Due to the Moaiku Trauma Therapy workshops I have a rich new understanding of trauma and many new resources that help me be aware of and manage my own arousal, in my personal and work life. I have an increased sense of comfort and ability to stay present with and help regulate the arousal of clients.
I feel more confident in my professional role as a Naturopath – and more able to hold the client accountable for their role in their health, instead of feeling solely responsible for 'fixing' them.
Janice Millington, N.D. (Naturopathic Doctor)
The Moaiku intensive trauma workshops was the best learning experience of my career! I have a workplace trauma and general counselling practice. I find I am using the training in every counselling session. It provides a lens to understand client trauma patterns, and signs of arousal in the here and now. It has given me concrete resource based somatic tools that I am able to teach clients. Clients tell me these resources make a difference out in their lives. I also have come to better understand my own trauma patterns, and am using the resourcing skills in my own life, consequently I am now a different counsellor and trainer sitting across from my clients or groups; more present, more deeply attuned.
The Moaiku trauma model offers a fresh perspective on trauma, it is conceptually rich and grounded in the body. It is a deeply respectful way for working with trauma. Merete Holm Brantbjerg creates a safe container for experiential learning and she embodies the model in a way that is grounded and integrated. I recommend this training to anyone curious about trauma and the body and who is looking to increase their repertoire of useful skills, for themselves and clients.
Claudia Collins, MA, Registered Clinical Counsellor
As a student & therapist of Body Oriented Psychotherapy for many years, I recommend the Moaiku Trauma Therapy workshops with Merete Holm Brantbjerg.
The methods and the presence of the trainer has brought me into a greater presence, sense of personal authority and given me solid skills to use in my work with clients.
The group & skill building techniques ,that are part of the training, are some of the most dynamic I have experienced.
Saskia Soeterik,O.T Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.
Participating in the Moaiku Trauma Therapy workshops has helped me to move to another level of professional expertise in my private practice. Based on her many years of experience and her insatiable professional curiosity about health and healing, Merete has synthesized an elegant and researched paradigm that draws on the best of insights and skills of body-centered therapy, systems theory and cognitive therapy.
My clients report that this emphasis on precise skill training has helped them move through their own strengths, skills and resources towards healthy choices and healthy relationships with increased confidence in their own abilities.
My inner sense of personal and professional competence has flourished. It continues to mature as I practice the skills I have learned in the workshops.
I am presenting workshops to teachers and student teachers who tell me that Resource Oriented Skill Training (ROST) is a new and profound tool that they are using in their classrooms to promote learning.
Janet Hill, Bachelor of Science in Rehabilitation Medicine (Combined training in Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy) MA in Clinical Counseling