October 27-29, 2018

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

A three-day training workshop, open to mental and physical health professionals as well as to those who wish to deepen their own professional development through a body- centered modality. These workshops teach how to begin working with clients using the principles of body-psychotherapy.

August 31 – September 4, 2018, London, England

Open to practitioners who work with people to promote personal growth and healing, and to those who wish to deepen their own personal development through a body-centered modality.
This intensive workshop will blend didactic and experiential learning. Participants will have the opportunity to learn the basic concepts underpinning mind-body therapeutic and personal growth work, and experientially learn how the application of these concepts can deepen their own embodiment and that of their clients.

We introduce basic concepts in Radix body-centered work, discuss therapeutic goals in body-psychotherapy. This workshop is the basis for further modules in the training program.

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This workshop is the first in a series of training modules. Future training modules will focus on specific content areas such as affective regulation, eye-work, and containment. The modules can be taken by themselves, or can lead to certification as a Radix Practitioner. For the Certification Program, the modular structure of the training gives flexibility as to when a trainee enters the program, begins their individual experiential work, and begins working with students or clients of their own.

For more information see the Radix Institute website.

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Over the past eight years, SPT magazine has carved a literary “path” allowing writers to network with a global audience of “like minded” practitioners.

This issue brings our path into newly discovered realms including interviews honoring colleagues who are receiving prestigious awards and columns highlighting upcoming conferences for the USABP, the EABP, and APPPAH, as well as reviews of ‘hot-off-the-press’ publications and insightful author reflections.

Each article honors a path forged by persistence and perseverance, by creativity and ingenuity. The authors whose books we reviewed, the award winners we interviewed, the reflections writers shared about their process highlight pathways that were formed one step at a time.

We invite you to read our articles and to respond to our authors. We write from a place of experience and curiosity, and we write to engage others in conversations. Each author offers an email address at the end of the article, and we have a general email option: Nancy@NancyEichhorn.com where you can share your thoughts and we’ll pass them on to the authors.

We’re grateful for your readership and look forward to providing quality articles and reviews, personal and poignant author reflections, and more on our website: www.SomaticPsychotherapyToday.com

Nancy Eichhorn, PhD Founding Editor-in-Chief

Finding Resiliency: Regulating Trauma’s Grasp

Teacher(s): Sakti Rose
Date: 5 Mondays: January 22 – February 19, 2018; 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Community Meditation Center
Cost: $125 – 200 sliding scale. Code SR1C18.
Register: OPEN-Register Here
Details:

Traumatic events can leave physiological and emotional scars that alter neurological structures and functions, which in turn can inhibit our progress on the path of awakening. In this class series, we will develop a body of skills that we can use to recognize and reduce the painful effects of trauma and thereby free up energy for meditation. Together, we will explore healing practices to help bring deeper meaning, connection, and freedom to our lives and practice.

This 5-week class is designed for meditators who have encountered barriers in their meditative experience and are unsure as to why.

Both new and experienced meditators are welcome.

Teachings are appropriate for the general public as well as health care professionals. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this class series when working with clients. See below for more information, including attendance requirements.

February 28 – March 4, 2018
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

A 5-day training workshop presenting the theory of Wilhelm Reich and Charles Kelley, and the basic concepts of the Radix approach: Pulsation, Segments, Armoring and Counter-pulsation, Contact, Grounding, Centering, Attachment, Boundaries and Containment.

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In the early 1920’s Wilhelm Reich, along with analysts Groddeck and Ferenczi , pioneered working with the body-mind for effective therapy and personal growth outcomes. Radix, developed by Erica and Charles Kelley in the 1970’s, continued and developed this work, especially emphasizing the self regulatory nature of the life force and the significance of the eyes in human psychology. More recently, neuroscientists (van der Kolk, Schore) and developmental psychologists (Tronick, Trevarthen, Beeby) have recognized the significance of early bodily experience for later healthy holistic functioning, and in particular the non-verbal nature of this experience.

