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Enrollment is now open for the 3 Semester Online Intensive Course: Intersection of Shame & Trauma Combining SE & AST Model® for More Effective Client Outcomes

Taught by Caryn Scotto d’ Luzia, MA, SEP, Developer of AST Model of Holistic Shame Resolution®.

Enrollment is open for all 3 semesters, or you can purchase just one or two.

Full details can be found via http://re-embodylife.com/ast

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn Caryn’s incredibly life changing work.

Build Shame Resilience, Empower Your Clients, Resolve Inner Conflicts

AST Model^® for SEPS 3 Semester Online Intensive Course
In partnership with the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute

Highly-focused learning when the SE and AST Model®’s are combined for greater client outcomes.

Working effectively with collapsed motor programs
Understand how to avoid redundant neural shame looping
How to approach shame and trauma when there are coupled neuro-emotional states
Creating safety, attunement & introception inside the completion of protective defenses
Recognize the difference between defensive orienting vs exploratory orienting
Discover developmental shame and early trauma’s link to defenses
Apply the neurobiology of shame with clients using impulse over-ride

More details can be found at: http://re-embodylife.com/ast

C.G. Jung believed that psyche and body are one. Marion Woodman, with Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner, developed BodySoul Rhythms® from their common belief in our body’s wisdom and their many years of exploring the relationship between psyche and soma. In this talk I will discuss their pioneering contributions to the field, conscious embodiment in clinical practice, and how neuroscience supports a body-oriented approach to healing trauma. Through lecture, embodied experience, and discussion, participants will have an opportunity to experience the process of “coming home to the body”.

Brain, Mind and Body: Trauma, Neurobiology and the Healing Relationship Conference

April 28 — 29, 2017 London, Ontario Presentation

Conference Information: The University of Western Ontario Department of Psychiatry sponsors this seminar that will celebrate the work of the Harris-Woodman Chair in Psyche-Soma and related areas of progress. This conference will focus on the affective neurosciences, progress made in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and link body and mind research from molecular biology and neuroimaging to clinical interventions in several psychiatric disorders.

Presenters: Paul Frewen, PhD, C.Psych Colonel Rakesh Jetly, OMM, CD, MD, FRCPC Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD Margaret McKinnon, PhD, C. Psych Allan Schore, PhD Tina Stromsted, PhD, MFT, BC-DMT Ed Tick, PhD Bessel van der Kolk, MD Margaret Wilkinson, BA, SAP *

April 29 & 30, 2017

Focusing has been linked in over 50 research studies with positive outcomes in therapy including greater emotional regulation, more satisfying relationships, and increased self acceptance.

In the Focusing Training Program for Healing Professionals, you’ll discover an experiential, body-oriented process of self-awareness and emotional healing that you can immediately bring into your work with clients.

Create Better Therapeutic Relationships

Here’s What You’ll Learn:

a practical, step-by-step method for taking any problem or stuck situation and finding relief, insight, and new steps of action, so you feel bigger than your problems and in control of your life – and ways to help your clients do this too
a process that lets you help your clients be in touch with the very place in them with the potential to open up into flow, change, and new possibilities a facilitative language that enables you to be supportive of your clients – and yourself – without pushing (and so without bringing up resistance)
a sense of greater confidence and ease that you can be available for what your clients are bringing and at the same time able to guide them to be present and available to themselves

Join Lucinda Hayden for 5 Wednesdays, April 19 to May 17, 2017. 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Pacific Time. Course taught by Zoom, an online video conference platform. Cost: $395 through April 11, 2017. Free intro webinar available. 12 CE Units offered.

Find Out More: How Focusing Can Help You Help Your Clients

Level One is the starting point for our Certification as a Focusing Professional Training Program, which requires Levels One-Four be completed prior to entry.

Sex and Shame – A Workshop for Therapists and other Helping Professionals
with Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT and Bret Lyon, PhD, SEP, BCC

Saturday, March 25, 10am-6pm & Sunday, March 26, 10:30am-5:30pm

In Berkeley, just off I-80
$325 / Special price for interns

13 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
CAMFT Approved CE Provider #134393

Sexuality is a vital, defining part of our identity. We are at our most vulnerable when we experience sexual feelings—therefore we’re the most prone to feeling shame. We are subject to sexual shaming from early childhood, when we are most vulnerable to moral judgments from family and society—and to boundary violations from family members and those older than us. Entering our teenage years, we long to be attractive to others and try desperately to “be cool” and fit in. As adults, we seek a partner and try to balance the constraints of monogamy with sexual adventure. In our mature years, our ability to function sexually diminishes and our faces and bodies are no longer as we remember them.

In this workshop, we will offer tools you can use to help clients talk about, explore, and heal the sexual shame that can arise at any stage in the life cycle—and help them towards a life-affirming sexuality.

