THE HEART OF TRANSFORMATION

A training for Guides in Somatic Assisted Self Discovery

For coaches,

psychedelic guides

psychedelic integration coaches,

facilitators,

teachers,

healers,

practitioners,

body workers,

therapists & clinicians

May 5-7 & May 26-28

2023 Berkshires, MA

Somatic Assisted Self Discovery (SASD) is aimed at developing and deepening an embodied relationship with the felt sense, and adds the dimensions of working with feelings, emotions, sensations and experiences we merge with, supporting us to differentiate from those states, and in developing a relationship with an observer that can support these states.

In this therapeutic approach, there is an ability to focus on where in the body we may experience the residual stress from the original trauma and through a special kind of mindfulness, focusing on releasing the charged energy created by the event or felt experience.

By focusing where in the body the unreleased charge is stored, we allow our autonomic nervous system to complete the natural process of energetic discharge equilibrium and insight.

In somatic assised self discovery, we practice authentic relating and present moment experience for clues about implicit beliefs and the reactions and strategies that influence our Life Experience.

The nature of trauma and healing is to appreciate that unhealed trauma occurs because the whole survival response is not completed.

Many people stay stuck in automatic survival responses and can stay stuck for years.

SASD supports to shift and change even deeply entrenched tenacious states.

In this training we discover nourishing experiences that we are not having in present time due to imprinted belief systems.

Trauma can be defined as any unresolved autonomic nervous system response. It’s about the nervous system’s response to an event, not necessarily the event itself. Events can affect each of us very differently.”

SASD is a gentle and profound inquiry practice that teaches a step by step approach to being with all of our inner states with curiosity and compassion.

Working in this kind of field of inquiry supports coming to know ourselves more deeply, builds our capacities to hold the paradoxes of life and in a more healing way, with an exceptionally attuned way of being with difficult, divided states, including inner critics and restrictions around energy flow.

This is an approach that is important for anyone who is holding space for healing to know about and appreciate.

What is missing in most of our relationships to self other and the world is curiosity over defense and the inner and outer relational conditions that support the emergence of what is unconscious, what is wanting to heal,& meeting those moments with empathy which creates the conditions and right relationship for integration, and the safety required for the needs of these states to support organic change.

We deepen into working with Presence, titration, parts work, gestalt, with demos and practice experiential exercises to deepen your embodiment and self knowledgeand to practice holding space applying SASD inquiry practices in partner work

First Weekend

May 2023,

Berkshires MA

May 5-7

Friday, Sat, Sun 10-6:30

* Principals

* Understanding, practicing and mastering mindfulness, awareness, presence

connection and authenticity

* Creating a safe container/Agreements

* Practicing tracking

* Practicing Verbal Prompts

* Practicing Accessing

* Practicing Experiments in session

Second Weekend

May 2023 datesTBD

Berkshires MA

Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10-6:30

* The nature of Trauma and meeting trauma responses

* Strong Emotions

* Internal Family Systems Parts Work

* Taking Over for Parts

* Psycho Magic / Psycho Drama / Gestalt

* Practicing Experiments in session

Organic Vegetarian Lunch Included

Housing not included