The Centre of Somatic Resilience Training (CSRT) offers in depth trauma workshops for mental health professionals, teachers, social workers and more. Each workshop is slightly altered depending on the need or professional setting of the participants so no two workshops will look exactly the same.
The importance of having a trauma informed workforce is vital to any organisation and the CSRT takes things a step further by looking at trauma, stress and anxiety through the lens of the organism that experiences it - the human body.
Somatic tools have been used for centuries to mitigate the impact of stress and trauma and are now beginning to be widely embraced by therapists, organisations and individuals looking to positively influence wellbeing at its source. Nervous system knowledge, awareness and regulation has been shown in countless studies to positively impact human wellbeing. These workshops offer practical tools, information and experiential practice to help you to help others.
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These workshops are custom designed for the participants and can include the following:
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Understanding Trauma
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Understanding the Nervous System as it relates to Trauma
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Examine biological threat responses and how these can manifest as trauma or anxiety symptoms
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Learn how to connect the felt senses to our cognitive understanding of emotion.
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Trauma Symptomology​
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Recognising nervous system dysregulation in others.
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The importance of educating your 'clients/service users' and normalising their responses.
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Equip participants with practical tools and strategies for working with traumatised individuals
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Experiential practice times
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Creating an atmospheres of safety.
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Identifying and practicing resources that can be deployed in the service of sustained personal and professional well-being. Linking these to the felt sense of safety.
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Working Somatically with people in mental health crises
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How nervous systems speak to each other.
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Practical strategies for regulating others by orienting, grounding, engaging socially, and felt sense awareness.
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Guided experiential practice exercises to help you put these strategies into practice in your work.​
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Integrating somatic awareness and strategies into your current work.
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How to use a nervous system model and language that is accessible to all.
Tutor
Greg James is a psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). He holds a Master’s degree in counselling and psychotherapy practice and an SEP qualification endorsed by the European Association of SE and Somatic Experiencing International. He works in 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 and director of the non-profit organization, ACTS
(Access to Community Trauma Support). Based in Southern Africa ACTS
trains individuals on the frontline of social care in the prevention of secondary traumatization and supports the mental health training of individuals at the grassroots level, ensuring that somatically informed treatment of trauma exists within the communities that would otherwise not have access to it.