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• Somatic Movement Class Online, Weekly

  • Start
    15 Oct 2024
  • End
    3 Dec 2024
  • Location
    Online

  Feel – Move – Touch - Be Happy

  Somatic Movement is a mindful practice that combines gentle movement, touch, and breath to harmonize the body and mind. It encourages participants to explore their inner sensations and unique movement patterns, fostering emotional release, self-regulation, and healing. Through slow, conscious movements, participants focus on their internal experiences, helping to release physical tension, improve alignment, and promote mental well-being. For more details, visit https://www.somatic-training.com/somatic-movement.html .

  Presented by Dieter Rehberg, MA, BA, MSME/T

  Every Tuesday from 24.09.2024 to 03.12.2024 and,
  Every Tuesday from 21.01.2025 to 01.06.2025

  8.30 am to 10.00 am PDT or PST
  (please check the exact times in the booking process)

  Online via zoom

  € 25,- per class (= $28,-)

  Info: https://www.somatic-training.com/somatic-movement.html or dieter.rehberg@pme.or.at

  Booking: https://www.somatic-training.com/booking.html

  What we will do:

  • Inhabiting our Space for Movement
  • Developing Mindfulness and Compassion
  • Simple Movement Exercises
  • Simple Touches & Self-Coaching
  • Free Movement
  • Reflection and Verbal Exchange
  • Looking at Anatomical Images
  • Embodiment through Movement and Touch
  • Free Exploration
  • Integration
  • Reflection and Verbal Exchange

  Your benefits:

  • Move freely and effortlessly
  • Move your Balance
  • Center body and mind
  • Get rid of Fears
  • Strengthen the immune system
  • Relax & Calm down
  • Regulate the Nervous System
  • Transform your Feelings
  • Enjoy healing and helpful Development

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT was developed to make inner alignment, a meditative mind, health and bodily freedom easily accessible to everyone.

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT encourages people to listen to the messages from within the body and to discover their idiosyncratic movement vocabulary.

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT emphasises on the mindful and compassionate perception of bodily processes and movements.

  The somatic dialogue, the sensing as question and movement expression as answer enhances self-organisation and development of a person.

  By the means of SOMATIC MOVEMENT we encounter the wisdom of the lively experience, which results from an "attention to" instead of "control" or "mastering" of processes of life.

  In SOMATIC MOVEMENT we sense our body from the inside with our proprioceptive sense, and we sense our movement from the inside with our kinestetic sense.

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT is also guiding us into feeling our old and new emotions and alows for direct expression of these emotions in movement. When we are allowed to feel and express our old stored emotions we do not need to hide and store them anymore in our bodies, we can free ourselfs from those emotions.

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT can help to balance the nervesystem and assist in the healing of small or big mental and emotional injuries.

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT is a discovery by nature.

  
  

  About the Facilitator/Founder
  Dieter Rehberg, MA, BA, MSMT/E, is Psychological Counselor (LSB), Master of Somatic Movement Therapy and Education(ISMETA), Somatic Dance Educator , Massage Therapist and Performance Artist. Rehberg is Trager-Practitioner and certified in Idiolektics and has extensive experience and knowledge in Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Creative Dance, Alexander Technique and Body-Mind Centering. He developed his method integrating these different dance, bodywork and counseling techniques from his 35 years of professional experience as somatic therapist and performance artist combining it with his insights into buddhist theory and practice. He is the director of the "Institut und Akademie für Physio-Mentale Entwicklung" and founder of THE SOMATIC TRAINING. Rehberg holds a Bachelor of Arts from the European Dance Development Center / NL, the Trauma Certificate from Laurier University / CAN and a Master of Arts in Somatic Studies from Middlesex University / UK. For 25 years he worked in his private practice in Vienna / Austria and teaches nationally, internationally and online.

  https://www.somatic-training.com/dieter-rehberg.html

  info: https://www.somatic-training.com/somatic-movement.html or dieter.rehberg@pme.or.at

  booking: https://www.somatic-training.com/booking.html

  >>your system does not take my austrian tel number: +43 650 5458610 , so I put in the US number from my student Kelly Lazzara in San Diego<<

