Somatic Trauma Resolution Intro and Practitioner Training

Posted Jan. 06, 2011

Somatic Trauma Resolution Intro

Last Chance for the STR Intro. Nov. 25, 26. This course is required to take the Practitioner Training described below. For this Introduction you will receive a 9 DVD set of Sharon Porter teaching an Intro and a handout of 50 pages. You will watch these and then come to Nelson on Nov. 25, 26 to do the practice session work with Judy Katz and to skype with Sharon through the day. This Intro. itself will give you great tools for working with Trauma as it arises in your clients, and is a requirement for further training. Please email the application form to myrna@myrnamartin.net asap so you can begin watching the DVD's.

Application forms are available in Microsoft Word. Click here to open the application form.

Somatic Trauma Resolution Practitioner Training

Instructor: Sharon Porter, BCST, SEP, RPP

In Nelson, B.C., at 1502 Stanley St. , Kutenai Institute of Integral Therapies

Module 1 - January 13-16, 2012 (Friday - Monday)

Module 2 - May 25-28, 2012 (Friday - Monday)

Module 3 - September 29 - October 2 (Saturday - Tuesday)

Module 4 - To be determined in Module 1

Application Forms

Application forms are available in Microsoft Word.

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Course Description

Subjects presented include theoretical and clinical work based on the Somatic Experiencing system developed by Dr. Peter Levine and other contributors to the field of somatic trauma healing, including those of the instructor. These skills are then applied to symptoms and areas of trauma often presented by clients who suffer from conditions that contain an element of trauma. The approaches learned in the areas of trauma addressed give the student tools for traumas that may not be addressed. This course is oriented toward body workers though most of the work is first learned off the table.

This is a course of 180 hours and includes 104 hours of classroom instruction in four 4-day modules over approximately 1 year. (Students will have had an additional 20 hours of instruction in an Intro course or its make-up equivalency to prepare them for this course.)

Classroom instruction includes lectures, demonstrations, class discussion, and practice sessions with other students under close supervision of the instructor and teaching assistants.

Independent study outside the classroom includes relevant reading and 50 hours of documented practice sessions, 40 of which are with non-paying clients and ten of which can be with paying clients to support integration of the material with one’s current professional practice. Written reports of four sessions are required.

Students are also required to receive a minimum of three sessions from STR or Somatic Experiencing Practitioners or their equivalent. Personal process is essential for being able to successfully do Somatic Trauma Resolution, so opportunities for this are provided within classroom demonstrations, supervised practice, sessions with qualified professionals, and out of class exchanges between students.

The Porter training method is unique in that it begins with boundary work that makes it safe for the student to be in the body; it also introduces awareness of energetics that accelerate the learning process.

Course Objectives

Learn basics of current neurological science regarding the nervous system’s response to overwhelming/traumatic experiences and how to return the nervous system and physiology to resiliency
Recognize common symptoms of trauma and be able to normalize these to reduce the client’s fear about their dysfunction
Recognize truncation in the alert, orienting, fight, flight, and freeze/tonic immobility phases of nervous system response as well as to support signs of effective discharge of shock, disorganization, and reorganization of physiology
Be able to resonate, support and dialogue with the client while tracking and processing sensations in one’s own body
Titrate discharges and develop resiliency out of context for students before taking it into context with issues that could be overwhelming and retraumatizing if addressed directly without first removing some of the charge that they hold.
Apply key trauma skills to areas of common trauma addressed in the course. Apply skills from each module to future modules.
Use voice volume, tone, pace, empathy, compassion, humor and knowledge to be both tender and efficient with adults and teens. The course also includes a brief introduction to working with children
Learn to take a trauma history as well as to work effectively without history
Discern when to apply trauma skills in a body work, biodynamic or psychotherapeutic practice
Apply Biodynamic and Energetic concepts to trauma work
Learn through morning check-ins how to work with after-effects of previous session
Complete all assigned independent study, including reading, written assignments and logged sessions.

· Sharon Porter Sharon trains practitioners in Somatic Trauma Resolution, a highly effective Energy Medicine approach to healing physical and emotional trauma. Based on Somatic Experierncing™, it is informed by Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy® and Polarity Therapy. A dynamic and gifted teacher, Sharon has been training practitioners since 1974 and comes to us from Los Angeles. See HealthWaveInstitute.com

· Cost: $550 per Module with a commitment to all 4 modules.

Contact: Myrna Martin, MN, RCC, RCST at

myrna@myrnamartin.net or 250-352-1655

Testimonials

"After the practice of an exercise about boundaries, I experienced a new way of being in my body and mind. I felt taller, stronger, my mind was clearer. I had the global impression to come back to myself, to belong to myself again. A great and unusual amount of energy was available, more space for new, positive thoughts in my daily life and in my dreams, along with a new sense of power."

Anju

"After two private sessions and Sharon's three day introduction: Sharon, you are a master practitioner and I know you have a lot of offer. I have never processed so much in such a short time... I received a level of learning and evolving that I did not know was possible. I am excited and curious how my journey with the work will continue.

Thank you, Sharon."

Teresa Waters - Body worker, personal coach, and graduate student in Psychology

"I did this workshop with her in the winter and was very moved, changed and impressed by the importance and effectiveness of the work.

It is based on Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing which she studied with Levine and has used clinically and in training practitioners since the early 1990's. She is trauma expert with over 40 years of experience, and has further adapted the Somatic Experiencing approach in ways in which she has found increased effectiveness. Her work is called Somatic Trauma Resolution.

It is a great compliment to many other modalities, teaching how to identify and work with trauma-bound energy that arises when we are working."

Judy Katz, Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner