Assess the different categories of trauma as addressed in the SE model. Identify the primary characteristics and hallmarks of each category of trauma, as well as specific approaches and interventions for working with each category effectively. Typically consists of two 6-day live training modules, spaced 2 to 4 months apart. Below are the basic topics covered in this level, subject to change by the presenter.

• Global High Intensity Activation (GHIA): pre- and peri-natal trauma, early trauma, anesthesia, suffocation, choking, drowning
• High Impact/Failure of Physical Defense: falls, traumatic brain injury, motor vehicle accidents, and other high-impact accidents
• Inescapable Attack: assault, animal attack, rape or sexual abuse, inhibited escape
• Physical Injury: surgery, poison, burns, physical injury due to accident
• Natural and Man-Made Disasters, Horror: natural disasters (e.g. earthquake, fires etc.), war, terrorism, torture, ritual abuse, horror (e.g. witnessing abuse, causing harm to another)
• Emotional Trauma: severe neglect, severe loss, ongoing abuse

Recommended Sessions:
4 x Personal Sessions
6 x Group Supervision Sessions

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CLOSED for Registration | Only Re-admissions Allowed

Assess how to work with complex trauma and syndromes. Expand on the use of touch in SE practice. Typically consists of two 6-day live training modules, spaced 4 to 6 months apart. Below are the basic topics covered in this level, subject to change by the presenter.

• Explain the importance of stabilisation when working with complex trauma
• Explore the SE concept of “coherence” in working with complex trauma
• Refine touch skills for supporting containment and coherence
• Explain the interrelationship between dysregulation of the ANS and the SE model of syndromes (non-reciprocal relationship between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems)
• Analyze the Polyvagal Theory as it relates to working with syndromes
• Refine the necessary SE skills of “titration” and “pendulation” when working with highly sensitive and syndromal clients
• Apply the SE model for working with the eyes
• Develop SE touch-based skills for working with different categories of trauma
• Explain how SE uses joints, body diaphragms, and the viscera to access ANS responses and to support completion of incomplete survival responses
• Explore scope-of-practice issues relating to the integration of SE and SE touch into professional practice

Recommended Sessions:
4 x Personal Sessions
6 x Group Supervision Sessions