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We offer Somatic Experiencing® training for professionals seeking to deepen their capacity to work with trauma, resilience, and nervous system regulation.
Finding Peace Within to Create Peace in the World
Until we find peace within ourselves we can not achieve peace and collaboration with others. Therefore I enthusiastically support Somatic And Expressive Arts International’s initiative of bringing Somatic Experiencing education into the culturally diverse region of Southeast Europe, a place where peace could make a significant positive impact on a global scale.
Peter A. Levine, PhD, founder of Somatic Experiencing®
Somatic & Expressive Arts International
Is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on bringing cutting-edge body-based psychotherapies and trauma healing education to the population of the Southeast Europe and similar regions.
Somatic Experiencing Curriculum
Programs
We offer comprehensive training programs in SE that enable professionals to learn powerful clinical skills that they bring to fields including education, mental health, and health care.
Develop foundational knowledge and skills in the SE biophysiological model for the resolution of trauma. Typically consists of three 6-day live training modules.
- Develop foundational knowledge and skills in the SE biophysiological model for trauma resolution through three 6-day live training modules
- Understand how traumatic stress affects the autonomic nervous system (ANS)
- Learn and practice tracking sensations to access ANS responses
- Explore the neurophysiology of threat responses, including fight, flight, freeze, and recovery
- Build skills to support completion of survival responses
- Apply titration techniques for safe trauma integration
- Gain insight into Polyvagal Theory and the SIBAM model
- Recognize and work with trauma-related patterns and responses
- Support clients in establishing boundaries and stabilizing reactions
- Develop brief, effective interventions for trauma symptoms
- Integrate SE into professional practice, including the appropriate use of touch
Learn about the different categories of trauma as addressed in the SE model. Learn the primary characteristics and hallmarks of each category of trauma, as well as specific approaches and interventions for working with each category effectively. Typically consists of three 6-day live training modules.
- Global High Intensity Activation (GHIA): pre- and peri-natal trauma, early trauma, anesthesia, suffocation, choking, drowning
- High Impact/Failure of Physical Defense: falls, traumatic brain injury, motor vehicle accidents, and other high-impact accidents
- Inescapable Attack: assault, animal attack, rape or sexual abuse, inhibited escape
- Physical Injury: surgery, poison, burns, physical injury due to accident
- Natural and Man-Made Disasters, Horror: natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes, fires, etc.), war, terrorism, torture, ritual abuse, horror (e.g. witnessing abuse, causing harm to another)
- Emotional Trauma: severe neglect, severe loss, ongoing abuse
Learn to work with complex trauma and syndromes. Expand on the use of touch in SE practice. Typically consists of two 6-day live training modules.
- Learn about the importance of stabilization when working with complex trauma
- Explore the SE concept of “coherence” in working with complex trauma
- Refine touch skills for supporting containment and coherence
- Learn about the interrelationship between dysregulation of the ANS and the SE model of syndromes (non-reciprocal relationship between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems)
- Develop a deeper understanding of the Polyvagal Theory as it relates to working with syndromes
- Refine the necessary SE skills of “titration” and “pendulation” when working with highly sensitive and syndromal clients
- Learn the SE model for working with the eyes
- Develop SE touch-based skills for working with different categories of trauma
- Understand how SE uses joints, body diaphragms, and the viscera to access ANS responses and to support completion of incomplete survival responses
- Explore scope-of-practice issues relating to the integration of SE and SE touch into professional practice
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