The Somatic Signs of Developmental Trauma
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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Adverse childhood experiences generate displacement, disembodiment, and shame. These experiences challenge self-worth, thwart creativity, discourage our clients from fully embodying themselves, and inhibit them from living their authentic self-expression.
At the heart of developmental trauma are the wounds of repeatedly not being seen, not feeling a sense of worth, and not realizing a sense of belonging. This can happen through neglect, abuse, displacement due to disaster, medical trauma, long separations from family/community systems, intergenerational trauma, and systemic oppression. These adverse experiences often leave clients feeling relationally disconnected or dissatisfied, feeling too close, too far away, or both.
They can grow into adults, have relationships (if desired), raise children (if desired), have gainful employment, and still have a strong sense of not existing, not mattering, and not having an inner sense of worth or sense of self. This holding stems from these experiences living deep within their tissues - once a protective mechanism, now a hindrance.
Treating Developmental Trauma as a practitioner can be challenging because the signs are often masked by more recent traumas. This program will help you to identify, in the body, preverbal neglect and attachment wounds, explore what could have been missing, and learn specific tools to help restore your clients' sense of agency, direction, and purpose.
In our time together, we will:
Define the roots of developmental trauma and how the missing elements affect the body
Understand ways to repair what was lacking in the client's development
Utilize somatic practices to track the signs of developmental trauma and help reset the nervous system back to a more authentic place of being
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.