We will:
• Discover ways to help clients become aware of the many, often conflicting messages they received about body image and sexuality from family and society.
• Learn ways to help clients repair the disconnect between self and others—and between parts of the self—which has been created by shaming, inappropriate behavior, or abuse.
• Understand counter-shaming techniques and develop tools for couples to understand their shame triggers and communicate about taboo sexual topics.
• Work with the shame that can cause and result from affairs.
• Identify challenges in being a sexual minority in society and the layers of shame that can occur.
• Unfreeze shame and open life force in a grounded and embodied way, helping clients to access and safely explore their sexual energy.

TO REGISTER, please send full payment or a $100 deposit to:
Bret Lyon
830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94710
Please include your email and phone number.
We accept PayPal. For details, email Bret at Bret@HealingShame.com.

Space is limited.

For more information, call Sheila at 415-820-3974 or email Sheila@HealingShame.com.

You can also check out articles and two free 1 1/2-hour Healing Shame webinars on the Resources page of our website.
www.HealingShame.com

There are so many ways the demands of everyday life, the obligations we carry, and the needs, desires and expectations of others, make us lose touch with what we really want, feel and know inside, until our inner voice becomes barely a whisper. Have you ever wondered if you could stay in touch with a deep sense of your true self – your Inner Voice – in your everyday life, so that you can access it whenever you need to?

Psychologist Helene Brenner, Ph.D. developed her methods for accessing and listening to the inner self while being a mother and a busy professional with a full-time practice helping other busy people connect with their inner selves.

Join Helene for 5 Tuesdays, March 28 to May 9, 2017 (skip Apr 11 & 18). 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM Pacific Time. Course taught by Zoom, an online video conference platform. Cost: $195 through March 20, 2017. Free intro webinar available. CE Units offered. Discover How to Lean Into Your Inner Voice & Get The Support You Need

Are you or your clients going through a time of transition? Facing one or more big decisions? Troubled by past choices and grappling with regret? Decisions can be tough. And some decisions torment us. At times it seems like a decision is a battle between our head and our heart. But here’s a secret: An important decision should not be made by either the head or the heart.

In At the Crossroads, you’ll discover how to honor your whole self and handle the hard parts of big life decisions as you find your way forward! Learn for yourself, share your discoveries with your clients…

Join Ann Weiser Cornell for 5 Tuesdays, April 4 to May 23, 2017 (skip Apr 25, May 2 & 9). 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Pacific Time. Course taught by Zoom, an online video conference platform. Cost: $175 until March 27, 2017. Free intro webinar available. CE Units offered. Discover a New Way to Approach Big Life Decisions.

Melting the Shame Freeze – Using Somatic Techniques to Create Safety and Build Attunement
A workshop for therapists and other helping professionals
With Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT and Bret Lyon, PhD, SEP, BCC

Saturday, February 25, 10am-6pm & Sunday, February 26, 10:30am-5:30pm

In Berkeley, just off I-80

$325 full price / $295 with full payment by January 30
Special price for interns
13 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs
CAMFT Approved CE Provider #134393

Shame is an embodied belief that “Something is wrong with me.” Because shame exists in the body as well as in the mind, it is helpful for therapists to work with shame somatically. In this workshop, we will explore how to utilize somatic techniques to connect more quickly with the client and forge a strong therapeutic alliance.

We will:
• Focus on using breathing and grounding to resource the client, becoming more aware of our own breathing and expanding it in the process.
• Learn ways to help clients repair the disconnect between self and others—and between parts of the self—that have been created by shaming, inappropriate behavior or abuse.
• Explore how to keep our clients more present in the room with us and counter over- verbalization, dissociation and freezing.
• Learn techniques and theory from Wilhelm Reich (the father of Somatics), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing®), Ron Kurtz (Hakomi) and Eugene Gendlin (Focusing).

For more information, call Sheila at 415-820-3974 or email Sheila@HealingShame.com.

You can also check out articles and two free 1 1/2-hour Healing Shame webinars on the Resources page of our website.

www.HealingShame.com

The Foundation for Human Enrichment –
The Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute Presents:

Upcoming Group Case Consult and SE Demos, Master Classes, and other events with Dr. Peter A. Levine

February 18, 2017

Group Case Consultation and Live SE Demos
Los Angeles, CA (USA)
with Peter Levine, PhD
Two consult hours available for training participants.
Participants have the option of attending live in Los Angeles, CA, or tuning in remotely via live video stream. Select at registration.
Prerequisite: This event is open to SE training participants and practitioners of Somatic Experiencing.

March 4, 2017

Group Case Consultation and Live SE Demos
Scottsdale, AZ (USA)
with Peter Levine, PhD
Two consult hours available for training participants.
Participants have the option of attending live in Scottsdale, AZ, or tuning in remotely via live video stream. Select at registration.
Prerequisite: This event is open to SE training participants and practitioners of Somatic Experiencing.

