CIIS Public Programs Presents
Mind, Brain, and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
w/ Peter A Levine, PhD & SE Assistants
(including online breakout groups)
Live & Interactive Experiential Online February 25th - 26th, 10am - 1pm Pacific
Six APA/BBS CEs available for purchase after registration
Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) is a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma and other stress-related disorders. Somatic Experiencing provides a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight, or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. It offers practical skills appropriate to various healing and helping professions including mental health, medicine, physical and occupational therapies, bodywork, addiction treatment, first response, education, and more.
Join Peter A. Levine, developer of Somatic Experiencing, for a rich live online workshop demonstrating how Somatic Experiencing addresses trauma through a combination of theoretical explanation and body-oriented experiential exercises. In this workshop participants learn about the underpinnings of trauma and explore how nervous system regulation and awareness of bodily sensations can transition clients out of a trauma state and into a more embodied and regulated sense of authentic self.
In this workshop Dr. Levine guides participants with didactic lectures, Somatic Experiencing demonstrations, experiential exercises, and breakout practice groups. Learn to differentiate between top-down and bottom-up processing and discuss how they can work together. Classify the trauma response as a set of defensive bodily reactions mobilized to protect us. Understand how shame, defeat, and humiliation—associated with the original traumatic event—replay themselves repeatedly in the body. Define how trauma-based perceptions remain fundamentally unchanged until the internal experience of the body changes.
These teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients.
Important Event Information
This workshop will be live online.
This is a two-day workshop.
It will run from Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. PST. Then Sunday from 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. PST.
Portions of this workshop will be recorded, and limited access to a recording will be made available to those who attend the live event.
Continuing Education
Six APA/BBS Continuing Education Credits (CEs) are available for an additional fee of $30. After you register for the workshop, your confirmation email from Eventbrite will contain a link to the site where you can purchase the APA/BBS CEs from our co-sponsor, Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA). APA/BBS CEs may be purchased at any time before the workshop, but only those who have purchased in advance will receive the credits. Unfortunately, we are unable to issue CEs retroactively. See below for details.
Accessibility
If you need to request accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu at least one week prior to the event. For more information, explore our Accessibility web page.
Prerequisite: Open to the Public
Hosted by: California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS)