Christine Caldwell & Rae Johnson – Somatic Therapy 101 – Core Tools for Body Based Healing

This course introduces core principles and skills of a somatic approach to growth and transformation. Topics include sensory awareness, embodied meaning-making, nonverbal communication, and working with movement impulses. Participants will develop key practitioner capacities such as staying in direct experience, tracking movement, practicing kinesthetic empathy, and finding embodied integrity. Through experiential exercises, participants will embody the material and develop foundational skills, then learn strategies for integrating this approach into their professional practice.

About This Course

This course introduces the key principles, concepts, and skills that underlie a somatic approach to growth and transformation. Topics include:

• sensory awareness as a foundational capacity for self-knowledge and emotional literacy
• embodied meaning-making
• understanding nonverbal communication
• working with movement impulses
• integrating embodied experience with action

Participants will also be introduced to key practitioner capacities, including staying in direct experience, oscillating attention, tracking micro and macro movement, practicing kinesthetic empathy, expanding somatic bandwidth, and finding one’s own embodied integrity as a practitioner.

Experiential components will allow participants to try on the material in their own bodies to deepen comprehension and develop initial skills. From there, the course will focus on strategies for integrating a somatic approach into an existing professional practice.

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