Advanced Level
Learn to work with complex trauma and syndromes. Expand on the use of touch in SE practice.
Typically consists of two 6-day live training modules, spaced 4 to 6 months apart.
- Learn about the importance of stabilization when working with complex trauma
- Explore the SE concept of “coherence” in working with complex trauma
- Refine touch skills for supporting containment and coherence
- Learn about the interrelationship between dysregulation of the ANS and the SE model of syndromes (non-reciprocal relationship between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems)
- Develop a deeper understanding of the Polyvagal Theory as it relates to working with syndromes
- Refine the necessary SE skills of “titration” and “pendulation” when working with highly sensitive and syndromal clients
- Learn the SE model for working with the eyes
- Develop SE touch-based skills for working with different categories of trauma
- Understand how SE uses joints, body diaphragms, and the viscera to access ANS responses and to support completion of incomplete survival responses
- Explore scope-of-practice issues relating to the integration of SE and SE touch into professional practice