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