The Aliveness Project: Conversations on Connection

The Aliveness Project: Conversations on Connection is a podcast from the NARM® Training Institute exploring the many dimensions of human connection. Hosted by members of the NARM community, including NARM founder Dr. Laurence Heller, this show invites guests from both inside and outside the world of NARM to share stories and insights from their unique areas of expertise.

Each episode centers around a conversation—sometimes clinical, sometimes personal, often both—that looks at what it means to be in connection: with ourselves, with one another, and with the world around us. Whether you're a therapist, a helping professional, or someone curious about the deeper layers of human experience, these episodes are designed to spark reflection, offer practical insights, and open up new ways of thinking about connection and the healing process.

At its heart, this podcast is about connection, re-connection, and aliveness—our birthright as humans. We’re grateful you’re here.

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NARM Training Institute

The NARM® Training Institute offers professional training for those working with developmental and complex trauma. Our mission—to humanize and depathologize the mental health field and other helping professions—is at the heart of our trainings.

The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is an approach to working with the effects of complex and developmental trauma. Developed by Dr. Laurence Heller, NARM integrates attachment theory, somatic psychology, and a present-moment, non-regressive orientation to support healing. It explores how disconnection becomes a survival strategy in early relational trauma, and working with NARM helps restore connection to self, others, and the world around us. NARM works top-down and bottom-up, emphasizes agency and embodied mindfulness, and highlights the role of shame in disconnection. NARM also supports practitioners in preventing burnout and creating a sustainable, life-giving practice.

https://narmtraining.com/