Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Course
Sep
5
to Dec 12

Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate Course

I'm thrilled to announce that enrollment is now open for my

Online Somatic Therapy Certificate Program!

With extensive experience in somatic trauma healing and specialized training under Peter Levine, the developer of Somatic Experiencing™, I've curated essential techniques for you to master step-by-step application of somatic therapy.

This comprehensive certificate training includes:

  • Live consultations, demonstrations, and practical exercises

  • Clear video instructions for practical guidance

  • Demonstrations of specific somatic therapy exercises

  • Access to valuable PDF handouts and resources

  • 3 optional Live Q&A sessions with experiential exercises to enhance your skills

Dedicate just a few hours each week to explore non-pathologizing, empirically validated techniques designed to support clients dealing with trauma, depression, anxiety, PTSD, attachment wounds, and more.

Spaces are limited, so I encourage you to enroll today. I’m eager to connect with you on this transformative journey and witness the positive impact you’ll make in the world.

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Embodiment & Healing Developmental Trauma
Oct
11
to Oct 15

Embodiment & Healing Developmental Trauma

  • Village Hotel Bugis (map)
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Embodiment & Healing Developmental Trauma
A Somatic Resiliency Workshop

Date: 12-15 October 2024
Time: 9am to 5pm
Venue: Village Hotel Bugis, 390 Victoria Street (near Bugis MRT), Singapore (in-person only)

About the Workshop

How do you work with individuals with attachment difficulties and who encounter repeated dysfunctional relationships? 

For many traumatized individuals who have experienced preverbal and/or developmental trauma, they are looking for ways to resolve re-enactment or symptomatic re-experiencing from trauma patterns and have new flexible internal and external responses in current relationships.

In this four full day somatic resiliency workshop, you will learn from embodiment expert Dr. Abi Blakeslee a dynamic tool kit of body-oriented psychophysiological approaches to stabilize early developmental symptoms of trauma as well as re-regulation the nervous system using interoceptive awareness techniques.

Who will benefit?

Social service, mental health and healthcare professionals who work with clients experiencing attachment and relational difficulties.

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Coaching Parents
Oct
10
to Oct 11

Coaching Parents

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This full-day workshop will focus on giving therapists skills to coach parents of their child clients. Or if a parent or parents are their clients, therapists will learn strategies to teach them skills to help with parent/child interactions and attachment.

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2024 Innovations in Psychotherapy
Oct
3
to Oct 6

2024 Innovations in Psychotherapy

I'm speaking at the Innovations in Psychotherapy Conference on October 3-6, 2024!

205: Trauma, The Body & Implicit Memory Demystified

Join me at the premiere trauma therapy conference that will equip you with today’s most effective skills to revolutionize your trauma treatment results.

The Premier Trauma Therapy Conference is your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to master skills and access cutting-edge insight directly from the world's premier trauma experts. 
You're invited to join my session at #InnovationsinPsychotherapy!

Live in Anaheim, CA, and Online

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Dream Workshop
Jun
20
to Jun 22

Dream Workshop

  • Tahquitz Pines Retreat (map)
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Throughout human history, people have dreamed, wondering “Why?”  Is it a message from the unconscious?  Is it memory reconsolidation?  Is it a collective call that resounds as barriers of consciousness dissolve?

In this workshop, we will explore a leading-edge approach to working with dreams.  Accessing non-conscious memories and processes involving movement, conscious awareness of sensation, and embodied emotion unlocks the barriers between unconscious and conscious knowing.  

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Jun
18
10:00 AM10:00

Ways to Self Regulate in Times of Struggle

I am thrilled to contribute to a program called Spark led by Paul Denniston. Paul is a luminary of our time and the founder of Grief Yoga. This program is about finding spark and transformation through movement and expression. Below is information about Spark, and where you can join to hear me share about ways to regulate in times of struggle. I have attended many of Paul’s courses and have found them exceptional.

Ways to Self Regulate in Times of Struggle

(Special Guest Teacher Dr. Abi Blakeslee)

June 18 at 11am PT / 2pm ET

Our special guest this month is Dr. Abi Blakeslee, who is the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy and holds a Ph.D. in Clinical and Somatic Psychology and an MA in Counseling and Depth Psychology. In this bonus, we'll learn practical techniques to help yourself self regulate when you're feeling activated and overwhelmed.

