Training

Introduction to Somatic Experiencing®

12 Feb

Introduction to SE Workshop

with Dr Abi Blakeslee SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD

Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented therapeutic model that helps heal trauma and other stress disorders. Developed by Peter Levine, Ph.D., it is the result of the multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience and medical biophysics, with more than 45 years of successful clinical application.

SE provides a framework for understanding and addressing trauma physiology, restore and to build resiliency. By utilizing both “bottom up” and “top-down” approach in processing traumatic stress, individuals are directed to track internal sensations i.e. visceral (interoception) and musculo-skeletal (proprioception and kinesthesis) to work through stuck on or off survival patterns, and also process and work through beliefs that may over- or under-coupled with the traumatic experience. SE also incorporates principles of titration and pendulation, where the individual to increase toleration of difficult sensations and emotions and embodiment of sensations of empowerment, thus shifting the individual from the helpless state of disempowerment and helplessness when traumatic memories are triggers. The systematic shift towards increasing resiliency. (Somatic Experiencing® International)

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the physiological basis of trauma and identify how maladaptive physiological responses to threat and their lack of resolution may contribute to the formation of PTSD symptoms.
  • Demonstrate working through disorganized sensory and sensory-motor experience using concepts of orienting, stabilization, containment,resourcing and self-regulating to return to state of homeostasis
  • Learn basic stabilization skills.

About the Trainer

Dr Blakeslee is faculty at the SomaticExperiencing® International. Dr Blakeslee holds a Ph.D. in Clinical and Somatic Psychology and is a licensed marriage and family therapist.

Her dissertation, with a committee that included Dr Daniel Siegel, generated original research on the role of implicit memory in healing trauma.

Dr Blakeslee integrates SE with clinical research, secondary trauma interventions, and the psychobiological principles of attachment and shock trauma. She treats individuals, couples, children and families in her clinical practice. Her most recent publication is in the Journal of Neuropsychology (Vol 5 Issue 1A) with Dr. Joseph Riordan and Dr. Peter Levine titled,“Toddler Trauma: Somatic Experiencing®, Attachment and the Neurophysiology of Dyadic Completion.”

Date: 11 February 2023 (SAT)

Time: 10am to 1pm

Course fee: SGD180

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