Naomi Warndorff

31/10/2025

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03/04/2024

Dear everyone - glad to be in spring. Hoping this message finds you well.

Today, I write to you an account of how I applied trauma knowledge to my own benefit, during an accident at school. I hope to illustrate the sublime ways in which these distinctions can make a difference.

AN ALLY IN REPAIR

I broke my leg. In acrobatics class at school. I didn't know what the sound of snapping bones sounds like. Now I do.

I’ve used my knowledge of trauma and the nervous system to make it through this experience in the best way possible, consciously. There was 3 distinctions I was able to apply. I share with you.

I let myself scream as loud as, and shake as much as. Roll around on the floor as much as I needed to.�To let my body process the pain and do its survival responses as much as possible, freely. Therewith COMPLETING the expression of my body’s response as much as possible, and reducing the risk of PTSD symptoms later.�

I knew about the primordial importance of having the presence of an EMPATHIC WITNESS. So I allowed people's kind presence, holding my hand and caressing my head, and consciously noticed how their presence soothed me. I blocked out remarks or gestures that felt unsupportive in any way.

The days after the accident I noticed one trauma symptom: the traumatic parts of the accident kept playing around in loops in my head, which felt pretty unbearable.

I knew that an element of CAPTIVITY is what is prone to create trauma. And it was precisely the moment with an element of captivity that kept replaying in my head: I had fallen on my foot in a twisted position, and then someone fell on top of me with all their weight. For a moment, I could not move and save myself, and this is what made my bone break. My fight/flight response in that moment was blocked.

Since my body had not been able to complete a certain action, it kept playing around in loops in my mind.

I took this memory loop to my Somatic Experiencing therapist. During the session, I went in and out of the memory, in order to process it. Dipping gently in, and then going witnessing my body, to see what happened there, in response to the memory.��There was explosive shaking and crying.��After the session, I could think of the accident neutrally, without emotional charge or cringing.

Accurate knowledge and awareness is so freeing.�I imagine a world in which this knowledge is not a privilege but a common.

Thank you to everyone who has been accompanying me since the accident.

10/09/2023

I was interviewed by Anja Rohlf about trauma!
Thank you Anja.

Naomi and I first met within the world of Possibility Management. Here in this talk we find that we both also - before PM - went through a phase with Nonviol...

19/07/2023

"TRAUMA IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS TO US, BUT WHAT WE HOLD INSIDE IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EMPATHETIC WITNESS".
- Gabor Maté

19/07/2023

Dear everyone,

Thank you so much to each and everyone of you for popping into my life with a gracious contribution to the dream that I am, with your fueling, forging into reality.

Very often in my life so far, dreams have remained dreams and I have not managed growing them into trees of fruition, because I was myself still growing roots.

I am glad to tell you that the Trauma and Somatics Training is bearing many fruits, and that the next seed is on its way:

I got a scholarship for the 7 month training by the Trauma Research Foundation, led by Bessel van der Kolk. I am allowed to join for $750.

The words in the confirmation were:

"Your presence will add to the rich diversity of our community and will help to create a global society that is equipped to support and restore the well-being of those impacted by trauma."

Love,
Naomi

DIVING DEEP INTO THE MESS THE INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC Dear reader. … Naomi Warndorff needs your support for Naomi becoming a Trauma and Somatics Practitioner

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What if you wonder how and where to start?

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23/11/2022

Recording of a free improvisation at Singing Immersion Freiburg, 2022.

This is what human beings are capable of creating when connected, intimate, playful and safe.

Connection. This is a recording of an improvisation by the participants of the Singing Immersion Freiburg 2022.

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Harvests of the Singing Immersion in Halle ⭐️