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• Men's Group

  • Start
    18 Jan 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • End
    31 May 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    In-Person 112 West 27th St., NYC

  Men’s Group
  In Person in NYC

  This committed container is for those who want to be in deep relationship and community with other men.

  Register

  Sanjay K Evran, CPRA, ACCEP
  Mike Howell, CCEP

  Saturdays, 10am - 5pm (EST)

  Jan. 18th, Feb. 15th, Mar. 22nd, Apr. 19th, May 31st

  Being in this space offers a unique opportunity: giving and receiving the support that only men can share with each other.

  Using the body as our guide, with ample time for inquiry, individual and group process ~ we will walk towards our collective wisdom and leadership as men.

  Address: 112 West 27th St., NYC

  Sliding Scale $250-$350/session

  Register here

  
  

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• On The Move | Continuum Movement®: A moving inquiry into what it means to be a human being.

  • When
    6 Feb 2025
  •  
    9:50 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    218 registrants

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  Join us for this event featuring
  Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz
  
  

  Our Topic for the Experiential
  

  Continuum Movement®: A moving inquiry into what it means to be a human being.
  

  Continuum Movement is an inquiry into what it means to be a human being, providing a somatic method to explore oneself as an unfolding biological and planetary process. We will use breath, sound, and movement and tune to our inner sensations.

  Biology enables us to live on this planet; culture limits how we must live. Each culture shapes the human body according to its assumptions about what a human being is, and what is best for society. The individual can become absorbed in the consensus, and the primal bio-uniqueness of the organism can be lost. A primary value of Continuum Movement is access to the universal processes within. That process is a transcultural, universal movement of fluidity.

  Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement stated:

  “Rather than being overwhelmed by our current cultural challenges Continuum Movement accepts them as exciting opportunities to invent ourselves differently, not as bionic-humans but as the exemplars of the courageous and the daring. Let us see these times as seeds for a probable future with the wetness of the stars still gleaming in our eyes and the rush of the seas throbbing in our heart as we dream the future, and it is US."

  Central goals of Continuum Movement are the creation of health and wellness, freeing oneself from the cultural and mechanistic constraints of modern society.

  Experiential Flow:

  • Introduce Continuum Movement
  • Introduce 5 Essential Elements
  • • Breath
    • Sound – teach 2 breath sounds
    • Movement
    • Sensation – Interoception-Baseline-Open Attention
    • Innovation
  • Open movement dive
  • Sharing, Questions, and Closing

  Learning Objectives

  1. Movement, breath, and sound will be used to awaken our inner sensations. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to demonstrate 2 Continuum Movement® breath/sounds and describe how they changed their awareness of interior sensations.

  2. The participant will be able to demonstrate how to take a baseline of CM practice to calm and regulate their body as well as the other benefits.

  3. The participant will be able to describe what interoception is and be able to give a physical example from their own experience.

  4. The participant will be able to describe by tuning into their body and demonstrating how different breaths can evoke different responses from their body.

  5. The participant will be able to demonstrate fluid wave movement of Continuum Movement® and discuss the sensations in the body from doing this form of movement.

  6. From experiencing the difference between mechanical movement and fluid movement the participant will have a physical understanding of the benefits and the drawbacks of both movement styles.

  Please donate to this program.
  

  
  

  About Our Facilitator

  

   Presented By:
   Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz

  Donnalea has a PhD in Clinical Somatic Psychology and is a courtesy Research Assistant Professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville. She is executive director of Continuum Movement®, founded by Emilie Conrad Da’oud, and a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, where she served as senior faculty in the U.S. and Europe as Dean of the third year. She has taught and been on the faculty of several different educational institutions: the University of Florida, the University of North Florida, Esalen Institute, Open Center, Kripalu, and Hollyhock Educational Institute. Currently, she is involved in somatic research at the University of Florida and the University of North Florida and presents at trauma conferences worldwide.

  Publications:

  Donnalea has three books that she has contributed to coming out in the next year and hopefully two research papers:

  1. Somatic-Oriented Therapies Edited by Herbert Grassmann PhD, Maurizio Stupiggia PhD, & Stephen W. Porges PhD published by Norton Professional Books

  2. Safe and Sound: A Polyvagal Approach to Connection, Change, and Healing. Karen Onderko and Stephen Porges. Sounds True.

  3. The new foreword for the reprinting of Life on Land by Emilie Conrad, North Atlantic Books.

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  Event Preparation Info

  This event will include our special Overtime! 
  Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends.
  

  Prepare for movement
  Please come dressed in loose fitting clothes and the space to move around. If you can bring a mat to lie on that would be helpful. 

  Invite friends and colleagues.
  Check back for more specific event day details.

  Register now and we will send you updated information for the event. This includes being notified when the event recording is ready for viewing. Important! Please note the start time is 9:50 am PST. 

  Please donate to this program.

  Event Format - 9:50 am PST start time

  • 10 min welcome and program set up talk
  • 50 min experiential
  • 10 min check ins, shares, and closing
  • Overtime begins

  Cost 
  Free to members and guest.

  
  Donations appreciated. 
  
  Please consider making a donation in support of our programs. USABP is member supported and a contribution based on your resources would be greatly appreciated.

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  USABP ON THE MOVE is an opportunity for our community to connect and experience restorative practices while getting exposure to many forms of somatic movement and mindful body-awareness programs. 

  The root of e-motion is “to move.” The same regions of the brain responsible for movement also carry out our cognitive processes. Our brain evolved from movement and still depends on it day to day. Join us to discover how conscious movement can bring nourishing restoration, playful community connection, and the understanding of how moving helps our thoughts, words, and actions.

  Somatic tools may include, among others, breath, movement, self-directed touch, sound vibration, and conscious dialogue.

  Bibliography

  Beaulieu, J., & Perez-Martinez, D. (2018). Sound healing, theory, and practice. In Nutrition and Integrative Medicine (pp. 449-469). CRC Press.

  Brown, R. P., & Gerbarg, P. L. (2009). Yoga breathing, meditation, and longevity. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1172(1), 54-62.

