REFLECT, REIMAGINE, RENEW:
30 Years of Healing
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TWO INCREDIBLE DAYS…
Join us for the Somatic Experiencing International 30th Anniversary Conference, celebrating three decades of pioneering work in trauma healing and body awareness. This special gathering will feature esteemed faculty members and experienced somatic practitioners, sharing their insights, latest research, and practical applications of Somatic Experiencing techniques. Engage in a rich program of presentations, interactive workshops, and discussions designed to deepen your understanding and practice of Somatic Experiencing. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect with a global community dedicated to advancing the field of trauma resolution and resilience.
This two-day, virtual conference is designed for practitioners, clinicians, bodyworkers, and other professionals serving a diverse client base. It will feature an incredible keynote, as well as presentations led by key thinkers and leaders from the SE community. Topics range from Somatic Play with Children, The Neurobiology of Fawning and Appeasement, Inter-Species Adaptations for SE–and so much more!
With speakers like Maggie Kline, Theresa Hanaoka, Dedeker Winston, and many others, you won't want to miss out!
Why Attend?
- Gain valuable insights into the impact of stress and trauma on your clients' lives, and learn new techniques and approaches to address these complex issues effectively.
- Learn ways to create a safe and inclusive space for your clients.
- Understand best practices in the field to be better equipped to offer your clients the support and guidance they need.
Who Should Attend?
- Anyone interested in learning more about the powerful modality of Somatic Experiencing!
- Mental Health Professionals: psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, expressive arts therapists, etc.
- Medical and Alternative Medicine Professionals: medical doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners, occupational therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, emergency medical workers, surgeons, obstetricians, midwives, acupuncturists, naturopathic doctors, etc.
2024 30th Anniversary Conference
Live Online – Recordings will be available to all registrants
Secure your spot today – $259 for non-members and $199 for SEI members
Thursday & Friday, November 7-8, 2024
9am – 4pm MT
speakers
Hear from Maureen Gallagher, Euphrasia ( Efu ) Nyaki, Sarah Schlote, and other experts in the field!
Schedule
Keynotes, discussions, and presentations covering a myriad of essential topics in Somatic Experiencing.
Register
Just $199 for SEI members and $259 for non-members.
SPEAKERS
Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki
Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki was born and raised in Tanzania where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree, trained as a science teacher, and later was trained as a healer using holistic methods. Efu is a Faculty Member of Somatic Experiencing®, A faculty member of ERGOS insitutue and a Professor of Family Constellation System Therapy by Hellinger Institute. Efu provides international trainings, workshops, summits, webinars, podcasts, conferences, individual & group sessions and case consults online and in person. Efu is a co- founder of AFYA: Holistic Healing Center located in the northeast of Brazil. Afya supports many people from the local community as well as national and international individuals that approaches the center to receive support in healing, using different types of natural and holistic healing methodologies.
Dedeker Winston
Dedeker Winston is a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, relationship coach, author, podcast host, and outspoken advocate for polyamory and non-traditional relationships. She is the co-creator of the Multiamory podcast, a research-backed relationship advice show with over 400 episodes. She is the author of The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory: Everything You Need to Know about Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love, as well as Multiamory: Essential Tools for Modern Relationships. Her work has been featured in NPR, Oprah Daily, BBC News, Vice, and more. She has written on non-monogamy for the Gottman Institute blog and has presented on non-monogamy in the workplace at the Google campus in Seattle.
Theresa Hanaoka Ph.D. was born and raised in Japan and received some parts of her education in the U.S. and France. She has multicultural background as she worked as a simultaneous translator in the field of science and technology in Japan and many parts of the world. She has worked as an Enneagram teacher supporting personal growth of people in Japan for more than 30 years, and obtained SEP in 2014. She has served as a SE international organizer, a SE lead assistant, and has become the first Japanese SE faculty member in 2022.
