A Sanctuary of Safety

As a therapist/coach doing transformational work it is vital that you can notice a deep cellular experience of safety in your biology and that you have techniques to support yourself in creating that experience.

A feeling of Cellular Safety is the precursor to all desired change.

Clients may say that they feel safe, but if a desired change isn’t happening for them or isn’t being sustained by them, we need to explore carefully the extent to which nervous system safety is present for them.  Without it, significant change will not be sustained. Conscious EFT offers multiple strategies to locate where the system is feeling threatened and interventions appropriate to supporting it to release that specific threat. Every client will need to travel through a phase of their healing where they recognize the difference between an experience of safety and an experience of defence.  As they learn to differentiate between these, then they are in a position to begin an exploration of what their unique biology requires to create and sustain the experience of safety.

When sufficient safety is present – then the gateway to significant change swings open.

In this series of 3 teaching videos, NeftTi certified graduate Georgia Barnwell and NeftTi Executive Director Nancy Forrester discuss this fundamental concept of safety further and show how the ancient tradition of Calling in the Circle specifically supports a profound sense of safety and connection to what is meaningful.  needs to focus on its external environment in order to experience internal safety. In Video #1, Georgia and Nancy expand on how the experience of internal safety requires the connection to the external environment through the senses, allowing the biology to send specific sensory cues to satisfy the nervous system’s desperate need to trust that it is safe in this moment.  Then Georgia shares her personal framework of establishing safety through a process of Calling in the Circle, integrating visual art with profound meaning.