Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, presenting
Embodying The Coherent Self
Allying with Innate Somatic Intelligence™ for Trauma Healing
Dear Therapist,
More than anyone, you understand just how profoundly complex trauma is. You've witnessed firsthand the resilience of the human spirit, yet you also know the deep scars that life can leave behind.
Your journey has been one of compassion, dedication, and continuous learning. Now, more than ever, it's time to deepen your understanding and expand your toolkit with an innovative approach that integrates somatic intelligence into your practice.
"Somatic" has become a bit of a buzzword in recent years causing some to be hesitant to give it a chance, so let's talk about what I really mean by it and how it can apply in your practice.
Somatic healing is not just about focusing on the body; it's about recognizing the intricate and profound connection between the mind, body, and emotions. Trauma often gets stored in the body, manifesting as physical tension, chronic pain, and other somatic symptoms. Traditional talk therapy is powerful, but sometimes words alone are not enough to reach these deeply embedded memories and sensations.
Imagine complementing your existing therapeutic techniques with simple, gentle practices that help clients reconnect with their bodies in a safe and controlled manner.
By incorporating somatic practices, you can help clients become more aware of their physical sensations and learn how to release tension and trauma held within. This approach can enhance the therapeutic process, making it more holistic and effective.
Somatic healing methods are designed to empower clients, giving them tools to manage and alleviate their own distress, fostering a deeper sense of control and well-being. These techniques can include mindfulness exercises, breathing techniques, body awareness practices, and gentle movement.
Imagine feeling more centered, confident, and equipped to handle the diverse challenges of trauma therapy…
By integrating somatic intelligence, you will not only enhance your professional skills but also begin a journey of personal growth and self-awareness. This will allow you to transform your practice and see your clients' journeys from an entirely new perspective.
This brings me to an exciting opportunity I'm thrilled to share with you.
Introducing my new course, Embodying the Coherent Self: Allying with Innate Somatic Intelligence™ for Trauma Healing created with the Academy of Therapy Wisdom and specifically designed for dedicated trauma healers like you.
I hope you'll join me and take the next step in your professional journey…
Warmly,
Manuela Mischke-Reeds &
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
Embodying The Coherent Self: Somatic Healing for Trauma Therapists
The importance of the understanding of somatic healing lies in its ability to bridge the gap between mind and body, providing therapists with the tools to address the full spectrum of trauma.
Traditional methods, while useful, sometimes fall short of addressing the somatic aspects of trauma that are stored within the body.
By expanding your repertoire to include somatic practices, you can offer your clients a more holistic healing experience.
This course was created out of a deep recognition of the complex challenges faced by trauma-informed therapists.
Inside of the course we'll cover topics like:
- Burnout and Compassion Fatigue: Discover methods to renew and sustain yourself, so you can continue your vital work without succumbing to exhaustion.
- Advanced Somatic Techniques: Learn how to skillfully employ somatic practices to enhance your therapeutic interventions, providing deeper and more effective support to your clients.
- Systemic Trauma Awareness: Gain insights into addressing not just individual trauma but also the broader, systemic traumas affecting our communities and societies.
- Self-Regulation and Grounding: Equip yourself with daily practices and micromovements that will help you stay grounded and resilient, even when faced with overwhelming situations.
WHAT YOU GET FROM
"Embodying the Coherent Self"
This 5-module course gives you impactful strategies you can use in your practice to help your clients understand that their trauma does not define them. Instead, to see trauma as a workable state. You'll learn how to tap into their body's innate intelligence, and use that to help you process and befriend their trauma story.
You'll receive instant access to pre-recorded modules to help you expand your understanding, and then live interactive modules that will build your skills incrementally, including exercises, demonstrations, Q&A, and more.
As you move through this course, you'll shift your perspectives and mindset, and your goal will be to engage with and learn from trauma rather than remove it. You'll also be more attuned to your internal experiences, and able to invoke your body's natural intelligence to promote healing and progression.
