The Body Can Change the Score: Exploring Somatic Interventions for Trauma

As humans, we store memories, experiences and emotions on a cellular level. Somatic approaches focus on body awareness and how to cultivate it in and around the body. Providing clients with interventions to address how trauma is stored and experienced in the body is essential. This training will present an overview of how trauma is experienced in the body. Specific somatic interventions such as resourcing, grounding, dual awareness, and sequencing will be presented. Learners will view application of somatic interventions by analyzing case studies and video demonstrations. Discover methods to h...Read moreelp your clients release trauma and negative emotions from the body through a trauma-informed care lens. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • Identify 3-4 specific ways that trauma is experienced somatically in the body.
  • Discover at least five somatic interventions for trauma and formulate interventions for clients.
  • Describe two methods of fostering dual awareness in clients experiencing trauma-induced dissociation.

Learning Levels

  • Intermediate

Friday, February 02, 2024

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11:00 AM EST - 02:15 PM EST

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Agenda

11:00am - 11:30am What is Somatic Therapy?

  • Safe Trauma Recovery (Babette Rothschild)
  • Benefits of Somatic Experiencing (SE)
  • SE Models (Peter Levine)
  • Monitoring the ANS chart
  • Introducing 10 Key Somatic Interventions 

11:30am - 12:30pm Exploring 10 Key SE Interventions: (Developing Somatic Awareness, Resourcing, Grounding, Using Descriptive Language, Movement, Regulation, Titration, Pendulation, Act of Triumph, Sequencing, Boundary Setting)

12:30pm - 12:45pm Break

12:45pm - 1:15pm Dual Awareness (video demonstration)

  • Case Study

1:15pm - 2:15pm Trauma Releasing Exercises (video demonstration)

  • Self-Holding
  • Video Case Study: Ray, a Veteran with PTSD

CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours

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