  Brown, R., & Gerbarg, P. (2005). Sudarshan Kriya yogic breathing in the treatment of stress, anxiety, and depression; Part I- Neurophysiologic model. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 11(1),189-201.

  Ceunen, E., Vlaeyen, J. W., & Van Diest, I. (2016). On the origin of interoception. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 743.

  Conrad Da’oud, E. (2007). Life on land: The story of Continuum. North Atlantic Books.

  Damerla, V. R., Goldstein, B., Wolf, D., Madhavan, K., & Patterson, N. (2018). Novice meditators of an easily learnable audible Mantram Sound Self-Induce an increase in Vagal Tone during short-term practice: A preliminary study. Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal, 17(5), 20.

  Denver, J. W., Reed, S. F., & Porges, S. W. (2007). Methodological issues in the quantification of respiratory sinus arrhythmia. Biological psychology, 74(2), 286-294.

  Doussard-Roosevelt, J. & Porges, S. (1999). The role of the neurobehavioral organization in stress responses: A polyvagal model. Erlbaum Associates.

  Heatherton, T. & Wagner, D. (2011). Cognitive neuroscience of self-regulation failure. Trends in cognitive sciences, 15(3), 132–139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2010.12.005

  Hunt, V. (1996). Infinite mind: Science of the human vibrations of consciousness. Malibu Publishing.

  Inbaraj, G., Rao, R. M., Ram, A., Bayari, S. K., Belur, S., Prathyusha, P. V., ... & Udupa, K. (2022). Immediate effects of OM chanting on heart rate variability measures compared between experienced and inexperienced yoga practitioners. International journal of yoga, 15(1), 52.

  Kerna, N. A., Chawla, S., Carsrud, N. D. V., Holets, H. M., Brown, S. M., Flores, J. V., ... & Oghenetega, E. A. (2022). Sound therapy: Vibratory frequencies of cells in healthy and disease states. EC Clinical and Medical Case Reports, 5, 112-123.

  Kshtriya, S., Barnstaple, R., Rabinovich, D. B., & DeSouza, J. F. (2015). Dance and aging: a critical review of findings in neuroscience. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 37, 81-112.

  Levine, P. (2012). In an unspoken voice: How the body releases trauma and restores goodness. Random House.

  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13223-018-0278-1

  Neukirch, N., Reid, S., & Shires, A. (2019). Yoga for PTSD and the role of interoceptive awareness: A preliminary mixed-methods case series study. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 3(1), 7-15.

  Ogden, P., Minton, K., & Pain, C. (2006). Trauma and the Body: A sensorimotor approach to psychotherapy. W.W. Norton & Company.

  Payne, P., Levine, P. A., & Crane-Godreau, M. A. (2015). Somatic experiencing: using interoception and proprioception as core elements of trauma therapy. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 93.

  Porges, S. (2001). The polyvagal theory: phylogenetic substrates of a social nervous system. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 42(2), 123-146.

  Porges, S. (2005). The role of social engagement in attachment and bonding. Attachment and bonding, 3, 33-54.

  Porges, S. (2011). The polyvagal theory: Neurophysiological foundations of emotions, attachment, communication, and self-regulation. Norton.

  Porges, S. W. (2004). Neuroception: A subconscious system for detecting threats and safety. Zero to Three (j), 24(5), 19-24.

  Porges, S. W. (2021). Cardiac vagal tone: A neurophysiological mechanism that evolved in mammals to dampen threat reactions and promote sociality. World Psychiatry, 20(2), 296.

  Price, C. J., & Hooven, C. (2018). Interoceptive awareness skills for emotion regulation: Theory and approach of mindful awareness in body-oriented therapy (MABT). Frontiers in psychology, 9, 798.

  Reich, Wilhelm. (1973). The function of the orgasm. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

  Reinhardt, K. M., Zerubavel, N., Young, A. S., Gallo, M., Ramakrishnan, N., Henry, A., & Zucker, N. L. (2020). A multi-method assessment of interoception among sexual trauma survivors. Physiology & Behavior, 226, 113108.

  Selvaraj, N., Shivplara, N. B., Bhatia, M., Santhosh, J., Deepak, K. K., & Anand, S. (2008). Heart rate dynamics during shambhavi mahamudra-a practice of Isha yoga. Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, 5(1).

  Siegel, D. (2003). Healing trauma: Mind, body, and brain. W. W. Norton & Company.

  Slepian, M. L., & Ambady, N. (2012). Fluid movement and creativity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(4), 625.

  University of Southampton. (2015). Is evolution more intelligent than we thought?. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 5, 2023 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151218085616.htm

  van der Kolk, B. (2002). Posttraumatic therapy in the age of neuroscience. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 12(3), 381-392.

  van der Kolk, B. (2006). Clinical Implications of Neuroscience Research in PTSD. Acad. Sci., 1071, 277–293.

  van der Kolk, B. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, and body in the healing of trauma. Penguin.

  Whitehead, A. N. (1929). Process and reality. New York City, NY: Macmillan

  Wiens, S. (2005). Interoception in emotional experience. Curr.Opin.Neurol., 18, 442-447.

  Zaccaro, A., Piarulli, A., Laurino, M., Garbella, E., Menicucci, D., Neri, B., & Gemignani, A. (2018). How Breath-Control Can Change Your Life: A Systematic Review on Psycho-Physiological Correlates of Slow Breathing. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 12, 353. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00353

  
  

  

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  These exclusive webinars are brought to you by the USABP and its proud educational and training institute member organizations.

  These live webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Worker and other Health Professionals.

  

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  ABOUT OUR EVENTS

  Our events often include demonstrations, video and slide presentations, experiential exercises, Q & A discussions, insights from attendees, presenter shares about their personal journey and inspirations, and much more.

  These courses content levels serve introductory or beginning level; intermediate level; or advanced level.

  Please cancel prior to 24 hours before the course starts. For questions or concerns, phone 202-466-1619.

  Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

  

  DON’T FORGET! 

  REGISTRATION is in three steps:

  1) Register first on the USABP website (click the register button on this page), and then

  2) Register at Zoom too. Use the Zoom link that we will email to you after you register with USABP (click the register button on this page to begin registration).

