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• Introducing Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics: Understanding the Impact of Earliest Trauma | USABP Spotlight Event

  • When
    9 Jan 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    37 registrants

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  This Spotlight Series Event is brought to you in partnership with Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute - an official member of the USABP Educator Alliance.

  

  Presented by Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST, CEIM, SEP, PPNE, PLC, Founder of PPSI
  

  Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, Co-Creator of Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics and Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online, Creator of Baby Dynamics Clinical training, Leading Edge Somatic Skills Seminars, and the Whole Family Clinic. Kate is also the International Body Psychotherapy Journal (IBPJ) Fall Winter Guest Editor covering the topic of prenatal and perinatal somatic care.

  
  

  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

  We have heard that "the body keeps the score" or that "the body remembers," and it is now clear that the body can remember birth, prenatal experiences and that trauma can cross over generations. This presentation introduces the field of Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics, or how the earliest experiences starting preconception in life shape us. Our field of practice is over 100 years old and is now fully in the domain of implicit, somatic memories. We will explore what are these early layers and the current practices that help integrate them.

  Main Points:

  • Earliest experiences starting preconception lay down a template that shapes us across the lifespan.
  • Earliest overwhelming experiences are implicit, somatic memories and may influence our lives without the person being aware of them.
  • There are maps that help professionals recognize, reach and integrate earliest experiences for their clients and patients.
  • A set of five practitioner skills is a good way to describe a way to efficiently work with earliest wounds.
  • Earliest overwhelming experiences, including shock and developmental trauma, happen to us as we make our bodies, are born and come into relationship with our parents, families and culture.
  • Since these early experiences happen at the beginning of life, they are right next to a greatest spiritual nature so that healing these early experiences tap into our essential human qualities.
  • In prenatal and perinatal somatics, we call our essential nature our Blueprint, and our healing practices show how our Blueprint holds our wounds such that when we heal them, our essential qualities arise and thrive.
  • We all live with a Blueprint or our essential nature and Imprints or earliest woundings and ruptures. Prenatal and perinatal somatics works to integrate Imprints and Blueprint so humans can feel more whole.

  Participants will learn:

  • Prenatal and perinatal somatics is a distinct field of study within the somatics field.
  • There are three maps that help professionals navigate prenatal and perinatal traumas from the baby’s experience.
  • The autonomic nervous system is our basic map for tracking earliest wounds.
  • There are five basic layers to the prenatal and perinatal trauma map, and five layers of experience that define the territory of early wounds.
  • Five skills categories fortify the professional to work efficiently with earliest trauma.
  • A unique blend of skills and maps are the tools for healing earliest wounds.
  • Earliest traumas lie right next to our essential, spiritual nature, and these essential human states arise naturally when healing early layers.

  
  

  Presenter Information

  Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST, CEIM, SEP, PPNE, PLC, Founder of PPSI

  Kate White is an advanced bodyworker and somatic trauma resolution therapist who has been involved with pre- and perinatal health for over 30 years, starting with maternal and child health, family planning, and health education as an international professional, to a practitioner of the healing arts as a bodyworker working with pregnant mothers, families and babies. Her qualifications include: BA and MA in communications Certifications in prenatal massage, infant massage, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Training and over 25 years of study and training in Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic Psychology with many leading pioneering practitioners. She is founder and former Director of Education for the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate course for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, 2013-2019. Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute, Co-Creator of Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics and Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online, Creator of Baby Dynamics Clinical training, Leading Edge Somatic Skills Seminars, and the Whole Family Clinic

  
  

  

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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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• Community of Care Outreach

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

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  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

  (January 10, February 14, March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13) 

  First Event: Friday, January 10, 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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• A Special Day Devoted to Our Two Essential Diagrams and the Two Vital New Categories- Online Workshop - 6.5 CE Credits

  • When
    11 Jan 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Online using Zoom – Live and Recorded

  A Special Day Devoted to Our Two Essential Diagrams and the Two Vital New Categories- Online Workshop - 6.5 CE Credits

  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, January 11, 2025

  10:00 AM 6:00 PM

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  A Special Day Devoted to Our Two Essential Diagrams and the Two Vital New Categories

  For 15 years, two diagrams have served as the guiding principles as to how we understand and work with shame. These diagrams, created years ago, have structured our way ever since. These diagrams are so important and central to our work that we have covered them in every workshop we do. Recently, we revisited these diagrams and added a new category to each to represent new findings and understandings. We have created this one-day workshop to talk about these two diagrams at length and bring them fully to life for our students. We will focus on the two new categories which we have added - “Withhold” to the Reactions to Shame diagram and “Spiritual” to the Utilizing Realms of Experience to Create Optimal Distance from Shame diagram. These new, vital cutting-edge discoveries are ripe with meaning.

