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David Young

David Young

David Young (楊正賢), M.A., CMMT is Co-Executive Director of Somatic Experiencing International and founder of The Art of Collective Integration, a collective trauma and polarization healing practice.

Sep 7, 2026

10:43
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10:44
moving into the next phase of how do i individuate meaning how do i grow into a separate self that is still related to where i came from but it's wholly different and wholly unique and then how do i grow and develop my life and continue to expand while still being related to where i come from these kind of stages of development haven't changed however you know even when i think about my own kids or i think about my 15 year old You're going through these stages with access to the entire repository of human intelligence through the internet at your fingertips.
11:17
And so you can learn about different worldviews or different ways of being human much sooner than I would have even 50, 60 years ago.
11:26
I can question the not just the founding principles that my parents are telling me about what it means to be a good person.
11:34
I can also question what my community has told me or what my religious beliefs have told me or even my country or this part of the world or the cultural sphere I grew up in.
11:42
I have so much access to different ways of being human that I end up being faced with these questions much sooner.
11:48
And I have almost an early onset introduction to information overwhelm where sooner rather than later, I start to arrive to this place where I know that I'm not maybe my parent or my caregiver.

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20:03
And I think it'd be really, based on your past experience and the work that you do, one of the things that you've worked on, working to refine to master is, is how to get to what hasn't been fully restored that's causing us to repeat the patterns that we're trying to logically unlock.

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