Between Shock and Developmental Trauma
find their way into fulfillment and connection
“In SE, we don’t work on remembering — what we’re doing is working with the memory as it presents itself in the now.”
Dr. Peter Levine
“We can restore and reconnect at all levels, regardless of our past. When when we heal ourselves, we heal our communities and the world.”
Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Help clients heal from trauma they can’t verbalize
When it comes to treating trauma, the path is almost never linear.
It’s not uncommon for a client who was making progress to become resistant, display avoidant behaviors and have strong emotional reactions. Other times, they may shut down entirely. If asked, they may not be able to articulate what they’re feeling or name the source of their distress.
Needless to say, this can pose a problem since therapy relies on spoken communication. And too often, trauma therapy does just that—depending almost entirely on a client’s ability to recall and retell the painful events causing their suffering.
Or what if they simply aren’t certain where their pain originated? After all, many people experience multiple traumas in their lifetime, and the effects can be vastly different. Complicating matters, a client could remember one trauma in painstaking detail yet have no conscious awareness of another.
As therapists, how do we proceed when we need crucial information our clients can’t provide?
At that point, it can be challenging to know how to help them move gently beyond this impasse and into the flow of healing.
Here’s the good news: words may sometimes fail us, but the body is always talking.
So we must learn how to listen.
With somatic tools and strategies, you can tune in to the physical signals hiding in plain sight, revealing what your client needs to release lingering trauma and open up to fulfillment, wholeness, and connection.
Understand the intricacies of developmental and shock trauma and their somatic connection to the body.
Identify the symptoms of developmental and shock traumas, unmet needs and incomplete developmental tasks.
Become attuned to the body’s encoded messages, using Body Reading to gain insights and guide therapeutic interventions.
Apply Somatotyping and Character Structure principles to reveal unaddressed blocks to growth and healing.
Learn how to implement and adapt clinical interventions to each Character Structure while avoiding re-traumatization.
Tap into implicit memory using somatic methods, so you can expand the innate resilience within each of us that allows us to live fully present and free of the past.
“I have worked to develop a safe, gentle and effective way for people to heal from trauma. It works by understanding that trauma is purely physiological.
Trauma is something that happens initially to our bodies and our instincts. Only then do its effects spread to our minds, emotions, and spirits.”
– Peter Levine, PhD
Led by Dr. Peter Levine, the originator of Somatic Experiencing® and your host, Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Examine the nuances and relationship between developmental and shock trauma, what happens when they become intertwined, and why those with developmental trauma are more susceptible to PTSD and shock trauma.
Dr. Levine will personally guide our deep exploration into the connection between trauma and the mind, body and emotions on a detailed, specialized level unavailable in most trainings.
Learn how to identify and differentiate childhood trauma through non-verbal cues like body traits and adult behavior patterns.
Dr. Levine will bring the theory to life through client demonstrations, in which he will cover the identifying characteristics of the character structure, what to look for in the body, possible development history, and specific techniques you can use to safely and effectively alleviate suffering.
We’ll go beyond theory and operationalize information, so you can easily apply practical processes and therapeutic interventions to your clinical sessions.
You’ll learn directly from Dr. Levine, which tools and techniques he uses to tune into nonverbal clues, get to the root of the trauma and reconnect clients with their resiliency, vitality and life.
As therapists, it is essential to work with trauma without
re-traumatizing the client.
Discover how Dr. Levine activates old wounds while maintaining safety. He’ll share crucial methods for titration and pendulation that allow your clients to heal wounds from the past while remaining fully in the present.
Gain the knowledge and skills to engage your clients with greater confidence in this collaborative work.
Guided by your intuition and attunement, you’ll be able to invite your client’s curiosity into their own process and support them, so they can emerge from the stagnation of trauma and move toward self-acceptance, love, and growth.
Don’t miss your chance to join us for this unique new program to learn from the world’s leading expert in the Somatic ExperiencingⓇ Approach!
Welcome!
Lately, I’ve been more grateful than ever for you, my professional healing community. It’s an incredible privilege to be able to hear your concerns, share stories and provide support and guidance as you strive to meet the mental health needs in your communities.
By the same token, I can’t overstate what a gift it’s been to have my own circle of colleagues to turn to when I need encouragement, resources, or a fresh perspective… as well as mentors who remind me there is always more to learn—and who lead by example, generously sharing their wisdom.
Because as it turns out, no matter how much education or experience we may have, we all face moments as therapists when we wonder if we have the right answers.