  3) Once you register with Zoom.  Zoom will send you your login link.

  We look forward to seeing you at this premiere event.

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• Meditation for Your Everyday Life

  • Start
    12 Feb 2025
  •  
    5:30 AM
  • End
    26 Feb 2025
  • Location
    Online using Zoom – Live and Recorded

  Meditation for your Everyday Life: Virtual 3-week series

  Wednesdays, Feb 12 - 26 from 6:30 - 7:30pm MT

  Or practice at your convenience with the recording

  @ Bloom Yoga Online

  Do you want to practice meditation, but can't seem to stick with it?

  Register

  Research abounds on the powerful brain-changing and overall health benefits of meditation, but there's a dirty little secret that's rarely talked about: meditation doesn't work if you don't actually do it!

  For most people it just seems too cumbersome, time-consuming, or esoteric to incorporate in their busy everyday lives. It doesn't have to be!

  If you're looking to start or restart a meditation practice that will work for your unique life circumstances and rhythms, this 3-week virtual workshop series will offer you structure, accountability, and practical tips for simple and transformative ways to incorporate meditation and mindfulness into your daily life, no matter how busy you are.

  Each class will incorporate a presentation of meditation techniques, tips, and common pitfalls as well as a gentle yoga sequence to prepare the body, and a brief practice of meditation. At the end of the three weeks you'll have experienced a variety of accessible meditation techniques you can apply in your daily life, and you'll have had time to ask questions and get support as you try them out between sessions.

  No previous experience necessary. Wear comfortable clothing, bring a yoga mat and pillows or blankets, and find a quiet place in which to practice. Join a supportive group of fellow meditation enthusiasts and make meditation part of your everyday life!

  Cost: $65, or register before 2/5 to save $5

  This workshop is also available asynchronously. If you prefer you may attend at your convenience by watching the recordings that are sent out each week. You'll have access to view the recordings for 2 weeks after each session date.

  Register here

  
  

  
  

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• Forum: Introducing Groundbreaking Somatic Therapies From Experts In the Field

  • When
    12 Feb 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    96 registrants

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  This USABP Speakers Series Forum will discuss with the editors the findings presented in their book, "Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives."

  With Special Embodiment Experiential facilitated by Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz

  Benefits of attending and this book:

  • Discover the diversity of somatic practices and their common threads.

  • Learn how various somatic modalities are transforming trauma treatment, fostering embodiment, and addressing existential distress.

  • Explore somatic self-care practices that help prevent practitioner burnout.

  • Delve into effective methodologies for conducting research in this field.

  • Access valuable research insights for tracking, defining, measuring, and exploring somatic care.

  Audience participation is included.
  See more details below.
  
  

  Masters of Ceremonies

  Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz
  Liam Blume

  
  

  The USABP is Grateful For Our Event Partners: 

  
  

  Event Sponsor

  Somatic Understanding Research Foundation (View SURF) 

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Publishing Partners 

  International Body Psychotherapy Journal - Current edition

  Somatic Psychotherapy Today - Read the Book review

  W. W. Norton & Company - Preorder book

  
  

  The European Association for Body Psychotherapy
  

  The 38 Contributing Authors To This Book - Listed Below

  
  

  
  

  Receive 20% off & Free Shipping in the US
  To order Somatic-Oriented Therapy discount and free shipping in the US please click the link below:

  https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324052722?promo=SOT-USABP

  Please note this code is for US customers only, for 20% OFF and FREE SHIPPING when customers order from our website.  The coupon code is: SOT-USABP

  Receive 30% off in the UK/ Europe
  To order Somatic-Oriented Therapy at a special discount of 30% OFF please click here and add the code WN232 when prompted at the checkout. This is for UK/ Europe. 

  Link: https://wwnorton.co.uk/books/9781324052722-somatic-oriented-therapies

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  This event will be recorded and available for members and non-members who register for this event. This course will not include CEs. 

  
  

  This event will include our special Overtime! 
  

  Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends. 
  
  

  Event Description

  This USABP Roundtable panel, led by Herbert Grassmann, Maurizio Stupiggia, and Stephen W. Porges, will delve into the findings presented in their book Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives.

  The book, featuring contributions from 42 authors, represents a significant consolidation of innovative research and clinical approaches. It highlights how various somatic modalities are transforming trauma treatment, fostering embodiment, and addressing existential distress.

  Masters of Ceremonies DonnaLea and Liam Blume will join the panelists to explore various topics and facilitate a lively Q&A session with the audience.
  

  Discussion Points

  • The Importance of Embodiment
  • Examining the Diverse Approaches to Somatic-Oriented Therapies
  • Articulating Findings on Common Threads of Somatic Theory
  • Exploring the Neurophysiological Underpinnings of Trauma and the Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in Healing
  • Discussing the Integration of Somatic Practices into Trauma Treatment, such as Mindfulness, Sound, Movement, and Touch
  • Addressing the Importance of Self-Care and Somatic Awareness for Therapists Working with Trauma
  • Examining the Scientific Rationale for Addressing Embodiment in Quantitative and Qualitative Research Paradigms

  
  

  About the Panelists
  

  

  
  Herbert Grassmann, PhD, is professor of Psychosocial Studies at the Parkmore Institute/South Africa and former Chair of the EABP Research Committee. He lives in Nuremberg, Germany.

  Visit his website at https://www.dr-grassmann.de
  Photo by @MiaVillaflor
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  Maurizio Stupiggia, PhD, is professor in the department of clinical sciences, University of Milano. He resides in Pianoro, Italy. 

  Visit his Institute, www.biosistemica.net

  Photo by Marina Nava

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  Stephen W. Porges, PhD, originator of Polyvagal Theory, is a Distinguished University Scientist and founding director of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at Indiana University, and a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina. He lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida.
  