Ruby Jo Walker
Ruby Jo Walker, LCSW, SEP, CHT is the founder of Southwest Trauma Training (www.swtraumatraining.com) located in Durango, Colorado. She has a private psychotherapy practice and is certified in Hakomi Somatic Mindfulness Therapy and Somatic Experiencing. She developed Post-Traumatic Growth Somatic Therapy, which includes applied Polyvagal Theory for trauma treatment and the development of resilience. She has provided training to psychotherapists, body work practitioners, pastoral care providers, medical personnel, educators, and agencies throughout the Colorado, the Southwest, and the Navajo Nation. During the pandemic, she was a key member of Colorado’s state-wide task force assisting in the development of a website to support health-care workers (www.cohcwcovidsupport.org). She is a contributing chapter author to a book being published by Norton Press in January of 2025. She delights in how using the lens of Polyvagal Theory brings compassion and humanness to all of her work.
Veronique Mead, MD, MA is an educator, consultant and blogger sharing a model of trauma in risk, prevention and treatment of chronic illness. Informed by her background as an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Somatic Trauma Therapist, SEP and pre and perinatal professional (PPNP), her work builds on 25 years integrating trauma research. The model also draws from her personal experience of gradual improvement from disabling chronic illness by addressing and healing trauma from SE and nervous system-based perspectives.
Andrea Bell
Andrea L. Bell, LCSW, SEP, DA, is a somatic psychotherapist, ecotherapist and California Naturalist. She is the founder of SomaticWise, an Ecosomatic practice with the mission of supporting life, healing and regeneration during these troubled times. A clinical social worker since 2003, Andrea has served on the Assistant team of SEI since 2011. She has also served as Adjunct Faculty at California State University, Long Beach, in the Graduate Department of Social Work. Andrea completed her Doctor of Arts in Ecological Psychology and Environmental Humanities in January of 2024. Her passion for indigenous plants and the wildlife they support has led her to help restore local ecosystems devastated by development and habitat loss. She has a special knack for connecting with and supporting “out of the box” creative people and is currently pursuing a Permaculture Design Certificate.
Sonia Gomes
Sonia Gomes (Ph.D.) is a senior instructor in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She has over 30 years of experience in using body-oriented approaches in psychotherapy. As a member of the SE International Faculty, Sonia Gomes is a senior SE instructor in Europe, the USA, South America, and Asia. She also mentors SE instructors. Adopting a multidimensional and holistic approach in her training and clinical practice, Sonia Gomes is dedicated to the use and recognition of SE to alleviate trauma-related pain and enhance personal growth. Her expertise demonstrated in demo works and individual sessions is highly appreciated by the SE community.She is also the creator of the SOMA Program, which is part of the advanced SE specialization training. The program focuses on the use of touch and movement for emotional regulation in trauma therapy (SOMA Embodiment – Hapticity and Movement for Emotional Regulation in Trauma Therapy).
Corinne Castelli
Corinne Castelli holds a diploma in acting and worked several years as a professional actress in Italy. Since 2009 she has been studying, researching and working across the fields of voice pedagogy, somatic education, stress regulation and meditation in the Buddhist traditions. She also holds a B.A degree in Early Childhood education. She works in private practice as a practitioner of the Lichtenberger Method® for Applied Voice Physiology. Additionally, she is a certified Body Mind Centering® -Somatic Movement Educator, Haptic Gamma Embodiment Practitioner, Heilpraktikerin for Psychotherapy and completed the Somatic Experiencing® Advanced Level II in 2023. She currently lives in Switzerland and offers sessions online and in person around the topics of vocal development and nervous system regulation through voice & embodiment.
Maggie Kline
Maggie Kline has been a family therapist for nearly 40 years and is a retired school psychologist. Trained in Satir’s Family Systems, Gestalt, and Humanistic Psychology, she now specializes in trauma recovery through her Resilience Roadmap Model. Maggie integrates S.E. with art, dream work, movement and attachment play. She has taught SE as Senior Faculty since 1999 and created Conscious Connections Play Shops taught on 5 continents. Maggie co-authored Trauma through a Child's Eyes and Trauma Proofing Your Kids with Peter Levine. Her latest book, Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools is intended to inspire an evolutionary shift in education.