  The Spiritual Realm was an almost invisible “deep given” all the time, but we hadn’t really named it and placed it in the diagram until now. We can now explain much more clearly how to utilize this realm to help get the client out of the shame freeze. The concept of Withholding has helped us enormously as a couple, both illuminating places in our relationship that had been invisible and now allowing us to talk about them with precision. Professionally, it has helped us in working with both clients and students. When we have talked about it in workshops, everyone has identified with it. Many have said that it has helped them open up misunderstandings and stuck places in their relationships and have surprising breakthroughs.

  This workshop is a vital next step in bonding more deeply, quickly and effectively with clients. These concepts can help get your client out of the shame freeze and into building a stronger, more resilient, more creative inner self.

  Course Level: Beginning

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

  
  

  1 Saturday: JANUARY 11, 2025

  10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Pacific Time

  ONLINE

  Live and recorded, using Zoom

  6.5 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.

  $195 full price

  $185 with early bird discount, paid in full by December 13 (Use coupon code ONEDAYEB)

  $40 fee for CE credits - available for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs in California

  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 visit https://healingshame.com/new-products/continuing-education-credits

  We offer two payment options for registration:

  1. If you want the early bird pricing, pay $175 by the early bird deadline. (Sorry, no deposits for early bird pricing.)

  2. Pay the full amount of $195 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 13 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. The Center for Healing Shame maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

  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.

  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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• Skills for Releasing Toxic Anger: Transforming Anger to Love | USABP Speaker Event

  • When
    16 Jan 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  This Speaker Series Event features internationally acclaimed author Karyne Wilner. This invent includes extensive Q&A time for attendees. 

  

  
  

  Presenter
  

  Karyne Wilner, MA, PsyD, PA. RI. CT

  
  

  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

  In this session, “Skills to Release Toxic Anger: Transforming Anger into Love,” participants will learn skills for helping clients decrease and transform three forms of toxic anger: suppressed anger, aggressively expressed anger, and passive-aggressive anger. All three have a negative impact on physical health, threaten intimacy and interpersonal relationships, and lead to self-esteem issues, negative self-talk, and guilt.

  

  Particular emphasis will be placed on teaching grounding exercises that help one to remain rational when aroused, strategies to raise the energy vibration in order to transform the heavy energy of toxic anger into the light energy of positivity, and methods to communicate anger in safe and reasonable ways, without blame or viciousness.

  It’s also important for participants to develop skills that help them become less reactive to toxic anger when it's directed at them. The session will highlight Dr. Karyne’s seven steps to anger transformation.

  
  

  Book Details and Purchase

  Learning Objectives

  ▪ Do a body scan identifying where they hold anger in their bodies.
  ▪ Identify one or more people or events that were the source of their original anger.
  ▪ Do three grounding exercises: the waterfall, the bow, and the ostrich.
  ▪ Raise their energy’s vibration through movement, punching, running in place, or dance.
  ▪ Express anger in the form of a strength sandwich, or by taking 50% responsibility.
  ▪ Receive someone else’s anger and thank them for sharing it.

  
  

  Bibliography
  

  Ayakody, K., S. Gunadasa, and C. Hosker. 2014. “Exercise for Anxiety Disorders: Systematic Review.” British Journal of Sports Medicine 48:187–196.

  Christensen, A. J., and T.W. Smith. 1993. “Cynical Hostility and Cardiovascular Reactivity During Self-Disclosure.” Psychosomatic Medicine 55:193–202.

  Goldfried, M. R., and D. Sobocinski. 1975. “Effect of Irrational Beliefs on Emotional Arousal.” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 43:503–510.

  Lipton, H. B. 2005. The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, and Miracles. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House.

  Malarkey, W. B., J. K.Kiecolt-Glaser, D. Pearl, R. Glaser. 1994. “Hostile Behavior During Marital Conflict Alters Pituitary and Adrenal Hormones.” Psychosomatic Medicine 56:41–51.

  McKay, M., P. D. Rogers, and J. McKay. 2003. When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within. Berkeley, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

  Pierrakos, J. C. 1987. Core Energetics: Developing the Capacity to Love and Heal. Mendocino, CA: Life Rhythm Publications.

  Rein, G., M. Atkinson, and R. McCraty. 1995. “The Physiological Effects of Compassion and Anger.” Journal of Advancement in Medicine 8 (2): 87–105.

  Suinn, R. M. 2001. “The Terrible Twos—Anger and Anxiety: Hazardous to Your Health (Presidential Address).” American Psychologist 56 (1): 27–36.

  Wilner, K. B. 2020. “The Wounding Womb: Healing Prenatal Trauma. International Body Psychotherapy Journal: The Art and Science of Somatic Praxis 19 (2): 55–62.

  Zweig, C. and J. Abrams, eds. 1991. Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature. New York: Penguin Group, Inc.