  Photo Courtesy of RTI International

  
  

  
  

  http://stephenporges.com

  https://www.polyvagalinstitute.org/

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  Donnalea Van Vleet Goelz has a Ph.D. in Somatic Clinical Psychology and is executive director of Continuum Movement®, founded by Emilie Conrad- Da’oud. Find out more,

  https://continuummovement.com/

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Bibliography
  

  Blanke O. et al., (2004), “Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological origin”. In Brain, 127, 2, pp. 243-258

  Grassmann H., Porges S., Stupiggia M., eds, Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma and Polyvagal perspectives, 2024, W. W. Norton, New York

  Porges S., (2009), “The polyvagal theory:new insights into adaptative reactions of the autonomic nervous system”, In Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 76, 2, pp. 86-90

  Stupiggia, M. (2019). Traumatic Dis-Embodiment: Effects of trauma on body perception and

  Body image, in The Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy

  (pp. 389-396). Oxfordshire, U.K.: Routledge

  Van der Hart O., et al., (2006), “The Haunted Self, Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization”, 2006, W.W.Norton and Company, New York

  
  

  
  

  

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  These exclusive webinars are brought to you by the USABP and its proud educational and training institute member organizations.

  These live webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Worker and other Health Professionals.

  

  IMPORTANT NOTICE!

  Registration is in three steps. Get the details below.

  Non-members see special message* to you below.

  Members you must be logged in to be able to access free registration.

  

  *NON-MEMBERS SAVE NOW: 

  Non-members are better off to join the USABP. For a little more money paid as a member - instead of an event registrant - you can participate in 12 plus upcoming webinars FREE and get access to our library of training - lectures. Plus get our International digital and/or printed version of our International Peer Reviewed Journal and much more.

  

  ABOUT OUR EVENTS

  Our events often include demonstrations, video and slide presentations, experiential exercises, Q & A discussions, insights from attendees, presenter shares about their personal journey and inspirations, and much more.

  These courses content levels serve introductory or beginning level; intermediate level; or advanced level.

  Please cancel prior to 24 hours before the course starts. For questions or concerns, phone 202-466-1619.

  Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

  

  DON’T FORGET! 

  REGISTRATION is in three steps:

  1) Register first on the USABP website (click the register button on this page), and then

  2) Register at Zoom too. Use the Zoom link that we will email to you after you register with USABP (click the register button on this page to begin registration).

  3) Once you register with Zoom.  Zoom will send you your login link.

  We look forward to seeing you at this premiere event.

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• Community of Care Outreach

  • When
    14 Feb 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    5 registrants

  Register

  What: Please join us in an ongoing conversation to make the USABP more welcoming and supportive to folx from marginalized backgrounds and identities.

  Who: We will be meeting in affinity groups to share and reflect what is needed to co-create a truly welcoming membership and specialization. When the groups are ready, they’ll merge to share and listen to recommended actions.

  When: This event will happen on the 2nd Friday of each month from January to June 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PT

  (February 14, March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13) 

  Upcoming Event: Friday, February 14, 2025

  Registration: Complimentary 

  Questions: Please contact Karen Roller: kroller@paloaltou.edu

  
  

  This event will not be recorded for this event. This course will not include CEs.

  
  

  Co- Moderators:

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Yi-Li Godfrey, PhD, Radical Aliveness/Core Energetics practitioner

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Karen Roller, PhD, MFT, FAAETS, DNCCM, CT, CFT, CSCR

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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  These exclusive webinars are brought to you by the USABP and its proud educational and training institute member organizations.

  These live webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Worker and other Health Professionals.

  

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• Healing Shame Core Workshop: Understanding, Reducing and Transforming Shame - Online - 13 CE Credit

  • Start
    15 Feb 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • End
    22 Feb 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM
  • Location
    Online using Zoom – Live and Recorded

  Healing Shame Core Workshop: Understanding, Reducing and Transforming Shame - Online - 13 CE Credit

  A Healing Shame Workshop for Therapists and Helping Professionals with Bret Lyon PhD, SEP & Sheila Rubin LMFT, RDT/BCT

  Online using Zoom – Live and Recorded

  Saturday, February 15, 2025 10:00 AM - 6:00PM PT

  Saturday, February 22, 2025 10:00 AM - 6:00PM PT

  Register

  Shame is perhaps the most painful of all emotions. It is at the root of both the inner critic and perfectionism. It binds with other emotions, such as anger and fear, so that is often hard to detect. Also, revealing shame can be in itself shameful. For many clients who don’t get better in therapy, shame — unacknowledged and not worked through — is the primary factor.

  In this workshop, you will learn how to help your clients recognize shame, work through it and move on.

  You will learn:

  To become more sensitive to the shaming often implicit in the therapy situation and how to counter shame in therapy.

  How to help clients separate feelings of shame from other emotions.

  Strategies to get through shame defenses of over-verbalization, dissociation and freezing.

  The differences between healthy shame and toxic shame.

  How to help clients out of the shame morass so they can move their energy powerfully outward rather than turn it against themselves.

  Taught by Bret Lyon and Sheila Rubin

  Course Level: Beginning

  There is no prerequisite for this course. It can be taken by itself or as part of a sequence.

  TWO SATURDAYS:

  February 15, 10am - 6pm
  &
  February 22, 10am - 6pm Pacific Time

  ONLINE - Live and recorded, using Zoom

  13 CE credits for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in California

  (See CE information below.)

  CAMFT Approved CE Provider #134393

  This course is for therapists and helping professionals. If you're not sure if it's the right class for you, please contact Bret Lyon at Bret@HealingShame.com. This workshop can be applied toward certification as a Healing Shame Practitioner.

  Pricing and Registration

  $395 full price

  $375 with early bird discount, paid in full by January 10, 2025. (Use coupon code EARLYBIRD)

  Special rate for unpaid interns - $45 off full price (Use coupon code INTERN)

  $40 fee for CE credits

  If you would like CE credits for this workshop, please pay for them now, at the same time you register for the workshop. Payment for CE credits is separate from your registration payment.

  To pay for CE credits, please click here.

  We offer two payment options for registration:

  1. If you want the early bird pricing, pay $375 by the early bird deadline. (Sorry, no deposits for early bird pricing.)

  2. Pay the full amount of $395 or a $100 deposit to hold your space in the class. Upon registration, you will receive an email confirmation that includes a link to pay any balance due. Please note that we do not send a balance due bill, so it will be your responsibility to remember to pay. Any balance due must be paid in full at least 4 days before the class.

