All UK courses have been modified from the US format and consist of two 6-day courses per year. We aim for a ratio of one trainer/assistant to six students. The course is suitable for therapists, bodyworkers and other professionals in the trauma field. This is a professional training.

In the course you will:

• Understand the physiological basis of trauma.

• Learn about containment, resourcing and empowerment.

• Study tracking skills, titration and establishing continuity through the felt sense.

• Practise establishing defensive orienting responses, completion and discharge.

• Explore coupling dynamics, the elements of internal experience (SIBAM), and integrating experiential polarities, in order to restore creative self-regulation.

• Be able to identify, normalize, and stabilize traumatic reactions.

• Attain skills to avoid pitfalls of re-traumatization and false memory.

• Learn to uncouple fear from immobility; re-establish and maintain healthy boundaries.

• Investigate the transformative qualities of trauma.

• Integrate trauma work into ongoing therapy.

• Acquire short-term solutions to acute and chronic symptoms.

Consists of two 6-day seminars.

You will:

• Examine the different categories and causes of traumatic shock and approaches to treating each case including:

• Global High Intensity Trauma i.e. surgery, electrocution, hallucinogens, drowning, suffocation, strangulation, fetal distress, traumatic birth, intrauterine stress, and invasive medical procedures in utero.

• Inescapable Attack i.e. by wild animals, rape, war, bombings, physical abuse, mugging rape, incest, molestation.

• Physical Injury i.e. surgery, anesthesia, burns, poisoning, hospitalizations, stabbing, gunshot wounds.

• Failure of Physical Defense i.e. falls, high impact accidents, head injury.

• Emotional Trauma i.e. severe neglect and abandonment, severe loss, ongoing abuse.

• Natural Disasters i.e. earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, floods, social dislocation from the natural world and community.

• Horror i.e. seeing an accident (especially with blood, gore), watching someone else be abused, raped, killed or tortured, killing or hurting someone yourself.

• Torture and Ritual Abuse i.e. war torture, repeated rape in war, concentration camp, and systematic abuse (sometimes with the person drugged).

Consists of two 6-day seminars.

You will:

• Learn about the relationship of trauma to various clinical syndromes.

• Further integrate SE theory and practice into the specialty area of the therapist.

• SE bodywork in working with the different categories of trauma.

• Application of research in the psychophysiology of trauma.

• The ‘art’ of therapy.

• Special topics including work with children and infants.