March 11, 2017

Group Case Consultation and Live SE Demos
San Diego, CA (USA)
with Peter Levine, PhD
Two consult hours available for training participants.
Participants have the option of attending live in San Diego, CA, or tuning in remotely via live video stream. Select at registration.
Prerequisite: This event is open to SE training participants and practitioners of Somatic Experiencing.

March 12-15, 2017

SE Master Class: Sexual Trauma: Healing the Sacred Wound
San Diego, CA (USA)
with Peter Levine, PhD
19 CE credits available through ANCC, APA, ASWB, BRN, LPC & Mental Health Counselors – Licensed Professional Counselors, MFTs – Marriage and Family Therapists
Prerequisite: Completion of SE Intermediate I.

April 24-27, 2017 – Save the dates! Registration coming soon!

SE Master Class: Chronic Pain and Syndromes
Corte Madera, CA (USA)
with Peter Levine, PhD
CE credits pending through ANCC, APA, ASWB, BRN, LPC & Mental Health Counselors – Licensed Professional Counselors, MFTs – Marriage and Family Therapists
Prerequisite: Completion of SE Intermediate I.

Demos needed for all SE Trauma Institute sponsored events with Dr. Levine. Email membership@traumahealing.org for details on client submission.

View and register for all upcoming events with Dr. Levine

An Introduction to NARM™ – Online Webinar

The NeuroAffective Relational Model™ (NARM) is a powerful theoretical and clinical model for navigating the complexities of relational, developmental, and attachment trauma. NARM is an integrative approach that offers a coherent model for working with developmental trauma, and works with the link between psychological issues and the body. It is a both a psychodynamic and nervous system/somatically-based approach designed to help build clients’ capacity for self-regulation and interpersonal connection.

The following NARM Practitioner Trainings will begin in 2017-2018 in the following cities: Columbus, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Berkeley, California; Austin, Texas; Durham, North Carolina; and Maui, Hawaii. We also have many NARM trainings beginning in Europe.

NARM Introductory Online Webinar

This 2-hr online webinar will offer an overview of developmental trauma from a NARM perspective. Understanding and being able to work with developmental dynamics is critical for helping our clients in their healing process. We will look at how clients’ life experiences present themselves in the context of a complex, psychobiologically-driven relational framework that is often largely unconscious. This framework, laid down by our early attachment experiences, shapes our development, who we are in the world (our self), and how we relate to others. When clients are having difficulty shifting out of patterns of dysregulation, these implicit dynamics are at play and must be addressed. The NARM approach weaves together a somatic or body-based (bottom-up) process while simultaneously working with clients’ identity and relational dynamics (top-down).

Webinar Format:

– Overview of NARM’s theoretical and clinical approach to developmental trauma
– Lecture and experiential exercises on each of the five adaptive survival styles
– Video demonstrations of Dr. Laurence Heller using the NARM approach
– Orientation to the 2-year NARM Practitioner Training Program
– Q&As and Discussion

Cost: $35

*** NARM Training Discount: By attending this Intro workshop, you are eligible for a $35 discount when you complete the first NARM module in 2017 – for more information, contact the local NARM Coordinator in the city you are interested in attending the training.

If you have any further questions, contact: bradkammer@body-mindtherapy.com

We are pleased to announce the 2017 International Breema Week, a week of introductory classes, mini-sessions, and events taking place around the world.

Classes and Events at the Breema Center
6076 Claremont Ave
Oakland Ca.94618
510-428-0937

Breema: The Art of Being Present (Breema class with Jon Schreiber, Director)
Saturday, January 7, 10:00 – 11:30 AM

Breema Bodywork and Principles: Body Comfortable (Breema class)
Monday, January 9, 7 – 8:30 PM

The Gateway to Being Present: Self-Breema Class
Wednesday, January 11, 6:00 – 7:00 PM

The Gateway to Being Present: Self-Breema Class
Friday, January 13, 5:30 – 6:15 PM

Breema: The Art of Being Present (Breema class with Jon Schreiber, Director)
Saturday, January 14, 10:00 – 11:30 AM

Classes and events offered by Breema Instructors worldwide
(All times are local times.)

Breema in Hamburg, Deutschland
Samstag, 7. Januar, 15:00 – 18:00

Breema class and free mini-sessions in Port Townsend, WA
January 7, 11 AM- 1:30 PM and 3 – 5 PM
(There is a charge for part of this event.)

Breema für Geübte in St.Radegund/Graz, Austria
Sonntag, 8. Jänner, 2:00 – 5:00 PM

Experience Breema in San Francisco, CA
Sunday, January 8, 2:00 – 4:30 PM
(This event is free.)

Breema in Graz, Austria
Donnerstag, 12. Jänner, 17:00 – 20:00

Breema in Morgan Hill, CA
Thursday, January 12, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
(This event is free.)

