Generative Somatics Courses and Workshops

generative somatics is excited to announce our 2012 program schedule. Links to applications are below, program descriptions as follows…


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  • Somatics & Trauma

    This year-long training will support participants in learning to transform trauma through the body with somatic awareness and embodiment processes, somatic skills building and specialized somatic bodywork.  Both the historical roots of this work as well as its modern grounding in neuroscience will be included in the course of study.  Individual experiences of trauma are inseparable from the social context in which trauma occurs. Participants will learn to work effectively to address the impact of both personal and social trauma, creating change, healing, and the ability to take new actions in oneself and with clients.

    The S&T training is designed for practitioners who are committed to addressing the intersections of personal and social trauma and the role of healing in broader social change work.  We also want to support practitioners who are committed to offering access and healing to communities facing both individual trauma and institutional oppression. Licensed mental health practitioners, community-based healers, therapists, coaches, and community organizers on a healing path will benefit from this course.

    In 2012, generative somatics is thrilled to launch Somatics & Trauma in Seattle, Washington! For years political healers and organizers have traveled down to the Bay Area to participate in generative somatics programming. With the ongoing support and commitment of our Seattle participants, we are finally able to bring the course locally to them and their communities. We will also hold our 11th year of Somatics & Trauma in the Bay Area and are excited to continue building and deepening this base of politicized healers through this course.

    2012 dates are as follows:

    Bay Area:
    April 27 – April 29
    June 7 – June 10
    July 27 – July 29
    September 27 - September 30
    November 2 – November 4

    Seattle:
    May 18 – May 20
    July 5 – July 8
    August 17 – August 19
    September 27 – September 30
    November 9 – November 11

  • Somatics & Social Justice

    Transformative process and practice is moving rapidly into the social justice movement. generative somatics is committed to spreading somatics well and leveraging its full power toward systemic change and liberation.  Our Somatics & Social Justice (SSJ) work is geared towards organizers, activists, and movement builders who want to get exposed to transformative work, focus on their own change and leadership development, and explore what somatics has to offer to the social justice movement in terms of strategy, vision, building power, and sustainable transformation. We will run multiple four-day SSJ Intensives throughout 2012. Intensives offer a taste of somatic practice, somatic awareness and the intersection of personal and systemic transformation. They take “transformation” from a good idea to a felt and lived experience that can deeply informour social and environmental justice work, and offers a first step on a somatic path.

    SSJ Intensives will be offered in late Spring, Summer and Fall of 2012. Check back here soon for exact dates and applications…

  • SSJ/S&T Teacher Training

    Over the next five years generative somatics is prioritizing developing teachers of this politicized somatic path in order to bring a quality somatics to social justice movement work. In 2011, we launched the generative somatics Teacher Training with a group of twenty-eight incredible, committed participants that we identified as leaders and future teachers of somatics in social movement work. We imagine a cultivated cadre of teachers that can help spread somatics to social justice organizations and alliances, organizers, community members, and leaders, in service of systemic transformation.  We see that some of the teacher cadre can also hold the politicized healing process of Somatics and Trauma.  We see politicized healers and coaches as having an important role to play as we bring transformation more centrally to movement practice.  

    Teacher Training is an invitation-only process based on an individual’s years of somatic training, experience in the social justice movement and community organizing, personal healing work, and commitment to personal and social transformation.