Sarah Schlote
Sarah Schlote, MA, RP, CCC, SEP (she/elle) is a bilingual neurodivergent Registered Psychotherapist, Canadian Certified Counsellor, and SEP. She has taught coursework on parts work for trauma recovery through Wilfrid Laurier University and regularly consults on the integration of SE, attachment repair, and parts work in clinical practice, especially in relation to complex trauma and dissociative disorders. She has training in Structural Dissociation Theory and is familiar with the IFS framework and techniques derived from ego state therapy, inner child work, psychosynthesis, and transactional analysis. Aside from her work in trauma resolution for equines, she has also trained in EMDR (for humans and for animals), Brainspotting, Deep Brain Reorienting, attachment work, Touch Skills Training with Kathy Kain, Somatic Resilience and Regulation Training, pre- and peri-natal trauma work, Indigenous Tools for Living, and attended a master class with Peter Levine and was selected to present a case.
Debra Clydesdale
Debra Clydesdale, LAc, DNBAO, SEP, ACN, CDS, MSME/T, LMT is currently on Faculty Somatic Experiencing International. She is also on Faculty at Center for BodyMindMovement and has completed certification training in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (Masters Degree), Hellerwork, Acupuncture Detoxification and Addiction (NADA), She is a Master Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist (MSME/T), and has been recognized as a Qualified Medical Evaluator by the State of California. She has board specialization as a Diplomate in Acupuncture Orthopedics and is a NCCAOM Diplomate (National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine). She has published on Electro-acupuncture in the Medical Acupuncture journal, in using Acupuncture for Eating Disorders, and has presented to physicians and clinicians.
Naina Sodhi
Naina is a marriage and family therapist by licensure in the state of California since 2012 and an SEP since 2018. She works in a tiny private practice for adjunct trauma treatment only and as a coordinator for Maternal (peri post partum) mental health programs in a hospital and adjunct faculty at a few local universities. SE has been pivotal in all her work. She is also trained in EOTN, Syndromes, Touch skills and some ISP. She is also in the process of being certified in crania sacral therapy. In her journey as a therapist, she has spent most of her time working with women and children doing individual and group work; building teams and programs in several hospitals; and most of all sharing a journey of learning with colleagues, supervisees and students.
Maureen Gallagher
Dr. Maureen Gallagher is the founder of Somatic Inner Relationship Focusing (SIRF), a somatically informed parts work model. SIRF is rooted in somatic awareness, attachment theory and Inner Relationship Focusing. It recognizes the body as transformative, bridging embodied relationship to partial self states. Dr. Gallagher is faculty at Somatic Experiencing International, a trainer in Inner Relationship Focusing, and a Certified Supervisor in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Dr. Gallagher centers on attachment related themes in relation to self and others using an embodied parts work perspective with Internal Working models.
Amanda (Mandy) Sawilchik
Amanda (Mandy) Sawilchik, MA, LCPC, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Clinical Lead for Beyond Play therapy center, specializing in the use of play therapy through a somatic lens. She specializes in treating trauma and the disorders that present with acute trauma and PTSD, such as dissociation, anxiety, depression, OCD, grief and loss, and self injury. She holds certifications in play, sand tray, EMDR, yoga and is a certified mindfulness and meditation teacher.
Terese Gjernes, PsyD, SEP, Licensed Psychologist, CMTSE. Professor Somatic Psychology M.A. at CIIS. Her work is deeply influenced by early development, movement and touch. She trained and worked at the Infant-Parent Program at UCSF and A Better Way, Berkeley. Terese has been teaching movement for somatic psychotherapy since 2006. She’s known for creating a well-grounded, somatically supportive, and nurturing learning environment in her classes. Terese had been dancing for over 50 years and practicing yoga, authentic movement and contact improvisation for over 30 years. She has a private practice in Berkeley, California.
