Full Course Description

Foundations of Somatic Therapy: The 9 Key Techniques for Effective Body-Based Therapy

Trauma is stored in the body, often beyond the reach of talk therapy.

While the thought of by-passing “talk therapy” can seem extreme to some therapists, the fact is somatic techniques have been proven to get results treating PTSD, depression, addiction, chronic pain, anxiety, dissociation, intense emotions and more.

Groundbreaking somatic therapy interventions do more than just impact the mind’s interpretation of trauma, they target and heal implicit trauma memories and release clients from decades of suffering…

…sometimes in as little as one session!

Here’s your chance to get a front-row seat to witness step-by-step somatic healing.

Program Information

Objectives

Differentiate somatic psychology from cognitive-based therapy approaches.
Analyze perspectives and different schools of thought on somatic therapy approaches to develop a robust understanding of body-based treatments.
Develop and understanding of polyvagal theory and therapy interventions to integrate into somatic approaches.
Determine how to gather embodied goals that can be achieved during a session.
Develop skills (grounding, centring, posture, container, expansion, etc.) to help regulate the autonomic nervous system.
Formulate questions and reasons that invite conscious awareness of bodily sensation.
Utilize different forms of attention to access interception.
Identify signs of down-regulation and up-regulation in the nervous system, as well as other states of arousal.
Articulate the difference between implicit and explicit timelines and the therapeutic impact.

Outline

Somatic Psychology: Bringing the Body into Therapy

Introduction to Somatic Psychology
The new science of interoception
How therapeutic change happens in the NOW
Let your client be their own expert
What is a “bottom up” approach?
Create kinesthetic awareness
Identify choice points for working with the nervous system
What to do when your clients can’t “think their way out”
Create harmony between parts of self
How to use metaphor to help clients regulate

Introception & The Insula: Mapping the Body & Nervous System in Therapy

Mapping the internal body and the story of the nervous system
What is the Insular Cortex and how can you engage it for healing trauma
How does information reach conscious awareness?
Countering the negativity bias in the brain
Breaking the loop of chronic stress
Explore the seat where the complex emotion and self-insight arises

What Helps Clients Regulate
9 Strategies for nervous system regulation

Grounding
Multiple Examples of Orienting
Centring
Posture
Containment and the Body as a Container for affect and life experiences
Expansion
Self Contact and the use of Character Structures and Developmental Repair Messages
Mirroring
Gentle Movement

Educate your Clients about the Autonomic Nervous System and how it Influences their Experiences

Introduction to the Window of Tolerance and Range of Resiliency Model
Create clear goals for somatic work using the Window of Tolerance Model
Observe Exercises that teach clear biological markers and interoceptive experiences of the Sympathetic, transitional states, and parasympathetic nervous system
Learn how to support and observe down regulation in your client’s body
Introduction to Implicit and Explicit Memory Research
Work with implicit and explicit timelines
Re-integrate clients to a sense of present time

Copyright : 29/03/2023

Somatic Therapy to Tame the Survival Response and Heal Implicit Trauma Memories

This course is intended to teach therapists somatic therapy techniques for working with the survival response through in-session demonstrations.

Program Information

Objectives

Integrate the use of imagery and felt sense of safety/feeling into clinical work.
Practice somatic exercises for the fight, flight, freeze response.
Integrate polyvagal theory into clinical observation and understanding of client’s body and trauma history.
Utilize different forms of attention to access interception.
Assess which part of the nervous system is active in a client.
Develop exercises the increase a client’s window of tolerance.
Formulate questions and reasons that invite conscious awareness of bodily sensation.

Outline

The importance of working with survival physiology

Neuroanatomy of a threat response and a thwarted threat response
How survival responses impact attachment
Harness the opportunity for change in “transitional states”
Learn how to support and observe up regulation in your client’s body

Apply Polyvagal Theory to track the nervous system

Learn the difference between how to support your clients moving through transitional states of survival physiology vs Biological Completion of Procedural Movements
Observe the difference between Voluntary vs Involuntary Movement
How predatory movement, building impulse and Agency helps clients heal
Learn how to engage how tension patterns can move the body toward self-protection and new learning that reconsolidates implicit memories of helplessness
Observe and learn step by step Interventions to work with the Sympathetic Nervous System and Active Defensive Responses

