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