AN EXCLUSIVE ONLINE TRAINING
Safety, Belonging, and Dignity
Using the Generative Power of Somatics to Heal Individual and Systemic Trauma
with Staci Haines
Hello!
We’re used to seeing clients in one static physical or digital location: in our office or on a video call. But, just like us, our clients live in a complex, interconnected world-in a society shaped by deeply held cultural norms, systemic injustice, and intergenerational trauma.
We do not experience trauma in a vacuum.
And therefore our healing can’t happen in a vacuum either, outside the social context of everyday life. Instead, together with our clients, we can and should investigate the resilience and survival strategies that come from family, community, workplace, religion, political, and economic systems, and our unresolved personal, collective, and intergenerational trauma. Much of even our very personal experiences of trauma, are rooted in power over social and economic systems. Connecting personal and social change, helps us to see the bigger picture, and find more holistic ways to heal.
Only through developing an awareness of the ways we are shaped by personal and societal experiences can we truly identify our deepest needs and desires and embody these in our daily life.
Somatics is a holistic mind/body approach to healing, that helps us to align our vision and values with our way of being and actions.
It offers a path to transformational embodiment.
It can help us transform feelings of overwhelm, find our inherent resilience, and connect with our longings. The latest neuroscience tells us that trauma is often stored deep in our body. So it is through our bodies that we find healing.
In оur course, Safety, Belonging, and Dignity, you’ll find accessible, powerful practices to cultivate more resourcefulness in these collectively stressful times. Through a combination of somatic awareness, somatic practices, and somatic opening, and trauma healing, you’ll work with your clients to uproot old emotions and calm overactive nervous systems. You’ll learn somatic practices that can become embodied skills like consent, mutual connection and centered boundaries, increasing choices and decreasing automatic reactions.
This is deep work, where you’ll be able to heal old wounds, find wholeness, increase choices, and lead your clients to experience a new and grounded joy in life.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this comprehensive 5-week course with master teacher Staci Haines:
- What is embodied transformation?
- How to cultivate resilience
- Our inherent needs for safety, belonging, and dignity and the automatic adaptations we make to meet these
- How individual and systemic trauma affects us and how to release survival strategies held deep in the body through somatic healing
- How somatic healing and social/climate justice intersect
- New practices to align your actions with what you care about most
Embodied healing is not just an individual process, rather one that can lead us to collective healing and engaging in social change. Let’s work together to shift the paradigm, so that all peoples are ensured safety, belonging and dignity.
Warmly,
Staci Haines
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
“We have many tools to heal from trauma as individuals. And we also have some tools to change policy, systems, and culture. But rarely do the two meet; somehow the minute we are talking about violence and trauma at a systemic level, the human element gets lost. And when we’re trying to heal as individuals we often attempt to do so in a vacuum, as if the therapist’s office or the meditation cushion were islands in a sea devoid of systems of power and privilege.”
―Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, from the Introduction to The Politics of Trauma by Staci Haines
The Power of Practice Sessions:
The Methodology Comes Alive
Five 90-minute recorded practice calls with Staci Haines are included in this course. Inside these in-depth, interactive video calls you’ll be able to:
Practice What You've Learned
Together, we will walk through experiential practices that you can use both for yourself and with your clients.
See Demos
You'll get to see how the techniques you learn actually play out in the therapy room.
3 Misconceptions About
Somatics and Trauma
1. “Just asking what’s happening in the body is enough”
→ Somatic awareness isn’t enough for transformation. We need somatic opening and embodied practices as well.
2. “People’s experiences are just individual”
→ We embody the social conditions we live in, whether or not we believe in them.
3. “Social justice isn’t relevant to trauma healing”
→ We have to see the scale of what is impacting and shaping us to engage in deep healing and collective change
Here’s What’s Included With
Safety, Belonging, and Dignity
Using the Generative Power of Somatics to Heal Individual and Systemic Trauma
1. Five Pre-Recorded Training Sessions with Staci Haines
Watch these self-paced study videos for a careful examination of each topic.