Like when clients stagnate. Or when they dig their heels in and rebel against a particular methodology. Or when they simply can’t explain what they’re experiencing.
And as a result, we may begin to feel like we’re experimenting instead of confidently choosing the safest or best interventions.
For better or worse, we’ve all been there. It’s the nature of working with trauma. There is just so much to understand—and so few opportunities to go beyond the basics.
That’s exactly why I invited my close friend and mentor, Dr. Peter Levine, to help teach a new online training program, Somatic Strategies to Address the Interplay Between Shock and Developmental Trauma, an intensive course concentrating on trauma and therapeutic strategies for recovery.
As the founder of the Somatic ExperiencingⓇ Approach, there is no one with more experience and knowledge than Dr. Levine in the body-oriented approach to healing trauma and other stress disorders.
For five weeks, beginning February 3rd, Dr. Levine and I will explore Character Structures, the complexities of developmental and shock traumas, and the ways emotional distress can manifest in the body.
Dr. Levine will show you a powerful framework, as well as practical strategies to guide clients compassionately in completing developmental tasks, releasing pain held in their body, and healing the past in the here and now.
If you’re new to Somatic ExperiencingⓇ , I promise you’ll gain priceless insights and highly effective modalities that improve your therapeutic skills, so you can easily recognize and work more confidently with any type of client trauma.
And I know you’ll be inspired by Dr. Levine’s client demonstrations—he has a special kind of magic. If you’re a seasoned Somatic ExperiencingⓇ practitioner, you likely already know what a valuable opportunity this is to develop your skills in a specialized way while learning from the leading pioneer in our field.
We may never live in a world devoid of trauma … but I believe we can live in a world full of healing. Together, we can help bring that future into existence today. And so, it’s my mission to champion education that reduces suffering and empowers more people to unlock resiliency and live an embodied, expansive life.
I hope you’ll join me for this next, unforgettable step in our learning journey.
Warmly,
Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Founder, Trauma Solutions
Author, The Power of Attachment
Don’t miss your chance to join us for this unique new program to learn from the world’s leading expert in the Somatic ExperiencingⓇ Approach!
Registration closes February 2, 2021 at 11:59 pm PST
find their way into fulfillment and connection
5 Weekly, Demo-Based Sessions
Including Q&A with Dr. Peter Levine and Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Meet us LIVE—online each Wednesday—for a client demonstration and in-depth discussion on theory, skills and strategies. Learn how to implement and apply them to your own therapeutic sessions.
Each call ends with a 30-minute Q&A session, where you can ask follow-up questions and get answers about trauma and somatic practices, directly from the renowned experts.
We’ll learn somatic techniques you can apply immediately to your therapeutic session to integrate the mind, body, and emotions, restoring embodied presence and setting the stage for your clients’ growth.
All training videos are accompanied by transcripts, because we know some people prefer not only to watch material, but also to have the written copy on hand.
Download the transcripts and use them for easy reference and note-taking.
You’ll join a warm, friendly and encouraging online community that supports you while you support others.
Discuss difficult cases, share your insights, or tell us about your frustrations and wins.
ANGUS is a man with a long trauma history beginning in infancy, including his own near-drowning, foster care, getting hit by a car at age 2, the death of 20+ friends from drugs and alcohol, and intergenerational trauma.
This has resulted in abandonment, dissociation, addiction, limited boundaries, multiple overdoses. He has never had long-term partner intimacy. He is in recovery now.
Angus will work somatically towards more presence using visualization and sound. Dr. Levine will offer generational trauma exercises.
LU is a shy, very creative 11 year old, but she feels she is weird. She lives with her mother, Julie. Her father is an addict; Lu loves him but cannot have a healthy relationship with him. He has supervised visits, following the dissolution of the parents’ abusive and argumentative marriage. His mother, Lu’s grandmother, can be overbearing. She is very close to her two older maternal half-siblings.
Dr. Levine will guide Lu in Smovey movement with the Haaa sound, and work on boundaries with Voo/jaw and drawing.
ALYSON has chronic pain and trouble with intimate relationships. At the core, she feels, “not good enough.” Her story begins with birth trauma and her parents’ divorce when she was 3, and is compounded by severe bullying, serious car accidents, a face-first fall off a chair lift, and multiple surgeries.
As she got older, the pain became inescapable; she relied on pills to get through law school. Then, she lost father. She has been inconsolable with grief. Somatic Experiencing® has helped her pain subside and resolved her reliance on pills.
