Seed Talks Professional Workshop

Many clients present with anxiety, overwhelm, exhaustion, emotional disconnection or other symptoms that can be difficult to understand through a purely cognitive or psychological lens. A somatic perspective offers practitioners another way of understanding these experiences by considering how the nervous system has been shaped by experience and how it continues to influence the way clients think, feel and respond.

In this practical and accessible professional workshop, psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Greg James explores the relationship between the nervous system, trauma and emotional wellbeing, introducing the StateShift® Model as a practical framework for understanding different nervous system states and the transitions between them.

Through teaching and experiential exercises, participants will develop a deeper understanding of how nervous system states can present in therapeutic work and how practitioners can recognise and work with these states rather than relying solely on cognitive approaches. The workshop explores practical approaches to supporting regulation,…