Interplay is a universal language focused on healing through relationship. Interplay facilitators create safety, develop understanding and support integration/healing through therapeutic connection, no matter where. Our core belief is that the practices and language of Interplay can be applied across all clinical and community settings. As attachment is our primary need and attachment disruption creates so much pain, Donna created Interplay to support and establish safety and connection between two individuals. This universal model is fundamental for the future of mankind and can be used by all professionals.

Interplay is a specialised training program that draws upon neuroscience, attachment theory, and trauma research. It aims to prevent and treat trauma by supporting individuals through healing. By addressing the fundamental human needs for connection and safety, Interplay creates profound healing. This approach is grounded in scientific evidence that shows how relationships and other adults in an individual’s life play a crucial role in preventing and overcoming trauma. Strengthening these relationships creates new neural pathways that enable individuals to regulate themselves and feel a greater sense of safety and self-awareness.

Research shows that the first three years of life shape and form who we become. Relational trauma is the most profound trauma experience with the most challenging outcomes. Current psychology practices focus on reducing trauma symptoms, which is proving ineffective as the unmet need remains. Interplay is both preventative and curative. Understanding that early intervention is critical to reducing relational trauma and supporting the formation of secure attachment is vital.

From secure attachment, the individual develops the ability to regulate complex affective states, turn towards others for comfort and regulation, body and brain awareness, ability to manage rupture and repair in relationships, experience safety and the ability to stay socially engaged and have empathy and compassion for self and others. This experience is the buffer that reduces the impact of all subsequent trauma experiences, including medical trauma.

Interplay differs from other therapeutic interventions as it recognises that a disruption to secure attachment experience is a collective experience. All individuals require the safety provided by the Interplay facilitator to gain insight, a sense of security and the environment necessary to reorganise their earlier experiences.

Psycho-educational models are not as effective as Interplay, as attachment is a felt sense experience and must be experiencedphysiologically. This environment can be created through staff, facilitators, and children interactions. Don ́t wait any longer create profound change!