Here's What You'll Receive…
5 In-Depth Training Modules with over 9 hours of content
Each on-demand module includes demonstrations and step-by-step explanations of therapeutic practices so you can immediately understand and apply these powerful techniques
5 Live Interactive Training Calls
Get your toughest questions answered and gain hands-on experience through exercises and guided practices led by Manuela Mischke-Reeds. You'll gain confidence and competency to start using Somatic Intelligence practices with clients right away.
Downloadable Course Materials
Audio recordings, transcripts, handouts and more allow you to revisit the material on your schedule. Our dedicated support team is here to help with any questions.
Private Member Dashboard
Get all your course content organized in one easily accessible place to reinforce consistent learning.
Plus, These High-Value Bonuses…
Demo Session
In this video, Manuela will demonstrate what a full session might look like using the somatic approaches and techniques she teaches in this course.
Somatic Attunement & Yielding Resistance
In this video, Manuela talks about another tool available to Somatic Therapists called Somatic Attunement. This practice is about attuning to the state that your client is in or the parts that your client is locating their awareness in. We use this practice to better understand the internal experience of our clients. She also discusses Yielding Resistance, which is about understanding resistance as an intelligent expression that the client has and offering skillful ways of working with it.
How to Do a Body Reading: Demonstration
In this video, Manuela demonstrates how to do a body reading. This is a relational practice that can be used for mirroring; bringing to a client's attention what their body is communicating to the therapist so they can discuss it together.
A Sneak Peek: A Chapter from Manuela's New Book - Somatic Movement
A Conversation With Staci Haines
Staci K. Haines is a national leader in the field of Somatics, specializing in intersecting personal and social change. Her latest book, The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice (2019), is based on her work to transform the impact of individual and social trauma and violence, and strengthen the interdependence of personal and social change.
Staci is the co-founder and former director of generative somatics (gs), a social justice organization bringing somatics to social and climate justice movements. She leads programs in somatics, trauma, and resilience, and embodied leadership for healers, social change leaders, and innovators. She is also a senior teacher at Strozzi Institute and a Certified Master Somatic Coach.
Staci is also the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (1999, 2007), and is the founder of generationFIVE, a community based organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations.
A Conversation With Sheila Rubin
Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT is a leading authority on Healing Shame. She co-created the Healing Shame - Lyon/Rubin method and has delivered talks, presentations and workshops across the country and around the world, at conferences from Canada to Romania, for over 30 years.
Sheila is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Registered Drama Therapist and a Board Certified Trainer. She has developed therapy techniques that integrate AEDP, EFT, drama therapy and somatic therapy to work with the all-pervasive shame and trauma that underlie eating disorders, addictions and toxic family dynamics. She has served as adjunct faculty for the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Drama Therapy Program and JFK University's Somatic Psychology Department. Her expertise, teaching, and writing contributions have been featured in numerous publications, including seven books.
A Conversation With Karen Daley
Karen is honored to be traveling with others on their journey…toward wholeness. She uses the Hakomi principles and practices as a container for her work as a licensed psychotherapist (LMFT 106479). Alongside twenty years of experience in the field of community mental health, she also brings ten years as a senior leadership trainer/organization development consultant with AmeriCorps and various other non-profits.
Karen co-created and for four years directed the Resilience Clinic at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, where the goal was to partner with families and build on their own knowledge by introducing both caregiver and child to nervous-system regulation and tracking, to mitigate the effects of stress.
She believes in collaboration and the power of equanimity as we deepen our awareness and understanding of our own social location as well as the social location of others. Karen believes in the transformative power of the Hakomi Method to facilitate deep healing both on an individual and a collective level.
When not with others, Karen can be found tending her garden or going on long walks.
Experience The Power of Somatic Healing To Help Your Clients Reach Embodiment & Access The Wisdom Trauma Brings With It…
This course teaches you to tap into somatic intelligence so that you can use that experience to engage with trauma in a deeply meaningful way.
Here's a look at some of the things you'll learn inside of the program…
To Tap into your own Somatic Intelligence…
- You'll become attuned to your internal experience and develop a new perspective of your physical self.