  >>> please use only my number and never Kellys number <<<<<

  
  

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• Feel – Move – Touch - Be Happy

  • Start
    15 Oct 2024
  •  
    8:30 AM
  • End
    3 Dec 2024
  • Location
    Online

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT online (weekly class)

  Feel – Move – Touch - Be Happy

  Somatic Movement is a mindful practice that combines gentle movement, touch, and breath to harmonize the body and mind. It encourages participants to explore their inner sensations and unique movement patterns, fostering emotional release, self-regulation, and healing. Through slow, conscious movements, participants focus on their internal experiences, helping to release physical tension, improve alignment, and promote mental well-being.

  For more details, visit https://www.somatic-training.com/somatic-movement.html .

  Booking: https://www.somatic-training.com/booking.html

  Presented by Dieter Rehberg, MA, BA, MSME/T

  Every Tuesday from 9/24/2024 - 12/03/2024
  Every Tuesday from 1/21/2025 - 06/01/2025

  8.30 am to 10.00 am PDT or PST (please check the exact times in the booking process)

  Online via zoom

  € 25,- per class (= $28,-)

  What we will do:

  Inhabiting our Space for Movement
  

  • Developing Mindfulness and Compassion
  • Simple Movement Exercises
  • Simple Touches & Self-Coaching
  • Free Movement
  • Reflection and Verbal Exchange
  • Looking at Anatomical Images
  • Embodiment through Movement and Touch
  • Free Exploration
  • Integration
  • Reflection and Verbal Exchange

  Your Benefits:

  • Move freely and effortlessly
  • Move your Balance
  • Center body and mind
  • Get rid of Fears
  • Strengthen the immune system
  • Relax & Calm down
  • Regulate the Nervous System
  • Transform your Feelings
  • Enjoy healing and helpful Development

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT was developed to make inner alignment, a meditative mind, health and bodily freedom easily accessible to everyone.

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT encourages people to listen to the messages from within the body and to discover their idiosyncratic movement vocabulary.

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT emphasizes on the mindful and compassionate perception of bodily processes and movements.

  The somatic dialogue, the sensing as question and movement expression as answer enhances self-organization and development of a person.

  By the means of SOMATIC MOVEMENT we encounter the wisdom of the lively experience, which results from an "attention to" instead of "control" or "mastering" of processes of life.

  In SOMATIC MOVEMENT we sense our body from the inside with our proprioceptive sense, and we sense our movement from the inside with our kinestetic sense.

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT is also guiding us into feeling our old and new emotions and allows for direct expression of these emotions in movement. When we are allowed to feel and express our old stored emotions we do not need to hide and store them anymore in our bodies, we can free ourselves from those emotions.

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT can help to balance the nerve system and assist in the healing of small or big mental and emotional injuries.

  SOMATIC MOVEMENT is a discovery by nature.

  Learn more about
  

  Dieter Rehberg, MA, BA, MSMT/E, is Psychological Counselor (LSB), Master of Somatic Movement Therapy and Education(ISMETA), Somatic Dance Educator , Massage Therapist and Performance Artist. Rehberg is Trager-Practitioner and certified in Idiolektics and has extensive experience and knowledge in Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Creative Dance, Alexander Technique and Body-Mind Centering. He developed his method integrating these different dance, bodywork and counseling techniques from his 35 years of professional experience as somatic therapist and performance artist combining it with his insights into buddhist theory and practice. He is the director of the "Institute und Akademie für Physio-Mentale Entwicklung" and founder of THE SOMATIC TRAINING. Rehberg holds a Bachelor of Arts from the European Dance Development Center / NL, the Trauma Certificate from Laurier University / CAN and a Master of Arts in Somatic Studies from Middlesex University / UK. For 25 years he worked in his private practice in Vienna / Austria and teaches nationally, internationally and online.

  https://www.somatic-training.com/dieter-rehberg.html

  info: https://www.somatic-training.com/somatic-movement.html or dieter.rehberg@pme.or.at

  booking: https://www.somatic-training.com/booking.html

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• Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: An Experiential Introduction

  • When
    2 Nov 2024
  • Location
    Online

  Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: An Experiential Introduction

  November 2- November3, 2024

  Registration

  Saturday: 8:00am-11:15am & 12:15pm-3:45pm (PST)
  
  Sunday: 8:00am-11:15am & 12:15pm-3:45pm (PST)

  Cost:$335

  Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

  Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

  We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues.This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

  This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from the faculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and Supervision.

