Integral Somatic Psychology Professional Training
The ISP Professional Training is a premium training consisting of three 4-day training modules. Each day starts with a lecture followed by a demonstration session. After lunch you will be able to practice the new material during clinical practice sessions under live supervision of a mentor.
Module 1
In this first module of the training, we will learn the science of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior and the four steps of the practice of emotional embodiment to help improve diverse outcomes in all therapies.
We will also learn how we can facilitate greater embodiment of emotional experiences through the physiology of the muscles of the arms, legs, face, throat, and neck. In addition, we will begin to learn how we can work with the elemental archetype of air to help facilitate the embodiment of emotions.
Course Content:
- The science of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior
- The four steps of the practice of embodying emotions
- Different types of emotional experiences
- The role of the muscular system in generating and defending against emotional experience
- Clinical strategies for working with the arm and leg muscles for facilitating emotional embodiment
- Clinical strategies for working with the face, throat, and neck muscles for facilitating emotional embodiment
- Clinical strategies for working with the elemental archetypes, air in particular, for facilitating emotional embodiment
Integral Somatic Psychology can improve outcomes to a significant degree.“
Raja Selvam, PhD, Founder and Developer of ISP
Module 2
In this second module of the training, we will learn how we can facilitate greater embodiment of emotional experiences through the physiology of the torso musculature and the diaphragms of the torso, and of the organs, glands, and blood vessels governed by the autonomic nervous system.
We will also study how we can facilitate greater embodiment of our emotional experiences in our brain and body by connecting the individual to additional elemental archetypal resources at different levels of the collective.
Course Content:
- The role of the torso musculature and the diaphragms of the torso in generating as well as defending against emotional experiences
- Clinical strategies for working with the physiology of the torso musculature and the diaphragms of the torso for facilitating the process of emotional embodiment
- The role of the autonomic nervous system and the areas of governed by it (organs, glands, and blood vessels) in generating as well as defending against emotional experiences
- Clinical strategies for working with the autonomic nervous system and the areas of governed by it for facilitating the process of emotional embodiment
- The role of the elemental archetype of ether in emotional experience
- Clinical strategies for working with the elemental archetype of ether for facilitating the process of emotional embodiment
- The role of the elemental archetype of air in emotional experience
- Clinical strategies for working with the elemental archetype of air for facilitating the process of emotional embodiment
- The role of the elemental archetype of water in emotional experience
- Clinical strategies for working with the elemental archetype of water for facilitating the process of emotional embodiment
ISP brings together a broad and expanded understanding of trauma, emotions, and transformation. Through this training, I have become both professionally and personally more resilient, resonant. With deeper capacity, I am better able to move toward wholeness and coherence. I am able to take clients to greater depth and capacity in a way that is both moving and liberating.
Module 3
In this third and final module of the training, we will learn how we can facilitate greater embodiment of emotional experiences through the physiology of the brain, the spinal cord, and the structures that surround and protect them (cerebrospinal fluid, membrane, bone, fascia, tendon, ligament, muscle).
We will also study how we can facilitate greater embodiment of our emotional experiences in our brain and body by connecting the individual to additional archetypal resources at different levels of the collective than in earlier modules.
Course Content:
- The role of the central nervous system area of the brain and spinal cord and surrounding structures in generating as well as defending against extra-ordinary psychological and physiological and experiences of stress and trauma
- Clinical strategies for working with the physiology of the brain and spinal cord and surrounding structures when working with extra-ordinary psychological and physiological experiences of stress and trauma in psychological work settings
- The role of the central nervous system areas of the brain and spinal cord and surrounding structures in generating as well as defending against ordinary but difficult physiological and psychological experiences in the course of development (as opposed to extra-ordinary experiences stress and trauma)
- Clinical strategies for working with the central nervous system area of brain and spinal cord and surrounding structures during psychological work with ordinary but difficult experiences in the course of development (as opposed to the extraordinary experiences of stress and trauma)
- Clinical strategies for connecting the individual more to the resources of the basic elemental archetype of fire with intensity and clarity as its primary attributes, for accessing, expanding, and regulating our emotional experiences in psychological work settings
- Clinical strategies for connecting the individual more to the resources of the basic elemental archetype of earth with structure and stability as its primary attributes, for accessing, expanding, and regulating our emotional experiences in psychological work settings
- Clinical strategies for facilitating the interactions between the individual and the collective at the higher end of the archetypal continuum, at the level of the Self and beyond, to mobilize the highest possible resources of the collective for accessing, expanding, and regulating our emotional experiences in psychological work settings