Wowlvenn Seward-Katzmiller, LMFT, SEP, started dancing and improvising with movement and theater in 1992 at UC Berkeley. As a massage therapist from 1996-2005, she saw how touch and movement facilitated deep psychological healing. In 2004, Contact Improvisation (CI) became her personal lab for flexing boundaries and increasing “range of motion” of stress responses. She’s taught CI for adults and children since 2015, and combined CI with SE since 2016. She loves creating forums to support nervous system resilience and explore sacred energies of expand, contract, push, reach, pull, move away, move toward, join, be still, rest.
Cacky Mellor
Dr. Cacky Mellor, PhD, MSME/T, SEP, RYT-500 (she/they) is Visiting Assistant Professor at Lesley University’s Mental Health & Wellbeing department and has a remote somatic private practice, Somatic Reclamation, working with individuals. She is a Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, Somatic Experiencing© Practitioner, and RYT-500. Additionally, she is an experienced Reiki Master practitioner and has done training in somatic attachment therapy. She is also a non-denominational reverend. Dr. Cacky was honored to be awarded the Peter A. Levine Research Award in Dissertation Leadership by Somatic Experiencing International in 2022. She is deeply passionate about building community, social justice, the arts, intergenerational trauma, and somatics.
Helena Vissing
Vissing is a Licensed Psychologist and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) in private practice in California. Dr. Vissing is faculty at the somatic psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. As Training Faculty for Maternal Mental Health NOW, Dr. Vissing also provides trainings and consultations for providers working with new parents. Dr. Vissing is originally from Denmark where she specialized in developmental psychology, trained in Play Therapy, and worked as a School Psychologist before moving to Los Angeles in 2010. She has published book chapters and articles on the topic of the psychology of motherhood. Dr. Vissing is the author of the book Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health.
Mariana Boccuzzi Raymundo
Mariana, born and raised in Brazil, currently works as a faculty member of Somatic Experiencing© Institute, an SEP, and family and couples psychotherapist. Mariana loves sharing, learning, teaching, being in the presence of others, and observing the unique impact that relationships have on all of us. She has private practice as a psychologist, psychotherapist, and master trainer of systemic-relational psychotherapists. Mariana’s clinical work with individuals, families and couples integrates psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing© which allows her to navigate relational issues with a special attention to the body and its wonderful physiology. Mariana is also the mother to an amazing daughter.
Weena Pauly-Tarr
Weena has been living, working and creating in NYC since 1998 and has been trained in several body-centered modalities within those 26 years. More recently, Weena has focused her curiosity to the place where somatic therapy meets the dance world. It is there where she developed her body of work called SE+AM, the synergistic practice of Somatic Experiencing© and Authentic Movement. Along with running SE+AM groups and sessions, Weena currently works as a Somatic Experiencing© Practitioner, a Yoga Therapist, a dancer and dance maker, a movement trainer, a Rooted Global Village co-dreamer and group facilitator, and a mother to four.
Dilara Özel
Dilara Özel is a Ph.D. in the Guidance and Psychological Counseling program. She is also an alumnus of the Faculty of Education Bachelor’s Program at Boğaziçi University, İstanbul. She is also a Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner and part of the SE Turkey Research Team. She won the Peter Levine Award 2022. She received training in Experiential Play Therapy, IMAGO Couples Therapy, and Adlerian Approach from various scholars. She developed a peace education program for refugee-receiving schools in Turkey for her Ph.D. studies.