  **If registering within one week of the class, you must pay the full amount; deposits will not be accepted.**

  Please note: In registering for this workshop, you are agreeing to the terms of our Ethics and Scope of Practice Agreement.

  CE Credit

  The Center for Healing Shame is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in California – CAMFT-approved CE provider #134393. Courses meet the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

  At this time, we are only able to provide CE credit to LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in California. We are not able to offer CE credit to psychologists or nurses in California or to psychologists, therapists, or nurses licensed outside of California in the U.S. and Canada.

  For complete information about CE credit, Hours of Attendance certificates, and course credit, please visit our information page.

  The Center for Healing Shame maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

  Register here

  For information:
  Sheila Rubin: 415-820-3974 / Sheila@healingshame.com
  Bret Lyon: 510-420-1441 / Bret@healingshame.com

  Please visit our website for free articles and webinars, our Sounds True podcast, details about our Sounds True audio learning series, and information about our complete training program in Healing Shame. www.HealingShame.com

  
  

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• Somatic Therapy Center Training Program Begins

  • When
    25 Feb 2025
  •  
    4:30 PM
  • Location
    Webinar and Onsite

  Level One Somatic Therapy Training Program in Transformative Touch

  The first webinar is scheduled for February 25, 2025, and the first onsite will be held from May 1-6, 2025.

  You can view the full roster of dates here:

  Level 1 Program Dates

  Register

  Level One is our foundational training, focusing on the essence of Transformative Touch, and it lays the groundwork for the other levels that follow. The primary goal of this level is to teach clients how to use the body as a reliable resource, ally, and guide in their life through learning how to tune into bodily sensations as communicators of its wisdom.

  With our Level One Somatic Therapy course, you will gain all the essential skills necessary to help your clients heal holistically—body, mind, heart, and soul. Over the course of 9 months, you will learn:

  The vital role of Safety in the healing process.

  The physiological basis of safety and how to help clients self-regulate.

  How to help clients tune into the wisdom of their body.

  How to support clients in listening to their bodily sensations and tapping into their body’s knowledge.

  The importance of intention in touch.

  How to develop a Touch of Presence.

  The role of touch in human development across the lifespan.

  The art of self-care in working with clients.

  The essential elements of the collaborative therapeutic relationship.

  The value of bodymind connection and how to teach clients to release chronic tension and stress, relieve pain, improve self-awareness, transform old patterns, and make empowered choices that allow them to fully engage in life.

  Training Format & Structure:

  The majority of the somatic therapy training can be completed from the comfort of your home, with:17 webinars and home assignments to support two 6-day and one 3-day onsite training sessions. During these onsites, you will experience hands-on training combined with verbal dialogue.

  25 Practice client hours, along with 5 one-to-one mentoring sessions with our experienced faculty members.

  Experiential learning with individualized attention and care.

  A strong community focus is at the heart of the program.

  If you have any questions or would like more information, feel free to reach out to us at 215-817-3979.

  If you are ready to register, you can do so here

  We look forward to welcoming you to this transformative experience!

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• On The Move | Embody Your Heart: Increase Your Vagal Tone

  • When
    27 Feb 2025
  •  
    9:50 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    Be the first

  Register

   
  

  
  Join us for this event featuring Dan Leven
  
  

  Our Topic for the Experiential
  

  Embody Your Heart: Increase Your Vagal Tone
  
  

  “Connecting to our authenticity brings soul and meaning to our lives, whether through movement and dance or opening into the embodied experience of our feelings.”

  ~ Dan Leven

  Take Away

  • Focus, nourishment, grounding 
  • Heart opening, softening, connection
    
    
    

  About Our Facilitator

  

   

  Presented By:
  Dan Leven, RSMT, MPC, founding director of LIFE Movement

  Dan is the Founder and Director of LIFE Movement, Leven Institute for Expressive Movement. Drawing from 40 years of experience, Dan created integrative approaches to body-mind healing and wellness: Shake Your Soul® and SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy. As a former professional dancer and Program Director at the Kripalu Center where he co-founded Kripalu Danskinetics™ (now Kripalu YogaDance), Dan has led numerous workshops and professional certification trainings at the Omega Institute and Kripalu. Dan holds a Master’s in Pastoral Counseling and served as a faculty member of Hartford Family Institute’s Body-Centered Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Program, training psychotherapists and healers in this work.

  Learn More

  
  

  Event Preparation Info

  This event will include our special Overtime! 
  Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends.
  

  Prepare for movement and simple movement partner interaction
  Please come dressed in loose fitting clothes and the space to move around. If you can bring a mat to lie on that would be helpful. 

  Invite friends and colleagues.
  Check back for more specific event day details.

  Register now and we will send you updated information for the event. This includes being notified when the event recording is ready for viewing. Important! Please note the start time is 9:50 am PST. 

  Please donate to this program.

  Event Format - 9:50 am PST start time

  • 10 min welcome and program set up talk
  • 50 min experiential
  • 10 min check ins, shares, and closing
  • Overtime begins

  Donate / Cost 
  Free to members and guest. Donations welcome. 
  
  Please consider making a donation in support of this and our other programs. USABP is supported through membership and donation. Your contribution are greatly appreciated.

  Donate

  
  

  USABP ON THE MOVE is an opportunity for our community to connect and experience restorative practices while getting exposure to many forms of somatic movement and mindful body-awareness programs. 

  The root of e-motion is “to move.” The same regions of the brain responsible for movement also carry out our cognitive processes. Our brain evolved from movement and still depends on it day to day. Join us to discover how conscious movement can bring nourishing restoration, playful community connection, and the understanding of how moving helps our thoughts, words, and actions.

  Somatic tools may include, among others, breath, movement, self-directed touch, sound vibration, and conscious dialogue.

  
  

  

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  These exclusive webinars are brought to you by the USABP and its proud educational and training institute member organizations.

  These live webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Worker and other Health Professionals.

