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Deepening Somatic Practice workshop in Auckland


  • Embodied Liberation 42 Ingalls Road Portland, ME, 04109 United States (map)

Deepening somatic practice workshop in Aotearoa | New Zealand

This workshop is offered for somatic experiencing students and practitioners in New Zealand

July 21, 2023, Friday 10-6pm

July 22, 2023 Saturday 9:30am-12:30pm

July 23, 2023, Sunday 10-4pm

Friday

Essential map to begin somatic sessions

  • Grounding, presence and nervous system assessment

  • Deepening our trust in the client’s system

  • Somatic intention setting with our clients

Energetic and nervous system hygiene 

  • Embodied accompaniment - joining versus merging

  • The impact of client’s activation on our system

  • Practices and rituals for clearing

Creative & somatic mimicking- what’s ready to happen in the clients system?

Offering a felt sense, experiential and incremental opportunities to support growth

Saturday 

Somatic Experiencing Case Consultation with Sage Hayes 

Sunday

  • Social trauma and somatics introduction - strategies of survival and the somatic costs.  Ongoing and chronic threat and fight, flight, freeze and appease.

  • Identity and belonging

  • Exploring and making visible social trauma,historical / environmental context

  • Doing our work when we are practitioners in the dominant group

  • Holding ourselves when we are in the non-dominant group

Tools for working with social trauma and somatics    

  • Affirmation and accompaniment

  • Cultivating and tracking dynamic consent between us and clients

  • Presencing solidarity