Join us for this event featuring Licia Sky
Our Topic for the Experiential:
CREATIVE MIND, OPEN HEART.
Attunement is the envelope that makes exploration with safety, trust, curiosity, openness, spontaneity, compassion, play, humor, imagination, and connection possible.
This is a free event. Invite colleagues and friends.
Overtime Included!
Overtime is an optional gathering after the formal On The Move class, where attendees can stay for extended community engagement/discussion. It offers space for additional questions, deeper discussion of the material, exploration of related topics, and conversation about relevant cases.
Workshop Description
This experiential movement workshop explores the transformative power of attunement as the foundational container for embodied creative exploration and healing. Rooted in trauma-informed principles and body-centered psychotherapy, participants will discover how authentic attunement—to self, others, and the moving body—cultivates the psychological safety necessary for authentic movement, spontaneous expression, and genuine connection.
Through guided movement exploration, somatic awareness practices, and relational engagement, this session illuminates how our bodies become instruments of discovery and how attunement activates the nervous system's capacity for openness, play, creativity, and connection. Participants will engage in gentle yet profound movement experiences designed to deepen self-awareness, enhance relational resonance, and awaken imaginative capacity. The workshop demonstrates how safety and trust become the "envelope" within which the full spectrum of embodied human experience—including vulnerability, spontaneity, humor, creativity, and authentic presence—can flourish and support transformation and healing.
Participants will learn:
- The neurobiological foundations of attunement and its role in activating felt safety through embodied awareness and movement
- How attuned movement creates relational containers that invite authentic expression, curiosity, and creative exploration
- Practical somatic techniques for cultivating self-attunement through breath, movement, and embodied presence
- The interconnection between spontaneous movement, imagination, and creative expression in trauma-informed practice
- How to explore vulnerability, play, spontaneity, and connection through the language of the moving body
- Strategies for recognizing and responding to the body's signals and impulses that support openness, trust, and authentic engagement
- Integration practices that support participants in bringing movement-centered attunement into their own facilitation and practice
Learning Objectives
After completing this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain the relationship between embodied attunement, nervous system regulation, and psychological safety through movement-based exploration
- Analyze how specific movement qualities, spatial configurations, and relational practices support or inhibit authentic creative expression and connection
- Apply somatic and movement-based attunement practices to deepen their capacity for presence, resonance, and embodied awareness in their own facilitation and practice
- Integrate an understanding of creative movement as an essential resource for nervous system regulation, resilience, healing, and authentic human connection in their professional work
Class Flow
Approximate class flow time...
0:00–5:00 | Welcome & Framing (5 minutes)
Brief welcome, overview of the session's intention, and how attunement creates safety for embodied exploration. Set relational tone.
5:00–12:00 | Foundational Attunement Practice (7 minutes)
Guided somatic centering: breath awareness, grounding, and felt sense cultivation. Establish baseline nervous system regulation and present-moment awareness.
12:00–25:00 | Self-Attunement Through Movement (13 minutes)
Gentle guided movement exploration inviting participants to notice their own rhythms, impulses, and authentic movement. Focus on internal sensing and embodied curiosity. Emphasis on permission and pace.
25:00–35:00 | Creative Exploration: Movement & Imagination (10 minutes)
Guided movement that invites imagination, spontaneity, and play. Encourage participants to move beyond habitual patterns and tap into curiosity and creative impulses. Include varied qualities (flowing, percussive, suspended, playful).
35:00–45:00 | Relational Attunement & Presence (10 minutes)
Transition to awareness of connection—either with oneself in the space or with the facilitation presence. Explore how attunement to "other" (facilitator, group field, or internalized witness) shapes embodied experience.
45:00–55:00 | Integration & Reflection (10 minutes)
Guided return to stillness, integration of the movement experience, and time for noticing what has shifted or become available through attunement and embodied exploration.
55:00–60:00 | Closing & Opening to Next Segment (5 minutes)
Brief reflective remarks, transition language, and preparation for Overtime Q&A.
About Our Facilitator
Licia Sky, BFA, CMOH, is Co-Founder and Global Ambassador of the Trauma Research Foundation.
She is a somatic educator, artist, singer-songwriter, integration specialist, and bodyworker who works with people impacted by trauma, and guides mental health professionals to use mindful meditation in movement, theater exercises, writing, and voice as tools for attunement, healing, and connection. She is a regular instructor in trauma healing workshops at Cape Cod Institute, Ketamine Training Center, and Esalen. For the past decade, she has been teaching expanded awareness in workshops to clinicians and laypeople around the world.
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Our Mission
To support and grow a community of clinicians, researchers, educators, and people whose lives are affected by trauma, who collaborate to research, develop, disseminate, and implement optimal trauma treatments for children and adults.
Our Values
Respect, fairness, justice, honesty, integrity, ecological & social awareness, generosity, accessibility, inclusion, hard work, dedication, commitment, creativity, fun, healing.
Who we are
The Trauma Research Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit founded in May of 2018, organized to promote clinical, scientific and educational projects. The purpose of this corporation is to support and conduct non-partisan research, education, & informational activities dedicated to innovative clinically informed projects to develop and implement optimal methods, treatments, and modalities to help children and adults heal from traumatic experiences.
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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.
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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
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