Transforming Trauma =
Reaction → Response
Integrating Body + Mind + Spirit
Nervous System Regulation
ABOUT TRIN:
Farah and Martez met through their mutual interest and passion in sharing with others an integrative approach to trauma care and recovery. Through their own unique personal and professional experiences, Farah and Martez recognised the need to integrate body, mind and spirit in recovery, therapeutic relationships and professional partnerships. Farah has extensive clinical, teaching and research experience, knowledge and education in emotional, spiritual, mind and body approaches to trauma. Martez with her background, extensive education, knowledge and experience in the body, neurophysiology and psycho-spiritual approach to trauma treatment and care. The connection between Farah and Martez was evident and they partnered to share their professional and personal skills to serve others through trauma recovery and integrative education.
TRIN VISION:
Create a world where individuals and professionals embody trauma and recovery through transforming it into self-empowerment of body, mind and spirit.
TRIN MISSION:
Provide trauma informed education, practice and skills that enhance nervous system health to strengthen wholeness. These integrative transformational approaches will enhance personal growth and professional practice.
CORE VALUES:
Using a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach to help transform trauma through recovery, integration and growth.
- Holistic Approach: We acknowledge and cultivate relationships with body, mind, spirit.
- Relationships: We nurture and enhance connection with self and others to promote restoration, resilience and growth.
- Community: We build communities of helping professionals where people feel connected, supported and empowered.
- Depth: We provide knowledge, practical applications, strategies and resources to enhance trauma, recovery, integration, resilience and growth.
- Solutions: We translate theory and information into practice to advance evidence informed measurable outcomes.
- Research: We design and conduct innovative empirical research to support impactful integrative trauma informed practices.
FOUNDERS:
Dr. Farah Jindani
Farah Jindani, Ph.D (University of Toronto), M.S.W. (University of Toronto), MPhil. (University of Cambridge), BA (University of Waterloo) has worked as a clinician, educator and researcher at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and various post-secondary institutions and community-based agencies for over 17 years. She has authored numerous scientific articles, book chapters, tutorials and manuals on trauma, mental health, addictions and integrative treatments to recovery.
Farah’s strong interest in integrative treatments for wellbeing began early in life. Over time, she sought out learning opportunities with world-renowned teachers of meditation, physical practices and breathing techniques believed to support trauma. Initiating a personal daily practice of yoga and meditation introduced Farah to the healing power of mind-body practices and cultivation of self-awareness. In 2011, Farah launched a ground-breaking 8-week trial program for individuals living with post-traumatic stress. This was the first evidence-based study to explore post-traumatic stress symptoms and wellbeing using Kundalini yoga as an intervention. The findings were published in various scientific journals. These personal experiences and training in mental health have all contributed to Dr. Jindani’s therapeutic, teaching and research practice.
Farah has worked as a Professor, Academic Coordinator and Mentor in post-secondary educational institutions since 2011. She is a regular trainer in areas of trauma informed interventions, criminal justice and the intersectionality between mental health/addictions and the social determinants of health. Farah’s research and teaching interests include wellness-based mental health, areas of collaborative knowledge exchange, innovative curriculum development including simulation training, trauma-informed interventions, mind-body interventions and positive psychology. In all areas of her work, she is committed to principles of inclusivity, diversity, strengths-based approaches and collaboration.
Farah enjoys spending time with her family exploring the outdoors and gardening. She is an avid food enthusiast and cultivates joy through music and various movement practices.
Martez Schembri-Diskey,
RMT, CST-D
Martez is a Registered Massage Therapist, Integrative Craniosacral Therapist, Massage Therapy Professor, Solution Focused Counsellor, Spiritual Director, Trauma Care Educator. She is the Author of “From Stress to Bliss, Journey From Post-Traumatic Stress to Post-Traumatic Growth” based on her personal and professional experience with trauma for the past 29 years.
During Covid, Martez worked teaching TRE to First Responders, Firefighters, Police and Healthcare workers, in-person and online. She presented TRE at The Critical Incident Stress Foundation of Canada Online Conference, and facilitated organizational training’s on Compassion Fatigue, Burnout and Self-Care for Helping Professionals, Heal the Healers Self-Care Series and currently Trauma Recovery & Integrative Care Education.
Martez is a proud Mother of her two young adult children, lives in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. She loves the outdoors, travelling the world learning about health and healing in various cultures.
Martez’s lifework and passion is to educate, empower and inspire an integrative approach to nervous system health, restoration and growth.
Trauma Recovery & Integration Course Series:
FOUNDATION: Trauma Care First Aid: Trauma Care First Aid is the initial process of assessing and addressing the biopsychosocial-spiritual impact and needs of an individual who has experienced direct or indirect trauma on the trauma spectrum. The strength based strategies and skills grounded, embodied in the physical, psychological, social-spiritual pillars that empower and offers choice to Service Providers and service users. This foundational course introduces the Trauma Spectrum and its effects from a biopsychosocial-spiritual lens. We will explore the role of the Nervous System, Stress Spectrum & Nervous System Dysregulation.
Framework: Nervous System Health & Regulation
The neurophysiological framework of trauma is integral in understanding the holistic impacts on trauma.
- You’ll learn to recognize and develop a Conscious Integrative Process, to help you regulate reactivity to response to rebalance and regulate the nervous system, based on the 3 Pillar Framework ( of Body, Mind and Spirit) through the TRIN process through integrative awareness and practice.
- The Pillars that support integrative regulation, transformation, recovery and growth and its effects on Body, Mind and Spirit through TRIN
- Transformation of
- Reaction to response through
- Integration of
- Nervous System Regulation
Somatic Integration:
Somatic Integration is the process of developing an awareness of, and a relationship with the body, and how the body is communicating with you. Learn how to explore and navigate the body’s Innernet(work) through a spectrum of practices and skills.
Self-Care = Self Regulation = Nervous system health
Integrative Practices: TIY (Trauma Informed Yoga), TRE (Tension or Trauma Releasing Exercises)
TIY: Trauma Informed Yoga: Trauma impacts all aspects of the human experience (mind, body, spirit and relationships). In this course, we teach the practice of yoga addressing the specific needs and symptoms of trauma. Using a universal precautions trauma approach, we assume that everyone has had some kind of trauma in their lives. This course is designed to offer a space to increase body awareness or interoception in a safe and modulated manner to encourage physical, emotional and psychological safety. In this way, participants can address nervous system dysregulation and enhanced feelings of connection to body and with others.
TRE® Tension or Trauma Releasing Exercises: an innovative body based (somatic) process that naturally releases deep physiological stress and tension that is held in the body’s musculoskeletal system, myofascial system and nervous system. It does so through our body’s innate reflex mechanism called a neurogenic tremor mechanism, which enables an individual to discharge stored stress hormones, releases chronic tension or trauma from the body, regulates the nervous system and restores homeostasis. It does not require “revisiting the story” or trauma. (ie: verbally describing or talking about the traumatic experience or story) This course is designed to offer greater skills in embodiment, presence and self-regulation through experiencing TRE. Participants will discover and experience the body’s natural ability to release, rebalance which helps build resilience to support Nervous system health through regulation, recovery and restoration.
TRIN will develop and support our interprofessional network of integrative trauma practitioners for ongoing professional support, collaboration and leveraging of knowledge.
Retreats: To be announced
RESEARCH AND RESOURCES:
Martez shares the biopsychosocial-spiritual dimensions of treating for healing through this integrative approach to help us to connect and balance of mind, body and spirit to journey to our own unlimited possibilities.