Living With Ghosts – how to use genealogy to release generational trauma

Living With Ghosts

Using genealogy to recognise and release generational trauma

 

Generational trauma

Living With Ghosts is perhaps the first online course in the world using genealogy research as a tool for recognising and releasing generational trauma. One generation passes its incomplete past experiences to the next through epigenetic inheritance.

Generational trauma

Living with trauma is like living with ghosts. The trauma impacts your current life but its origins are obscured by the past.

Living With Ghosts

This course consists of 7 modules, each including videos, text lessons, quizzes and exercises (with downloadable workbooks).

Each module guides you through a step-by-step process that increases your understanding of the mechanics of generational trauma. At the same time it guides you to engage with your family’s buried emotional history to bring long-forgotten scandals, losses, and shame to the surface. You can only resolve incomplete past experiences in the present.

This is not a ‘one and done’ course that you can zip through in no time, get a certificate, and that’s it. Generational trauma is something most people never even recognise, let alone clear. And clearing it can, quite literally, take years.

Living With Ghosts provides a structured framework to guide your genealogy research to identify potential sources of family trauma and resolve them with grace.

Recommended courses

These are not prerequisites but are recommended studies to accompany this course.

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Introduction

1
Welcome to Living With Ghosts
7 minutes

An introduction to Living With Ghosts.

Module 1: A splinter works its way to the surface

1
Case study – the death certificate
6 minutes

My first experience of generational trauma came after ordering a death certificate.

2
What is generational trauma?
12 minutes

An introduction to the concept and scope of generational trauma.

3
Quiz – What is generational trauma?
3 questions
4
Feeling your family's past
6 minutes

The difference between thinking about your family and feeling it is critical.

5
Exercise – the Family Stability Index
4 minutes

A quick test for assessing family instability and the presence of trauma.

Module 2: An oil slick is a fallen rainbow

1
Case study – The Architect of Desire
7 minutes

Suzannah Lessard's The Architect of Desire is a brilliant and instructive memoir of generational trauma.

2
The impact of generational trauma
12 minutes

An overview of the multiple possible impacts of generational trauma.

3
Quiz – The impact of generational trauma
3 questions
4
Exercise – the Family Ghosts Scrapbook
6 minutes

You may know a lot more about your family than you realise.

Module 3: Leaves fall exactly where they need to

1
Case study – the tax fraud trial
6 minutes

A dark moment in family history, hidden in shame for 99 years.

2
The science behind generational trauma
8 minutes

What can science tell us about the mechanics of generational trauma?

3
Quiz – The science behind generational trauma
4
The language of generational trauma
7 minutes

The pre-verbal nature of inherited trauma affects our language around it.

5
Exercise – What is your family narrative?
5 minutes

Families are stories. What's yours?

Module 4: Bells toll across a distant field

1
Case study – the war records
6 minutes

A case study in the explosiveness of generational trauma.

2
‘Here be dragons’ - the hero’s journey
6 minutes

What you can expect on the journey into generational trauma.

3
Quiz – The hero’s journey
3 questions
4
Exercise – Broken Branches
4 minutes

After a storm, there are broken branches in the woods. Families are the same.

Module 5: A calling card with perfectly frayed edges

1
Case study – the house in Cornwall
5 minutes

Visiting old family haunts can trigger the release of generational trauma.

2
7 Steps to identify trauma through genealogy
9 minutes

Use genealogy research to identify potential sources of generational trauma.

3
Quiz – Identifying trauma through genealogy
3 questions
4
Exercise – We’re going on a ghost hunt
3 minutes

Are you familiar with the children's story, 'We're going on a bear hunt'?

Module 6: A wheel can turn forwards or backwards

1
Case study – the TSR-2
4 minutes

We can connect to trauma even through engineering.

2
Emotional Reverse Engineering
7 minutes

Recognising inherited trauma by reverse engineering current behaviour

3
Quiz – Emotional Reverse Engineering
3 questions
4
Exercise – Who + What + Where + When = Why
7 minutes

It's time to apply the algebra of generational trauma.

Module 7: A strange alphabet reveals a familiar story

1
A strange alphabet reveals a familiar story
3 minutes

And now... the final module, where it all comes together.

2
8 Steps to heal generational trauma
9 minutes

A step-by-step process for working with generational trauma.

3
Quiz – Healing generational trauma
3 questions
4
Exercise – Your Family’s Eyes
5 minutes

Any memento of the past can be used to access buried trauma.

5
Case study – Antiques Roadshow
4 minutes

Clearing generational trauma can bring unexpected rewards.

Conclusion

1
Farewell to Living With Ghosts
2 minutes

A concluding message to Living With Ghosts.

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