- You'll learn concrete practices to ground and regulate your mind through your body.
- You'll discover how to track the somatic states of your clients.
You will have begun a journey of inquiry into trauma…
- You'll understand trauma as a collective experience rather than an individual one.
- You'll learn to engage with trauma instead of trying to remove it.
- You'll break away from perspectives and practices that have been acculturated.
You'll finally see your clients with true compassion for their suffering…
- You will have shifted your understanding of how to hold and relate to trauma.
- You'll know how to help clients achieve self-compassion.
- You'll recognize that you're a partner in healing, but you don't need to 'hold' your clients' trauma for them.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to tap into somatic intelligence to help you regulate yourself and your clients - and help them process and engage with their trauma. You'll no longer feel weighed down or exhausted by the emotional load you've carried for clients, but rather empowered to use yourself as a tool to ease their suffering. You'll approach your practice with renewed confidence, perspective, and compassion.
Are You Ready to Take Your Practice to the Next Level?
Over the 5 Modules, You'll Discover…
Manuela designed each module to build your trauma-handling skills and somatic intelligence incrementally. You'll gain powerful new techniques and insights week-by-week to integrate into your work.
module 1
Module 1
Innate Somatic Intelligence™
In module 1 Manuela introduces the concept of Innate Somatic Intelligence™. She explains what it is, what the systems of the Soma are, and how they work together when we're faced with trauma. Through guided exercises Manuela will demonstrate how tapping into Somatic Intelligence allows us to find pathways to lead our clients back to essential ways of healing.
Key Topics Include:
- Waking the Somatic Intelligence
- Organic Systems of the Soma
- Non-directive Somatic Approach to Indicators
- Fluid Impulses
Module 2
The Therapist Seat
This module talks about how the client responds to what the therapist brings to the session. This can mean your posture, tone, mannerisms, facial expressions, and energy. Manuela walks you through how you can prepare yourself to best show up for your clients.
Key Topics Include:
- The Therapist Seat
- Somatic and Metaphorical Seats
- Fluid Presence
- Guided Somatic Practices
module 2
module 3
Module 3
The Fluid Self and Trauma States
In this module Manuela describes the 'coming home' experience that she considers the fluid self to represent. She also talks about the various trauma states and how to track them during your sessions.
Key Topics Include:
- The Fluid Self & Trauma States
- Unclaimed Parts
- Adaptive Parts
- Somatic Tracking of Trauma Systems
Module 4
Moving Beyond Trauma States
This module is about connecting with your Soma. Manuela talks about including small movements in sessions that help your clients connect with their Innate Somatic Intelligence™ so they can process their trauma. This includes micromovements and small, manageable experiences that help build trust with your clients and help them feel comfortable and centered.
Key Topics Include:
- Beneath Trauma is Movement
- Languaging the Body
- Trauma Processing with Micromovements
- Guided Practices
module 4
module 5
Module 5
Embodied Coherent Self
In this module, Manuela discusses anchoring somatic shifts with trauma and child parts to help clients recall and process their trauma. She also talks about missing trauma experiences, encouraging more nourishing beliefs to take hold, tracking to reduce suffering where possible, and somatic integration and techniques you can use in your practice.
Key Topics Include:
- Somatic Anchoring
- Missing Trauma Experiences
- Somatic Integration & Techniques
Through each weekly training, you'll gain skills and confidence to tap into your own Somatic Intelligence, and track the Somatic states of your clients. The transformation will give you a different perspective of the internal experience, allow you to see people with true compassion for their suffering, and will shift your understanding of how to hold and relate to trauma.
You can engage with these modules by watching the videos, listening to audio files, or reading transcripts. Complete this course at your own pace, and in whichever ways suit you best. We want you to have all the tools you need to make the most of this experience.
About Your Instructor
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MFT, is an international teacher of somatic psychology, trauma psychotherapy, and Hakomi Psychotherapy. She. Co- founded the Hakomi Institute of California and Embodywise, a nonprofit educational institute that brings together the wisdom teachings for the body. She has developed the Innate Somatic Intelligence™ Trauma Therapy Approach (ISITTA), an in-depth training program for therapists and practitioners that integrates somatic trauma therapy and movement practices.
