An Introduction to Working Somatically with Trauma - One Day Workshop

This one-day teaching and experiential workshop offers an introductory exploration of trauma through the lens of the nervous system, equipping participants with practical somatic tools to support themselves and others in navigating dysregulation and overwhelm. Taught by a trauma specialist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and psychotherapist, you will:

• Develop a working understanding of the nervous system’s role in trauma, stress and anxiety
• Examine biological threat responses and how they present in behaviours and symptoms
• Explore the connection between our felt senses and the cognitive understanding of emotion
• Learn to recognise signs of nervous system dysregulation in others
• Understand the importance of psychoeducation in client work in the service of normalising biological responses
• Learn accessible strategies to support nervous system regulation
• Discover how trauma gets stuck and how to help clients to begin to heal
• Engage in guided somatic exercises to build confidence in applying this approach

This workshop is designed for therapists or student therapists who want to deepen their understanding of how the body responds to nervous system overwhelm and how to begin to work somatically with clients.

IMPORTANT: Trauma can be a sensitive topic, and tuning into the body can sometimes stir up strong feelings. Please only attend if you feel able to ground yourself and care for your own wellbeing throughout. If you're currently feeling very overwhelmed or vulnerable, this may not be the right time for this workshop.

CPD Certificate
A CPD certificate will be emailed to you within 2 days of the event.

Refreshments
Free pastries, teas and coffees are provided in the breaks. Lunch can be purchased from two on site cafe's. Hartley Farm Restaurant serves sit down meals and 'The Cabin' offers sandwiches, cakes and drinks. You are welcome to bring your own packed lunch.
https://www.hartley-farm.co.uk/farm-kitchen/

Cancellation, Refunds & Transfers

Refunds
You can cancel your ticket up to 30 days before the event for a full refund excluding the booking fee. 

If there is not enough interest in the workshop or the event has to be cancelled, The Centre for Somatic Resilience Training will provide a full refund including your booking fee.

Ticket Transfers
If you are unable to make it you may transfer your ticket to someone else but this would need to be approved by email before the event date so that we are expecting the correct person. 

About The Tutor:
Greg James is the director and lead tutor for The Centre for Somatic Resilience Training. He is a psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), and holds a Master’s degree in counselling and psychotherapy practice, an SEP qualification endorsed by the European Association of SE and Somatic Experiencing International and a Level 4 diploma in integrative therapeutic counselling. He works in a busy private practice specialising in the treatment of primary and secondary trauma. Alongside his private therapeutic and teaching work, he is a member of Somatic Experiencing International’s global outreach team; The SE Committee for Humanitarian Response (SECHR), for which he heads the sub-committee for the continent of Africa. The SECHR’s mission is to teach somatic interventions and to help resource traumatised populations in the face of natural or man-made disasters as well as longer-term on-going trauma.

Greg is also the founder of a non-profit organisation, ACTS (Access to Community Trauma Support). Based in Southern Africa ACTS trains individuals on the frontline of social care in the prevention of secondary traumatisation and supports the mental health training of individuals at the grassroots level, ensuring that somatically informed treatment of trauma exists within communities that would otherwise not have access to it.