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 Three - Schedule and Curriculum
Trauma Informed Somatic Intelligence
Vernon Dates TBA
28 hrs in person, 8hrs online live class time, and 8-12 hrs online self directed
Live Online Group Classes x4
Bi-weekly Mondays 6-8pm.
Online Components - x4
8-12 hrs. at your own pace
Two Full Weekends of In Person Experiential Workshops
Saturday/Sunday 10am-6pm
28 hrs in person, 8hrs online live class time, and 8-15 hrs online self directed
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 3: Clinical applications for responding to trauma
This final module bring together all the skills and theory and offers an array of direct techniques to work with the bodies of traumatized clients. From the crania-sacral and osteopathic manual therapeutic approaches, we will explore different techniques to address the “stuck” trauma responses in our clients bodies.
Level 3 Course Outline
Review and Integration
Group Supervision process to follow up with clinical experiences
Somatic non verbal interventions
Relational Responses meet Survival responses
Working directly with the tissues of survival responses.
- Working with the Breath
- Working with the Psoas
- Somatic assessment of HFP
- Assessment and treatment of the heart field
- A Somatic look at Head Forward Posture
- Inviting shame and cautions
Somatic Empowerment of Therapeutic Alliance
- Returning trust where it was lost
- The inner conflict to hide
Working with protective layers/ guarding
Recognizing structural patterns (guarding)
TISI considerations for touch as therapy
- Looking at depth and speed for entrainment and attunement.
- Somatic indications for Passive vs active Therapy
TISI considerations for therapeutic exercises
Somatic Indications for passive vs active therapy
Applications of the Bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model
- Creating Integrative treatment plans
- Considering the medicine wheel and elemental balancing within treatment plans