The Goodness of Being Alive

Support for Trauma Practitioners in a Hurting World

When you’re a trauma practitioner in a re-traumatizing world, it’s a heavy load.  Even when you do great work, it can be hard to make progress or to feel that your contribution is meaningful when there’s one global trauma after another.   

My main intentions with The Goodness of Being Alive 4-month small group are to deepen your skills with clients, to deepen your own sense of healing, and to lighten the load.

 We can’t get away from the traumas of this world.  Yet we can do something that makes all the difference.  We can stay in contact with strength, power, vitality, love, and healing – in our own bodies. 

 Don’t leave your embodiment up to chance.  Life is short, and there’s so much we have to give and to receive.  Together is better.

The Goodness of Being Alive 4-month small group is for practitioners who want:

• To be more effective with clients

• To develop professionally while deepening personally

• To have nourishment amidst the intensity!  Practitioners need guidance, companionship, and dedicated time to honor what it takes to show up in integrity rather than burn out going through the motions.

While there are hundreds of somatic and trauma webinars and trainings available, there are few safe spaces to integrate your own somatic learning.  Get mobilized by the synergy of being with other dedicated colleagues and friends who support your health, well-being, and growth amidst this troubled world.  Take care of yourself while you take care of others.

F.A.Q.

Who is this for?  What skill level?

This professional support group is limited to Integral Somatic Psychology and Somatic Experiencing Practitioners.  If you’re not an ISP or SE professional, please contact me for other embodiment and professional offerings!

What does a session look like?

Group time begins with greetings and a guided grounding embodiment; sharing and learning from each others’ experience; introduction of a basic embodiment skill or theme; discussion interwoven with practices; questions, and sharings that come directly out of the practices – all of these ways of learning a deeper embodied sense of a basic skill and get the personal support to live well amidst it all.

Is there homework?

Only if you want it!  I offer suggestions for deepening embodiment, and many people find it very helpful to partner with another participant on the weeks in between meetings.

Is there something supportive that’s easier than homework?

Yes!  Sessions are recorded, and afterwards you’ll receive the recording, marked with the time when the guided embodiments begin, and how long they are.  You can choose which ones to repeat whenever you wish.  Some people enjoy listening regularly as a help to establish a daily embodiment practice.