The Radix Institute is offering a five-day training workshop, open to those who work with people to promote personal growth and healing, as well as to those who wish to deepen their own personal growth through a body-centered modality.  This workshop (Module 1) presents an overview of the theory, and is the basis for further modules in the training program.

CE credit for Module 1 is sponsored by Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES). The training workshop offers 30 credits of Continuing Education to social workers, psychologists, licensed mental health counselors, licensed professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists.

Contact The Radix institute for further information.

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This workshop is the first in a series of training modules. Future training modules will focus on specific content areas such as affective regulation, eye-work, and containment. The modules can be taken by themselves, or can lead to certification as a Radix Practitioner. For the Certification Program, the modular structure of the training gives flexibility as to when a trainee enters the program, begins their individual experiential work, and begins working with students or clients of their own.

For more information see the Radix Institute website.

In a review of the the book “The Awakening Body” by Reginald Ray

I came across the term “somatic spirituality.” What is somatic spirituality? According to Ray, it
“involves tuning in to the vast interior world of wakefulness, freedom, and joy that lies just beneath the
surface, in our body.” He explains that the body is capable of an awareness beyond what our conscious
mind can achieve, that our bodies are aware in ways that our minds are not. The consciousness of our
bodies transcends that of the mind. Perhaps it is ironic that the word “mindful” is most commonly
understood as meaning present and aware. It is our bodies that are “mindful” in a way our logical
minds cannot be. Our logical mind judges, rationalizes, and worries about the future, whereas our
bodies experience directly, unimpeded by conscious bias and prejudice. And direct experience,
especially to Buddhists, equals awareness, which facilitates enlightenment, or “spiritual” awakening.

How can tuning in to the body help us emotionally? Tuning in to the body helps us access sensations,
emotions, and information unavailable to the logical mind. The body is a warehouse of wisdom.
Somatic therapies such as body-centered psychotherapy help clients gain precious insight by listening
to our “body-talk.” In the words of Reginald Ray, “Until our emotional blockages from trauma of any
kind are known directly within our somatic awareness, no actual psychological transformation is
possible.” Trauma, in this sense, could mean an angry exchange, an unmet need, as well as violent
abuse. Overwhelming pain or even mild irritation often bypasses our mind and lodges in our bodies. A
liver can “own” anger to spare the conscience. A sacrum can hold pain to spare the heart. As a body-
centered psychotherapist I will often facilitate a dialogue with the liver or sacrum (or toe or throat or
inner child), and attend to its (their) needs. Many times just listening brings clarity and relief. The
client may gain healing insight, and/or benefit from physiological changes/energetic shifts. By attuning
to and listening to our bodies, we can viscerally know ourselves and begin the process of healing.
Some might call that somatic spirituality.

Nancy Paul, MA, LMT is available to listen and help you at Lotus Center in Chicago! She accepts
cash clients on a sliding scale and can accept clients with BCBS PPO or Blue Choice PPO insurance on an in-network basis. Other insurance plans will use out-of-network benefits. Please call your insurance company for out-of-network benefit details. Schedule your appointment with Nancy now by visiting http://lotuscenterchicago.com/ or call Nancy at 708-289-3899.

Save the Date!!

Somatic Psychology Events Presents

” Keeping Our Bodies in the Room: The Relevance of Bodily Experience in Psychotherapy Training and Practice”