Community Breema at the Breema Clinic in Oakland, CA
Friday, January 13, 3:00 – 5:00 PM

Free Self-Breema Class and Mini sessions in Seattle, WA
Friday, January 13, 6:00 – 7:30 PM
(This event is free.)

Breema in Eggersdorf, Austria
Samstag, 14. Jänner, 10:00 – 17:00

Introduction to Breema in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Saturday, January 14, 10:00 AM – 12:00 noon

Breema Workshop in Seattle, WA
Saturday, January 14, 2:00 – 5:00 PM

Breema Bodywork®, Self-Breema Exercises®, and The Nine Principles of Harmony are natural expressions of the unifying principle of Existence.

They offer a practical means of becoming present, a commonsense approach to physical, mental, and emotional health, and a new way of learning that leads to increased understanding of ourselves and a deepening sense of fulfillment, meaning, and purpose.

Breema® is a simple, natural form of touch and body movement supported by universal principles. The aim of Breema is to bring us to a tangible experience of presence that becomes our foundation for a new dimension of health, consciousness, and self-understanding.

Breema provides a unique approach to experiencing body-mind connection. It offers a profound understanding of the underlying unity of all life that is expressed in a dynamic and practical philosophy, the key to which is found in the Nine Principles of Harmony. The practice of Self-Breema exercises and Breema bodywork is a living expression of that philosophy through the vehicle of the body.

The nonjudgmental atmosphere created by our use of the Principles is deeply nourishing and enables us to let go of conditioned patterns, so that we can connect to new and more natural ways of moving, thinking, and feeling. Breema’s Principles can be integrated and applied in any profession and in all activities of daily life, helping us bring greater harmony to all our relationships.

The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) for Healing Attachment, Relational and Developmental Trauma

The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is an advanced clinical training for mental health and somatic practitioners who work with developmental trauma. NARM addresses relational and attachment trauma by working with early, unconscious patterns of disconnection that deeply affect our identity, emotions, physiology, behavior and relationships. Integrating a psychodynamic and body centered approach, NARM™ offers a comprehensive theoretical and clinical model for working with complex trauma.

Working relationally in the present moment, NARM draws on psychodynamic models, such as attachment and object relations theory, and somatic models in addressing the link between psychological issues and the body. Grounded in mindfulness and contemplative spiritual practices, NARM supports a non-western orientation to the nature of the Self. Learning how to work simultaneously with these diverse elements is a radical shift that has profound clinical implications for healing complex trauma.

For more information on NARM Practitioner Trainings:
In North America: https://www.body-mindtherapy.com/narm/
International: http://drlaurenceheller.com

An Introduction to NARM™ – Online Webinar

NARM Introductory Online Webinar

Webinar Format:

Cost: $35

If you have any further questions, contact: bradkammer@body-mindtherapy.com

Columbus, Ohio:
DEVELOPMENTAL SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY:
Integrating Movement as Diagnosis and Treatment within Therapy
Lecture, Movement Exploration, Therapy Demonstration
with Ruella Frank, Ph.D.
May 19-21, 2017, Friday 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Saturday 9:30 am – 5:00 pm, Sunday 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language in itself that conveys desires, intentions and emotions. This early life in motion serves as the root of ongoing nonverbal interaction and later verbal expression. These expressive movements acquired in the company of significant others, become the tacit core of adult behavior in everyday experience.

Ruella Frank will explore the intricate relational moves of embodied intersubjectivity between parent and baby and it’s functional similarity to experiences unfolding within the patient-therapist relationship — with children, couples and individual adults. Put into practice, her work can expand and reorient the practitioner’s perception of human movement, enabling patient and psychotherapist together to make surprising discoveries about their interactions.

For more information contact David R. Dagg-Murry, 614-568-3244, e-mail: dspworkshop2017@gmail.com
For more information and registration visit http://tinyurl.com/DSP-Columbus-Ohio

New York City:
INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPMENTAL SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
with Ruella Frank, Ph.D.
January 21-22, 2017, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm each day

Ongoing nonverbal interactions with our primary caregivers during the first year of life set a relational foundation that is apparent both in the everyday life of the adult and in psychotherapy. Even though our adult postural attitudes, gestures, gait and breathing patterns have changed over time, the foundations established in our first year remain readily observable and available. Attending to these patterns within psychotherapy is especially powerful.

During this workshop, participants learn how their relational styles originated through affective/movement patterns within the infant/caregiver dyad. Through movement, participants will explore these intrinsic yet unaware primary patterns which are part of present experiences and influence daily life. We then apply this understanding to the here-and-now of the client/therapist dyad.

