The program has been developed from a broad and integrative perspective. We bring together insights into trauma, stress, and the body from different disciplines, cultures, and generations, based on the belief that trauma exists across all times and contexts. Each approach contributes its own piece to the larger picture. By connecting these different perspectives, we come closer to the essence of trauma and create space to develop an embodied, personal understanding and perspective. The knowledge and experience we share is rooted both in mainstream science and in ancient, Indigenous healing practices and traditions. The body is the foundation of life. In the face of trauma, we often learn to disconnect from the body in order to survive, while it is precisely there that experiences, emotions, and unfinished responses are held. As a result, the body does not necessarily feel like a safe place. Triggers show us what still needs attention. Through body-oriented learning, a sense of safety and grounding can gradually be restored, allowing the body to once again be experienced as a place that can hold and support us. From this sense of safety, processing and healing become possible. We integrate our own work with the thinking and approaches of, among others, Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Maté, Stephen Porges, Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, Deb Dana, Franz Ruppert, Nick Blaser, Janina Fisher, Eugene Gendlin, and Judith Herman. We complement this with practices and perspectives from other disciplines and cultures, including Movement Expression, Theatre, Music, Systemic Work, Buddhism, Shamanism, Māori healing, Voice and Breathwork, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Trauma-Sensitive and Yin Yoga, and Ritual.