About

Much of the prevailing guidance around trauma and presence, being with it, being mindful of it, feeling into it, carries a subtle harm, even when practiced correctly with good intentions.

And, it doesn’t reliably resolve trauma. But we can support ourselves and meet experience in a good way.

Presence With Trauma is a trauma-aware framework that meditators can use to meet their own experience in a way that holds trauma in a way that is good, beautiful and true, allowing the unconsious mind to untangle foundational force distortions.

Mark Sherman Johnson is the author of the book Presence With Trauma and the developer of the presence-oriented, trauma-aware approach to self-hypnotherapy, that works directly with distortions of force, including early-life trauma.

He maintains a private practice and leads groups, drawing on 25 years of meditation practice spanning Buddhism, Gnosticism, presence work, and medicine work in the Amazonian shamanic tradition. For years he has worked with meditators who have reached the limits of mindfulness, inquiry, and standard trauma approaches.

Mark is committed to changing the state of the art: helping meditators to stop being hurt by their practices and start getting the results they came for.

Thank you for reading Presence With Trauma.