  
  

  Presenter Information

  Karyne Wilner, MA, MA, PsyD, Licensed Psychologist, PA, RI, CT attained her degrees from Carnegie Mellon, Syracuse, Penn, & Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She served as Assistant Director of the Institute of Core Energetics from 1990 through 2011. Formerly, director of counseling at Drexel University and adjunct professor at Salve Regina University, she has directed somatic therapy programs in Brazil and Australia. She has written numerous journal articles about body psychotherapy. Currently, she practices in Newport, RI and Bethel, CT and lives with her husband and Jack Russell Terrier, Micah in beautiful Westerly, RI.

  
  

  

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  Check back as new information on our events happen regularly and updates are ongoing.
  

  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.

  

  IMPORT 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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• Men's Group

  • When
    18 Jan 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 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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• Emergence Process Group

  • When
    21 Jan 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    In-Person 112 West 27th St., NYC

  Emergence Process Group
  Deepen your Capacity for Intimacy

  An in-person somatic process group, weaving Core Energetics, Bioenergetics and Radical Aliveness modalities.

  Register

  Sanjay K Evran, CPRA, ACCEP
  Melissa Kaplan, ACCEP

  The power of this committed group builds intimacy and creates an encouraging environment that can hold full authentic expression for all members.

  We work with the personal, interpersonal and systemic realms with the intention to welcome the emergent wisdom of the group field.

  If you want to be challenged and explore bringing more of your true self to the world, consider joining us.

  Ongoing Biweekly, Tuesday Nights 7-9pm

  New applicants can join January 21st, 2025

  112 West 27th St., NYC

  $100/session

  Interview Required

  Reach out to Sanjay at sanjay@workwithsanjay.com

  For more information and registration

  
  

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• Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy Comprehensive Training, Level 1, Southeast

  • When
    24 Jan 2025
  • Location
    Hybrid, In-Person in Flat Rock, North Carolina and Zoom in Eastern Time

  Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy Comprehensive Training, Level 1, Southeast

  January 24, 2025 – January 9, 2026

  Registration

  Live-Online Hours:
  All hours are in Eastern Time
  Friday: 12:30-6:00 pm
  5 hours class time with two 15 minute break

  Saturday: 10:00 am-1:15 pm & 2:15-5:30 pm
  6 hours class time with a 1 hour lunch break, and two 15 minute breaks
  

  Sunday: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
  5 hours class time with a 30 minute lunch break and two 15 minute breaks

  Our Level 1 training will be in a hybrid format (8 live online meetings and 1 in-person meeting). Location: Online and in person at Sanctuary in the Pines – Flat Rock, North Carolina: 34 Lake Cove Rd., Flat Rock NC 28731

  Level One offers a thorough grounding in the theories and techniques of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy. Level One includes in-depth coverage of the Hakomi principles, Hakomi theories, maps and models as well as specific techniques. Training weekends include a mix of didactic material, experiential exercises, discussion, movement/embodiment exercises, group maintenance time and supervised practice times.

  This training is for professional therapists, clinical social workers, and counselors, students and interns of clinical social work, counseling, and psychotherapy, licensed healing arts practitioners, and people transitioning into the field of somatic psychotherapy who want to learn the method in its entirety.

  The goals of the Training are to provide students with: first, a deep understanding of the principles of the Hakomi Method and the ability to work within them in an attitude of loving presence. Second, an understanding of the techniques of the Hakomi therapeutic process and the ability to use these precisely and appropriately. Third, an understanding of the organization of personality and character into patterns that reveal developmental and cultural wounding, and the ability to use this understanding discriminatingly. Fourth, an understanding of one’s own inner organization and the process of using self as an instrument for therapy.

  For more information, http://tinyurl.com/4uj5jtvu

  Faculty:

  Certified Hakomi Trainers: Hiromi Willingham, MSW, LCSW; Julia Corley, MA, LCHMCA, Lorena Monda, MS, DOM, LPCC

  2025

  1) Jan 24-26 online live
  2) Mar 7-9 online live
  3) April 25-27 online live
  4) June 4-8 in person in NC (5 day in-person module on Hakomi somatic exploratory techniques and use of touch)
  5) July 18-20 online live
  6) September 12-14 online live
  7) October 24-26 online live
  8) December 5-7 online live

  2026

  9) January 9-11 online live

  Live-Online Hours:
  

  Friday: 12:30-6:00 pm
  5 hours class time with two 15 minute break

  Saturday: 10:00 am-1:15 pm & 2:15-5:30 pm
  6 hours class time with a 1 hour lunch break, and two 15 minute breaks

  Sunday: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
  5 hours class time with a 30 minute lunch break and two 15 minute breaks

  ***All hours are in Eastern Time

  CE: 60 CE’s: (ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

  To earn CE credit, students must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course, and complete an online course evaluation each Module (weekend).

  For more information contact: office@hakomi.org

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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.

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  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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• What is the One Body Error in Body Psychotherapy?

  • When
    13 Mar 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  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
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  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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  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.

  

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• Conversation with Babette Rothschild on Trauma Treatment | USABP Speaker Series

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

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  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. 

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  • 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.

  

  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.

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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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