  

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  ABOUT OUR EVENTS

  Our events often include demonstrations, video and slide presentations, experiential exercises, Q & A discussions, insights from attendees, presenter shares about their personal journey and inspirations, and much more.

  These courses content levels serve introductory or beginning level; intermediate level; or advanced level.

  Please cancel prior to 24 hours before the course starts. For questions or concerns, phone 202-466-1619.

  Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

  

  DON’T FORGET! 

  REGISTRATION is in three steps:

  1) Register first on the USABP website (click the register button on this page), and then

  2) Register at Zoom too. Use the Zoom link that we will email to you after you register with USABP (click the register button on this page to begin registration).

  3) Once you register with Zoom.  Zoom will send you your login link.

  We look forward to seeing you at this premiere event.

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• The Nature of Being Human Online

  • Start
    1 Mar 2025
  • End
    3 May 2025
  • Location
    Online

  The Nature of Being Human Online
  Unit 1 of Year 1 - School of Unusual Life Learning

  Live sessions will take place on Saturday or Sunday mornings (U.S.). Exact times and lengths will be published closer to the start of the program. Most classes will be 1.5 to 4 hour sessions depending on content.

  Interested in joining us, but need to talk to someone? Book a free call with a past student so that you can understand the profound impact our programming has on people!

  Register Now

  We are proud to share this introductory SoULL program, which substantially improves the quality of people’s ordinary lives and expands pracitioners breadth of practice and stamina.

  In this course, students are introduced to a somatically-oriented overview of human development, and a language of human life that includes growth, aging and dying. Students learn to see spiritual, energetic and physical experience as deeply connected through the human life span and even beyond. On its own, this course helps people reorient their ideas of life and death and know themselves as part of nature, not opposed to it, which radically reduces existential anxiety. This course also offers a way for students to step into SoULL material without a full year commitment.

  This 24 hour program is a mixture of didactic presentations, body-centered process and intensive experiential curriculum. Training begins with a presentation of some original ideas about human life through the life span, elaborating on Neo-Reichian theory and integrating observations of growth and end of life work. After a number of concepts are presented about consciousness and the body as we change throughout the life span, we will test these theories in our own experiential work, using Nature as both our support and our teacher. We begin to recognize predictable changes in the human body which we identify as long arc pulses: Vertical, radial, and circular.

  Most body centered traditions have focused only on character development or trauma. This training is appropriate for any human but especially anyone in the helping professions. Most participants report a profound reduction of existential anxiety and a renewed connection with nature and the life force itself. By helping practitioners recognize the long arc of life processes and the correlation between body and consciousness through aging and dying, this course greatly expands practitioners' capacity to tolerate their own mortal life changes, while also giving them insight to guide others.

  The Nature of Being Human is taught in small classes and, like all SoULL material, is both didactic, interactive and highly experiential. However we teach it, we support students in linking insights from this class to existing theories within somatic psychology, especially mindfulness based practices and Neo-Reichian ideas. However do not think that this course is only for professionals. This material is powerful and completely accessible for people who are not therapists. It is for any curious, open-minded adult.

  Students are often interested in continuing to complete Units 2 and 3 of Pilgrim SoULL after taking this course. We hope you do this, and we will accommodate as space allows in the class. However, we encourage people to commit to the full program from the start if they are able.

  Who is this for?

  • Therapists and other professionals who want to better support their clients through their existential anxiety
  • Regular folks who struggle to feel connected to their purpose
  • People who want to free themselves from the fear of death and dying so they can live more fully

  The Nature of Being Human ONLINE:

  Curriculum includes 24 hours of learning about life:

  • 8 recorded lectures - Approximately 6 hours
  • 18 hours of unique and provocative in-class experiences, process and
  • discussion.
  • Moderated class platform discussions on Mighty Networks between classes.

  
  

  “The SoULL experience revealed to me an inner rhythm that connects my soul, body, spirit with all the energy around and even beyond me. Life, breath, the pulsation of my beating heart and the blooming of a flower are one and the same force. It’s exhilarating!”

  - Pilgrim SoULL Student 2020

  Register Now

  Jeanne Denney / 845-598-1727 / soullcommunity@gmail.com

  Organization: SoULL

  
  

  
  

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• Emptying Nest Parent Group

  • Start
    11 Mar 2025
  •  
    5:30 PM
  • End
    8 Apr 2025
  • Location
    In - Person Boulder, CO

  Emptying Nest Parent Group

  4-week series: Mar 11, Mar 18, April 1, April 8

  (no class Mar 25 for spring break)

  Tuesdays from 6:30 - 8pm MT

  in Boulder, CO​

  Register

  Sad? Excited? Anxious? Proud?

  As you're preparing for your child to leave home, you may be feeling a whole spectrum of emotions (perhaps all on the same day!).​

  The empty nest period is typically defined as the time after the final child has left home. But each stage as the nest is emptying has its own challenges.​

  Whether your first child is leaving home or you're a parent of multiple children who is anticipating another departure, you're not alone.

  Support and education can help you navigate this emotionally complex transition with greater grace and ease.

  It's weird

  Talk to any parent whose child has left home or is preparing to leave, and you're likely to hear them describe it as a weird time.

  The structure of your family as you've known it for 18+ years will completely change overnight, and it can be hard to adjust.

  ​Research has shown that support groups help parents better navigate the complex emotions of the empty nest transition.

  In this group, you'll learn tips to prepare for your child's departure and the shift in your family dynamic and self-identity that follows.​

  ​Past group participants said that having guided conversations with other parents in the same life stage helped them feel more balanced and prepared for whatever phase of the emptying nest transition they were facing.​

  About the group

  ​​Each session will incorporate simple movement and mindfulness practices designed to help you connect with your body and better manage complex emotions. I'll offer tips and best practices from the research, and there will be ample time and space for processing and sharing your experience.

  Session 1: Your changing relationship with your young adult child

  Explore the shifting dynamic between you and your young adult child as they prepare to leave home. Why are they pushing you away in the months before their departure? How should you prepare for the big goodbye? Once they leave, how can you communicate in a way that both shows your love and empowers your child's move towards independence? Explore both the logistics and the deeper feelings behind this evolving relationship.