  For more information click here

  Faculty:
  Deah Baird, N.D., L.P.C., Certified Hakomi Trainer

  Target Audience:

  This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

  Objectives:

  Introduce the unique application of mindfulness that supports access in therapeutic settings

  Practice skills to enhance the therapist’s self-regulation & embodiment & therapeutic relationship.

  Utilize Hakomi principles, e.g. nonviolence in therapy, to create safety for the client

  Discover the importance of the exploratory (experimental) attitude as a key component of the Hakomi Method.

  Recognize the power of noticing the subtle somatic cues of the body & using this as the basis to build on the therapeutic relationship.

  Observe the application of Hakomi skills & principles in the experiential process as a way to access unconscious core material.

  CE Information: 12 NBCC CE hours

  (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.

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• Melting the Shame Freeze – Building Resilience, Resources, and a Return to Safety and Connection

  • Start
    2 Nov 2024
  • End
    9 Nov 2024
  • Location
    Online

  Melting the Shame Freeze – Building Resilience, Resources, and a Return to Safety and Connection

  Saturday, November 2, 10am-6pm PDT

  Saturday, November 9, 10am-6pm PDT

  Registration

  Melting the Shame Freeze – Building Resilience, Resources, and a Return to Safety and Connection

  A workshop for therapists and other helping professionals

  With Sheila Rubin LMFT, RDT/BCT and Bret Lyon PhD, SEP

  Saturday, November 2, 10am-6pm PDT & Saturday, November 9, 10am-6pm PDT

  Online via Zoom – Live and Recorded

  $395 full price / $375 with full payment by October 18 / Special price for interns

  13 CE credits available – $40 fee (See website for details)

  CAMFT CE provider #134393

  Shame is an extraordinary combination of a primary emotion and a state of freeze. It is an embodied belief that "something is wrong with me." Shame, like trauma, puts the body in a freeze state and lowers the ability to think and act clearly. Because shame exists in the body as well as in the mind, it is important that therapists work with shame somatically.

  In this workshop, you will explore how to utilize somatic techniques to connect more quickly with the client and forge a strong therapeutic alliance. You will learn how to prevent somatic counter-transference and avoid taking on the client's physical shame patterns.

  You will:

  -Focus on using breathing and grounding to resource the client, becoming more aware of your own breathing and expanding it in the process.

  -Learn how you can resource yourself so that you don't fall into somatic counter-transference and take on the client's physical shame patterns.

  -Explore how to keep your clients more present in the room with you and counter over-verbalization, dissociation, and freezing.

  -Learn techniques and theory from Wilhelm Reich (the father of Somatics), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing®), Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Theory), Ron Kurtz (Hakomi), and Eugene Gendlin (Focusing).

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

  TO REGISTER, please visit the Schedule page at www.HealingShame.com.

  For details about our complete training program in Healing Shame, visit our website, where you can also find articles and free Healing Shame webinars.

  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 (CE) 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.

  Presenter Bio

  Sheila Rubin and Bret Lyon are leading authorities on healing shame. They created the Healing Shame – Lyon/Rubin method and are the directors of the Center for Healing Shame, a continuing education provider that offers Healing Shame workshops to therapists and other helping professionals. They have co-led workshops on Healing Shame for over a decade, in many cities in the U.S. and Canada. Both have trained in EFT with Sue Johnson and in AEDP with Diana Fosha.

  For more information, call Sheila at 415-820-3974 or email Sheila@HealingShame.com.