Challenges, anxiety and loss will always be a part of life.
The struggle is real. It's all around us, and also within us. 
Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed?
In this turbulent world, so many things are out of our control.
Yet we do have the power of how to react and respond.
We can create space to express, channel, and move the struggle through.
Perhaps it can lead us to more confidence. love and peace.
Peace is a reflection of ease. Ease is an absence of difficulty or effort. 
The intention of finding moments to slow down.
Perhaps to seek and savor moments of sweetness. 

What would it be like to embody more ease in life?  

In our supportive community Spark, we experience classes using movement, breath and sound to transform pain and suffering in empowering ways, to witness grief to move toward more love, play, and meaning.

This month, in Spark, we will embrace mind, body, and spirit techniques to Embody Ease in empowering ways.

Join us in Spark for Live 60-Minute Classes on Thursdays at 12:00 pm PT/ 3:00 pm ET. 

There's also an optional 30-minute informal discussion time following the class. 

If you can't make it, all of the classes will be recorded and available on your platform for you to experience in your own time.

As a Spark member, you also have access to a library of classes. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to paul@griefyoga.com. Or to get all the details, click here.

Paul Denniston is the founder of Grief Yoga® and the author of Healing Through Yoga: Transform Loss into Empowerment.

The mission of Grief Yoga is to use movement, breath, and sound to release pain and suffering to connect to empowerment and love.

Grief Yoga combines many different forms of yoga to channel and release anger to allow unresolved grief a compassionate space to breathe and move. His gentle work creates a safe space of movement and healing to transform trauma and connect to the resilient loving warrior within.

Paul has taught and trained this practice to thousands of therapists, counselors, yoga teachers and health care professionals around the world.

www.griefyoga.com

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2024 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Mar
21
to Mar 24

2024 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium

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I'm presenting at the 47th annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium! The Most Celebrated Gathering in the World for Psychotherapists

Dates: March 21st - 24th, 2024

Location: Live in Washington D.C. and Online.

I will be presenting on Thursday, March 21, 2024:

Embodied Healing for Developmental Trauma

It can be easy to focus on the words a client uses, but some of the most important information they reveal is through their physiology, posture, and movement. Our early life is encoded in the elusive dimension of implicit memory. Thus, a primary way to repair developmental trauma is to work directly with the nonconscious memory systems where patterns of relationship to self, other, and environment originate. You can do this by tapping into the “language” of the body. In this highly experiential workshop, you’ll explore hands-on exercises to engage developmental repair with clients suffering from attachment wounds, emotional abuse, and neglect. You’ll discover: 

  • Experiential and easy-to-use exercises to foster developmental repair with clients  

  • Embodied movement techniques to help clients initiate action, foster agency and follow-through, and expand their capacity to receive 

  • How to help clients more fully embody their emotions and learn to communicate authentically  

Save an extra $50 when you use promo code SYM50

Check out the complete lineup and workshops, and register easily here:

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Somatic Healing in the Perinatal Period
Dec
13
12:00 PM12:00

Somatic Healing in the Perinatal Period

Our next Perinatal Mental Health Training session features Abi Blakeslee SEP, CMT, MFT, Ph.D, founder of Implicit Psychotherapy. Blakeslee will discuss Somatic healing in the perinatal period: skills for regulating emotions and physiology for the resolution of trauma and foundation for secure attachment during a one-hour session that begins at 2 p.m. (ET) on December 13, 2023. Intrigued by the topic, but can't attend live? Register, and we'll send you a replay link after the presentation. CME credit available to participants.

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Many Faces of Chronic Stress and What You Can Do About It
Nov
25
7:00 PM19:00

Many Faces of Chronic Stress and What You Can Do About It

You've "been there, done that," but you can't shake off the tension headaches, lethargy, irritability...
Is the exhaustion all in the mind, or is there more to it?
In this public talk, you will discover the somatic perspective on the Many Faces of Chronic Stress and What You Can Do About It.

Date: 25 Nov 2022
Time: 7 pm - 9 pm SGT
Venue: TBA

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Aug
8
to Aug 14

The Biology of Trauma Summit

Life is stressful. No one these days is untouched by trauma.

Mental health challenges, addictions, burnout, sleep disturbances, and worsening chronic conditions are skyrocketing due to worry and stress.

Yet trauma, its long-term health effects, and the way forward can be difficult to recognize.

At The Biology of Trauma 2.0: Beyond the Diagnosis, Dr. Aimie Apigian will illuminate the missing piece and teach you the biology essentials to accelerate the trauma healing journey!

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