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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About the speaker

Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW

Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Missouri and Kansas with over 25 years of experience in the mental health field. She has held clinical positions as an outpatient and in-home therapist, and clinical supervisor. Diane was an Adjunct Professor of Social Work for 10 years at The University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare and a Field Liaison and Field Instructor. She has also held administrative positions as a program Director and Coordinator. Diane is a popular local and national trainer on a wide variety of mental health and workplace development topics for clinicians and corporations. Diane is most passionate about providing quality professional development to clinicians, employees, and leaders. For fun, Diane loves to spoil her four Dachshunds and rock out to 80’s music.

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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The Body Can Change the Score: Exploring Somatic Interventions for Trauma, Course #5371, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by CE Learning Systems, LLC. as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 11/14/2023 - 11/14/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits. ACE individual course approval meets the NJ Board of Social Work Examiners requirements for individual course approval pursuant to NJ Code 13:44G-6.4.16.
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