  For details about our complete training program in Healing Shame, visit our website, where you can also find articles and free Healing Shame webinars.

  www.HealingShame.com

  
  

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• Body Psychotherapy: Foundations for Clinical Practice with Ulfried Geuter | USABP Speaker Event

  • When
    4 Nov 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    58 registrants

  Register

  
  

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

  

  
  

  Presenter
  

  Ulfried Geuter

  
  

  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

  This discussion will revolve around Ulfried's book Body Psychotherapy. 

  This book introduces body psychotherapy as one of the essential approaches in psychotherapy, reflecting the increasing integration of the body into clinical mental health practice.

  The book offers an entirely new view on body psychotherapy based upon advanced research on embodiment, memory, emotion regulation, developmental psychology and body communication and an experiential and relational understanding of psychotherapy.

  Accordingly, the author grounds the theory of body psychotherapy on the theoretical approach of enactivism, which regards experience as arising from meaningful living interaction with others and their environment.

  The book, fortified with clinical examples, shows the distinctiveness of body psychotherapy as compared with a traditional talking therapy approach. It also convincingly demonstrates that each form of psychotherapy should consider body experiences.

  This text will be a comprehensive foundation for psychotherapists of every orientation, scholars of the humanities and students and especially those wishing to integrate embodied experience into their understanding of their patients.

  Book Details and Purchase

  
  

  Reviews
  

  “With clear and incisive analysis Geuter convincingly argues why the subjective body must be included in all psychotherapy modalities.”
  Jeff Barlow, Somatic Psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer; founding director, Australian College of Contemporary Somatic Psychotherapy

  “Dr. Geuter offers us an intensely erudite yet delightfully readable survey of the contemporary field of body psychotherapy.”
  Barnaby B. Barratt, PhD, DHS, Director of doctoral studies in Bodymind Healing at the Parkmore Institute, Parkmore (Johannesburg), South Africa

  “This is an excellent book which transcends but values the differences between schools and is a masterly foundation for body psychotherapy as a mainstream of psychotherapy!”
  David Boadella, PhD (Hon), Founder of Biosynthesis; founding president and honorary member of the European Association for Body Psychotherapy (t)

  “Geuter's work combines masterful reviews of the field's history, development, and current trends, as well as contributions from philosophy, neuroscience, and classic psychological theory and practice, while at the same time deftly weaving in his own integrative perspective!”
  Christine Caldwell, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Naropa University Somatic Counseling Program, Boulder, USA

  “Ulfried Geuter, a leading thinker of body psychotherapy, has produced a highly original book with a Sophisticated and thorough theoretical perspective.”
  George Downing, PhD, former Clinical Faculty, Salpettiere Hospital and University of Paris VIlI, France

  “Geuter takes the reader well beyond the fraught history of this field and into a new synthesis that places the experiencing human subject in the relational, present moment encounter with the therapist who guides the client into a deeper felt experience of their own embodied self.”
  Alan Fogel, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Utah, USA

  “Skillful therapy vignettes illustrate how working with body processes can immediately elucidate psychological dilemmas.”
  Ruella Frank, PhD, Founder, Director of the Center for Somatic Studies, New York

  
  

  Presenter Information

  Ulfried Geuter is a body psychotherapist and psychoanalyst who works in his own practice in Berlin. He taught body psychotherapy as a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin from 1995-2003 and as an honorary professor at the University of Marburg from 2010-2023 and is a training analyst, supervisor and lecturer in postgraduate psychotherapeutic training programs. He runs the Institute for Advanced Training in Body Psychotherapy in Berlin and is the author of The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany, 1992.

  
  

  

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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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  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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• Enter the World of Somatic Outpatient Care | A USABP Speaker Event

  • When
    18 Nov 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    16 registrants

  Register

  
  

  The New Beginnings Center's co-owners Sean Baker and Susan Richter leverage their combined 50 years of experience to present a two-part program focused on providing valuable insights into successful outpatient somatic care.