with William Cornell and Jon Sletvold

November 11-12, 2017, 9AM-5PM

David Brower Conference Center

Berkeley CA

This conference brings together two dynamic clinician-authors at the heart of the contemporary discourse on the place of the body and somatic experience in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The program will combine conceptual elements with discourse, clinical and supervisory examples, demonstrations of training and supervision techniques, and a good deal of experiential work drawn from the speakers many decades as clinicians and trainers. This diversely formatted program will appeal to psychodynamic and analytic clinicians, those involved in the training and supervision of psychotherapists, and somatic psychotherapists  who want to experience the clinical and training styles of these internationally known body psychotherapy innovators. William Cornell MA is a body psychotherapist, author and international trainer integrating  relational psychoanalysis and somatic psychotherapy paradigms. His most recent book Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (2015) is among the latest volumes in the Relational Perspective Book Series. He is the author of Handbook of Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology chapters on “Entering the Erotic Field: Sexuality in Body-Centered Psychotherapy” and “Entering the Relational Field in  Body Psychotherapy”. Bill has been a central figure in the ongoing dialogue between psychodynamic relational perspectives, two-body models of therapy, and the body psychotherapy community. Jon Sletvold,  Psy.D is the author of The Embodied Analyst – From Freud and Reich to Relationality, winner of the 2015 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Jon is founding  Board Director, Faculty, Training and Supervising analyst at the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute, and former chair of the Psychotherapy Specialty Board of the Norwegian Psychological Association. He has  published articles particularly on the role of the body in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He is co-editor of two books: Den terapeutiske dansen [The therapeutic dance] and Karakteranalytiske dialoger  [Character analytic dialogues] and the editor of Tage Philipson – Kjærlighet og identifisering [Tage Philipson – Love and Identification].

Registration and Information will soon follow this announcement.  Information on  early registration and discounts for students and alumni of co-sponsoring institutions will follow.

Professional CEUs will be available for most clinical professions.

Event Tickets:  http://bodilyexperienceinpsychotherapy.brownpapertickets.com/

Contact Mark Ludwig LCSW at mludwiglcsw@gmail.com for further information.

Polyvagal Theory: Basic Principles, Experiential Learning, and Clinical Applications
with Stephen Porges, Ph.D.

September 23 & 24, 2017
9AM – 4PM
Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Berkeley, CA

Stephen Porges, Ph.D., is a behavioral neuroscience researcher whose investigations of the evolution and expression of human autonomic psychophysiology has become a wellspring advancing the theories and practices of multiple disciplines and human service fields of practice.

In this exciting two-day conference, Dr. Porges will present a basic outline of his Polyvagal Theory, lead attendees in experiential learning, and dialogue with professionals presenting cases from diverse practice arenas. Since 1994, when Dr. Porges announced the basic concepts, Polyvagal Theory has been adopted and used productively in a wide array of psychological and somatic clinical practices. The theory is bringing alive the profound significance of our evolutionary neural organization in daily psychological and relational processes.

Participants will learn about the evolutionary emergence of a set of nerves in the brain that control the heart and face. This connection provided the structures for the Social Engagement System, which links our bodily feelings and thought processes with facial expression, vocal intonation, and gesture. Workshop participants will learn about the relationship between neural regulation of the Social Engagement system and emergent properties, including the development of many forms of mental and physical illness. Additionally, Dr. Porges will speak to developing clinical strategies to rehabilitate the Social Engagement System as an important part of any treatment.

Please join us in this exciting and informative professional education experience. Stephen is an engaging, open, and vital thinker grounded in daily living and with a wide range of experiences and interests beyond the laboratory.

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Ticket Information:

General Admission: $350
Early Bird: $310 Before June 23, 2017
Registered Intern: $245
Student of co-sponsoring institutions $175 – Current student ID required 30% of tickets available First-come, first-served
Onsite $365

Event ticketing: http://polyvagaltheory.brownpapertickets.com/

NOTE: No single day tickets will be offered

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About Our Presenter: Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, where he directs the Trauma Research Initiative within the Kinsey Institute. He holds the position of Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of both the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 250 peer reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory. The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders including autism, anxiety, depression, ADD, PTSD, and schizophrenia. His research has led to the development of innovative interventions designed to stabilize behavioral and psychological states and to stimulate spontaneous social behavior that are being applied to autism and other clinical diagnoses.

