Monthly Archives: November 2016

Touch Transforms Lives

Touching and being touched are fundamental means of human interaction. Physical touch is the foundational element of human development. At every stage of our life we need human touch and loving affection for healthy emotional and neurological growth. When touch does not occur in the course of our development the physical, emotional and cognitive ramifications are far reaching and include the kind of failure to thrive and infant mortality found in the orphanages of the 1900s.

To the extent that the absence of touch is deleterious, the presence of touch can be equally as beneficial and even transformative..

Touch is the key that gives us access to the body’s knowings. Our bodies are memory holders. It is in and through our five senses that we live our lives. Our bodies remember and are shaped by the events, feelings, and thoughts that we have experienced. It has been our constant companion and as such carries a record of our lives in its every cell. Touch is a direct doorway to this storehouse of wisdom.

In Transformative Touch we touch with our words ,our hearts and our hands guiding clients to full embodiment and transforming their lives.

In this 2 part webinar we will explore Ways the body carries and expresses our life story:

The physical,emotional and cognitive effects of touch/lack of touch
Touch and its relationship to emotional interpretation and expression.
Touch as a reparative psycho-physical process
The transformative nature of touch in the therapeutic context.

Presented by:

Joe Weldon, Co-founder of the Somatic Therapy Center, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Master Somatic Therapist with over 30 years of teaching people from around the world to become somatic practitioners. Having given over 50,000 individual sessions, he is a experienced guide in the art of Transformative Touch. Joe has taught at the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania as well as at Villanova University. He is a true believer in the innate wisdom of the whole being and the healing power of humor.

Noel Wight is a Master Somatic Therapist and a Co- Founder of the Somatic Therapy Center who brings over 28 years of experience to her work.Together with her husband, Joe she has presented workshops at Omega Institute, Esalen, as well as at various conferences . She is passionately committed to helping people connect what’s happening in their bodies to what’s happening in their lives allowing them to heal from both physical and emotional pain.” Touch brings you home to your Self” is her guiding mantra. Whether seeing individual clients, presenting workshops or training practitioners of Transformative Touch, Noel provides a clear beacon of light and compassionate presence on the journey to their fullest self.

PART 1

PART 2

Improving Outcomes in Body Psychotherapy through Somatic Resonance

Scientific research shows that our bodies are capable of directly perceiving, impacting, and regulating each other (in other words resonating with each other). Body psychotherapists are especially situated to develop and exploit this innate ability that all of us have to increase outcomes in therapy. In this interactive webinar, Raja Selvam will first define the phenomenon of resonance and then present on types and sources of resonance, the scientific and other evidence for resonance, differences between transference, counter-transference, and resonance, ways of developing and utilizing the capacity for resonance in therapists as well as clients to improve clinical outcomes, especially in working with stress, trauma, emotion, and attachment.

Learning objectives:

1. An overview of the scientific evidence on somatic resonance.
2. An overview of different types of resonance possible in a therapeutic setting
3. Differences between transference, counter-transference, and resonance
4. Four clinical strategies for improving outcomes in body psychotherapy through developing the capacity for resonance
5. Ways in which resonance can be particularly helpful in working with stress, trauma, emotion, or attachment

Raja Selvam

Raja Selvam

Raja Selvam, PhD is a senior trainer in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) professional trauma trainings and the developer of the Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) approach, an advanced training for experienced clinicians with the goal of improving clinical outcomes through greater embodiment of all aspects of experience and all levels of the psyche in the physical body. He teaches in as many as twenty countries in Asia, Europe, North and South Americas, and the Middle East.

www.integralsomaticpsychology.com.

The Freedom Trail: Healing Universal Patterns Through Which We Experience Life

AHahn_400x400In our experience, there are certain core Universal themes that do not arise out of life experience but instead organize our whole way of experiencing life. Out of these core lenses, our fundamental motivations and ways of paying attention arise.

We believe that these Core Lenses also arise out of trauma. In this case, however, the trauma is at a Soul and not material Level. The trauma arises out of the experience of embodiment itself and our inability to handle, on one level, the movement from being Unity to being Dual.

As with all trauma, there arises associated Core Fears and limiting negative beliefs we have about ourselves. Most mystical religious traditions, and even American Psychiatry, says that there are nine such core limiting beliefs. Our personalities therefore are, in part, obsessive compulsive identities that served to protect us from having to experience these Core Fears and Associated negative limiting beliefs about ourselves

Learning Objectives: In this webinar, we will…

And participants will be able to:

1. Describe how our fundamental Core Fears arise out of a trauma.

2. Identify 9 core fears.

3. Identify a process for mastering and healing the core fears.