For more information and registration contact Ruella Frank at ruellafrank@gmail.com, or visit http://www.somaticstudies.com

HEALING SHAME: A Workshop for Therapists and Other Helping Professionals
With Sheila Rubin LMFT, RDT/BCT, Drama Therapist & Bret Lyon PhD, SEP, BCC

Saturday, January 28, 10am-6pm & Sunday, January 29, 10:30am-5:30pm

In Berkeley, just off the I-80

$325 full price / $295 with full payment by December 23
Special price for interns
13 CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs (PCE #4456)

This workshop provides essential, basic knowledge of how to work with shame. You will learn what shame is and how it is created, and how to help your clients recognize shame, work through it and move on. We will discuss how to become more sensitive to the shaming often implicit in the therapy situation and how to counter shame in therapy. You will learn to help clients separate feelings of shame from other emotions. And you’ll learn how to take clients back to early shaming situations and reverse the outcome, helping clients move their energy powerfully outward rather than turn it against themselves.

TO REGISTER, please send full payment or a $100 deposit to:
Sheila Rubin
830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94710

Please include your email and phone number.
We accept PayPal. For details, email Bret at Bret@HealingShame.com.
Space is limited.

For more information, call Sheila at 510-420-1441 or email Sheila@HealingShame.com.

You can also check out two free 1 1/2-hour Healing Shame webinars available on the Resources page.

www.HealingShame.com

by Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT

How do you deal with profound disappointment? With things not going the way you wanted—or expected?

How do you deal with disruption/change/shock/disorientation/feeling like the bottom just fell out and you don’t know which end is up? Several clients have spoken lately of feeling confounded: “…Like being in the middle of deep water, so I can’t touch down anywhere, and I don’t know which way land is. There’s nothing to hold onto. I’m disoriented and don’t know what to do—but I can’t stay where I am and have to do something.”

We are living in interesting times. Recently we had an election that is likely to be affecting all of us in a big way. Some people are hopeful. Some are feeling profoundly shocked or disappointed. Some are struggling with friends and family who don’t share their perspective; they feel angry and are wondering how to deal with it.

One client speaks about her family members as dancing on the edge of a progressive pin, trying to figure out who to blame when there is no right action. Some teens and adults are marching to protest and stand up for dignity, showing their feelings, opinions. How could that go against family values? But sometimes it does. How can we have a deeper discussion beyond politics and into real issues? On several therapy listservs there are therapists asking each other how to support their clients who are suddenly dealing with an increase in hate, oppression, violence in their school or community—somehow it is in fashion to put down people who are different. Even in California, bullying has increased in some schools. I read in the paper that Gavin Newsom declared Bay Area schools to be bully-free zones with zero tolerance for bullying, whatever the reason.

I tell my clients about the paradox: If we see the others as haters, and we “hate the haters,” don’t we become haters too? In this paradox there may be no familiar or right answer. But if we hate the others we all become enemies.

After the election, clients came in in different stages of frozenness or shock. And my work with them was to help them find their way forward or find their way to acknowledging the shame of feeling less than and thinking that something was going to happen that didn’t happen.

When we don’t get what we want, there can be grief. Familiar stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.

We may also respond with any or all of the four responses to shame:

Attack Self
For example: Shaming yourself for not making sure your friends went to vote or not knowing how to take helpful action yet.
Attack Others
Find the bad guy. When we blame or shame others, there is such a possibility of derision and a breaking down of family or community. This is where bullying and aggressiveness comes from.
Denial
“It doesn’t matter anyway.”
Withdraw
Some people just want to withdraw and not be political, not be part of the conversation, not be part of what’s going on. That is a common reaction to shame.

How do you hold yourself when you’re going through emotional turmoil? How do you not just survive but make it a meaningful experience?

There is the possibility of honoring grief, honoring what is lost, by finding a way, through creative expression, to build something to remember what has been lost. Rather than using anger to harm ourselves or try to destroy the other person or idea, we find a way to deal with our grief or shame that can go into a poem or song or work of art. Then there’s the possibility of hope.

The Jungian archetype of the shadow is being unleashed in these times of turmoil. This is the part of the psyche that is usually hidden or repressed, or denied. It’s like the tarot card of The Tower, where everything is turned upside down.

This is a time of shadow when maybe we don’t know darkness from light, right from wrong. Our careful job is to find our way through. Shame and the shadow? Shame is the shadow, the parts of ourselves we want no one to see. Shadow often gets projected onto others in order to try to ignore it or not deal with it.

My students and clients reminded me that the election results fell on the anniversary of Krystallnacht, “Crystal Night”—also referred to as “Night of Broken Glass”—on November 9 & 10 in 1938, when the Nazis started going after the Jews, torching homes, burning synagogues and killing close to 100 people. Before anyone in the world could even imagine what would happen. It was the beginning of something profoundly dark. Some of my clients, whose ancestors went through that, are reliving the terror of that time as they fear for their families now. After I listen with great care, I’m reminding them that there is a difference this time. The difference is that our eyes are open now. And we can make a difference.

What can we do? We can put love first, put family first.