For more information on Dr. Porges and his work, visit his website: www.stephenporges.com

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Continuing Education

Continuing education credit for this event is co-sponsored by Somatic Psychology Associates and The Institute for Continuing Education. The program offers 6.00 contact hours per day, with full attendance required. The CE processing fee is $25.00 per person and is payable to The Institute for Continuing Education with completed CE paperwork. CE applications will be available on site. CE verification will be mailed to workshop participants following the training. To receive continuing education credit, participants must complete CE paperwork, sign in/out daily, and complete an evaluation of the training. If you have questions regarding this training, continuing education, learning objectives, or grievance issues, contact The Institute at: e-mail: instconted@aol.com.

Social Work: The Institute for Continuing Education, Provider 1007, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. The Institute for Continuing Education maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 04-13-2015 – 04-13-2018. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits.

Counseling / Marriage-Family Therapy: The California Board Behavioral Sciences accepts programs sponsored by approved providers of the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB).

Psychology: The Institute for Continuing Education is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Continuing Education maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Skill Level: Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced

Teaching Methodology: May include: didactic, audio-visuals, demonstrations, role play, experiential exercises, large and small group discussions.

ADA: If you have special needs, please contact: mludwiglcsw@gmail.com or 510-387-5845

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Conference Learning Objectives

Describe the primary features of the Polyvagal Theory.
Explain how the autonomic nervous system is related to social and defensive behaviors.
Describe the three autonomic circuits that support and disrupt social behavior.
Explain how the neural process “neuroception” evaluates risk in the environment and triggers adaptive neural circuits promoting either social interactions or defensive behaviors.
Describe the clinical conditions necessary to promote feelings of safety in the client.
Identify cues of physiological state in the client’s voice and facial expressions.
Explain why deficits in the Social Engagement System are core features of several psychiatric disorders.
Explain how trauma disrupts typical function of the autonomic nervous system.
Explain how maladaptive behaviors, including dissociation, may accompany several psychiatric disorders, and may reflect adaptive responses triggered by survival mechanisms.
Describe the mechanisms through which voice conveys physiological state and how listening to types of vocalizations and acoustic stimulation can aid in the regulation of biobehavioral states.
Describe a face-heart connection that defines a social engagement system that links our bodily feelings with facial expression, vocal intonation, and gesture.
Explain how trauma and chronic stresses can “retune” middle ear function and distort the ability to process human speech.

A Certificate of attendance will be available to all attendees.

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Co-sponsoring Institutions & Programs

California Institute of Integral Studies, Somatic Psychology ProgramJohn F. Kennedy University, Somatic Psychology Program
Pacifica Graduate Institute, Somatic Studies in Depth Psychology
Northern California Somatic Experiencing Professional Association
The Wright Institute, Integrated Health Psychology Training Program

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Directions, Transportation & Accommodations

The Hotel Shattuck Plaza is conveniently located in downtown Berkeley, CA. The Crystal Ballroom Conference Center has its own entrance on Allston Way, just down the street (west) from the main hotel entrance. Registration will take place at that door.

Public Transportation: The Downtown Berkeley BART station is in front of the hotel.

Parking is available at the City of Berkeley Allston St. Parking Garage across from the hotel. Current rates are $14 weekdays and $5 weekends all-day.

Our mailing address is:

Somatic Psychology Events
c/o Somatic Psychology Associates 614 Grand Avenue
Suite 200
Oakland, Ca 94610

Title: Embodied Research Methods
Editor: Jennifer Frank Tantia, PhD
Routledge Press

Embodied phenomena have been explored in research in many fields of study such as psychology, expressive therapies, social sciences, anthropology, medicine, and education but to date there has not yet existed a collection of work that describes the specific ways in which embodied data collection and analysis can contribute to traditional styles of inquiry. Embodiment is an essential element of human experience, yet often missing in research data. This book will serve as an edited textbook that emphasizes embodied data in research methods. We are seeking chapter contributions that describe innovative research methods in both qualitative and quantitative approaches to embodied experience in research.