2. Five Recorded Training Calls with Staci Haines
Tune in to watch recorded live practices, see demos, and dig deeper into the course content.
3. Access to Exclusive Academy of Therapy Wisdom Private Membership Site
All your course materials in one easy-to-navigate platform, supported by our dedicated customer service team.
4. Safety, Belonging, and Dignity Takehomes
All the course assets are downloadable for you to keep and reference.
Plus, These Course Enrichment Materials:
1. Working with Overwhelm in our Times video.
This video gives you pragmatic embodied practices to meet your (or your client’s) overwhelm, support it, and shift your emotional and somatic state.
2. Somatics and Healing Shame video.
3. Library of Somatic Practices video.
- Centering
- Rowing
- Gratitude
- Centered request
- Resilience practice
4. A Conversation about Lineage with Richard Strozzi-Heckler.
5. Embodied Self-Compassion with Fresh Lev White.
6. When You Care, But Don't Know What to Do: Becoming a Part of Social Change with Michelle Mascarenhas.
7. Worksheet: How to Create a Declaration.
8. Worksheet: How to Become Aware of Conditioned Tendencies (self and client).
Here’s What You’ll Learn Inside
Safety, Belonging, and Dignity
Using the Generative Power of Somatics to Heal Individual and Systemic Trauma
What is Embodied Transformation?
In this module, you will be introduced to embodied transformation and the “soma.” You’ll learn the key components of somatic methodology, including somatic awareness, somatic opening and somatic practices. We’ll explore the key connections between the personal and the systemic-why healing trauma and working towards social justice are key to each other. We’ll explore embodied commitments to manifest the future we want, personally and collectively.
In this session, we will:
- Explore key pieces of the somatic methodology: connecting the personal and social
- Learn the somatic practice of Centering, a core practice we’ll continue to build from
- Unpack inherent “desires” for the future, from longings and commitments that align with your vision and values.
- Be introduced to daily somatic practices and the “homework” for this program
Cultivating Resilience
In this module, we explore what resilience is and isn’t, through a somatic lens. We’ll explore your inherent resilience and that of your clients-learning how to access it, embody it, and cultivate it. Resilience is never about permitting or minimizing harm to or oppression of communities, peoples, or used to fuel “spiritual bypassing.” Instead, resilience creates a space from which we can be more creative, responsive, effective, and present with the unknown.
In this session, we will:
- Discover inherent resilience and how it operates somatically
- Learn practices that can deepen your own and your client’s resilience
- Understand and interrupt how “resilience” can be used to minimize or allow for harm
We are Shaped: Safety, Belonging, and Dignity
In this module, we’ll explore our inherent needs of safety, belonging, and dignity, as well as material resources (housing, clean water and food, education, etc.) We will learn about typical natural and automatic adaptations to these core needs and how they become generalized in the mind/body, limiting our choices. We will learn how we are shaped by many levels of experience: from family and community to social norms and broader institutions. Lastly, we’ll work with the automatic reactions and habits and learn how to change them holistically.
In this session, we will:
- Discover our inherent needs for safety, belonging and dignity, and our automatic adaptations to try to meet these
- Learn how we are shaped and impacted by family, community, and society
- Work with these embodied habits, changing them holistically
Trauma + Healing + Social Justice
In this module, we’ll deepen our somatic understanding of individual and systemic trauma and its predictable impacts. We’ll explore the automatic and embodied survival strategies that can cross generations, and how to work with them. We’ll dive into somatic opening: understanding the processes for change and the places where history and protective impulses get stored in the mind/body.
In this session, we will:
- Gain a somatic understanding of individual and systemic trauma
- Discover how survival strategies and protective impulses get stored in the mind/body, creating further suffering
- Understand somatic opening and the processes for opening those held places in the body.
Arc of Transformation
In this module, we’ll unpack the Somatic Arc of Transformation-to gain understanding of the multiple components of embodied transformation and their relationship to each other. We’ll examine the bridge between embodied trauma healing and social justice movements and how these are interconnected and can serve one another. We’ll explore embodied practices that trauma and oppression don’t teach us, like centered boundaries, mutual connection, dignifying ourselves and others, centered surrender, and more. We’ll learn how we can purposefully practice these in order to embody them, even when we are under pressure.
