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 Two - Schedule and Curriculum
Trauma Informed Somatic Intelligence
Nelson dates TBA
28 hrs in person, 8hrs online live class time, and 8-15 hrs online self directed
Live Online Group Classes x4
Bi-weekly Mondays 6-8pm.
Online Components - x4
8-15 hrs. at your own pace
Two Weekends of In Person Weekend Experiential Workshops
Saturday/Sunday 10am-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 TISI 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 2: Understanding Trauma Through Somatic Intelligence
Bringing the somatic skills learned in the last model we will begin to explore the application of our somatic sensing when working with traumatized clients to ensure a deeply felt experience of safety for them regardless of which modality or technique we use.
Level 2 Course Outline
Looking at Trauma vs Stress
- Physiology of survival responses
- Incomplete survival responses, disruptions in homeostasis
- Postural patterns and trauma
Understanding Survival Responses
- Physiology of fight, flight, freeze, fawn
- Disruptions in cycles of exp/contract…
- intro to basic trauma postural patterns
Shock and Impact Trauma
- Startle respsones and the path to homeostasis-phsiological responses
- Physiology of shock
- Polyvagal theory of hyperarousal
The Window of Tolerance
Hyper arousal and overwhelm
The Healing Vortex
The Healing Vortex meeting trauma from resource utilizing Resourcing for self and to support client
Somatic Mapping of Body Postures and Tension Patterns
- Emotional states and
- Stress and
- Hyper/Hypoarousal and
Anatomical Considerations
- The Psoas
- Vagus nerve
- The hackles
- Fight Flight
- Containment and Protective layers
From Physical Somatic Intelligence to Relational Somatic Intelligence
- Attachment systems and Attachment Styles Theory
- Concepts of Developmental Trauma
Introduction to Relational Trauma
- Meeting Attachment styles Self and Client
- transference/countertransference
- Framework of developmental trauma
Relational Rupture – Repair Cycles
- In attachment
- In therapeutic relationship
Relational Resources
- Acknowledging the relational therapeutic role
- Team building within the medical profession for self and client
Addressing clients trauma from your somatic intelligence
- Tracking, sensing, boundaries
- Attunement vs Entrainment
- Resourcing
- Using the therapeutic framework/integrity to support rupture and repair
Integrating skills into clinical practice
- Case studies
- Self care
- Professional Resources
- Team building resources
- Clinical Resources
Vicarious Trauma and Compassion Fatigue
- Protection of self
- Caring for self and field