Moving beyond captivity.
Coming to Our Senses
The Journey of Coming Home to Our Body’s Inheritance
The personal is the planetary, and there is a path forward that leads to mutual healing for both self and system. Place-based sensory healing methods incorporate applied ecopsychology, modern trauma theory and are informed by trans-species psychology’s research with nonhuman animals. These methods not only address the symptoms brought on by the collective, developmental, intergenerational trauma of enculturated captivity, but also their root cause. By coming home to our sensing bodies we can identify the invisible bars that hold a life captive and move beyond them
It’s the journey home. One where we must come to our senses.
Through this work I see a world more integrated and connected. Where the deep ties between psychological and ecological health are nourished and compound toward a reciprocal vitality. A world where the collective dissociation and malaise of our age has been replaced by a deep regenerative engagement with thriving ecosystems. A world where the human has come home to its senses.
Let’s Collaborate
Through decades of study, practice and application, Vaughan has developed a series of interactive practices that help people, individually and in groups, attune their senses to the natural world and begin to increase their awareness of their own agency and connection to the unique bioregions we inhabit. Vaughan offers these practices in both one-off experiences, and series, and also conducts talks on Enculturated Captivity (tm) , our collective, intergenerational, developmental trauma, and how we can begin to create new pathways toward more regenerative ways of living.