Methodologies

Ritual
Movement
Creative Arts
Sounding
Writing exercises
Instruction

Objectives of the training are to:

• Learn the language of the body and how thoughts, feelings and memories impact our daily experience
• Learn how trauma is stored in, and released from, the nervous system
• Gain understanding and direct experience of the chakras
• Identify and reclaim archetypal energies and awaken and utilize your creative self for healing and transformation.
• Develop a reciprocal working relationship with your essential self.

Course Description

MODULE 1
Introduction: Building a Healthy Relationship with our Body

• Introducing the Chakras
• Resourcing as a Foundation for Healing and Transformation

First Chakra Laying the Foundation: Re-examining the Past, Retrieving the Healthy Child

• Examining Issues of safety, boundaries, nurturance & beliefs
• Reclaiming exiled parts

MODULE 2
Second Chakra Entering the Fruitful Dark: Finding Our Way with Creativity, Sexuality and Work

• Exploring our sensual body: passion & intimate relationships
• Work as personal & social value; artist & lover archetypes

Third Chakra Take Me to My Leader: Discovering Identify & Personal Power

• Retrieving self-esteem, personal power, warrior archetype
• Balancing self-worth & the self-critic

• Love & Forgiveness
• Self acceptance & self care
• Grief & Letting Go

Fifth Chakra Speak Now or Forever Hold My Piece: Reclaiming authentic Voice

• Communication & self expression; sounding
• Development of will & choice
• Learning through projection

Sixth Chakra Mindful Vision: Seeing What Was, What Is & What Could Be

• Core beliefs & the power of thought
• Using the intellect for healing
• Finding Authentic mindful action; visionary archetype

MODULE 4
Seventh Chakra And Then There was Light: Mysticism & the Embodiment of Sovereignty

• Finding guidance & acting on it
• Owning your inner wisdom; the organizing principle
• Discovering sovereignty; the archetype of ruler / elder

• Interconnecting system of chakras; energies of manifestation & release
• Integrating archetypal energy
• Completing the first spiral; review & reflection
• Taking the Next Step

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In these high stress times of both personal and cultural trauma, our biggest resource is our connection to bodily wisdom. By listening to its unique language, we can reclaim our personal power, transform our experiences and live the lives we were born to live, in love and gratitude.

We all know someone or are someone who has been through a traumatic experience, whether it be an accident, medical intervention, deep loss or abuse. Why do some people more easily heal from their experiences while others seem unable to move forward in their lives?

In this 12 day training, we will focus on the physiology of trauma, with emphasis on the autonomic nervous system, and its resolution using the creative arts therapies and body wisdom. We will explore our bodies as the repositories for both wounding and healing, guiding us from blocks into breakthroughs and pain into wellness. We will address both shock and developmental trauma, and how to work with each. And all that we do will support our moving into our joy.

During each day of the training we will work with ritual, body-based awareness exercises, art process, working in dyads, and group discussion. The information will be presented sequentially and each aspect will be touched upon in every process. Special emphasis will be placed on developing conscious awareness of one’s individual process

TRAINING CONCEPTS

The training will consist of the following basic building blocks or concepts:

1. Safety - learning about containment, boundaries, grounding and centering, braking and accelerating the healing process, foundation for healing

2. Building Resources - using art processes and media to discover and support, learning how to enlarge one’s container for self and other

3. Tracking skills - following one’s sensations through pendulation and titration; over/under coupling; flight/fight/freeze responses

4. SIBAM model – in depth understanding of the five aspects of healing - sensations, images, behavior or movement patterns, affect and meaning

5. Increasing resonance – distinguishing from counter-transference

6. Gaining skills in Art processes – learning about media that enhance
awareness of one’s sensations, learning how to follow the image and
sensation.

6. Joy Practices – awakening to the sensations of joy as both the path to, and embodiment of sacred unity.

8. Sacred Unity – the foundation of the training; awakening an awareness
of our interconnectivity with all life.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

The objectives of this training will allow participants to:

1. Understand the physiology of the autonomic nervous system as the basis for healing the aftereffects of trauma including isolation, disconnection, helplessness, constriction and hypervigilence.

2. Enhance one’s understanding of the seven chakras and their relationship to the storage and release of trauma from the body.

3. Understand via direct experience of one’s own body messages (sensations and symptoms), using creativity and guided visualization, how one can connect to the sources and sensations of trauma and transform them.

4. Understand how the theories of the SIBAM model, resourcing, safety,
boundaries and the techniques of pendulation, titration, braking and exceleration aid in the resolution of trauma.

5. Gain a beginning knowledge of how art process and trauma resolution theory and technique combine to enhance effectiveness.

6. Gain knowledge in the proper use of art materials
with different populations and different trauma responses.

7. Gain an embodied experience of sacred unity using movement, art
process, sounding, and practices that enhance one’s experience of joy.

8. Create a personal, daily gratitude practice using art, movement,
sounding or in writing which enhances one’s experience of joy.

 

MODES OF INSTRUCTION

1. Slide Shows of client work;

2. Lecture and discussion of how the creative arts and imagery interact with the neurochemical systems of the body to activate shifts in symptomatology and causal factors of pain and dis-ease;

3. Handouts of various concepts and techniques to supplement lectures;

4. Creative arts experientials including movement, guided visualization chanting or sounding and art process;

5. Writing and journal keeping of personal process;

6. Recommended reading material;

7. Private Somatic Experiencing© sessions with instructor;

8. Group supervision for those working with clients.

Fall 2010 Dates TBA

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