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Digging Roots: Foundations Course

 Healing the roots of stress and trauma response. 

A guided, experiential course to help you integrate developmental trauma principles with clarity, confidence, and care

Choose Your Path Forward: Personal or Professional Community Cohort
 

Welcome to the Digging Roots: Foundations Course

Digging Roots Foundations is a guided, trauma-informed course for anyone ready to explore how early experiences shape our nervous systems, relationships, and sense of self. This video offers an overview of the course structure, learning style, and the two unique cohort tracks—Personal and Professional—so you can choose the path that fits your needs. Whether you're here to deepen personal insight or integrate trauma-informed tools into your work, this is a space where embodied learning, community support, and nervous system awareness come together. Start here to learn what makes this course different—and why it’s not about fixing, but about reconnecting.

 

“This course is not just information—it’s an invitation. To reflect. To engage. To heal.”

What You’ll Learn in the Foundations Course

This four-part, 18-session, course includes over seven hours of video instruction and eight reflective assignments. It is designed to prepare you for deeper clinical work and relational attunement.

Foundations of Developmental Trauma

What makes Developmental Trauma different from other forms of trauma?

The role of neurobiology & applied Brainspotting in trauma responses

The foundation of trauma-informed thinking

Understanding Developmental Trauma & Its Patterns

How Developmental Trauma is diagnosed (DTD-SI vs. traditional PTSD criteria)

The impact of attachment cycles & family stress responses

Recognizing dysregulation & defense mechanisms in self and others

Survival Strategies & The Impact of Trauma on Adult Life

How trauma shapes relational & self -protective patterns

Recognizing masks, defense mechanisms & survival responses

Practical tools to build self-regulation

Shame, Trauma Treatment & Integration

Shame as a core wound of developmental trauma 

Understanding chronic survival patterns (Maleficent 8)

Mapping out activation & preparing for ongoing trauma work

Testimonials

Please note that because our work is confidential, we allow for the submission of anonymous testimonials.  

 Fantastic training with highly relevant and informative content. Engaging teaching style with organized materials. This training is a must to deepen one's brain, spotting practice.

 This training felt like the missing link to my personal healing and my practice. I am deeply grateful to have had this opportunity.

This training is exactly what I’ve been looking for and needing to keep growing in my practice. I can’t wait to share what I’ve learned with my clients.

Thank you.

Who This Course Was Designed For

 🧠For therapists, social workers, and educators: Gain insight into how early attachment, nervous system regulation, and developmental trauma shape behavior and well-being. Learn practical, trauma-informed tools you can apply in your work immediately

❤️ For individuals on a healing journey: Explore how your early experiences influence your present-day challenges, relationships, and inner world. Learn to recognize survival strategies and begin your path toward self-understanding and healing. 

What you'll discover:

🌿The foundational principles of developmental trauma

🌿The science of attachment and regulation

Taking a trauma course isn’t just for professionals—it’s for anyone curious about their own story. If you’re ready to take a deeper dive into understanding your childhood experiences and how they shape your present, this course offers a powerful foundation. It’s a meaningful step toward insight, self-compassion, and setting the stage for deeper healing.

This course's material can be integrated on any therapeutic journey, for personal or professional growth.

đź“Ť Why Digging Roots is Different

  • Built on decades of clinical experience + cutting-edge research
  • Designed to be embodied—not just understood
  • Encourages supported reflection, not isolated learning
  • Centered in community, compassion, and heart
  • Rooted in the truth: All trauma lives in aloneness (Dr. Gabor MatĂ©)

“This work isn’t about fixing others. It’s about reconnecting—with ourselves, with each other, and with what’s real.”

Take Advantage Of Our Launch Pricing - Enroll Today

Personal Cohort

$650

 

Digging Roots: Foundations 

Personal Cohort

Best for those joining for personal healing, self-understanding, or nervous system insight.

  • No professional role required

  • Focus on restoration, reflection, and personal integration

  • Safe space to learn without needing to perform

Special Launch Price: $650 USD
(Regularly $1,300 — 50% Off for First-Time Enrollment)

What’s Included:

  • Full access to the curriculum (18 sessions, 4 modules, 7+ hours of video)
  • Live group sessions with Steve Sawyer every 2 weeks (4 total sessions) July 16, 30, August 13, 20 12:00p-1:30p PDT/2:00p-1:30p CDT
  • 120 days of course access
  • Private cohort community to reflect, connect, and grow
  • Structured integration through shared experience and real-time guidance

This special launch price is only available through July 11 or when the cohort fills.

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Professional Cohort

$650

 

Digging Roots Foundations Professional Cohort 

Best for therapists, educators, or healing professionals who want to integrate trauma-informed work into their scope.

  • Practical tools to use with clients or students

  • Case-based discussion and professional application

  • Peer learning with like-minded practitioners

Special Launch Price: $650
(Regularly $1,300 — 50% Off for First-Time Enrollment)

What’s Included:

  • Full access to the curriculum (18 sessions, 4 modules, 7+ hours of video)
  • Live group sessions with Steve Sawyer every 2 weeks (4 total sessions) July 16, 30, August 13, 20 2:00p-3:30p PDT/4:00p-5:30p CDT 
  • 120 days of course access
  • Private cohort community to reflect, connect, and grow
  • Structured integration through shared experience and real-time guidance
  • Access to Provider Network
  • 16 NAADAC CE's included upon completion

This special launch pricing ends July 11 or when the cohort fills.

You are welcome to integrate the information and insights from this course into your existing scope of practice in a way that feels appropriate for your community.


However, please note that this course is not a substitute for professional licensure or credentialed clinical training. It is intended to complement your work, not replace the qualifications required for licensed therapeutic or medical practice.

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You’re Not Meant to Do This Alone

This work can be intense. It can bring up old patterns. That’s why we encourage you to move through it with support—through trusted colleagues, mentors, or therapists.

You’re invited to go at your own pace, but never in isolation. Healing is relational.

“All trauma lives in aloneness.” – Dr. Gabor Maté
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Start from your roots. Grow from what’s real.

This is your invitation to begin again—with steadiness, insight, and heart.

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