  Part 1 – Get Inside the Therapist’s Experience Using Somatic Approaches in Trauma Treatment

  Part 2 – Implementing Somatic Approaches Within a Treatment Center Setting

  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 for Part 1

  Trauma work invites both growth and healing for the client but also the healer. Ignite or rekindle your passion as a clinician and assist your clients to better engage in therapy. Getting inside the therapist’s experience using somatic approaches in trauma treatment intertwines an understanding of nervous system regulation and the defense responses resulting from trauma and insecure attachment. By tracking defenses on an embodied level and developing neural connections to resources that allow traumatic material to be processed and resolved, we support the wisdom of the body, mind and spirit as it seeks to re-connect with self and others through emotionally and somatically corrective experiences.

  This workshop will focus on integrating Body work modalities such as Craniosacral, Reiki, Feldenkrais, Yoga with cognitive therapies like DBT, ACT, ERP and Trauma Processing Models Comprehensive Resource Model, Somatic Experiencing and EMDR. Participants will engage in somatically-informed skills and experiential tools to explore awareness, focused attention, affect tolerance, and expanding self-image and joy. Step-by-step techniques for expanding interoceptive awareness with ease and somatic techniques to treat trauma will be demonstrated.

  The Main Points of This Workshop

  ▪ Attune to self
  ▪ Attune to client’s NS arousal
  ▪ Assist client to experience settling, feel into body
  ▪ Anchor embodied resources
  ▪ Ego State work
  ▪ Pendulate between activation and resource

  Learning Objectives

  Participants will learn:

  1. Develop an internal awareness of the clinician’s own process of nervous system regulation and felt sense of their embodied experience, to be able to attune to the client’s nervous system dysregulation.

  2. Intervene with somatic approaches to reduce dissociation and avoidance during sessions and reliance on harmful coping behaviors.

  3. Facilitate working with and releasing highly charged traumatic material in a way that reinforces the client’s resilience, self-compassion and self-responsibility.

  Bibliography

  Doidge, N. (2016). The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity. New York: Penguin.

  Mate, G. (2003). When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection. New York: Wiley.

  McConnell, S. (2021). Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch. Berkeley: North Atlantic.

  McKay, M. et al. (2019). The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance. Oakland: New Harbinger.

  Porges, S. (2021). Polyvagal safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-regulation. New York: Norton.

  Solomon, M., and Siegel, D. (2017). How people change: Relationships and neuroplasticity in psychotherapy. New York: Norton.

  Van der Kolk, B. (2015). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. New York: Viking Adult.

  
  

  Presenter Information

  

  Sean Baker MFT, SEP is co-owner and CEO at The New Beginnings Center in Camarillo, California. Certified in Somatic Experiencing and Gestalt therapy, Sean combines body-mind approaches to resolve clients’ distress related to trauma, self-harm behaviors, gender dysphoria, and co-occurring medical conditions.

  Sean advocates for transgender health care, providing staff sensitivity trainings and presenting at national conferences on gender diversity issues in mental health care. With over 20 years of operating in a group practice setting, Sean is passionate about mutual support among clinicians and collaboration with treatment team providers.

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  Susan Richter MFT, CEDS, SEP is co-owner and Clinical Training Director at The New Beginnings Center in Camarillo, California. Trained in EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and Comprehensive Resource Model, Susan has over 30 years’ experience providing individual and group psychotherapy treatment to those with eating disorders, trauma, anxiety and depression. Susan is Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and IAEDP Approved Supervisor. She presents at national conferences on eating disorders, trauma, and attachment, and treats patients with those issues as part of the treatment team for The Center’s Outpatient programs.  

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  About the Organization
  

  The New Beginnings Center has served the Southern California community since 1982. New Beginnings was founded and has always been owned and operated by licensed clinicians, understanding our clients’ needs as the best guide to treatment. The Center provides a wide variety of outpatient mental and integrative health services, and specializes in somatic approaches to treatment. Our mission is to promote healing of the individual whose nervous system has been disrupted by trauma, depression, anxiety, addiction, and/or chronic pain by restoring balance and healthy functioning that will improve the individual's overall quality of life.