Please send the following short proposal to Jennifer Tantia – jftantia@gmail.com* by September 15, 2017:

Proposed chapter title:

Name, country and contact details: Submission content: (500 words; APA format):
• Introduction
• Theoretical background and description of methodology
• Description of method: data collection (interviews, observations, etc…) and data analysis (identifying patterns and establishing a relationship between data and unknowns)
• Summary that includes the relative usefulness of your proposed embodied method pertains to the extant literature in your particular field.
• Key Words (3-5)
• Key References (6-10)
• Brief biography of 75 words outlining professional qualifications, previous publishing experience, etc.
• A sample of material (draft acceptable) or previously published material to evidence writing competence.

*Please use: “Embodied Research Methods Proposal” in the subject line of your email.

DOWNLOAD PDF – CALL FOR PROPOSALS.Embodied Research Methods.7.4.17

Jeanna Gomez, LCSW, LADAC, SEP, BASE-P

Gomez Counseling and Consulting Services

Trauma Healing and Recovery Center

Presents the following  workshop in Houston Texas August 10-11, 2017, Mending Boundary Ruptures A Somatic Intensive for Clinicians

About the Workshop:

During this intensive workshop Jeanna will utilize her experience in using Pia Mellody’s Post Induction Treat‐ment (PIT) model and Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, a body oriented approach, to work through the col‐lapse, shame, rage and feelings of helplessness that exist as a result of boundary ruptures. As well as allow for our natural defenses and protective barrier to heal and mend.

Workshop Cost: $550.00 per person. This includes the 2 day intensive workshop and materials. There is a $10.00 additional fee, if you are wanting CEU credits. The workshop is 2 consecutive days, Thursday –Friday 9:00am-5:00pm. Space is limited so register early. $50 discount if you sign up 30 days before the workshop date.

CEU information: 13 continuing education credits are available. In order to obtain a certificate of completion, you must attend the workshop in its entirety. No partial credit will be given. No exceptions. GCCS is a CEU provider for the Texas State Board of Social Workers Examiners and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors.

Location:

Workshop will be held at The Hope and Healing Center.
NOTE: Please type in 5025 Riverway Dr. on GPS for accurate location.
Website address is 717 Sage Rd, Houston, TX 77056

I hope you all can make it.  If you have any questions contact me:

letstalk@gomezcounselingconsulting.com

713-660-0776

Thanks.  Jeanna Gomez

Do you want to be able to practice emotional aikido with anything life throws at you? Wouldn’t it be great to navigate even your most potent emotional triggers with more ease? SHIFT can help! With SHIFT you can: Discover how to stop overwhelm in its tracks before it hijacks your day. Be empowered to go after what you want instead of feeling stuck. Experience internal freedom as you make peace with inner critics and becoming more self-accepting. All that and more: SHIFT is video-based training you can do anytime and anywhere you want.

Get started with SHIFT here: https://focusingresources.com/shift

Today we live in a world where nothing is certain. We no longer live in small communities where everyone is known. No longer is there a job for life. We don’t know what to trust in the media—is it true or is it false? Our lifestyles have become more fluid, which can be challenging for our personal relationships.
Living in such a world brings unsettling disturbances to our sense of the ground beneath our feet. We long for more certainty in our lives and less unpredictability. Perhaps, however, the question is not “How can I make my life more predictable?” but “How can I develop confidence in living when I don’t know or trust that I have the resources to deal with the unpredictable?”

Eugene T. Gendlin, the American philosopher and psychologist who developed the mind-body connection practice called “Focusing,” died on May 1 at the age of 90 in Spring Valley, New York. His death was announced by the International Focusing Institute (www.focusing.org), which was founded in 1985 by Dr. Gendlin to promote the practice of Focusing and the philosophy behind it, which he called the “Philosophy of the Implicit.” Focusing is an experiential, body-oriented method for generating insights and emotional healing. Gendlin’s philosophy falls under the branch of philosophy called phenomenology. Significant influences on his philosophical work included Edmund Husserl, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. A nearly exhaustive library of his work is maintained by the Institute in the Gendlin Online Library.

Eugene T. Gendlin Press Release and Obituary

National Conference June 30-July 2, 2017.
Misericordia University, Dallas, Pa. CEUs available.

