Workshop | Heal the Four Woundings Resiliency Training

“Heal the Four Woundings" is a neuroscience-based program aimed at addressing unconscious biases caused from trauma. It's crafted to unravel negative thought patterns and past traumas while empowering individuals with tools to turn challenges into opportunities. By quieting the inner critic and fostering emotional intelligence, the program enhances leadership qualities of empathy and compassion.

Through interactive learning and practical techniques such as mindfulness, meditation, growth mindset, breathwork, and visualization, participants are guided to view challenges as avenues for personal growth. The focus is on healing from past trauma by nurturing a steadfast commitment to self-improvement, self-compassion, and emotional resilience.

In this session, we'll delve into the neuroscience of bias, shedding light on the underlying mechanisms that contribute to racism, imposter syndrome, and oppression. We’ll explore the concept of the four woundings or biases, understanding how they intersect and give rise to discord and discrimination.

We'll lead participants through a compassionate journey, offering tools for healing past trauma though mindful listening practices, a guided compassion meditation, and engaging in positive affirmation exercises with sound healing. These techniques serve to heal past trauma, while cultivating skills for interrupting negative thought patterns, fostering personal growth and resilience.

Through this session will include interactive group discussions, allowing participants to share insights, as well as learn the neuroscience of the self-serving bias, the four trauma wounds that are replaying in our mind because of the Reticular Activation System, and techniques that transform our minds to promote new neural pathways and healing.

Amber Ontiveros, a longtime civil rights advocate, served in advisory roles at the US Department of Transportation for the Bush and Obama Administrations, and now runs Ontiveros and Associates, specializing in change management, policy development and executive coaching.

Amber is an author, keynote speaker and coach. Amber has crafted tools grounded in the neuroscience of unconscious bias to heal herself from beliefs that result in discord, discrimination and oppression. She now uses these tools in her practice, among businesses and agencies, to foster positive workplace culture. Her perspective has been seen and heard by thousands of agencies for leading change management initiatives across the country.