And we can use the idea of healthy shame to help us get through, take us to a place of seeing the big picture. What can we do differently to express our views more clearly? Maybe, at some point, have more humor about the situation. (But maybe not yet!) If we see someone being bullied or attacked, can we say something and not turn away? When we see someone hurting can we show up? Can we have compassion? Compassion is counter-shaming, it is connecting. Compassion is love in action. The best part of compassion is being able to love ourselves and talk kindly to ourselves and others whom we maybe don’t understand. If we can do that, can we extend that compassion to a relative who is different? Can we still love them? I hope so!

One way to move beyond these reactions to shame is to work with what is coming up with through creativity—which could take the form of a poem, a creative gesture… Ultimately it’s about choosing a creative action rather than a destructive action.

On the day after the election, when many of us were in shock, my neighbor asked me how I was doing and if I wanted to hear something hopeful. Then he played me something his granddaughter had posted on YouTube. She was saying, “Well, if you’re down, you just pick yourself up, and then you try it again and you get stronger.” It was inspiring to hear the strength in her young voice!

Wishing all of us some light to see in the darkness.

This article originally appeared on www.SheilaRubin.com.

We’ll be giving an Introduction to the Enneagram Workshop in Portland, Oregon
on 02/25 or 02/26 (two sessions) via Kami Huck, who has taken the workshop in MA.

Cost $150 (includes lunch prepared by Kami :)) 10am-5:30pm

Instructors: Andy Hahn and Joni Beckett

Payment will be due by January 1, 2017

Please RSVP to Kami Huck (kamip@comcast.net) by December 5, 2016, and she’ll send you more information.

with Mariana Caplan, PhD, MFT, SEP, RYT-500

This training is open to all new or seasoned professionals in the mental health, Somatic Experiencing, and yoga fields. Only SEPs will receive credits toward the Post-Advanced SEP Certificate.

Somatic Experiencing® is at the cutting edge of trauma treatment and embodiment practices worldwide. Yoga is scientifically and anecdotally proven almost universally to be beneficial for all levels of physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being at all ages and stages of life. This training offers a theoretical and experiential exploration of how blending these two highly complementary modalities supports deep unwinding of trauma in the body, personal and relational healing, self-awareness, and thriving.

This workshop will introduce students—novice through advanced—to the foundational principles of Somatic Experiencing® through explanation, demonstrations, and partner work. We will then discover how these practices blend seamlessly with yoga, including asana/postures, breathwork, and meditation, and visualization. Through this highly experiential immersion, students will:

• Understand and review core practices of Somatic Experiencing including resourcing, titration, and pendulation
• Discover how to bring core practices of Somatic Experiencing into yoga practice and teaching in order to receive and offer deeper psycho-somatic benefits
• Explore the emotional level of yoga asana and discover how to utilize yoga practice to process trauma
• Learn to use yogic practices to enhance therapeutic work with clients
• How Tantric yoga philosophy and practice seamlessly links yoga and Somatic Experiencing

The immersion can be taken in-person or at a distance from anywhere throughout the world. There will be a 3-day intensive offered in-person in Marin County, CA, or at a distance (via video), as well as (two) 3-hour webinar sessions both before and after to prepare and to integrate the core course content and allow ample time for questions and dialogue.

About Mariana Caplan, PhD, MFT, SEP, RYT-500
Mariana Caplan is a psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and the author of seven books in the fields of psychology and spirituality, including the upcoming Yoga & Psyche (Sounds True, 2018). She has been a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner since 2009, and has been integrating this body of work with the fields of yoga and psychotherapy since then. More information at www.realspirituality.com.

Learn More
The Evolution of the Yoga & Psyche™ program
Mariana Caplan and Peter Levine on Somatic Experiencing
The Yoga & Psyche Immersion learning experience

Qualifies for 30 Post-Advanced SEP Certificate credit hours. CEs pending approval. Contact Elizabeth Steed Blevins at membership@traumahealing.org with questions.

Training Dates

Pre-Training Webinar
April 5, 2017
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM PST

Training
Corte Madera, CA
April 21 – 23, 2017
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM PST Daily

Post-Training Webinar
May 3, 2017
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM PST

*webinars and live training will be recorded if you are unable to attend live
REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT BY CLICKING HERE

Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, created by Ruella Frank, Ph.D., is a relational and movement-oriented approach to psychotherapy within a Gestalt therapy framework.

Inspired by the work of developmental psychologists and somatic practitioners, Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy is a template for understanding and working with early psychophysical blocks as they emerge in the here-and-now of therapy. Attending to movement patterns is particularly powerful when guided by contemporary developmental theory.

Four Training Modules, two per year in fall and spring, five full days and one half day per module.
Further information and to apply contact Ruella Frank at ruellafrank@gmail.com, or visit http://www.somaticstudies.com

You are invited to a FREE Performance Night!