This groundbreaking event is the first major conference in the U.S. focusing on the topic of yoga and mental health care. It is designed for mental health and rehabilitative health professionals as well as yoga teachers and therapists. Topics include using therapeutic yogic interventions to reduce or heal dissociation; subtle breathing pattern dysregulations; autonomic nervous system dysregulation; anxiety; substance use disorders. CEUs available.

Pre-Conference Workshops; Keynote speech by Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga and Depression; In-depth Saturday Workshops; Sunday panel discussion.

Conference early-bird price go $150 before May 1.

Register at:
www.misericordia.edu/yoga

When we help clients neurobiologically separate out early shame from grief, we bring them to the awareness of how present day experiences are actually a confusing entanglement of calling cards from the past. As the responses separate and integrate with support into the client’s present day self, a felt sense of choice and autonomy emerge.

A Client Scene:

“It happens every time no matter what I say or how nice I try to be. My husband starts scolding me and I collapse.” Megan’s gaze sadly drifts to the left.

“When you feel that in your body, how old are you?” I ask.

“Young. It’s like I want my father’s love, and I know I’m not good enough.” She shrugs.

“How does this feel to the adult you?”

“Well, I know the not being good enough is not true.” She shrugs again. There’s silence.

Read More here at Inside Shame Transformation Blog by Caryn Scotto d’ Luzia, MA, SEP, AST Model Developer

In this book, Deirdre introduces a unique exploration of attachment-based approaches, integrating yogic psychology to bring relief and ease in treating trauma.

From the Introduction:

“Every child should have had the gift of safety from birth onwards. In that state of grace, a child flourishes, steps beyond their comfort zone, makes mistakes, reaches for reassurance, learns and grows from mistakes without shame.

Returning to a safe haven after stretching out into the world, the child finds out from others that they’ll be okay despite anything untoward that happened.

In this cocoon of care, a child naturally develops psychological safety (Bowlby, 1988; Holmes, 2001) with a native impulse to explore themselves and the world.”

This workshop introduces participants to the basic principles and skills of the Hakomi Method to support personal and professional development. The goal of Hakomi is to uncover and alter unconscious motivations, beliefs and outdated frames of reference that negatively affect mood and relationships with self and others. The method uses experiments conducted in mindfulness and body awareness to gather information about unconscious processes. These techniques, coupled with the attuned presence of the therapist, access implicit memories and gently reorganize entrenched neural patterns.

In this workshop, you will: Learn how to turn awareness inward for self-study, and how mindfulness can infuse this exploration with a sense of curiosity and compassion. Explore ways the body archives experience and expresses our deepest beliefs about life. Practice using mindful experiments and the body to identify and eventually transform unconscious, limiting core beliefs.

The workshop will consist of a balance of talks, experiential exercises, discussion and personal reflection, with an emphasis on skills that can be readily applied following the workshop. This workshop offers the opportunity to experience the Hakomi method of psychotherapy. It is suitable for those working therapeutically with clients and those wishing to deepen their own self understanding. It will be of value to psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists and other practitioners who are interested in learning more about Hakomi or are considering enrolling in the Hakomi Professional Training.

LOCATION:British School of Shiatsu-Do, London, England

DATES: 26-28, May 2017

SCHEDULE: Friday 17.30-20.30 Saturday 10.00-18.00 Sunday 09.00-15.00

COST: Early Bird Registration 280£ if registered by April 1, 2017, 310£ thereafter. Meals and accommodations are not included. NOTE: This workshop is a prerequisite for the Level 1 Professional Hakomi training.

CONTACT: Noella at info@hakomimallorca.com or visit www.hakomimallorca.com

Embodied Recovery 

A trauma-informed, relationally-oriented and somatically-integrated treatment

for eating disorders.

Embodied Recovery – is a cutting-edge approach to the treatment of eating disorders that draws from the latest research in traumatology, interpersonal neurobiology, and child development.

