Trauma: Understanding the Mind/Body Connection

Join us and Snjezana Pruginic Trauma Centered Wellness Practitioner and Community Worker as we deep dive into trauma and the mind/body connection.

What we will cover:

• What is the connection between the mind and body?
• Chronic Disease and the relationship with trauma
• Generational Trauma and how that can affect us today

AND MORE!

About Snjezana Pruginic

Snjezana Pruginic is a trauma centered Wellness Practitioner and Therapist, Meditation Facilitator, Trauma and Anti-Oppression Educator, Community Justice Worker and Youth Worker, and Writer.

Snjezana’s 20+ years of working with individuals, groups and communities has always been anchored in the connection between personal healing and social well-being. She is the founder of a trauma informed, mental health, peace building program “Moving Forward” for youths and adults involved with violence. She has delivered this program through collaborative partnerships across Toronto’s communities working with youth who are involved in the justice system, in Colombia with former child soldiers, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina with former youth survivors of war. Currently, she brings her passions and skills in wellness based social justice work into her role with The Forgiveness Project (The FYOU Project), working with young men in detention and upon release through a trauma informed and mindfulness focused lens. She is also a co-founder of The Well Collective, which aims to shift and decolonize the wellness narrative and wellness spaces in Toronto and globally, through community informed offerings and services. 

Website: www.circlepointwellness.com

IG: @snjezana_wellness 

Here are the resources mentioned during the webinar:

  https://www.amazon.ca/Waking-Tiger-Peter-Levine-Ph-D/dp/155643233X

https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748

https://www.amazon.ca/My-Grandmothers-Hands-Racialized-Pathway/dp/1942094477

https://www.facebook.com/The-Trauma-Project-249222445101726/