Year One:
- Understanding the basis of attachment trauma and the processes of empathic attunement, resonance and connection
- Weaving together theories of the brain, hemispheric characteristics, the autonomic nervous system, and insights from trauma research to enhance mind/brain/body/spirit connection
- Understanding and utilizing the polyvagal theory of neuroception
- Restoring intrapersonal, interpersonal and energetic boundaries
- Restoring somatic sensory-motor instincts, gestures and movement that have been thwarted and immobilized
- Accessing innate images, sensations, affect, behavior, cognition, and archetypal symbols for transformation of acute and chronic patterns of stress and trauma
- Integrating dissociated aspects of the self
- Utilizing somatic skills to resolve both attachment and shock trauma
Year Two:
- Identifying somatic patterns of intergenerational and life-span trauma
- Understanding characteristics of neural patterns present in acute and chronic stress and trauma
- Identifying and treating patterns of dissociation and complex trauma
- Exploring relationship breaches and fostering healthy social engagement
- Transforming the residue from attacks, terrorism, organized violence and sexual trauma
- Utilizing subtle eye movements to process complex patterns of trauma
- Addressing issues of violence, suicide, despair and poverty, existential trauma and sexual trauma
- Exploring spiritual trauma and the restoration of embodied spirituality
- Exploring cross cultural transformations of trauma
- Belonging to the world beyond trauma: creative acts of contribution
Course Methodology
This course utilizes didactic lecture and presentation, discussion, demonstrations, dialogical reflection and specific exercises designed to enhance skill development of therapists. A certificate of completion will be awarded at the end of each year and certification as a Somatic Transformation Therapist requires additional consultation and personal sessions.
Participant Requirements:
This training opportunity is open to those with a minimum of Master's level training in a mental health discipline. Graduate students or equivalent education/experience by permission of instructor.
Location:
Sleeping Dog Farm and Retreat Centre, Victoria http://www.sleepingdogfarm.ca/
Dates 2011:
Module 1: February 24-27
Module 2: June 9-12
Module 3: Oct 13-16
Dates 2012:
To be announced
2011 - 2012