Selin Yurdakul
Selin Yurdakul graduated from Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Bezmialem Vakıf University. She currently serves as the Head of the Palliative Care Unit. Yurdakul is in the thesis stage for both her Master's degree in Clinical Psychology and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience. She is a SEP and has completed Integrative Psychotherapy education. Her research focuses on somatic experiencing, integral somatic therapies, and heart rate variability in relation to the autonomic nervous system. Yurdakul conducts group psychotherapies for palliative care patients and their families, aiming to integrate somatic therapies into clinical practice. She is dedicated to pioneering research and clinical applications in Turkey, offering innovative treatments to those experiencing severe psychological distress.
Raja Selvam
Dr. Raja Selvam, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist from the US, is the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP). Dr. Selvam is also a senior trainer in Somatic Experiencing. His work is informed by older body psychotherapy systems of Reichian Therapy and Bioenergetic Analysis, newer body psychotherapy systems of Bodynamic Analysis and Somatic Experiencing, and bodywork systems of Postural Integration and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. His work is also inspired by Jungian and archetypal psychologies, Kleinian and intersubjective schools of psychoanalysis, affective neuroscience, quantum physics, yoga, Polarity Therapy, and Advaita Vedanta (a spiritual psychology from India). His book The Practice of Embodying Emotions: A Method for Improving Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes was published on March 22, 2022. Dr. Selvam's work also draws upon his clinical psychology PhD dissertation on Advaita Vedanta and Jungian psychology.
Jane Strong
Jane Strong, SEP, Certified Equine Assisted Learning Instructor, Co-Founder of TEE. Jane has forged strong relationships with the Veterans Administration Healthcare System and non-governmental organizations whose missions are to support military personnel and first responders in their journeys from uniforms to civilian life. She oversees curriculum development, trains new facilitators and works to broaden the reach of TEE.
David Sonatore
David Sonatore, LCSW, Certified Equine Assisted Learning Instructor, Co-Founder of TEE. David graduated from Hunter College School of Social Work in 2006 and is licensed in both Connecticut and New York. Before entering graduate school, David became a Certified Equine Equine Assisted Learning Instructor who trained at Eponaquest Worldwide in Tucson, AZ. David has also completed The Somatic Experiencing Training Program. In addition to overseeing The Equus Effect curriculum delivery and development, David also presents TEE at the High Watch Recovery Center in Kent CT.
Why Somatic Experiencing?
“I have patients who are off all of their medications….who no longer suffer from panic attacks….who are no longer haunted by traumatic visions. SE is the only method I have found that consistently helps people reorganize their nervous systems and greatly reduce, if not completely erase, trauma symptoms. Although I understand that the SE™ techniques are grounded in biology, the results are nothing short of miraculous.”
“I’ve found SE to be the most fundamental work I do with clients. I’m a clinical psychotherapist, dance therapist, Craniosacral therapist, pre- and perinatal practitioner and I have two masters degrees. But what SE offered me has worked more than any other skill I’ve been trained in. It’s so basic, intuitively supportive and safe for clients. No matter what happens I know I can resort to slowing down and resourcing. SE is wonderful work.”
“SE provides the basic natural healing and core nervous system skills for all the work I do, and its natural mindfulness as well. It helps clients attune to what's happening in their bodies, slow down and pause fast energies, wake up and balance sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. These basic and natural SE practices and tools help clients re-enter a traumatized or dissociated body slowly, at their own pace, and gradually (for some) more safely.”
