coming out of those states.

I am delivering this particular presentation for the first time so I ask for a spirit of cameraderie and patience, but it should be a nice time to connect within our beloved community (Purna Yoga 828) within our beloved community (Asheville), during challenging and powerful times.  I appreciate the ripples Patti is sending out with her deep Spirit-led care and insight, and wanted to pay it forward.

I can share a bit about my background during the time together, but I am a dedicated student of the interplay between trauma, yoga, healing and mystical principles–NARM level 2 trained, nearing Somatic Experiencing Practitioner status (SEP), and am on Thomas Hübl’s assistant team, having studied healing and wisdom traditons around the world.  I am passionate about these themes and also have worked professionally in leadership positions at NARM and SEI.

We’re so grateful that we have the opportunity to host this informal, informative gathering with Prashant that is not designed to be a therapy group.  The presentation will be 75 – 90 mins long probably, depending on the flow of things.  We hope you can join us and this experience can be another instance of community members coming together to help each other with their own special skills and resources. 

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