Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) Session Demonstration: Shame & Pride
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Witness Peter A. Levine, PhD work in real time to strategize solutions for where patterns of shame may be stuck.
We invite you to a rare one-on-one Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) session demonstration with internationally renowned trauma expert Dr. Peter A. Levine, developer of SE™, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma.
Chronic shame is one of the most corrosive emotions that people experience. This state can stem from a shaming that breaks a connection and a ruptures trust. The shame then “metastasizes” and spreads, affecting the entire organism, collapsing the body, polluting the spirit, and undermining our basic sense of wellbeing and worthiness.
Work with shame requires learnable skills of body reading, tracking physiology, and a therapeutic understanding of how to facilitate connection.
Shame is associated with a very specific body posture and autonomic pattern. It is a pattern which is similar to those we see in trauma, including hyper-arousal, hypo-arousal and shutdown. The opposite body experience of shame is the direct experience of the somatic/autonomic posture of triumph and pride. It is physiologically impossible to experience shame while one has a rooted and embodied sense of pride and an inner sense of dignity. Utilizing this dynamic relationship, within the context of a therapeutic alliance, shame can be transformed to a core sense of self-respect and self-compassion. This integrative process is essential for promoting overall health and wellbeing.
During this demonstration session, Dr. Levine will lead us in exploring how we can track shame patterns within our clients and lead them out of collapse into experiencing a sense of pride. Learning from observation, practice, and discussion is an integral way to understand bottom-up somatic-based healing, no matter what level. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to dive deeper into the understanding of SE™ and Dr. Levine's work in the field, including Q&A.
OBJECTIVES
Analyze a somatic-based trauma healing session with the developer himself.
Demonstrate how to bring awareness of chronic shame posturing into our therapeutic practices.
Apply active imagination using an embodied SE™ approach.
Utilize the knowledge of SE™ to remain present in the here and now, invoking the power of intuition.
Demonstrate practices to cultivate a feeling of pride and facilitate support for here-and-now presence.
Identify unpleasant behaviors and emotions that may have shame based origins.
Utilize SE® tools that can reset the nervous system back to a more authentic place of being.
Please note: always use practices with clients within your supervised training level and scope of your practice.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Dr. Peter A. 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.