Halifax How To Understand Horrible Things

Understanding Trafficking Through the Lens of Adaptation and Neurobiology

Completely change the way you think. This powerful one-day intensive workshop will completely shift your understanding of human trafficking.  

Grounded in neuroscience, attachment theory, and trauma-responsive practice, this training explores how trafficking and all sexual coercive relationships are not sustained by choice or weakness—but through powerful, adaptive processes within the body.

Participants will examine how biochemistry, and neural development shape responses to threat, attachment, and survival. We will unpack how systems such as the autonomic nervous system, stress hormones, and neurochemicals like dopamine and oxytocin contribute to trauma bonding, compliance, dissociation, and addiction patterns.

This workshop offers a clear and accessible understanding of:

• How coercion, control, and intermittent harm create powerful attachment bonds