Sunday, October 26th, 4-7pm EST on Zoom
(also offered October 17th, 2-5pm EST)
Lis and Sage will support practitioners to make the link between how systems of supremacy impact our personal histories/positions and how this in turn impacts the therapeutic spaces we facilitate.
“Colonial psychology & psychiatry reveal their allegiance to the status quo in their approach to trauma: That resourcing must come from within oneself rather than from the collective. That trauma recovery is feeling safe in society, when in fact society is the source of trauma.
Colonial somatics & psychotherapies teach that the body must relearn to perceive safety. But the bodies of the oppressed are rightly interpreting danger. Our triggers & explosive rage, our dissociation & perfect submission are in fact skills that have kept us alive.”
Attunement with our client’s experience of historical, economic and social context is crucial to creating new possibilities for connection and healing, both personally and in community. Strengthening our understanding of supremacy and capacity for the inter-complexities of trauma can offer us new ways of seeing, affirming and holding our clients.
We will have a wide container for case consultations, personal explorations, and Q+A with two folks who have been doing somatic and community work for 25 years. We are intentionally limiting space to 12 participants so we can have a small and intimate group process. Two dates offered- save your spot!
Lis & Sage assisting at SE training
Lis Newell specializes in somatic therapy and trauma resolution; in practice for over 20 years. Primary modalities: Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems Therapy, body and energy work, and herbal medicine. For more about Lis, go to their website here.
Sage Hayes specializes in somatic practice through education, facilitation and bodywork. In practice with community and individual healing work since 1999. Primary modalities: Somatic Experiencing, Family and Systemic Constellations, Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy and movement/dance/experiential somatics. For more about Sage, go to their website here.
Registration: $125.00