Learn about the fight response and healthy aggression

Skills to work with Animal Imagery to support a client’s connection to their own ability to Protect, Respond, and connect to Instinctual Power
Learn Push Hands Exercises
How the completion of Survival Responses relates your Client’s attachment style
How to support Speaking up
Exercises for boundary work with client
Skills to work with freeze physiology
Identify primary, secondary, and tertiary dissociation

Copyright : 31/03/2023

Somatic Therapy to Create Healthy Attachment: Strategies to Heal Development and Relational Trauma

This training in intended to teach therapists how to repair developmental attachment wounds and other relational trauma through somatic therapy techniques – taught via in-session demonstrations.

Program Information

Objectives

Formulate developmental statements that can assist in repairing attachment styles.
Practice somatic exercises that target developmental attachment trauma.
Identify strategies of how to use the relational field through social engagement and ventral vagal intervention.
Formulate I-statements that help clients put words to bodily sensations, implicit memories, and other biological processes.
Analyze how image repair with implicit memory of self as infants or children can help with attachment repair and ANS regulation.
Formulate strategies to increase the parasympathetic rest and digest response through relational support.
Identify ways to work with attachment and transgenerational patterns in the body and autonomous nervous system.

Outline

Strategies for Attachment and Relationship Repair

Definition of Soma
Focusing on Repair and not Pathology
Learn about how to support the Emotional Motor System and Physiology to change the intra-personal experience and after the inter-personal dynamics
Introduction to development and Interpersonal Neurobiology
Attachment from a biological perspective
Rupture and Repair Cycles and the formation of the Self and Relationships
Using developmental repatterining through structure
Creating new implicit memories to change developmental trauma imprints

Learn a Developmental Exercise using body-based skills (string shape exercise)

Part 1: Doing a developmental pattern differently from the inside out
Part 2: I statements vs it statements
Part 3: Developmental statements with relationship repair
Part 4: Differentiation from transgenerational trauma, working with survival physiology and emodied emotion

Enhancing your Client’s connection to Embodying Essential Qualities

Formulate questions to help client’s embody a sense of purpose
Explore Interocpetive experiences of essential self
Identify somatic archetypes
Explore how your client’s can use the hero’s journey to support healing in the body
Learn an Embodied archetype exercise

Increase your Clients sense of Capacity through supporting experience of a wide range of embodied emotion

Review of Research: “Facilitating adaptive emotion processing and somatic reprailisa via sustained interoception attention” (Price and Weng, 2021)
Interception and emotion
Learn how your clients will benefit by embodying emotion through organizing kindled survival physiology
Learn how to allow new attachment adaptation through relationship repair
Increase your clients ability to embody a wide range of emotion
Work with near death experiences and existential terror

Ventral Strategies

Using imagery, interoception, and movement for repair with implicit non-verbal memories from infancy and early life
Attachment repair exercises between therapist and client
Exercises to work with developmental disorganization
Using resonance in therapy?

Closing a session

The depth of transformation

Trauma is Broken Connection: Healing Strategies for Attachment Injury and Relational Trauma

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze the primary traits that exist in secure attachment relationships.
Demonstrate and practice at least 2 skills that assist clients in creating secure attachment bonds in relationships.
Demonstrate and practice 2 corrective experience interventions for Insecure Attachment that foster Secure Attachment.

Outline

SE and Attachment Work are a Match made in Heaven
Presencing the "Empathetic Other"; Healing Relational Trauma in Relationship
Learning Secure Attachment Skills that Deepen Intimacy and Restore Social Engagement
Avoidant Attachment: Surfacing from the Bubble of Isolation and Dismissiveness toward Connection and Nourishment in Relationships
Ambivalent Attachment: Shifting Complaining, Fear of Abandonment and Chronic Hopelessness to an Empowered Sense of Self, Noticing Caring Behaviors, Ability to Receive, and Enhancing Embodied Satisfaction
Disorganized Attachment: Shifting the experience that "Relationships are Dangerous" to Restoring Safety, Reducing Volatility and Emphasizing Self/Co-Regulation
The Healing Attachment Injury Work is Experiential; Designing Contradictory Corrective Connection experiences for Core Wounds
How Our Original Relational Template formed in Early Childhood Impacts Adult Relationships