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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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• Authentic Therapeutic Presence

  • When
    23 Nov 2024
  • Location
    Online

  Authentic Therapeutic Presence

  November 23- November 24, 2024

  Registration

  Location: Online
  Hours: 10:00am – 5:30pm MST

  Cost:

  Early Bird Price by November 1st: $367.50 / $315*
  $350 / $300* + GST (standard / *BIPOC, student, nonprofit)

  Regular Price after November 1: $420 / $367.50*
  $350 / $400* + GST (standard / *BIPOC, student, nonprofit)

  Registration closes November 16, 2024
  

  We will explore what enhances our therapeutic presence and which parts might come in the way of us meeting our clients with true connection, calm, compassion, curiosity, creativity, and spaciousness.

  How we can be anchored and fully engaged in moment-to-moment presence.

  Being before Doing.

  Providing safety and connection: The “therapeutic bubble,” and providing co-regulation from the Ventral Vagal State.

  Loving Presence & embodying qualities of our “Organic Self.”

  Exploring our own conditioned parts that at times take over (“the helper,” “the fixer,” the “adviser,” the “caretaker,” and “the one that knows what is best”)

  Faculty:
  Susann von Meijenfeldt, Certified Hakomi Therapist and Teacher

  CE:

  This program is not available for NBCC credit.

  For more information contact: hakomi.edmonton@gmail.com 

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• 3 Stages of Post Trauma Growth | USABP Spotlight Event

  • When
    5 Dec 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    2 registrants

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  This Spotlight Series Event is brought to you in partnership with Organic Intelligence.

  The realities of ever-larger traumas (e.g., climate, war, politics, and other abuses) impinge daily on our lives—minds, bodies, and hearts. It so often feels like so much and is so heartbreaking. How can we find peace with these complex realities without turning away or burning out?

  

  Join Organic Intelligence® founder Steve Hoskinson.

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

  Discover some of the inevitable hurdles to expect and the strategies for overcoming the chaos—personal, professional, and societal.

  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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  About the Spotlight Organization
  

  The Organic Intelligence® (OI™) training is characterized by scientific and professional rigor, by contemplative underpinnings and by enjoyment. Through the lens of OI’s Post-Trauma Growth orientation, OI answers the question, “What if people had not been convinced that addressing trauma (including dysfunction, dysregulation, and disembodiment) was the focus of therapy?” OI applies complexity science to clinical and somatic insights, and observes, “Trauma means unintegrated resource.” With this, OI members and their clients come to realize the actual, lived experience of their innate healing nature. A range of educational opportunities are available, for seasoned therapists, coaches or beginners, including the year-long OI Coach Certification program. 
  
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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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• Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: An Experiential Introduction

  • When
    7 Dec 2024
  • Location
    Online

  Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: An Experiential Introduction

  December 7- December 8, 2024

  Registration

  Saturday: 9:30am-12:45pm; 1:45-5:15pm 
  Sunday: 9:30am-12:45pm; 1:45-5:15pm

  Cost:$335

  Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

  Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

  We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues.This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

  This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from the faculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and Supervision.

  For more information click here

  Faculty:
  Deah Baird, N.D., L.P.C., Certified Hakomi Trainer

  Target Audience:

  This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

  Objectives:

  Introduce the unique application of mindfulness that supports access in therapeutic settings

  Practice skills to enhance the therapist’s self-regulation & embodiment & therapeutic relationship.

  Utilize Hakomi principles, e.g. nonviolence in therapy, to create safety for the client

  Discover the importance of the exploratory (experimental) attitude as a key component of the Hakomi Method.

  Recognize the power of noticing the subtle somatic cues of the body & using this as the basis to build on the therapeutic relationship.

  Observe the application of Hakomi skills & principles in the experiential process as a way to access unconscious core material.

  CE Information: 12 NBCC CE hours

  (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.

  For more information http://tinyurl.com/35ea64sw

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• Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics | USABP Spotlight Event

  • When
    9 Jan 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    4 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. 

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  General Agenda

  • Opening Announcements
  • Presentation, experientials and/or demonstrations
    
  • Q & A - during 
  • Overtime (after event) - further Q&A from attendees and indepth attendee discussion.

  
  

  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, 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 You can see a complete list of her trainings and education here.

  
  

  

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

  • When
    21 Mar 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    3 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. 

  Description

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  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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  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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