Not only will this journey benefit your clients, but it also includes your own wellbeing as a primary tool for supporting your clients!
TISI Level One ~ Schedule and Curriculum
Trauma Informed Somatic Intelligence
Nelson Dates TBA
Total hours is 42 hrs = 21 hrs in person, 7hrs online live class time, and 14-20 hrs online self directed
Online Intro Class: 3 hrs.
May 6th Monday 5-8pm.
1st Online Component
4-8 hrs. at your own pace
In Person Weekend Experiential Workshop: 7 hrs.
May 18 Saturday 10am-6pm
2nd Online Component
4-8 hrs. at your own pace
Online Group Class: 2 hrs.
May 27th. Monday
3rd Online Component
3-6 hrs. at your own pace
Online Group Class: 2 hrs.
June 10th. Monday
4th Online Component
3-6 hrs. at your own pace
Online Group Class: 2 hrs.
June 24th. Monday
In Person Experiential Workshop: 14 hrs
July 6 & 7, Saturday/Sunday 10-6pm.
Additional Practice Requirements
It is highly recommended you concurrently have weekly private sessions with a skilled Somatic Therapist while you take this course. Integration of this material deep into your own unique nervous system is vital for becoming truly trauma informed in your work with others. Completion of all levels and certification in TISP or TISI will require a min of 6 hours of private sessions logged per Level.
Listening Buddy Sessions:
You will be instructed to take another student as a practice buddy so you can have weekly listening explorations together and keep the learned material alive.
TISI Level 1: Practitioner Basic Somatic Tools
Taking the information provided in the intro course we will then take you deeper into the realm of bringing the conceptual understanding into an experiential somatic wisdom. Following the physiology and theories of trauma, (or form and function of our nervous systems), you will begin to build the inner tools to track and respond from a bottom up approach. We will be integrating the theory throughout this course with experiential exercises and chi gong.
Level 1 Course Outline
What is somatic sensing?
- Interoception
- Bottom up approach
- Right brain to right brain
Physiological pathways to felt sense
- Physiology of cyclical systems.. heart, breath, cerebral spinal
- Expansion/Contraction, Flexion/Extension patterns
- Introduction to interoception
Exploring Perception
- Proprioception vs Interception
- Neurophysiology of connection through mirror neurone
- Attunement and the felt sense within the therapeutic relationship
Attunement and the felt sense within the therapeutic relationship
- Neuro-physiology of connection and mirror neuron’s
- The felt sense within the therapeutic relationship
- Dual awareness within client centred practice
Neuro-Psychology Concepts
- The triune brain
- Brain stem, limbic, neo-cortex, mid prefrontal cortex
BioPsychology of stress responses
- Form vs Function
- Understanding stress responses,
- effects on physiology, and behaviour
Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual model of health
- Exploring concepts of holistic health
- BPSS and the biomedical model
- Working within scope of practice
Polyvagal Theory
Theoretical framework and experiental practices
Somatic Attunement, Consent and the Therapeutic Alliance
- Holistic consent: verbal, non-verbal, somatic
- Experiential practices to embody responsiveness to consent
Intro to Resourcing
Mapping through the felt sense