Workshops
I offer workshops and trainings for counsellors and health service practitioners in the areas of trauma resolution, counselling, body/mind connection, and self-care/stress reduction.
Workshops/Training/Professional Development
Previous Teaching/Training Experience
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Strategies for Living: What do you know? - Workshop for teachers and grade 11 and 12 students at JV Humphries Elementary Secondary School in Kaslo - co-facilitated with Yvonne Haist.
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Working with Trauma: Facilitating Affect Regulation - Kaslo, BC - This two-day course co-facilitated with Yvonne Haist, will explore the neurobiological, psychophysical and socio-cultural components of trauma, providing concrete and immediate practice strategies towards greater affect regulation for both the practitioner and client. You’ll deepen your understanding of how symptoms reflect shock, developmental, accumulated stress, and socially and culturally- produced trauma. We’ll place an emphasis on concrete skills and strategies that mediate the impact of trauma on you and on your clients. Working with the language of the nervous system helps to restore and maintain dignity and respect. We’ll also look at vicarious trauma and its impact on colleagues, agencies, and communities.
We’ll use presentation of information, experiential exercises, demonstrations, and skills building activities to expand your knowledge base.
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Advanced Somatic Integration: Trauma Resolution and Regulation 2 day workshop with the Justice Institute - This course will deepen your conceptual understanding of how the body, the brain, the Autonomic Nervous System and trauma intersect and create multiple and complex trauma presentations. You will build upon the foundation of the somatic skills and interventions presented in the foundation course and heighten your awareness of tracking the somatic experience of self and clients in your practice. You will gain skills to work somatically with re-establishing boundaries and working with immobilized responses and patterns of undigested traumatic material.
This course is offered through the Justice Institute, Victoria campus and co-facilitated by Yvonne Haist, MEd.
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TS120-Trauma, the Body, and the Autonomic Nervous System: Using Somatic Psychology for Resolution and Regulation - When bodies speak through symptoms they are often telling the story or stories of trauma and accumulated stress patterns of life. Addressing autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysregulation from a somatic perspective is key to resolving trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and developmental trauma on a physiological level. This workshop will conceptually link together the body, the brain, and the ANS and how it intersects with trauma. It will offer somatic interventions for working with ANS resolution and regulation in therapeutic and frontline workers. This workshop is offered for a second time through the Justice Institute, New Westminster campus and will be co-faciliated with Yvonne Haist, MEd.
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Body, Earth & Spirit: Embodying Our Connection - You are invited to connect to your innate wisdom, to use your body as a site and starting point for knowledge and connection to all that is alive. In working with and through your body, come to recognize the richness of your own Spirit, your own knowing and connection to the earth within the supportive context of the circle. Through art, metaphor and somatic work you will be supported to
experience a deeper sense of and connection to Self, other and the earth. This 2 day workshop is liberating & transformative in nature. This Workshop is for anyone who:
wants to make changes in their life; cares deeply for the earth; wants to deepen their connection to themselves and all that is alive
Saturday October 24, 2009; 9 - 5 & Sunday October 25, 2009; 9 - 5 at Sleeping Dog Farm & Retreat Centre, Victoria, BC www.sleepingdogfarm.ca
$235.00 (includes gst) before October 5th; 260.00 after October 5th
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Letting the Wildness In - Evening talk by Starhawk - "Once there was a perfect town, in a perfect world, where there were rules for everything and a right way and a wrong way to do everything, and nobody ever broke the rules…except sometimes." So begins Starhawk’s new eco-fable for children, The Last Wild Witch. When the wind is in the west, and the last wild Witch is brewing her magic brews and singing her magic songs, some of the wildness might get inside you! Although this new book (forthcoming in August) is for kids, adults may find the back story riveting: How do we let the wildness in—to our lives, to our vision of what community means? How do we recover our sense of being part of the natural world, and let nature’s own patterns inform the way we meet our human needs, so that we can heal and regenerate the world around us? Starhawk’s story is her jumping-off point to explore insights from both earth-based spirituality and permaculture that can help us weather times of rapid change and enormous challenges, and guide us toward a world that honors the wild. Talk segues into short ritual on the green.
Booksigning to follow.
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Eco-Spiritual Leadership: Earth, Spirit and Body for a Sustainable Future - 3 hour presentation at the University of Victoria.
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Earth/Body Re-Memberings Workshop - Calgary, Alberta - Explore the interconnection between human and ecological balance from an interpersonal, neurobiological, and somatic perspective. Attunement to the interconnection of self and earth supports one’s innate rhythm and regulation of the autonomic nervous system, enhancing capacity to be in-relation to self, other and earth and your eco- political, spiritual path. This workshop will be co-presented with Yvonne Haist, MEd at the International Conference on Ecology and Professional Helping. Building Bridges, Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Person, Planet and Professional Helping May 7-9, 2009 University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Restoring the Life Force through Somatic Transformation Presentation - Co-presenting paper with Dr. Sharon Stanley at the International Study for Dissociation and Trauma Conference in Chicago, IL.
For more information about the conference, www.isst-d.org/annual_conference/ISSTDconf08_prelimprog_Finalfinal.pdf
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Somatic Transformation Evening Presentation for BCACC - Join Lisa Mortimore, MA for an exciting presentation on Somatic Transformation, a neurobiological, constructivist and developmental approach to the healing of trauma developed by Dr. Sharon A. Stanley. This highly creative, therapeutic approach elicits the wisdom of the body and facilitates transformational change. Somatic Transformation combines research in the fields of attachment, empathy, brain development, autonomic regulation of the nervous system, trauma studies and ancient practices of healing and builds on insights gleaned from neurobiology to attend to the subtle, right brain injuries of insecure and disorganized attachment. ST explores the art of sensory integration with awareness and consciousness, motor capabilities, feelings and emotions, images and archetypes.
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Trauma, the Body, and the Autonomic Nervous System: Using Somatic Psychology for Resolution and Regulation Victoria, BC - When bodies speak through symptoms they are often telling the story or stories of trauma and accumulated stress patterns of life. Addressing Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) Disregulation from a Somatic Perspective is key to resolving complex trauma, PTSD and developmental trauma on a deep physiological level. This workshop will conceptually link together the body, the brain and the ANS and how it intersects with trauma and offer somatic interventions to work with ANS resolution and regulation. This course is offered through the Victoria campus of the Justice Institute.
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Stress, Sustainability and Self-Care - Critical Incident Debrief with Group Home with co-facilitator Berns Galloway, MEd
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Human Sustainability: transforming symptoms from the twilight zone - Conference Presentation at the Body Heals Conference Victoria, May 2007 with Yvonne Haist, MEd
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Stress and Self-Care - Our Children's Centre Workshop for staff development
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GOING BEYOND...A group experience for graduate lay counsellors - An experiential 10 week group with co-facilitator Berns Galloway, MEd
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Trauma and the Body Fort Simpson, NWT - 4 day training sponsored by the Deh Cho Mental Health and Addictions, Fort Simpson, NWT – 4 day training for counsellors and front line workers – Working with Trauma – with Mandala Counselling Group - Feb 2006
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Working with Trauma - For The Cridge Centre for the Family, two day training for counsellors and front line workers with Mandala Counselling Group - Jan 2006
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Body/Mind Stress Reduction Programme with Dr. Pamela Hutchison - Body/Mind Stress Reduction Programme with Naturopath Dr. Pamela Hutchison. This 8 week programme offers a comprehensive and experiential plan to make lifestyle changes.