Overview of Foundational Competencies and Orientations

The Numinus Care Model encompasses the following components as described in Module 1.

• Code of Ethics

• Integrative and Transformative Mental Wellness

• Seven guiding principles

• Justice, equity, dignity, and inclusion

• Cultural safety and humility

• Trauma and violence-informed care

• Connection

• Mindfulness: Nurturing awareness

• Embodiment: coming home to ourselves

• Harm reduction

Establishing the therapeutic relationship involves these characteristics as described in Module 2.

• Inner-directed therapy

• Unconditional positive regard

• Love

• Empathetic abiding presence and listening

• Being grounded, self-regulated, and aligned

• Orientation towards phenomenology

• Relationship-centered care

• Appreciation for human suffering

• Health professional self-awareness and ethical integrity

• Top-down versus bottom-up processing

Last week we learned about:

• Interoceptive awareness

• Awareness of embodied oppression

• Embodied communication

• Embodied inquiry

• Dual awareness: tracking and working in two time zones

• Therapeutic supportive touch

• Movement in therapy

• Working with the psychological flexibility model

• Working with parts and internal family systems

• Trust enhancement

• Spiritual intelligence

• Experience with altered states of consciousness

Module 4 builds on the essential elements of the therapeutic relationship covered last week by moving what we do within the therapeutic relationship. We will focus in on core skills and theory related to trauma. In this week’s module we will cover:

• Working with implicit memory

• Trauma and Polyvegal Theory

• Self-regulation and co-regulation

  • Titration/pendulation

  • Resourcing

• Trauma-informed somatic modalities

• Supporting psychological flexibility