somatic experiencing mentoring circles

4 week mentoring and practice offering support towards deepening your somatic skills, potency and therapeutic effectiveness

This creative held space offered safety, relational consideration and group collaborative experience. As I grow into my more embodied SEP experience, if I can channel even a small amount of your love, energy, healing, knowledge and wisdom I will be blessed! Thank you Sage for being your most authentic YOU!
- Mentoring circle participant

This is a dynamic and collaborative learning experience. A unique circle of gathering to deepen our practice with our clients, each other and with the world.

A mentoring circle with eight colleagues that offers support, coaching and encouragement towards learning edges in deepening your somatic experiencing practice.

These groups are intended to support SE students at all levels, post advanced students and SEPs. Your wisdom is welcome. We will cover cases, questions, curiousities and do somatic practice together.

Each week begins with a guided somatic arriving which is followed by building our agenda together. For the first week we will spend time getting to know each other through introductions.

Upcoming Dates (click on date to register):

Overview

We’ll build a supportive container to support your growth, confidence and capacity as a practitioner
Weekly for 4 weeks: 9 hours total
Week 1 is 3 hours, weeks 2, 3 & 4 are two hours
Receive 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing group consultation hours at all levels
8 participants max each group
Each circle will be recorded so you can refer back to it or if you need to miss one, you’ll be able to watch it later.

Possible topics

Embodied attunement and vibrant ventral vagal engagement
Consent based practice
Case consultations with collaborative Q & A and discussion
Power and identity dynamics between practitioner and client
Activation and deactivation cycles of the nervous system
Listening in between the lines and into the non-linear field
Somatics and group work
Practitioner energetic hygiene
Chronic trauma related to non-dominant identities
Intergenerational and historic trauma in the client’s history
Integrating trauma work into bodywork
Plus whatever topics you bring to our group!

Investment and agreements:

$275 USD
Payment plans available
Eligible for 3 credits towards Somatic Experiencing certification
You may miss one week (except the first week) and still receive credit as long as you watch the recording which is sent out every week.
Questions? Email Sage at sage@embodiedliberation.com

Signed session logs

For SE students, 9 hours of SE group consultation counts as 3 credits of group case consultation towards your SEP certificate requirements. Following your group consultation, you will receive a follow-up email confirming your attendance at the group consultation. This email can be submitted to SETI with your other log sheet requirements for completion of the Somatic Experiencing Practitioner criteria.

Sage’s Somatics Background

Sage Hayes, SEP, LMT (she/he/they) is a devoted healing arts practitioner who believes wholeheartedly in individual and collective transformation. Exploring lineage, embodied presence and emergent relational care are the threads braided together in Sage’s work. Sage is a somatic experiencing practitioner of 18 years, a bodyworker with a massage and biodynamic craniosacral therapy background and an enthusiastic practitioner and student of family/systemic constellations. Sage was a lead teaching assistant with the Somatic Experiencing Institute, has been a practitioner with the Decolonizing Wealth Healing Collective and a facilitator with Healing Cycles of Harm program. Sage is also beginning to co-lead restorative nature retreats for healing practitioners.

Sage offers SE group case consultation, individual consultation and person session credit at all levels. Sage integrates a blend of somatic experiencing with many other modalities and philosophies.

Before entering the field of somatics, Sage worked as a consultant and facilitator in schools and organizations towards creating proactive safer spaces of inclusion, equity and kindness for LBGTQQA+ people. Sage’s personal experiences of being trans and adopted greatly inform their passion towards creating conditions, both one-on-one and in educational spaces, which nurture access and belonging for all participants. Sage co-created a wellness center in Portland, Maine called Justice in the Body, a collaboration community-based project which explored the dynamic question of how can we be free in our bodies in an unfree world? From the micro to the macro, from the past to the future, sage believes healing begins and ends in the now, with care and in collaboration with forces of wholeness much bigger than us.

As a white bodied person living on unceded Wabanaki territories, Sage believes that being anchored in some understanding and embodiment of our identities and lineages is essential to practitioner holistic attunement. As an adoptee Sage brings a keen eye to early childhood attachment disruptions and the adaptations that follow. As a family constellation student Sage also incorporates lineage disruptions and loss as integral to understanding our clients. Over the years Sage has practiced and offered massage therapy, craniosacral therapy, polarity, yoga, kickboxing to tap healthy aggression, ecstatic dance, constellations and somatic experiencing in a wide range of ways. In 2018 Sage co-created a research project exploring SE application in groups, specifically within the trans community. Also in 2018 2018, Sage presented a lecture and workshop called Somatic Practice with Marginalized Communities at the SE European Conference in Potsdam and moderated the final panel with Peter Levine, Marianne Bentzen, David Reis and Heike Bill.

Sage is rooted in deep embodied practices of listening for healing movements, love and liberatory co-evolution.