In this session, we will:
- Understand the Somatic Arc of Transformation and how to use it as a dynamic map for yourself and those you work with
- Explore the interconnections between embodied trauma healing and social and climate justice-discover where you are on this continuum.
- Discuss the differences between cognitive knowing versus embodying through practice, mentorship, and community
“Staci has the ability to work for organizations fighting for racial justice as a white queer woman who both acknowledges her privilege and also identifies with intersectionality, while maintaining her full dignity and power. She’s just amazing.”
―Iman Boundaoui
Somatic Practitioner & Bodyworker at the Strozzi Institute
Our courses are at the intersection of psychotherapy, spirituality and social change.
We know you have options for learning and Continuing Education. Here’s what sets us apart:
Emphasis on Your Learning
We offer a friendly, intuitive learning portal designed specifically so you can easily find your course content, connect with your colleagues, and have fun actually completing it!
Professional Production Quality
A real camera crew with high-end equipment, a deeply involved content director who works closely with every presenter, and a top-notch editing team with over 200 courses produced to date all make our video lessons second-to-none. Each learning module is split into digestible video segments so they are easy to watch and reflect on.
Unparalleled Customer Service
We’re proud to maintain a customer happiness rating of over 90%, with 85% of inquiries responded to within 6 hours. We’re here for you, every step of the way.
We ensure that your learning experience is not just adequate, but exceptional.
We believe learning should challenge and change you.
Here’s Everything You Receive with
Safety, Belonging, and Dignity
Using the Generative Power of Somatics to Heal Individual and Systemic Trauma
1) Five Pre-Recorded Training Sessions with Staci Haines
2) Five Recorded Training Calls with Staci Haines
3) Access to Exclusive Academy of Therapy Wisdom Private Membership Site
4) Safety, Belonging, and Dignity Takehomes
Plus Course Enrichment Materials:
1) Working with Overwhelm in our Times (Video)
2) Somatics and Healing Shame (Video)
3) Video Library of Somatic Practices
4) A Conversation about Lineage with Richard Strozzi-Heckler
5) Embodied Self-Compassion with Fresh Lev White
6) Creating a Bridge into Social Action (When You Care, But Don’t Know What to Do) with Michelle Mascarenhas
7) Worksheet: How to Create a Declaration
8) Worksheet: How to Become Aware of Conditioned Tendencies (self and client)
ENROLL NOW
$497
$197
Limited time only!
Join Staci Haines for this special 5-Session Online Training
If you are a BIPOC helping professional, or actively working in a social or climate justice organization,
please accept our discounted enrollment price for this course by clicking here.
We are glad to have you with us!
100% Risk-Free Money-Back Guarantee
We are confident you will really enjoy and benefit from this online training. However, if you are not 100% satisfied with your purchase, please contact our support team at support@363019f6be.nxcli.io within 7 days of your purchase date and we will give you a full refund, no questions asked.
Meet Your Presenter...
Staci K. 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.
“My healing process has been so transformative … not just for me, but also for my organization and the movement. If I were a billionaire or a funder, I would pay for every leader to go through this process. It’s the change we need in the world.”
―Marielena Hincapie
Executive Director of the National Immigration Law Center
Frequently Asked Questions:
Do I need to be a therapist to take this course?
Nope! This course is open to all helping professionals, including, but not limited to, talk therapists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, couples therapists, sex therapists, massage therapists, cranial sacral therapists, mindfulness teachers, coaches, healers, and professors or academic teachers.
Can I get CEs?
Unfortunately, this course is not approved for CEs at this time.
Is this course live or recorded?
This is a pre-recorded, self-paced course.
What is Academy of Therapy Wisdom?
The Academy of Therapy Wisdom is an inspiring, multidimensional platform for learning, with courses & videos that are easy to use, access & digest. Our goal is to help you become a more confident, capable & compassionate therapist who works with their clients in a new way.