​Leading Edge Somatic Skills Study Group

What is a "Leading Edge"?  Simply put, the "leading edge" is a term coined by Ray Castellino that means a primary therapeutic window for healing and repatterning imprints that are overwhelming, and running unconsciously in our lives. While working in our leading edge, we can bridge and integrate the energy that has been frozen or encapsulated in our bodies with the skills of presence, conscious awareness and the bodily, felt sense.  You can learn to recognize your leading edge, and gain skills and practice to change the pattern!  You can choose a new way.  Come learn!

A professional study group for practitioners  of all kinds: 

• psychologists
• bodyworkers
• birth workers
• meditation practitioners
• yoga instructors
• medical providers
• nurses
• movement therapists
• educators
• coaches
• parents

Format:

• Check in from your life or practice
• Didactic teaching of the day
  • powerpoint plus handouts each class
• Practical application (dyad and triad practice)
• Harvest from practice (sharing)
• Clinical case study (sharing)
• Listening practice for the month for next time

Continuing education for licensed professional counselors, licensed mental health workers and bodyworkers from NCBTMB pending for those who purchase all 9 classes.

What will you learn?  Healing wants to happen, always.  We are a community of practice. The Leading Edge offers the latest information from the frontier of healing arts where vanguard practitioners and educators blend trauma resolution, consciousness studies, neuroscience and somatic or body-oriented practices.  As a participant in this study group you will learn:

• 5 foundational practitioner skills
• 12 embodiment practices 
• 5 body security system maps
• 9 principles of conscious early parenting
• 7 positive imprints
  • working with blueprint and imprint
• polyvagal nervous system practices
  • Reclaiming our natural instincts
• 4 attachment styles  
• 5 point sequence and how to apply it
• coherency, potency, and skills of connection
• the latest neuroscience, adverse experiences study
• trauma-informed practices
• resiliency, post-traumatic growth and presence
• listening skills
  • Right listening
  • Noble listening
  • Fierce listening

Registration, Schedule and Fees:
Dates: Fridays once a month starting in September through June
2017: Sept 29, Oct 27, Nov-Dec TBA,
2018: Jan 26, Feb 23, March 30, April 27, May 25, June 22
Time: 9 am - 12 pm
Fee:  $60 each or $450 for all 9 
Where: 658 Tyree Lane, Charlottesville, VA 22901
Maximum number of participants: 10
All 9 seminars (only one between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, qualify you for the training, Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics in Private Practice.  
CEUs: For all 9 seminars only (22.5 hours), NCBTMB pending. Talk with Kate if you need this. 

About the Instructor:  Kate White is Director of Education for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, and an integrated somatic practitioner including massage therapy, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Somatic Experiencing and more.  This study group is informed by her many years in the field prenatal and perinatal dynamics, or understanding how we coming into form and influences human development.  

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