Dr. Levine will be working with imagery to tap into the bracing/anxiety loop and Alyson’s chronic pain.
JULIE has trouble asking for what she needs from others. She either gives everything or she isolates/freezes. Julie’s father and uncles were brutally murdered by the Mexican mafia when she was an infant, and Julie raised herself and her siblings while her mother worked to provide. Later in life she had 3 children and two marriages. Her last marriage was an abusive relationship with an addict. Her youngest daughter (from that relationship) is Lu from Module 2.
Julie will work with the tragedy that fell upon her ancestors through trans-generational trauma exercises. Dr. Levine will also help her connect to her child self and her unmet needs from her mother who had to always work.
MONIQUE endured childhood neglect and abuse, giving rise to an eating disorder. Following a hit-and-run that left her in a coma and required many surgeries, she experienced abandonment, intimate betrayal, and job loss. Monique has developed PTSD and is unable to work. She is currently living on disability, with her dog as her sole companion.
Dr. Levine will work with her shock trauma and her early developmental neglect/abuse through Bellicon play.
*taking this program does not replace the 8-module training through Somatic ExperiencingⓇ to be SE Trained.
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.
Try the Somatic Strategies to Address the Interplay Between Shock and Developmental Trauma course, 100%, risk-free. If for any reason, you don’t feel it meets your needs, please contact our friendly Support Team within 7 days of purchase—and we’ll happily issue you a refund.
Peter A Levine, PhD, is the developer of Somatic ExperiencingⓇ , a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years.
He is the Founder of the Somatic ExperiencingⓇ Institute/Foundation for Human Enrichment and the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education™. His work has been taught to over 50,000 therapists in over 45 countries.
Dr. Levine served as a stress consultant for NASA in the early space shuttle development and has served on the American Psychological Association task force for responding to the trauma of large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare.
He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology and is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, which is published in over 29 languages. He is currently a Senior Fellow and consultant at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona and continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally.
Diane Poole Heller PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and expert in the field of child and adult attachment theory as well as trauma resolution.
In 1989, Dr. Heller began working with Dr. Peter Levine, founder of SEI (Somatic ExperiencingⓇ Institute). As Senior Faculty for SETI, she taught Somatic ExperiencingⓇ trauma work internationally for over 25 years.
Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships. She believes that by healing ourselves we heal our families, our communities, and the world as a whole.
As part of a joint sponsorship with Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES), you can earn 12 CE credit hours for this program, for an additional fee of $69.
Course Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals
Continuing Education Credit is pending through Commonwealth Educational Seminars for the following professions:
For further information, please contact Commonwealth Educational Seminars, 1-800-376-3345, or [email protected].
A Certificate of Completion is available to all participants at the end of the course (upon request) at no additional charge
It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please visit: https://dianepooleheller.com/ce/information
No, you do not. While many of the people who join our program are both novices and experienced practitioners, the process and techniques you learn with us can be very helpful to anyone who would like to understand trauma more deeply or help support others.
You’ll have lifetime access to ALL training materials, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, and BONUSES too.
It’s both. We’ve structured this program in such a way so we don’t just tell you how to use theoretical concepts — we show you.
You’ll be able to watch actual client demo videos, expert training calls and participate in LIVE Q&A sessions with Diane and Peter, where they’ll answer your questions and give you tips on how to apply skills and techniques to your client therapy sessions.
Taking this program does not replace the 8-module training through Somatic ExperiencingⓇ to be “SE Trained.” This program ensures you will be “SE Informed.”
I would love to have you join each session live, but if you are unable to do so, all our sessions and training calls (including the Q&A) are recorded, so you can still receive all the information and coaching you need.
Additionally, the program module materials are yours to download and keep in your professional reference library. The only thing you cannot download are client demos—because we need to honor and respect client confidentiality.
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*Taking this program does not replace the 8-module training through Somatic ExperiencingⓇ to be SE Trained.
“I would like to express my gratitude for all the information you make available. After attending a masterclass with Peter Levine about ICU and ventilator trauma, I read the hand-out I received from you yesterday about the 5 Character Structures.
Today, I was able to help a fibro patient make an enormous shift towards healing when I realized that she had the “right to be alive and well”… and that was exactly what she needed to know in the moment. That was clear in my mind because I had read your hand-out a few hours before that.”
Caterina Marzoli
Rome, Italy
Physiotherapist and Feldenkrais practitioner (currently in SE training)
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*Taking this program does not replace the 8-module training through Somatic ExperiencingⓇ to be “SE Trained.”
