The Somatic Approach
This class can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings. All class times are posted in Eastern Time / New York time zone.
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Somatic Experiencing®(SE™), developed by Dr. Levine, is a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to the treatment of trauma and other stress related disorders. SE offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight, fawn, freeze, or collapse responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states.
During this class, Dr. Levine will use a client demonstration video to guide us in how the SE approach gently facilitates the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms, allowing us and our patients to better manage stressful times without overload, burnout, chronic pain, or regretful transgressions.
His method supports a client’s lean into difficult emotions in a way that can increase true resiliency.
Define how trauma responses are a set of defensive bodily reactions meant to protect us and how they may present in a patient.
Identify how trauma-based perceptions remain fundamentally unchanged until the internal experience of the body changes.
Demonstrate various techniques to aid with nervous system regulation.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Dr. Peter Levine
Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing® International.
Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received multiple Lifetime Achievement awards, including from Psychotherapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. His work has been taught to over 50,000 practitioners in over 42 countries. He is currently a Senior Fellow and consultant at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona, and continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally. To learn more visit somaticexperiencing.com.