  Session 2: Who am I now? Exploring your evolving self-identity

  Anticipating the abrupt shift in day-to-day parenting duties and logistics may have you feeling off kilter. If you'll still have other child(ren) at home it can be strange to be both actively entrenched in daily parenting and also have one or more children away from home. Create space to ponder how your self-identity will be impacted by this transition and what you want to create next in your life on a personal and/or professional level.

  Session 3: Friends and partners and exes - oh my!

  Whether you're single, partnered, married, or divorced, this transition is bound to impact relationships with the important people in your life. Learn about the common pitfalls that occur in partner relationships after a child leaves home. Explore how to reinvest in friendships that will support this next phase of your life. Create satisfying connections that go beyond child the world of your child.

  Session 4: Closure and next steps

  Our final session will be a time to address any lingering topics that are present for group members. I'll guide you in intentionally closing the connection of the group in this configuration (though you will be encouraged to stay connected with fellow group members if you so choose). You'll leave with practical tips and techniques you can implement in your daily life to continue to support your unique emptying nest transition process so you can thrive.​​

  Group is limited to a maximum of 10 participants.

  Cost: $240

  If the cost is prohibitive, please contact me for sliding scale pricing options: kerry@kerrymaiorca.com

  
  

  
  

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• Speaker Event | What is the One Body Error in Body Psychotherapy?

  • When
    13 Mar 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    2 registrants

  Register

  
  

  Psychology, in general, has a no-body problem. Body psychotherapy, however, suffers from the one-body problem, limiting its effectiveness. To find out what this problem is and a solution to it, please attend.

  This event will include our special Overtime! 

  Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends. 

  This event will be recorded and available for members and non-members who register for this event.
  
  This course will not include CEs. 

  
  

  Description
  Check back for more details to come.
  
  

  Presenter Information

  

  Raja Selvam, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist (CA PSY30233), a senior trainer in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) professional trauma training, and the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) with the practice of embodying emotions as its coreclinical strategy. He is the author of the 2022 book The Practice of Embodying Emotions: A guide for improving cognitive, emotional, and clinical outcomes. His work is informed by multiple body psychotherapy approaches (Reichian Therapy, Bioenergetic Analysis, Bodynamic Analysis and Somatic Experiencing), bodywork systems of Postural Integration and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Jungian and Archetypal psychologies, Kleinian and Intersubjective schools of psychoanalysis, cognitive and affective neurosciences, quantum physics, yoga, Polarity Therapy, and Advaita Vedanta (s spiritual psychology from India). Dr. Selvam has taught for twenty-five years in nearly as many countries on five continents.

  
  

  

  
  

  About the Organization
  

  Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) considers every approach to psychotherapy as valuable and understands them all as components of a broad unifying framework built on Eastern and Western psychologies. It offers clinicians from diverse therapeutic modalities the possibility of increasing treatment efficiency through greater embodiment of all the bodies that constitute the psyche.
  

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  These exclusive webinars are brought to you by the USABP and its proud educational and training institute member organizations.

  These live webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Worker and other Health Professionals.

  

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  ABOUT OUR EVENTS

  Our events often include demonstrations, video and slide presentations, experiential exercises, Q & A discussions, insights from attendees, presenter shares about their personal journey and inspirations, and much more.

  These courses content levels serve introductory or beginning level; intermediate level; or advanced level.

  Please cancel prior to 24 hours before the course starts. For questions or concerns, phone 202-466-1619.

  Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

  

  DON’T FORGET! 

  REGISTRATION is in three steps:

  1) Register first on the USABP website (click the register button on this page), and then

  2) Register at Zoom too. Use the Zoom link that we will email to you after you register with USABP (click the register button on this page to begin registration).

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  We look forward to seeing you at this premiere event.

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• Speaker Event | Conversation with Babette Rothschild on Trauma Treatment

  • When
    21 Mar 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    4 registrants

  Register

  Join Liam Blume for a conversation with Babette Rothschild on topics in her book Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment: Stabilization, Safety, & Nervous System Balance. This event includes Q&A from the audience during and after the event. 

  

  Featured Speaker Babette Rothschild
  

  
  

  This event will be recorded and available for members and non-members who register for this event.
  
  This course will not include CEs. 

  
  

  
  

  This event will include our special Overtime! 
  

  Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends. 

  Description

  Check Back for Details.

  Register now and we will send you updated information for the event  and to be informed when the event recording is ready for viewing.

  General Agenda

  • Opening Announcements
  • Presentation, experientials and/or demonstrations
    
  • Q & A from the audience - during & after event
  • Overtime

  
  

  Presenter Information

  Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW is an internationally recognized PTSD specialist and best-selling author of seven books translated into eighteen languages. She has written extensively on trauma. Her works include 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery; HELP for the HELPER: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma (with Marjorie Rand); REVOLUTIONIZING TRAUMA TREATMENT: Stabilization, Safety, & Nervous System Balance; THE BODY REMEMBERS: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment; THE BODY REMEMBERS CASEBOOK: Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD; and Trauma Essentials: The Go-to Guide.

  Babette is also the creator and Series Editor of W. W. Norton’s 8 Keys to Mental Health Series.

  She has been a practicing psychotherapist and body-psychotherapist since 1976 and a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 1978. She is a member of the International and European Societies for Traumatic Stress Studies, the Association of Traumatic Stress. Babette has trained extensively in Transactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy, Psychodrama, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Somatic Experiencing, and is a certified Bodynamic Analyst and certified Radix Teacher. 

  She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

  
  

  

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  These exclusive webinars are brought to you by the USABP and its proud educational and training institute member organizations.

  These live webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Worker and other Health Professionals.

  

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  ABOUT OUR EVENTS

  Our events often include demonstrations, video and slide presentations, experiential exercises, Q & A discussions, insights from attendees, presenter shares about their personal journey and inspirations, and much more.

  These courses content levels serve introductory or beginning level; intermediate level; or advanced level.

  Please cancel prior to 24 hours before the course starts. For questions or concerns, phone 202-466-1619.

  Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

  

  DON’T FORGET! 

