Introduction to Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic Therapy:
Recognizing, Appreciating and Integrating Earliest Life Experiences
Wellness Empowerment and Training Institute
Crows Nest, Sydney Australia
Postponed Until Further Notice

Be a part of the Paradigm Shift!

The past decade has witnessed a rise in therapeutic approaches that combine trauma-informed care and work with the body. These practices include Somatic Experiencing®, sensorimotor psychotherapy, movement and somatic practices, mindfulness and so much more. The awareness of our relationships, especially how we self and co-regulate is the container for healing. Research and science now also support how the earliest life development (preconception, conception, the prenatal period, birth and the first year or two of life) play a key role in our foundations for health lifelong. Therapies for working with these layers of experience are currently developing. This workshop will include information about the paradigm. Birth psychology and other fields have long held that it is a paradigm shift to include the baby’s experience. This shift has truly happened, but practices are still catching up. Come learn skills to recognize, appreciate, and integrate early life experiences. Full trainings are often over 50 days long. This workshop will outline skills, present the pathway for practitioners who work with adults with early trauma, and provide experiential learning so participants will take away tools for their professional toolkit.

Times: 9:30 am - 6 pm Each Day

Audiences:
  • Somatic Experiencing Practitioners
  • Trauma Therapists
  • Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapists
  • Birth Professionals
Enrollment includes membership in the online classroom: Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online and the pioneering online lecture series: What ARE Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics, A 6 Lecture Pack
Learning objectives. Participants will be able to:
  • Identify the layers of earliest experience according the prenatal and perinatal time
  • Practice skills being, relationship and listening
  • Engage in skills of inquiry and the felt sense to shift state
  • Name states of regulation and stress/threat responses
  • Understand implicit baby experience, a hummingbird sip
  • Appreciate adaptation responses from early developmental trauma
  • Provide skills for self and co-regulation to integrate implicit memory
  • Assess imprints through visual recognition of compression and vector from birth
  • Identify the 5 part sequence connected to birth imprints, and where clients may have a sequencing issue
Specific Skills
  • Tracking Preconception-Conception
  • Creating a Welcoming Space
  • Autonomic Nervous System First Aid
  • Resourcing with the felt sense
  • Somatic feeling for building the felt sense of feeling heard
  • Creating a resonant field
  • Recognizing gesture as communication
  • Recognizing the baby’s experience
  • Tracking speeding up and slowing down
  • Calling a pause for self and co-regulation
  • Creating coherence with touch
  • Improving freeze and shutdown states with touch
  • Identification of Leading Edge and Birth Sequence
  • Assessing the baby’s experience through visual cues
  • Introduction to Double Bind Skills
  • Inquiry for sitting in the tension field
  • Two layers of support as a blueprint
 
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About Kate White: Kate White is an award-winning prenatal and perinatal educator and an advanced bodyworker.  She is trained in somatic therapies, prenatal and perinatal health, lactation, brain development, infant mental health, and has specialized in mother-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches for nearly 20 years. She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Her work combines somatic therapy, birth preparation, recovery from difficult birth, trauma resolution and  brain development to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start. She is the Founding Director of Education for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health and where she administered an online program for professional educators, Director of Online Education and US Community Manager for Our Birth Journey, runs a private practice and offers her own seminars and training as the Founder and Director for the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, ppncenter.com. Her lineage of teachers include William Emerson, Karlton Terry, Myrna Martin, Ray Castellino, Tara Blasco, Mary Jackson. John Chitty, Anna Chitty, Berns Galloway, Ariel Giaretto, Kathy Kain, Stephen Terrell. She also has a podcast: A More Beautiful Life: Recognizing, Appreciating and Integrating Earliest Life Experiences. Listen Here.
Contact her at katercst@gmail.com
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Cancellation Policy:
One month before:  Full refund
Three weeks before:  Refund half
Two weeks before:  Refund $100
One week before:  No refund