In this 2-hr workshop you will learn how to safely bring somatic resources into your client/helping work to support your clients to regulate and soothe through their nervous system.

Somatic resourcing promotes bottom-up trauma recovery and is now widely used by trauma therapists. Trauma, anxiety and depression severs the connection to the body preventing a person from being in the flow of life, feeling at home within themselves and feeling comfortable in relationships.

Somatic resources can support your clients to develop curiosity and compassion towards themselves.

Questions that will be answered during this workshop include:-

• How do I work somatically with clients who feel unsafe in their body and where a focus on their body is dysregulating?

• How do I work with clients who were physically neglected and so touch is unfamiliar and intimacy frightening?

• I have skills to help my client relax but how about if they tend to collapse and have weakness in their core?

On top of this you'll be introduced to many more somatic resources to support you and your clients.

This 2-hour workshop will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our camera and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

To support practitioners in this time of extraordinary circumstances we are offering access to this group for a self-select fee.

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.

https://www.bacp.co.uk/events-and-resources/ethics-and-standards/ethical-framework-for-the-counselling-professions/

Kate Williams

Kate is a Counsellor, supervisor, breathwork coach and yoga teaching with over 20 years working in the field of body work and 12 years as a counsellor. She is EMDR, EFT and Sensorimotor L1 Trauma Themes trained.

She currently work within the NHS IAPT programme as well as running a busy private practice and enjoys teaching yoga and breathwork in groups and 1-2-1.

She has a keen interest in the impact trauma can have on the nervous system, mind and body and have undergone extensive training in trauma. With this in mind, and her training as a breathwork coach, she has developed a more trauma-informed & embodied way of working to support others to better inhabit their bodies, self soothe and regulate their feelings and in doing so feel more grounded and connected.

Kate delivers: L2 Breathwork coaching Award & L5 somatic-informed Trauma Therapy courses.

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