Schedule
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2024
All times are listed in US Mountain Time
9:00am – 10:45am | Keynote: Efu Nyaki
Celebration and Reverence: Embodying Inclusion and Expansion into the Future
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn the meaning of celebration and reverence
We will discuss the essence and objectives of SEI as organization
We will create a space of expansion and evolution
Participants will be encouraged to explore transgenerational healing trauma with all of its connection
11:00am – 12:30pm | Individual Presentations –
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The Equus Effect: Another Road to Regulation with Jane Strong & David Sonatore
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn the quality of embodiment and presence that is required to engage the attention, energy, and trust of horses
Participants will learn how working the edges between activation and settling, through learning horsemanship skills, creates catalysts for change in real time
Participants will understand the impact that clear, grounded presence can have on emergent situations
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The Voice as a Doorway to the Nervous System with Corinne Castelli
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn how the human voice can improve nervous system regulation and enhance social engagement in everyday life
Participants will be introduced to specific vocal sounds rich of high frequency harmonics that aim to gently stimulate the auditory circuit, having a regulating effect on the nervous system
Participants will explore through simple perceptual exercises how to deepen their embodiment through sound
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The Healing Touch: Somatic Experiencing's Role in Trauma Recovery and Heart Rate Variability with Sonia Gomes, Dilara Ozel, and Selin Yurdakul
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Learning Objectives
Participants will gain skills and knowledge to address the unique challenges presented by clients with complex medical trauma
Participants will learn the physiological mechanisms behind touch interventions and how they can aid in the regulation of clients' autonomic nervous systems and promote healing
Participants will learn the basics of HRV monitoring to assess and track clients' physiological responses during therapy
12:45pm – 2:15pm | Individual Presentations –
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Coherence in Motion: Enhancing the Understanding and Utilization of Developmental Neurological Patterns with Debra Clydesdale and Mark Taylor
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be familiar with the fundamental concepts of basic neurological patterns
Participants will understand the importance of core-to-distal movement as a part of trauma healing
Participants will have an embodied understanding of navel radiation in the context of fluid movement
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Somatic Experiencing for body-oriented stress management in schools with Eva Fenrich, Angela Adhikari, Alexandra Zwiegard, and Ulrike Loy
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will understand how stress and trauma hinder learning and influence behavior
Participants will learn how to apply SE principles to a school context
Participants will learn how to design classroom interactions that foster stress reduction
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Using SE with mothers and mother-baby dyads for postpartum psychiatric symptoms with Naina Sodhi
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to identify practical applications of SE principals in groups for perinatal moms and baby dyads, using direct interventions, art and co-regulation
Participants will learn practical applications of SE principals for individual sessions for new/expecting moms
Participants will learn ways to integrate SE application with mainstream interventions of CBT, IPT and DBT
2:30pm – 4:00pm | Individual Presentations –
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Beyond Fight, Flight, Freeze: The Neurobiology of Fawning and Appeasement with Ruby Jo Walker
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to distinguish between fawning and appeasement as different trauma responses
Participants will be able to identify the differences in the underlying nervous system states of fawning and appeasement
Participants will learn the connection between drive and threat systems with both adaptations
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Incorporating Somatic Play with Amanda Sawilchik
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to assess the level of play for the client/child
Participants will learn three ways to incorporate play somatically
Participants will learn different types of play based on child's level of development
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Animals as Clients: Inter-Species Adaptations for Somatic Experiencing with Sarah Schlote
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will identify ways SE can support renegotiation for animals as (a) clients, and (b) participants in interventions for human clients
Participants will be able to explain the differences between biological completion and dyadic completion when working professionally in inter-species contexts
Participants will learn a specific SE practice that can be applied to other animals and their human caregivers
*This webinar is limited to Somatic Experiencing Practitioners and SE students. Due to the terminology and concepts covered, this webinar is not suitable for the general public.*
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2024
All times are listed in US Mountain Time
9:15am – 10:45am | Individual Presentations
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SE in the classroom: Learning and regulating together through a somatically-informed pedagogy with Cacky Mellor
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to compare somatically informed pedagogy to traditional classroom teaching/learning
Participants will apply a somatic experiencing lens to understand what is going on in the nervous systems of individuals in the classroom to support greater nervous system regulation and learning objectives
Participants will learn the practical application of somatic experiencing tools to support teachers in regulating their own nervous systems in and outside of the classroom
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SE and “The Great Turning”: From Climate Chaos and Ecocide, to Surviving and Thriving with Andrea Bell and Robin Saltonstall
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe the role of coupling dynamics (over- and undercoupling) as they relate to dysregulation and ecocidal behaviors
Participants will learn what anthropocentrism is and how it harms humans, other animals, and ecosystems
Participants will be able to name three common implicit response patterns often seen in the context of ecocidal trauma
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Where SE Meets AM: Working With The Appeasement Response Through Authentic Movement with Mariana Boccuzzi Raymondo and Weena Pauly-Tarr
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to identify physiological elements of appeasement
Participants will be able to differentiate the appeasement response from other instinctive defensive responses
Participants will assess how a practice of Authentic Movement within the framework of Somatic Experiencing can surface the embodied appeasement patterning
11:00am – 12:30pm | Individual Presentations –
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How to improve your practice of SE with Raja Selvam
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to list three ways through which the presentation identified the practice of SE could be improved.
