ABSTRACT
Healing work occurs most effectively when the client is consciously present and fully grounded in the body, moment to moment, during sessions. Yet the essence of unresolved traumatic experience is that the individual’s attention is not focused on the body residues of those traumatic experiences with enough time, space and support for it to resolve fully. In trauma work that is not resourced, clients will often dissociate, in one form or another, preventing overwhelming distress, but critically also preventing processing to a healing conclusion. The power of the Resource Grid is in linking a number of places in the body, which are refl ected in the brain, no matter how small they are, magnifying the grounding capacity to a clinically effective level. Essentially, grids are a powerful somatic anchor to feeling, sensing and knowing from within, kindling awareness of the body and its vital connection with other bodies and to the ground of Be-ing itself.
