ADVANCED PRACTICES

About the Training

Incident traumas leave deep and lasting impacts—years later the self, the psyche and body, are often still grappling and compensating with the impact of trauma(s) from years or decades ago. As relational somatic therapists, we also need to make space in our clinical minds to see where these traumas continue to live on and compromise the self and system. We need to tune our ears to listen for, and attune our felt sense to feel, the underlying unprocessed material in the other, and make and hold space in the clinical field for the work to emerge.

Further, it’s often true that therapists have unprocessed incident trauma(s) held in their systems—waiting for an opportunity to process and metabolize, returning held vitality to the self and system.

This Advanced Practices Training offers an opportunity for therapists to deepen their understanding and nuance their skill at working with incident traumas and work with their own incident trauma(s).

This is a highly experiential training where we will learn by demonstration and debrief and through practice application in small coached practices where therapists will work with their own incident trauma(s). From the demonstrations and practices, we will elicit gleanings from the work to deepen our conceptual understanding and sophisticate our skills. There will be some lecture but the majority of the learning will be through practice, demonstration, dialogue and debrief. We will also invite you to track your own process as you process your material, using your reflections to enhance your deeper understanding of how the process of working with incident trauma unfolds.

In order to apply, you will need to have completed at minimum 120 hours of somatic therapist training–prior learning assessments are necessary. You must also feel comfortable with active coaching in the practice sessions and ready to work with your own incident trauma each day. The one area that we are not working with in this training or practices is sexualized violence.