Here’s a bird’s eye view of the Gate Passages® Framework.

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The Gate Passages® Framework is a 3-phased approach.*

 

Phase 1 :: Stabilization/Safety

  • Beginning with the bottom-up approach, you’ll learn how to notice your body sensations and what these sensations are trying to tell you.

  • Learn about your nervous system and your survival response. 

  • Learn about how to down- or up-regulate your nervous system.

  • Learn and practicing new ways to cope.

  • Learn about your triggers and what to do.

  • Begin to learn about your internal family of parts, what they do, and how they are organized.

Phase 2 :: Diving Deeper 

  • Continuing using a bottom up approach, you’ll look deeper into the experiences you’ve had that still hurt.

  • Help restore your body’s innate ability to heal and reset the survival response.  

  • Gain an appreciation for your internal family of parts by recognizing how they’ve tried to help you and help them unburden the heavy loads they may be carrying. 

  • Move from I’m not OK because this happened to I’m OK even though this happened.

Phase 3 :: Moving Forward 

  • Who are you now?

  • What’s important now? 

  • What’s left to work on? 

  • How do you want your body to feel now?

  • Celebrating what you’ve done.

*Based on the work of 2 psychologists: pioneering French psychologist Pierre Janet (1889), and pioneering American psychologist Judith Herman (1992-1997).