  REGISTRATION is in three steps:

  1) Register first on the USABP website (click the register button on this page), and then

  2) Register at Zoom too. Use the Zoom link that we will email to you after you register with USABP (click the register button on this page to begin registration).

  3) Once you register with Zoom.  Zoom will send you your login link.

  We look forward to seeing you at this premiere event.

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• Bringing Radical Aliveness into the World

  • Start
    28 Mar 2025
  • End
    12 Dec 2025
  • Location
    In-Person,3095 21st Street San Francisco CA 94110

  Bringing Radical Aliveness into the World San Francisco 2025

  March 28th - 30th, 2025
  May 30th - June 1st, 2025
  August 15th - 17th, 2025
  November 7th - 9th, 2025
  December 12th - 14th, 2025

  This is an in-person event located Heartlab in San Francisco. 

  Cost: USD$4000 (sliding scale available)
  

  Space is limited to 18 Participants

  We believe the world needs your gifts! We have invited RA faculty to work with us over five modules to support you in expanding your impact in the world. Rather than focus on personal work, we are offering a series focused on developing our unique abilities to touch others and transform the world.

  Who is this for?

  • Leaders ready to step into the world fully and embody their gifts

  • People who are self-responsible, self-aware, and able to recognize personal biases

  • Humans willing to explore their impact in a co-created laboratory experience

  March 28th - 30th, 2025
  May 30th - June 1st, 2025
  August 15th - 17th, 2025
  November 7th - 9th, 2025
  December 12th - 14th, 2025

  Cost: USD$4000 (sliding scale available)

  If you are ready to DO YOUR PART, join us!

  Space is limited to 18 Participants

  - Our Invitation -

  We will meet for 5 weekends, each time for 3 days.

  The weekends will have opportunities for leadership, teaching, creativity, and support. Part of each Friday will be peer-led without faculty present as a way to step more courageously into individual leadership.

  Each participant will work on one "project" during this series, using the modules for feedback and support. The project is an opportunity for you to take the work into other contexts and develop your RA inspired skills. Your project is a way for you to do your part, drawing on your passion and willingness to welcome and bridge other perspectives, lenses, or frames. The modules will include time for you to lead activities, work on your project, and work through challenges with group and faculty support.

  We hope you will join us! If you have any questions or would like to register, please email BringingRAintotheworld@gmail.com.

  With Gratitude!

  Location:

  HeartLab in San Francisco

  www.heartlabsf.com

  www.RadicalAliveness.Org

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• Forum | State of the Art of Perinatal and Prenatal Somatics

  • When
    9 Apr 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    5 registrants

  Register

  
  

  The United States Association for Body Psychotherapy and the International Body Psychotherapy Journal bring you this special forum.

  This event will be recorded and available for members and non-members who register for this event. This course will not include CEs. 

  
  

  This event will include our special Overtime! 
  

  Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends. 

  Check back for more details to come.
  Register now and receive email updates.

  Description

  Join us for a panel discussion with experts discussing the state of the art of prenatal and perinatal somatics. Presenters will address the development of the field, the early layers of somatic experience, the leading Interventions employed, and the impact on therapeutic practices.

  Audience participation through Q&A and Overtime.

  Master of Ceremonies
  
  Kate White, Founder of the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute

  Panelists

  • Mary Jackson, Castellino Corporation
  • Anna Chitty, Colorado School of Energies Studies
  • Frank Carbone, Womb Continuum
  • Veronique Mead, Adverse Babyhood Experiences / Chronic Illness Trauma Studies

  General Agenda

  • Opening Announcements
  • Panelist Opening Remarks 
    
  • MC hosted panel discussion
  • Q & A / Discussion with the audience
  • Overtime

  Learn more about the IBPJ.

  
  

  

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  These live webinars are for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFTs. Counselors, Somatic Practitioners, Body Worker and other Health Professionals.

  

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• Somatic resourcing + Process group

  • When
    1 Oct 2025
  • Location
    In Person - Boulder, CO

  Somatic resourcing + Process group

  5-week series

  Next series begins October 2025 - contact me for more info: kerry@kerrymaiorca.com

  In-person event in Boulder, CO

  Reconnect with yourself and others

  ​​​To live a life of purpose, meaning, and wellbeing, it's essential to have a variety of ways to resource yourself through life's ups and downs.

  ​You may have learned to tune out body sensations like pain or discomfort in order to better function in daily life, but this makes it hard to feel other things on a physical and emotional level too.

  How can you feel fully alive and know how to meet your changing needs when you've had to habitually numb yourself just to get by?

  ​If you feel lonely even when surrounded by people, or you're craving friend interactions that go beyond likes, pics, and reels, you're not alone.​ Authentic connections with others are hard to come by these days.

  And it's often even harder to access tools for tapping into your own experience of your body, mind, and emotions in the moment.

  Who has the time or patience for that when life is so busy?​

  This small group experience will give you an opportunity to slow down and experience spaciousness, ease, and rest. You'll practice reconnecting with your body and nervous system while fostering a supportive group connection.

  Explore your connection to your self and others with the tools of somatic resourcing.

  About the group

  ​​Drawing from yoga, mindfulness, and the principles of somatic therapy, this group will offer you experiential practices of movement, breath, and relaxation designed to resource and rejuvenate.

  You'll learn the basics of nervous system states and polyvagal theory to better understand how to self-regulate, whether that means calming or energizing.

  With guided experiences of group processing, you will explore your own patterns for how you show up within a group. Discover how first connecting with yourself and your present moment experience can enhance your ability to relate to others from a grounded place.

  ​​​​Each session will incorporate simple movement and mindfulness practices such as gentle yoga and breath techniques, restorative yoga poses, and a mini sound bath experience. These embodied practices are designed to help you connect with your body and better manage your nervous system state. In addition to experiential work, there will be ample time, space, and guidance in each session for processing and sharing your experience within the group.​

  Group is limited to a maximum of 10 participants.

  Cost: $275

  If the cost is prohibitive, please contact me for sliding scale pricing options.

  Register now for community and connection - https://www.kerrymaiorca.com/somaticgroup

  
  

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