AN INTRODUCTION TO WORKING SOMATICALLY WITH TRAUMA IN COUNSELLING PRACTICE
(ONLINE)
Date to be confirmed
Venue:
Online (Google Meet)
What past participants have said:
"A great workshop full of session changing tools."
"Loved the demonstration and the practice. It made so much sense in terms of my own feelings."
"The workshop felt packed with content rather than feeling padded out."
"I was fully immersed and engaged in the subject matter, just the right pace and felt really supported by someone who clearly knows his stuff."
"We got a lot of learning and a lot of practical experience from one day
I was utterly exhausted but I wouldn't change a thing."
"Engaging. Fascinating. Thought provoking. Sensitive. Vulnerable even. Kind for sure. Thank you!"
"Perfect. Really interactive"
"I loved the training so much"
"The approach and practice had such a healing and connective understanding."
"Lots of insight on how best to help clients."
"Absolutely loved this workshop. I really thank you for spending the day with us to teach us such an insightful and effective way of working with trauma."
"I feel I have left with more confidence in doing more body work with clients and with far more understanding of why it's useful and how to make the exploration deeper."
"Really great to be around someone fully invested in what he teaches"
"A great workshop and day of learning. Thoroughly enjoyed it!"
"I was really looking forward to attending this course as it is a particular interest of mine but it exceeded my expectations!
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This one-day ONLINE teaching and experiential workshop offers an introductory exploration of trauma through the lens of the nervous system, equipping participants with practical somatic tools to support themselves and others in navigating dysregulation and overwhelm. Taught by a trauma specialist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and psychotherapist, we will:
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Develop a working understanding of the nervous system’s role in trauma, stress and anxiety
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Examine biological threat responses and how they present in behaviours and symptoms
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Explore the connection between our felt senses and the cognitive understanding of emotion
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Learn to recognise signs of nervous system dysregulation in others
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Understand the importance of psychoeducation in client work in the service of normalising biological responses
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Practise accessible strategies to support nervous system regulation
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Learn how trauma gets stuck and how to help clients to begin to heal
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Engage in guided somatic exercises to build confidence in applying this approach
This workshop is designed for therapists or student therapists who want to deepen their understanding of how the body responds to nervous system overwhelm and how to begin to work somatically with clients.
Ticket Costs
Early Bird - £TBD
General Admission £TBD
Student £TBD
(Available with an access code)
Student prices are only visible on the booking site with a personalised access code. Please email greg@somaticresilience.co.uk with proof of your student status. This should be a current student ID card from your enrolled institution or an enrolment letter from the institution addressed to you. A one-off student access pass will be sent to you, and once applied, this ticket option will become available.
About The Tutor
Greg James is the director and lead tutor for The Centre for Somatic Resilience Training. He is a psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), and holds a Master’s degree in counselling and psychotherapy practice, an SEP qualification endorsed by the European Association of SE and Somatic Experiencing International and a Level 4 diploma in integrative therapeutic counselling. He works in a busy private practice specialising in the treatment of primary and secondary trauma. Alongside his private therapeutic and teaching work, he is a member of Somatic Experiencing International’s global outreach team; The SE Committee for Humanitarian Response (SECHR), for which he heads the sub-committee for the continent of Africa. The SECHR’s mission is to teach somatic interventions and to help resource traumatised populations in the face of natural or man-made disasters as well as longer-term on-going trauma.
Greg is also the founder of a non-profit organisation, ACTS (Access to Community Trauma Support). Based in Southern Africa ACTS trains individuals on the frontline of social care in the prevention of secondary traumatisation and supports the mental health training of individuals at the grassroots level, ensuring that somatically informed treatment of trauma exists within communities that would otherwise not have access to it.
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