The Healing Effects of Crying, Raging (and Laughter)

with Rebecca Sheikh

Stress and trauma early in life can alter children's neurobiological systems and lead to anxiety, behaviour problems, hyperactivity, attachment disorders, sleep problems, learning difficulties, depression, and physical illnesses.

Luckily, babies and children know how to heal from trauma if we give them the opportunity. The focus of this class is on creating emotional safety and facilitating children's spontaneous stress-release mechanisms of mainly crying and raging but it also touches on the incredible benefits of play and laughter and how to support this.

Rebecca helps us explore the topic through reflective exercises and personal explorations of crying, raging and laughter in our own lives as this inevitably impacts our capacity to support crying, raging and laughter.

The class covers:

Crying is often caused by stress: Sources of stress for children and babies

Conditioned emotional response to trauma and physiology of stress

The physiological stress response

Healthy states and unbalanced states

Control Patterns

How crying is repressed

Broken cookie phenomenon

Aggression

Special situations

Play and Laughter

Emotional safety

Intermediate
Experiential
Practical application
To support your client
60 minute class
life-long access to recording

Learning outcomes

Understand infants' ability to release emotional stress and recover from trauma
Gain an insight into conditioned emotional response to trauma and physiology of stress
Find out how to facilitate children's spontaneous stress-release mechanisms