Learn effective methods to help clients work through pre and perinatal traumas and global high-intensity activation
$395 (50% off the regular workshop price)
18 CE Credits
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The coronavirus pandemic poses an existential threat to us in many ways: Loss of life, loved ones, and sustenance. These threats are capable of triggering our deepest wounds to the surface, requiring that we work deeply with our clients and ourselves, and they provide us an opportunity for profound personal transformation. What I have learned is that the pandemic is triggering in many of us our earliest existential issues from pre and perinatal traumas.
Because our disposable incomes have taken a hit during the pandemic, I am offering this video course at a special price of $395 (50% off the regular workshop price).
What You Will Learn
- Learn to identify the different types of pre and perinatal traumas
- Understand how pre and perinatal traumas can compromise different layers of the body and the brain
- Get insight into how early imprints of pre and perinatal trauma can be behind reactions to traumatic events later in life
- Develop skills to work with existential fragmentation, terror, rage, and shame: four of the six major themes associated with pre and perinatal trauma
- Acquire methods for working with global high-intensity activation of the central nervous system
18 CE Credits
Pre and Perinatal Trauma is an advanced level course. 18 CE Credits are available for Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Social Workers, Counselors and Nurses, and will be provided by Commonwealth Seminars. There is no known commercial support nor conflict of interest for this program. Visit our CE Credits page for detailed information.
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Who can Benefit from this Course
All professionals including graduates and students of Somatic Experiencing (SE) engaged in treating symptoms from pre and perinatal trauma and global high-intensity activation stand to gain much from this course.
Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) graduates and trainees will learn about pre and perinatal trauma and how to apply their ISP skills specifically to pre and perinatal traumas.
ISP has developed into a rich treasure. In helping clients with difficult emotions such as fear, grief and pain my work has gained much more containment and depth. And during a severe flu combined with heart symptoms I was able to regulate my anxiety through what I have learned at ISP. I highly recommend ISP to therapists.
About Raja Selvam, PhD
Raja Selvam, PhD, is the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology™, a new paradigm in body psychotherapy based on state-of-the-art research in neuroscience, affect theory, cognitive psychology, and emotion. He has helped over 1,500 therapists in 20 countries graduate from his ISP Professional Training.
In addition to ISP, Raja is Senior Faculty at Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute and works as a licensed clinical psychologist with a PhD in Psychology. His articles on trauma, embodiment, and spirituality appeared in journals.
Course Description
The course is a recording of a live workshop I taught with lectures, discussion, and three demonstrations with participants. The course will cover the following topics:
- Major types of pre and perinatal trauma
- Major themes: Existential terror, fragmentation, rage, and shame
- Physiological and energetic defenses commonly involved
- Global intensity of the central nervous system
- How to efficiently work with all of the above by building a greater capacity for a larger range of emotional experiences by using the body as a container
- The science of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior.
Curriculum
Day 1 – Video 1 (1:01:29): Workshop Overview: Pre and perinatal traumas and Integral Somatic Psychology
Day 1 – Video 2 (50:31): Types of pre and perinatal trauma.
Day 1 – Video 3 (58:19): How pre and perinatal trauma can affect various layers of the body including the brain.
Day 1 – Video 4 (56:02): Demo: Working with pre and perinatal trauma. Symptom: Panic and loss of mental clarity. Working with underlying existential terror.
Day 2 – Video 1 (56:41): Debriefing of day 1 practice & overview of the strategy of emotional embodiment.
Day 2 – Video 2 (41:10): Where blocks against traumatic suffering can form in the body and why.
Day 2 – Video 3 (41:05): The five major themes of pre and perinatal trauma: Existential terror, fragmentation, rage, shame, and difficulty in making contact.
Day 2 – Video 4 (1:01:16): Demo – Working with fear/agitation/helplessness from pre and perinatal trauma.
Day 3 – Video 1 (1:00:48): Debriefing of day 2 practice & higher energies involved in pre and perinatal trauma. Introduction to the crown center.
Day 3 – Video 2 (56:18): Continuation on the crown center.
Day 3 – Video 3 (47:19): Working with the five major themes from pre and perinatal trauma: Existential fragmentation, terror, rage, shame, and difficulty in making contact.
Day 3 – Video 4 (1:11:33): Demo – Working with existential shame.
Day 4 – Video 1 (31:03): Review ISP Training & the subtle body and pre and perinatal trauma.
Day 4 – Video 2 (42:59): The subtle body and the earth element.
Day 4 – Video 3 (33:28): The earth element, the root center, and pre and perinatal trauma.
References
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Integral Somatic Psychology is neither a regulatory nor licensing organization and therefore not sanctioned to certify, license, or otherwise bestow the legal authorization to practice as a mental health professional.
