Online Live January 15th - 16th, 11am - 4pm PST
This workshop is being hosted live online only and will not be recorded to maintain the privacy of all attendees.
8 CE credits are available
Presented by CIIS
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, Ph.D., the 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.
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.
Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, participants will be able 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.
Describe the theoretical framework to understand the substratum of memory.
Compare the various forms of memory; from the most conscious and verbal to those somatic/procedural memories that are non-verbal and non-conscious.
Utilize clinical incites from Body-oriented psychotherapy and recent findings in the neurosciences, on how the brain and body deal with emotional information, and how that provides a foundation for effective therapeutic action.
Discuss how feedback, and support for interrupted defensive responses, can assist therapists to create empowered, patient-focused intervention strategies
List various grounding, centering breath, and body-posture techniques to aid with soothing and self-regulation.
ACCESSIBILITY
If you require accessibility accommodations, please email publicprograms@ciis.edu at least one week prior to the workshop start date. For more information, explore our Frequently Asked Questions.
SCHOLARSHIPS
CIIS offers scholarships for anyone where the cost is a barrier, but they must apply at least one month prior to the workshop. Click here to learn more.
COST
$190-$270 - Registration
$152-$216 - Members
CIIS Public Programs Members receive a 20% discount on all events. Contact us for more information, publicprograms@ciis.edu.
CIIS students, staff, and faculty receive discounts on all events.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT
8 CE credits are available for an additional fee of $45
After you register for the workshop, your confirmation email from Eventbrite will contain a link to the site where you can purchase the CEs from our co-sponsor, Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA).
CEs may be purchased at any time before the workshop, but only those who have purchased in advance will receive credits. Unfortunately, we are unable to issue CEs retroactively.
CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy(SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain this document for 4 years after the course concludes.SCA is an approved CE provider for National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches (CEP Number 100196).
For questions about completing the CE evaluation materials for this course, as well as receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact CIIS Public Programs at publicprograms@ciis.edu.
For questions about CE, visit www.spiritualcompetency.com or contact David Lukoff, PhD at CE@spiritualcompetency.com.
Instructions on how to join the program on January 15th will be emailed to registrants shortly before the workshop start date.
The workshop start time of 11 am is listed in U.S. Pacific Time. Find the start time for your timezone.
This program is hosted by CIIS. Please contact them at publicprograms@ciis.edu with any questions.