Reviews
from past events

“I came into it with no clear expectations, and left with a whole lot of heart, emotions, gratefulness, and courage”

“To help individuals live lives free from the effects of violence and trauma—healing and empowering through Enhanced Resilience Training”.

Video Reviews

Video Reviews

Video Reviews

Video Reviews

Dr. Stephan Porges

ERT™ is informed by Polyvagal Theory, and directly endorsed by its founder Dr. Stephen Porges. More importantly, the ERT program translates Polyvagal Theory into an actionable, and approachable, healing modality.

“So what you’ve done in your resilience training model is you have brought integration movement and social engagement together and it’s the magic of social engagement, the presence of being with these people and being reciprocal with them (and they with each other) that allows them to become re-embodied, the mind and body become co-regulated“

Polyvagal Theory

Dr. Stephan Porges

“The work you are doing is remarkable because you take individuals who, in our terminology we would say are deeply injured…but you are not responding to the injury you are in a sense triggering strength.

So sometimes we think people who are injured we want to fix them, but if we truly understand how our nervous system and our humanity needs cues of engagement with movement, and we facilitate this, the person begins to re-occupy their body, “they become re-embodied.” So, I think the process of Enhanced Resilience Training is this re-embodiment.”

The Power of Enhanced Resilience

Master Dean Siminoff, introduces the healing program, Enhanced Resilience, in Rwanda for women and genocide victims helping with PTSD recovery using Martial Arts and Polyvagal Theory techniques.

Reviews

From past events

The safe, social engagement piece was really priceless. Thank you for facilitating such a positive, inclusive, emotionally safe environment for us to connect with each other.

AP

I want to thank you again for such an amazing weekend (that I truly had no idea I was walking in to) — The process is/ was amazing. Thank you.

TM

The training was above and beyond my expectations

JC

I feel super inspired, and grateful beyond words

KD

Good morning Dean, Thank you for an amazing experience this past weekend!

KS

I am very interested in pursuing this further and reaching more people, working with Dean to offer this on a bigger scale. I’d like to see people come out after COVID for an experience of recovering who they are again and remembering their resilience! A lot of repair needs to be made after these past two years, and I think this course has potential for providing a platform of awareness, the opportunity to share in community, and pathways to navigate some deep healing within community.

SH

I seriously can’t thank you enough for the opportunity and look forward to
working with you and MAJ ongoing!! With gratitude

LT

“Yes. I would recommend this to friends and colleagues. I feel so strongly that this training is valuable in so many ways

J.D. School teacher

Enhanced Resiliency Training is an important, physically experiential compliment to the learning we have been doing about Trauma-Informed classrooms and systems. I had been reading and thinking about the impact of the states of each of our nervous systems as we interact with each other in our work, but I haven’t personally felt such a clear nervous system re-set in a long time as I did through Mater Dean’s training.

R.D. Public School Teacher

I feel that the whole process justified me being there. It was like an empowering, soul changing weekend for me. I think for me remembering the importance of letting go and having fun and being provided with a safe space to do that was key. Also, the acknowledgement from others that it is okay to not be okay. The way the training was set up with the theory, small groups and physical part all together.

J.C. Public School

Met my expectations and then some. Honestly, I had no idea really what the weekend was going to look like. I expected something very different than what I walked into and was more than impressed with how different it was

ND Public School Teacher

Beyond my expectations. It was so thoroughly considered. The physical activity and skill building. The emotional considerations and reflections. The better understanding of our psychology and how we manage trauma and stress. And the community being able to share and hear and learn from others perspectives and experiences.

LS

I came into it with no clear expectations, and left with a whole lot of heart, emotions, gratefulness, and courage

L.F. School Teacher