Becoming the Designated Calm Person™: Learning to Settle Ourselves and Others is the first in the series Cultivating Connections: Experiential Exercises for Home and Horse Barn. Lasell Jaretzki Bartlett includes education and step-by-step instructions for eighteen exercises for experiencing our survival states, sensations, personal resources, nervous system shifts, and more.
Bartlett calls us to become better for our relationships with people, horses, and other animals by developing our ability to shift to a calm state. We all need help to settle after a fall, injury, or any shocking change like the loss of a family member or pet. The presence of a calm person is a key element for this settling to occur.
Included are sample exercises from the next three workbooks in this series: Sensing Our Groundedness, After the Fall: Recovering Balance and Confidence, and Boundaries and Consent: Developing a Sense of Safety with Others.