Registration is now closed or Somatics, Trauma and Resilience Online.
Registration is now closed or Somatics, Trauma and Resilience Online.
Collectively we are being impacted by numerous things, and in distinct ways: COVID-19, financial upheaval, the impact of ongoing oppression, being called to social change, and the upcoming U.S. elections, alongside our other personal experiences.
So many of us are feeling thrown out of our depth, off-center, anxious, or confused about the future. But, it’s possible to use this upheaval to engage in our own healing, learning, and growth.
In Somatics, Trauma, and Resilience: Healing in Our Times, you will discover a trusted methodology for understanding personal and systemic trauma, building resilience, and engaging in healing.
Join us to Explore Trauma Healing Through Somatics
In this ten-session online course, we will explore the core needs of safety, belonging, and dignity, and how we adapt when these are hurt and threatened. We see healing and action as connected, and will delve into this intersection.
This course is led by Staci K. Haines, a lead teacher of Somatics and Trauma methodology, and author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice.
The program will also include optional small group Coaching Circles that will meet for 4 sessions, to deepen and integrate the weekly online program.
Somatics, Trauma, and Resilience is a live, interactive online course with optional Coaching Circles hosted on the Thinkific learning platform. The robust curriculum introduces methodology and practices each session.
The course consists of ten two-hour live teaching sessions that take place on Thursdays from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT. Each session will build upon the next. We’ll ask you to be in daily and weekly somatic practices, and there will be reading and writing reflections throughout the program. You will get to sign up for an optional small group Coaching Circle at registration.
When you register for the training, you will receive the following resources to help you bring the principles of Somatics, Trauma, and Resilience: Healing in Our Times into your life:
We highly recommend joining a small-group circle led by somatic coaches skilled in trauma healing. Coaching Circles support your learning and healing, as well as provide a small group for connection and community during the course. This popular offer—available on a first-come, first-serve basis—provides:
You will be offered the chance to join a Coaching Circle at registration.
SESSION #1 - October 29
Learn how we are wired to survive, as well as heal.
Discover why embodied processes are essential to feel, change and sustain.
SESSION #2 - November 5
Like our survival strategies, resilience is also inherent. Discover the differences between the two.
Cultivate resilience that allows for more aliveness and supports healing.
SESSION #3 - November 12
Explore the impacts of trauma, and how we react and adapt to navigate these experiences.
Learn to work with, rather than against, these survival strategies.
SESSION #4 - November 19
Learn how it is essential to have a broader and systemic understanding of causes of trauma to address both its impacts and healing.
See the connections between personal and systemic transformation.
SESSION #5 - December 3
Understanding safety from the inside out and outside in.
Learn new skills to regenerate safety.
SESSION #6 - December 10
Learn to recognize embodied patterns of contractions and numbness and work with them effectively.
Discover how to allow the natural and protective responses to process through the body/mind/emotions.
SESSION #7 - December 17
Learn the difference between embodied emotions and catharsis.
Discover how being more skilled emotionally serves our lives, relationships, and work in the world.
SESSION #8 - January 7
Somatics understands that shame, as difficult as it is, oddly serves a protective function as well.
Learn an embodied process of healing shame.
SESSION #9 - January 14
Engage and befriend the skills that trauma has taught us, and develop more choice in them.
Learn centered boundaries, accountability that doesn't collapse or blame, and more.
SESSION #10 - January 21
We’ll spend this last session diving into questions and integration. We’ll also explore the connections between personal and social change.
This course will invite your own process of healing, as well as give you tools in working with others. Because it is a virtual program, and we cannot support you at the level that we can during in-person courses, we ask that you also have other support. This can be friends and community, a coach competent in trauma healing, or a therapist, based on your need.
Registration is now closed or Somatics, Trauma and Resilience Online.
- Ilana Lerman, Spiritual & Cultural Organizer, Jewish Voice for Peace
Staci K. Haines is a national leader in the field of Somatics, specializing in intersecting personal and social change. Staci is the co-founder of generative somatics, a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and climate justice leaders and organizations. She specializes in Somatics and Trauma, and leads programs for healers, therapists, and social change leaders to transform the impact of individual and social trauma and violence. Her new book The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice (North Atlantic Books 2019) is based on that work. Read Full Bio
Prentis Hemphill is a genderqueer and Texan-born healer, movement facilitator, Somatics teacher, and writer living and working at the convergence of healing, individual and collective transformation, and political organizing. Read Full Bio