Embodied Life Story Workshop Performancehttp://usabp.org/embodied-life-story-performance/
Directed by Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT

Thursday, December 8, 7pm

Location:

Sheila Rubin’s Berkeley Studio
830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94710

What is the story that is trying to live through you?

It is a sacred act to tell a life story. It is a sacred act to witness one.

These solo performances are filled with heart and passion and the depth of personal story. Group members take part in a 10-week journey of improvisation, embodied storytelling, writing, drama therapy and the seven levels of sacred witnessing, and then take the next step in being witnessed by a heart-centered audience.

Solo performances are 10-20 minutes each with witnessing from the audience.

Attending an Embodied Life Story performance is a great way to experience this powerful work in case you might be interested in attending a future workshop.

Bring your heart! Performance is free.

For more information, call Sheila at 415-820-3974 or visit www.SheilaRubin.com

New York City:

OPEN WORKSHOP: SELF IN MOTION

A radical phenomenological approach to Gestalt theory
with Ruella Frank, Ph.D.
July 10-13, 2017
For English and Spanish speakers.

As a phenomenological methodology, Gestalt therapy is concerned with an understanding of how we live the situation we are living: how to analyze, describe and know it. In this training, participants will learn the basic principles of Gestalt therapy theory by investigating the dynamics of movement. In breaking down movement process to its most basic
elements, we will explore ideas of self, creative adjusting, contacting, modalities of contacting, etc. That is, by focusing on MOVING– tactility (touch), kinesthesia (the feel of ourselves moving), and kinetics (movement itself), we will learn the essentials of how we experience ourselves with an other.

For more information and to register contact Centro de Terapia y Psicología,(+34) 91 416 52 70,
ctpinforma@centrodeterapiaypsicologia.es, or visit http://www.somaticstudies.com

A developmental and movement oriented approach to Psychotherapy
A 2-day workshop led by Ruella Frank
February 24-25, 2017, Friday 9:30 am – 5:00 pm, Saturday 9:30 am – 4:00 pm

In this 2-day workshop, Dr Ruella Frank will explore the intricate relational moves of embodied intersubjectivity that form a basis of communication, initially between parent and baby but then throughout life. The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language that conveys our most pressing desires, intentions and emotions. These expressive movements, acquired in the company of significant others, go on to become the tacit core of adult behaviour in everyday experience and, of course, in the psychotherapy relationship too. It is on the details of this somatic expression of affect and relational intent that we will focus during the workshop, developing our understanding of the meaning and emotional significance of these somatic communications and skills in applying those insights to the therapy work.

For more information and registration visit http://www.confer.uk.com/intersubjectivity.html

Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, created by Ruella Frank, Ph.D., is a relational and movement-oriented approach to psychotherapy within a Gestalt therapy framework.

New York City:
INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPMENTAL SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
with Ruella Frank, Ph.D.
January 21-22, 2017, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm each day

For more information and registration contact Ruella Frank at ruellafrank@gmail.com, or visit http://www.somaticstudies.com

Sat, Nov 12, 2016 (10:00AM – 5:00PM) TO
Sun, Nov 13, 2016 (10:00AM – 2:00PM)
Location: 131 West 24th St., 7th Fl, New York, NY 10011
Fee: $195
CEUs: 9*

Sexuality—Wilhelm Reich’s revolutionary ideas about the implicit freedom in human sexuality were a force in the social change of the last 50 years. Taking off from the premises of psychoanalytic thinking of the time, he, and following him Al Lowen, propounded a theory of sexuality as a central expression of each person’s uniqueness. They saw sexuality as the primal force that when given full expression broke through the life-limiting conventions of social repression.

Since that time of heady revolutionary fervor in the promotion of a sex-positive perspective in psychotherapy and in society, we have added much to our understanding of the complexity of human sexuality. Adding in concepts from attachment theory, from gender-studies, from modern theories about relationships we have broadened and deepened our view of the functions and characteristics of sexuality. In Modern Bioenergetics we see the deep connection of pleasure and benevolence in the lived experience of sexuality. In this workshop we will explore these new perspectives from philosophical, theoretical and clinical perspectives. The workshop will have didactic, experiential and clinical demonstration/discussion components. It is suitable for clinicians with experience in a somatopsychic psychotherapy modality, and those wishing to know more about this approach.

For more information, contact Dr. Scott Baum.

Wed, Nov 09, 2016 (8:30PM – 10:15PM)
Location: 131 West 24th St., 7th Fl, New York, NY 10011
Fee: $10; Members Free
CEUs: 1.75*

Sexuality—Wilhelm Reich and Alexander Lowen saw human sexuality as the essential and irreducible expression of human fulfillment and freedom. Finding the vital flow of passion and self-expression in one’s sexuality were the bedrock experiences of the realized self. In the many years since the first, revolutionary, propositions in Bioenergetic Analysis, we have added many layers of complexity and both broadened and deepened our understanding of human sexuality and its expression. This seminar will trace the development of this force in somatopsychic psychotherapy theory and practice.

