In developmental trauma work, activation avoidance is not a lack of readiness or willingness to do the work - it is a protective intelligence shaped by early experiences where activation often led to danger, overwhelm, abandonment, or relational rupture.
When activation once meant things got worse, the nervous system learns that staying under the radar is safer than moving toward aliveness.
Join us as we have a conversation about:
*what is activation avoidance
*how does it make sense for the nervous system
*how it may be showing up in therapy - with clients AND clinicians...and how this may cause problems in treatment
*some tools and techniques to avoid activation avoidance
Thank you for engaging in this important work with us.