Participants will be able to describe the difference between emotions and sensations in the body.
Particpants will be able to identify two common characteristics of complex traumas.
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Sensory Savvy: Art as a Catalyst for Interoceptive Awareness, Movement & Release with Maggie Kline
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to name 1 drawing/coloring technique that facilitates sensory awareness by locating, tracking, and labeling emotions and their underlying physical sensations
Participants will be able to describe 1 drawing techniques that evoke pendulation and movement to release distress from an inescapable attack whether from a nightmare or daytime terror
Participants will be able to apply what they learned by making an Emotion and Sensation Body Map with a Color-Coded Labeling Key for self-discovery
12:45pm – 2:15pm | Individual Presentations
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Chronic Illness and Trauma: Bodies of Evidence that Refine SE Perspectives and Tools with Veronique Mead
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe 3 risk factors for chronic disease occurring prior to 3 years of age
Participants will be able to identify a key common link among 4 groups of disease onset triggers
Participants will be able to predict 3 birth weight indicators of risk for chronic illness and opportunities for repair, prevention, and alleviating blame
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Making Perinatal Mental Health Trauma-Responsive with Somatic Attunement and Coregulation with Helena Vissing
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to explain how working with sensory awareness is different when working with perinatal clients
Participants will learn how sensory vocabulary develops differently in the perinatal transition compared to other life stages
Participants will be able to describe and practice 2 clinical skills of nervous system tracking to establish coregulation and therapeutic safety specifically adapted for perinatal clients’ needs
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Healing Through Your Inner Critics with Maureen Gallagher
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to identify negative self-statements as evidence of Inner Criticism rather than accurate self-statements
Participants will learn to recognize procrastination and perfectionism and their relationship to Inner Critics
Participants will learn to recognize the body as the site of transformation of your experience
2:30pm – 4:00pm | Individual Presentations
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Somatic Experiencing and Japan -Art, Faith, and War Trauma with Theresa Hanaoka
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will be learning 3 different art forms of Japan: Sado, Kado, and Kintsugi, and discuss of how they are incorporated into SE practices
Participants will gain a basic understanding of Confucianism in Japan and how it is healing emotional trauma
Participants will learn how wars have affected Japanese people and why SE is so much needed in this country
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E (motion) — Zoom movement playground: Priming the pathways for completion with Terese Gjernes and Wowlvenn Seward-Katzmiller
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to utilize two resources to support autonomic nervous system regulation
Participants will learn how to assess relational and physiological boundaries to calibrate optimal distance between self and others for safety and de-escalation of sympathetic nervous system activation
Participants will learn how to track patterns of response state habituation differentiating overcoupled cues from present moment cues
*Please Note: This workshop is best for people with a basic understanding of SE who have experience tracking and managing their activation independently.*
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Somatic Experiencing with Non-Monogamous Clients: Releasing Shame and Embracing Resilience with Dedeker Winston
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Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn to identify at least 3 common sources of shame for individuals engaged in consensual non-monogamy
Participants will be able to describe the physiological and emotional markers of shame
Participants will learn to identify common sources of practitioner countertransference when working with CNM clients
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Thursday- Friday November 7-8, 2024
9am – 4pm MT