Manuela has over 25 years of clinical psychotherapy experience with a wide variety of trauma clients. She lectures and trains professionals on the topics of somatic psychology, trauma therapy, embodied movement practices, and psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Manuela is the author of several books, including The Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma and Stress (PESI, 2018) and 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well-Being (W. Norton, 2015). Her new upcoming book, Trauma Sensitive Movement, will be released soon. (PESI, 2024)
Read What Manuela's Students Have to Say
"I'm deeply grateful for everything she's taught me..."
"Manuela is a powerhouse teacher, facilitator, and therapist, and a true master of her craft. She fully embodies what she teaches and is a much-needed leader in the fields of trauma and somatic therapy, especially at a time when so many are waking up to their healing potential. I'm deeply grateful for everything she's taught me over the past 4 years, and am consistently inspired by her in every interaction."
- -Caitlin Clark, Somatic Coach
"Manuela is a master of her craft..."
"In my journey as a therapist, Manuela's trauma training was essential to developing the skills to support healing in my clients. Manuela is a master of her craft, and with her guidance, I was able to learn to hold a space of safety that allows clients to learn to regulate their nervous system and in a gentle way, move through and heal their trauma. I consider this as one of the most transformative training experiences in my 30 years in the field."
- Giorgio Quittan, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
"Manuela's trauma training has been essential in my understanding of trauma"
"Manuela's trauma training has been essential in my understanding of trauma and my capacity to be at ease with my clients' trauma responses and offer thoughtful somatic interventions. Taking her training and watching her work, with her 25+ years of clinical experience and her deep personal experience with somatic and spiritual practices, has been a gift that keeps on giving." -
- Paola Ceccarini, Certified Hakomi Practitioner
Enroll now in this potentially life-changing course on Embodying the Coherent Self
By the end of the course, you'll have a deep connection with your own Innate Somatic Intelligence™, and an understanding of how it can help you and your clients to process trauma, which will empower you to face the enormous trauma challenges of our time.
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"…an extraordinarily brilliant and compassionate therapist…"
"Manuela is an extraordinarily brilliant and compassionate therapist and an internationally acclaimed expert educator and author in the fields of somatics, trauma and mindfulness."
- Rob Fisher, Mft
You deserve to take this opportunity to tap into your Innate Somatic Intelligence™ so you can learn concrete practices to ground and regulate yourself and your clients.
This will give you new insights into the human condition, and you'll begin to realize that healing is not just what you do, but something you can embody. You can become an instrument for the tools you want to deliver.
You'll learn to hold trauma as a social, political, and cultural collective experience and appreciate the wisdom to be gained from it.
Sign up today and take advantage of the opportunity to learn from Manuela Mischke-Reeds live in this course.
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"Her presence and expertise are a gift to this world"
"I have had the fortunate opportunity to train with Manuela through the Hakomi Institute of California and through her trauma training over the past eight years. Manuela has offered me exceptional guidance and support in my skill building as a licensed clinical psychotherapist and educator. I have gleaned the skills to navigate trauma work with my clients mainly from her, and I can't recommend her trainings enough. They offer the theory and practice through embodied exercises and frameworks to really step into the territory of trauma healing with experience and grace. She really teaches you how to work somatically with trauma to transmute from the inside out. This is unique and rare and not offered in most other trainings. Her presence and expertise are a gift to this world."
- Diana Justl, LMFT, Faculty at Earth Medicine Center, Oregon
"I consider Manuela to be the trauma whisperer…"
."Her expertise and skills speaks to the intricate, yet delicate, nature of trauma. Manuela's teachings provides an easy to understand framework by giving language and context to what would otherwise be complex and obscure. I deeply appreciate the craft she has offered to me. I can now be of service to clients in helping them know they can feel settled and safe in their own somas and, most importantly, helping them feel at home in their own skin."
-Maleya Tran, AMFT