Week 1 — In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
Dr. Peter Levine · 2-hour experiential session
Somatic Experiencing® offers a framework to assess where someone is "stuck" in fight, flight, or freeze — and clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. Through theory and body-oriented experiential exercises, learn how nervous system regulation and bodily awareness can move clients out of trauma states and into a more embodied, regulated sense of authentic Self.
Week 2 — Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in the Search for the Living Past
Dr. Peter Levine · 2-hour experiential session
Where trauma memory is so often shattered and incongruent, we all need a coherent narrative. Drawing on his book Trauma and Memory, Dr. Levine presents his hierarchical memory model — moving from the "bottom up" through implicit procedural memory to weave a coherent narrative and a potent mythic identity. Avoid the pitfalls of recovered memory while honoring the body's innate self-protective responses.
Week 3 — Shame and Pride: The SE™ Approach
Dr. Peter Levine · 2-hour experiential session
Chronic shame is one of the most corrosive emotions humans experience — collapsing the body, polluting the spirit, and undermining well-being. Yet shame's body posture has a direct opposite: the somatic experience of triumph and pride. Learn skills of body reading, autonomic tracking, and interpersonal dynamics to help clients move from shame to dignity, mastery, and self-compassion.
Week 4 — Syndromes and Chronic Pain: The SE™ Approach
Dr. Peter Levine · 2-hour experiential session
Migraines, vertigo, POTS, CRPS, fibromyalgia, IBS, CFS, and certain autoimmune conditions often share a common root: dysregulation of the HPA axis. Rather than chasing individual symptoms, learn to identify the underlying stress conditions and treat them with SE™ techniques. Includes autonomic balance, tuning, and kindling, with Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory as a guide.