This pioneering somato-psycho-social approach highlights the body as a “re-source” in the recovery process rather than a source of distress to be managed. Our core principles address the intersection between somatic organization, the subjective experience of self, and our basic human need for attachment/bonding and protective defenses. The science behind the training is supported by the contributions of pioneers such as Peter Levine, Dan Seigel, Stephen Porges, Pat Ogden, Bonnie Bainbridge, and Allan Schore.

Participants will:

• Learn basic symptomology of and DSM V diagnostic criteria for Eating Disorders.
• Understand benefits and limitations of traditional ED treatment for In-patient, Residential, PHP (intensive outpatient), and outpatient levels of care.
• Understand the ethics, efficacy, and protocol for usage of a team approach to treating eating disorders.
• Gain skills in comprehensive assessment using the somato-psycho-social model.
• Increase ability listen and communicate through the language of the body to access unprocessed trauma and attachment injuries.
• Expand knowledge of the nervous system phases and strengthen skills to support affect regulation in individuals with eating disorders.
• Deepen understanding of the neurobiology of trauma and attachment and their effect on eating and digestion.
• Select specific somatic resources to facilitate embodiment, increase somatic attunement between client and therapist, and enhance effectiveness of current

Visit our website: www.Embodiedrecovery.org for information on our upcoming NC training designed for somatically integrated providers. 

A REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS FOR ADULTS WITH ASPERGERS’

Improving social engagement through the use of Core Energetics’.

Please join us for this FREE 6 week process group for adults with Aspergers’ Syndrome.

We will use Core Energetics’ techniques to help connect with the self and with others in an aligned way, while strengthening self awareness, and body consciousness. Using movement, breath work and interactive therapy we will explore the energetic blocks in the body that hinder self development. Core Energetics’ is founded in Bioenergetics body work and adds a spiritual component. It has been successful in healing depression, anxiety, and trauma. Body work with consciousness creates a rich experience unique to the individual. Core Energetics’ is a pathway to the True Self.

Beginning: Monday, March 6, 2017 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm
The Mariner Center for Human Development
67 School St. Auburn, Ma 01501

Please contact Anna Smith at 508-735-3838 or asmith1459@gmail.com to schedule your intake interview.

People who have experienced traumatic events can have significant changes in the neurobiology of their brain. The right brain holds emotions, relationship information, and unprocessed trauma, often in the form of flashbacks, body memories, intrusive thoughts and dissociated feelings. It is always turned on by an overactive amygdala. The left brain’s coherent function, which provides meaning to stay in the here and now, is interrupted by stress hormones as the result of danger signals from the amygdala.

Participants will learn to use the Body Double (BD) intervention to work with the energetic body and the ‘rhythmic rupture’ it suffers, along with the physical body and the brain, due to traumatic events. The brain-in-action, along with attachment structures, are taught through demonstration and live supervised practice and can be used immediately following the workshop in individual, couples and family therapy, as well as by educators and community organizers. This workshop expands the repertoire of students and practitioners of EMDR, EFT, sensory motor integration, as well as drama therapy and psychodrama.

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Brain & Trauma Training 3-2017

THIS WORKSHOP OFFERS a framework for avoiding compassion fatigue, boosting resilience and promoting wellness. The core skills of Awareness, Balance, Connection (Saavkitne & Pearlman, 1996) and Self-Compassion (Neff, 2013) are explored in theory and in action. In addition to full psychodramas, brief action structures and theoretical processing, this workshop offers optional yoga, yoga nidra and massage so participants can practice selfcare during the four-day experience.

Over her 30+ year professional life, Cathy Nugent has held the vision to offer opportunities for dramatic transformations—deep healing, powerful learning and high-level wellness leading to more enriched and fulfilled lives. For this workshop, Cathy is joined by her long-time friend and colleague Linda Ciotola. Recipient of the 2008 Zerka T. Moreno Award, Linda is a highly experienced and creative psychodramatist with special expertise in holistic health and self-care practices.

DOWNLOAD FLYER FOR MORE DETAILS:

4 Day Non Residential Workshop June 2017