Bodywork and Somatic Education™ (BASE™) For Trauma Practitioners
4, 4-day modules, 24 CE hours each module
96 CE hours total, for all 4 modules
BASE Module 2:
24 CE hours
Day 1 9:30-5:30 (6 hours)
1.5 hour 9:30-11 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: What is social engagement developmentally, functionally and structurally/anatomically.
11-11:15 Break
1.25 hour 11:15-12:30 Practice Time: Strategies to affect Structures of Social Engagement (part 2).
12:30-2 Lunch
1.5 hour 2-3:30 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Breathing Apparatus and Social Engagement continued. Breathing apparatus, trauma and dysregulation: psychology, anatomy, psychophysiology--integrating social engagement and breathing).
3:30-3:45 Break
1.5 hour 3:45- 5:15 Practice Time: Working with breathing distress/trauma reduction and social engagement.
.5 hour 5:15-5:30 Q & A, wrap up, review.
Day 2 - 9:30-5:30 (6 hours)
1.5 hour 9:30-11 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Brain-Body Connection. Thoracic Inlet/Outlet Diaphragm and Trauma: psychology, anatomy, psychophysiology.
11-11:15 Break
1.25 hour 11:15-12:30 Practice Time: Strategies to affect the Thoracic Inlet/Outlet Diaphragm as it relates to affect regulation
12:30-2 Lunch
1.5 hour 2-3:30 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Heart rate variability and trauma, Pericardium and the heart: psychology, anatomy, psychophysiology.
3:30-3:45 Break
1.5 hour 3:45-5:15 Practice Time: Strategies to regulate heart rate variability, the Pericardium/Heart as it relates to breathing and trauma.
.25 hour 5:15-5:30 Q & A, wrap up, review.
Day 3 - 9:30-5:30 (6 hours)
1.5 hour 9:30-11 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Neck and Occipital Cradling: Trust, Orienting, Attachment and Bonding.
11-11:15 Break
1.25 hour 11:15-12:30 Practice Time: Touch, attunement and working with structures of trust, orienting, attachment and bonding.
12:30-2 Lunch
1.5 hour 2-3:30 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Eyes and relationship—receiving and connecting with others, eye gaze and mirroring developmentally; psychology, anatomy, psychophysiology.
3:30-3:45 Break
1.5 hour 3:34-5:15 Practice Time: Strategies to work with relational with eyes, eye gaze and mirroring.
.25 hour 5:15-5:30 Q & A, wrap up, review.
Day 4 - 9:30-5:30 (6 hours)
1.5 hour 9:30-11 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Interoception, proprioception and attunement. Skin as a structure of attachment and bonding, fascia and intrapersonal communication, muscle: psychology, anatomy, and psychophysiology
11-11:15 Break
1.25 hour 11:15-12:30 Practice Time: Attunement and strategies to work with intra- and interpersonal communication, posturing and grounding via skin and touch, fascia, muscle.
12:30-2 Lunch
1.5 hour 2-3:30 Lecture, Experiential Exercises and Demo: Assessment; Where to start, how to track activation and dysregulation in the body, how to determine what to do next. Posture, emotions and body usage as they relate to non-verbal intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication and beliefs about self
3:30-3:45 Break
1.5 hour 3:45-5:15 Practice Time: Assessment, posture and emotions.
.25 hour 5:15-5:30 Q & A, wrap up, review.