Here for you so you can be there for them.
HERE this NOW is a boutique consulting firm that provides technical assistance to those seeking to build capacity for becoming trauma-informed and trauma-responsive.
Becoming “trauma-informed” is a paradigm shift; it means acknowledging and addressing that humans and collections of humans (e.g. systems) are shaped by early life experiences – in particular – adverse childhood experiences. Childhood trauma, toxic stress, or ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) calibrate the body’s stress response and impact the long-term mental and physical health of an individual.
A “hot headed” boss, a disengaged employee, an aggressive child, a combative parent, an emotionally unavailable individual – these circumstances may be a sign of chronic dysregulation in an individual’s autonomic nervous system that manifests as fight, flight, or freeze behaviors and negatively impact family, work, and social systems.
HERE this NOW is highly equipped to help with these challenges. Passionate about helping others be skilled in mitigating trauma or vicarious trauma, improve organizational effectiveness, weave stronger ties in social networks, and usher in systems change, HERE this NOW engages a “bottom-up” (body-based) approach to regulating the impact of cumulative stress or trauma.
Our approach is rooted in the principles of The Polyvagal Theory, Somatic Experiencing,™ complex systems theory, adaptive capacity, social network thinking, and group dynamics. We strive to provide training, coaching, facilitation, and consultation that is embodied, emergent, experiential, people-first, and relationship-driven.
After all, we are human.