I run Unfrozen, and I am not writing any of this from the outside.

A few years ago I was the one going through the motions. Foggy, isolated, coping well enough that nobody asked. This work is what got me out of it. It cleared the fog, it got me looking at things I had been avoiding for years, and it gave me the nerve to try things again.

Before this I spent thirty years running events. It taught me to read a room fast, to track where a group is, and to hold a steady room without making it about me. That is most of what facilitation is, and I had done it a few thousand times before I ever guided a breath.

I am a certified somatic bodywork facilitator, trained in trauma-informed, body-led work. That was 300 hours over eight months, which is a good deal longer than most practitioners in this field train for: several well-known body-based methods certify people in three days. The safeguards you read about on the how it works page are not bolted on at the end. They are eight months of learning how to build a session properly.

None of that makes me finished. I am a work in progress, and so is everyone in that room. That is rather the point.