For more information, contact Dr. Scott Baum @ docsbpsych@aol.com

Master Classes and Other Upcoming Events with Dr. Peter A. Levine

November 6, 2016
Group Case Consultation and Live SE Demos
Portland, OR (USA)
with Peter Levine, PhD
Two consult hours available for training participants.
Participants have the option of attending live in Portland, OR, or tuning in remotely via live video stream. Select at registration.
Prerequisite: This event is open to SE training participants and practitioners of Somatic Experiencing.

February 18, 2017
Group Case Consultation and Live SE Demos
Los Angeles, CA (USA)
with Peter Levine, PhD
Two consult hours available for training participants.
Participants have the option of attending live in Los Angeles, CA, or tuning in remotely via live video stream. Select at registration.
Prerequisite: This event is open to SE training participants and practitioners of Somatic Experiencing.

March 11, 2017
Group Case Consultation and Live SE Demos
San Diego, CA (USA)
with Peter Levine, PhD
Two consult hours available for training participants.
Participants have the option of attending live in San Diego, CA, or tuning in remotely via live video stream. Select at registration.
Prerequisite: This event is open to SE training participants and practitioners of Somatic Experiencing.

March 12-15, 2017
SE Master Class: Sexual Trauma: Healing the Sacred Wound
San Diego, CA (USA)
with Peter Levine, PhD
19 CE credits available: ANCC, APA, ASWB, BRN, LPC & Mental Health Counselor – Licensed Professional Counselors and MFT – Marriage and Family Therapists through Commonwealth Educational Seminars
Prerequisite: Completion of SE Intermediate I.

Demos needed for all SE Trauma Institute sponsored events with Dr. Levine. Email membership@traumahealing.org for details on client submission.

View and register for all upcoming events with Dr. Levine

News from the SE Trauma Institute

Interested in Learning More?

Interested in hosting a full day Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing at your organization? Contact Tatiana Jafari at tjafari@traumahealing.org for more details.

Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing, November 18, 2016
Attending this online introductory SE workshop will provide you with a basic theoretical overview of the SE model and how it complements and augments traditional approaches to working with trauma. In this sense, you should be expected to gain an introductory understanding of the SE theoretical model, how this SE model fits with and expands current trauma treatment, and how attending the SE Professional Training may support your interest in learning more effective ways to treat your clients and patients. This webinar is designed for professionals who work with the effects of trauma including: mental and medical health professionals, body workers, first responders, educators, clergy, and other professionals in the healing arts. Learn helpful information to benefit your practice.

Several live introductory workshops have been scheduled in the US and internationally. Visit our training and events schedule to see if one has been scheduled in your area!

Foundation for Human Enrichment –
The Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute Presents:

This introductory SE workshop is designed for professionals who work with the effects of trauma including: social workers, mental and medical health professionals, body workers, first responders, educators, clergy, and other professionals in the healing arts. Participants will learn about the basic principles and theory of the SE model as well as more about the SE Professional Training. Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) psychobiological trauma resolution, developed Peter A. Levine, PhD, author of the bestseller, “Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma,” is a potent approach to resolving the symptoms of trauma and chronic stress.

Online

November 18, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Mountain
with Ellen Byrne, LMT, SEP

December 16, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Mountain
with Ellen Byrne, LMT, SEP

Live
The SE Trauma Institute now offers CEs for live Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing workshops! For more information select the workshop in your area.

November 12, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – Stamford, CT
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Morning Session)
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM (Full Day Session)
with Maureen Gallagher, PhD, SEP, RCST

December 9, 2016: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – Chicago, IL
9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Central
with Francine Kelley, LCPC, E-RYT, SEP

January 21, 2017: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing – St. Paul, MN
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Central
with Francine Kelley, LCPC, E-RYT, SEP

Build Shame Resilience, Empower Your Clients, Resolve Inner Conflicts

More details can be found at: http://re-embodylife.com/ast

Brain, Mind and Body: Trauma, Neurobiology and the Healing Relationship Conference

April 28 — 29, 2017 London, Ontario Presentation

Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, created by Ruella Frank, Ph.D., is a relational and movement-oriented approach to psychotherapy within a Gestalt therapy framework.

You are invited to a FREE Performance Night!

Embodied Life Story Workshop Performancehttp://usabp.org/embodied-life-story-performance/ Directed by Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT

Thursday, December 8, 7pm

Sheila Rubin’s Berkeley Studio 830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94710

New York City:

OPEN WORKSHOP: SELF IN MOTION

Embodied Life Story Workshop Performancehttp://usabp.org/embodied-life-story-performance/
Directed by Sheila Rubin, LMFT, RDT/BCT

Sheila Rubin’s Berkeley Studio
830 Bancroft Way, Suite 102, Berkeley, CA 94710