Professional Development Courses Integrating Somatics into the Workplace
Somatic Integrations:
Somatic Praxis Professional Mentorship Program
What it is:
Somatic Praxis is a 10 week, 1:1 somatic mentorship (training and coaching) program with individualized curriculum created based on specific professional needs, capacities, and limitations.
Together, we'll ask questions to clarify your learning goals, assess capacities and skills, and places for growth to guide the program. I'll create curriculum to move through an arch of learning together: learn somatic skills, apply the skills, reflection (self and through feedback), integrate learning and assess what's needed for the next phase of learning.
This course is set up as a praxis space, which integrates practice and application, thus is intended for professionals who are actively in practice and would benefit from a supported implementation process.
All courses are rooted within integral frameworks of social justice, trauma, polyvagal theory, and embodiment as necessary components of the field of somatics and changework. As called for, we will work through the personal, cultural and structural domains of application.
Aspects of the training may address:
We will pull, as needed, from different fields of knowledge such as neuroscience, anatomy, movement bio-mechanics, interpersonal neurobiology, somatic awareness & mindfulness practices, grief work, organization and habit building techniques, systems thinking, permaculture, being trauma informed & resilience building frameworks, anti-oppression informed frameworks, and animism & ancestral reconnection frameworks.
We will infuse the course with different somatic modalities/frameworks such as Axis Syllabus, Authentic Movement, Body Mind Centering (embodied anatomy and neurological developmental movement patterns), Collab leadership models, relational centering frameworks and Somatic Abolitionism.
Specific Skills may include:
Course education may include lecture, instruction, consent-based hands-on experiential learning, personal practice development, and reflection practices.
Who's it's for:
This course is for folks with a general understanding of somatics who are actively working on integrating that framework into their practice yet looking for more profession specific education and implementation support.
Educators, Bodyworkers, Care workers, Facilitators, Therapists, Movement Educators, Health Professionals,
People in positions of leadership and power.
Folks interested in weaving justice oriented somatic practices and concepts into their work.
How it Works:
Together, we'll follow an iterative rhythm of
Time Commitment:
Application Process:
Course Registration is a 2-part application process, with rolling quarterly start dates.
Please bring your questions to our co-interview process, so that we can both determine how best to move forward.
Timing:
As a 1:1 course, the timing is dependent on our mutual availability. Within the application, you'll state options for when the course could work for you. Upon receiving the application, I will cross reference your availability with my own and propose a schedule.
Location: The Everything Space [15 State St. #303, Montpelier, Vermont], with possible field trips to outside locations in central VT
What it costs:
$3000-5000
Tuition Supports & Financial Aid:
*The two tiers discounted for Supporting Community Access cost/tuition are $2250 and $1500.
What's next:
Apply for the course!
If you have questions, you can contact Amanda, at [email protected]
Somatic Praxis Professional Mentorship Program
What it is:
Somatic Praxis is a 10 week, 1:1 somatic mentorship (training and coaching) program with individualized curriculum created based on specific professional needs, capacities, and limitations.
Together, we'll ask questions to clarify your learning goals, assess capacities and skills, and places for growth to guide the program. I'll create curriculum to move through an arch of learning together: learn somatic skills, apply the skills, reflection (self and through feedback), integrate learning and assess what's needed for the next phase of learning.
This course is set up as a praxis space, which integrates practice and application, thus is intended for professionals who are actively in practice and would benefit from a supported implementation process.
All courses are rooted within integral frameworks of social justice, trauma, polyvagal theory, and embodiment as necessary components of the field of somatics and changework. As called for, we will work through the personal, cultural and structural domains of application.
Aspects of the training may address:
- Cultivating regenerative somatic and presence practices
- Catalyzing greater leadership and organizational capacities
- Embodying authentic discernment and decision making
- Restoring healthy bio-feedback loops in individuals and systems
- Developing nervous system comprehension, self-regulation skills, and organizational regulation supports
- Understanding and navigating trauma
- Unpacking white body supremacy and racialized trauma
- Creating anti-racist, justice-oriented, abolitionist work cultures
- embodying and integrating concepts of harm reduction, accessibility, and working across difference
- Finding and creating systems of support
- Experiential anatomy and bio-mechanically supported movement pathways
- Working through a positional and historical awareness
- Growing capacity for collaboration
- Cultivating skills and structures to navigate (organizational) conflict.
- Deepening emotional and empathetic intelligence
- Creating movement rich curriculum and learning environments
We will pull, as needed, from different fields of knowledge such as neuroscience, anatomy, movement bio-mechanics, interpersonal neurobiology, somatic awareness & mindfulness practices, grief work, organization and habit building techniques, systems thinking, permaculture, being trauma informed & resilience building frameworks, anti-oppression informed frameworks, and animism & ancestral reconnection frameworks.
We will infuse the course with different somatic modalities/frameworks such as Axis Syllabus, Authentic Movement, Body Mind Centering (embodied anatomy and neurological developmental movement patterns), Collab leadership models, relational centering frameworks and Somatic Abolitionism.
Specific Skills may include:
- Nervous system modulation techniques for practitioners and clients
- Embodied leadership and facilitation skills:
- Client/student-educator/practitioner relational practices,
- Attuned communication
- Clear decision making
- Embodied practices for groups and group processes
- Understanding identity, oppression and privilege
- Creating accessible structures
- Embodied skills for regulation
- Consentful Touch
- Conflict navigation and communication skills
- Movement management skills:
- How to create movement rich spaces
- How (and why) to incorporate movement practices into workplaces
- How/why to cultivate resilience plans for workplaces
- Bio-mechanical and effective movement practices
- Trauma Education:
- How to apply social engagement and polyvagal theories to support self and interactive regulation
- Specific Anatomy as supportive to educational goals/intended uses:
- Three Brain Integration
- Body systems such as organs, bones, fascia, etc
- Vocal mechanics
- Anatomy of interoception
- Digestive System
- Developmental Movement Patterns: Basic Neurological Patterns
- Integrating yield, push, pull, reach patterns into client work
Course education may include lecture, instruction, consent-based hands-on experiential learning, personal practice development, and reflection practices.
Who's it's for:
This course is for folks with a general understanding of somatics who are actively working on integrating that framework into their practice yet looking for more profession specific education and implementation support.
Educators, Bodyworkers, Care workers, Facilitators, Therapists, Movement Educators, Health Professionals,
People in positions of leadership and power.
Folks interested in weaving justice oriented somatic practices and concepts into their work.
How it Works:
Together, we'll follow an iterative rhythm of
- Learn new skills.
- Practice and Apply skills to current work (may include site visits, visitor practice, or experimental/practice classes).
- Reflect on feedback and learnings from application.
- Integrate learnings and identify places for new skills/learnings.
Time Commitment:
- 10 weekly 1.5hr in-person somatic integration classes, (15 hours total)
- 1-4 hours of personalized homework outside of class. Homework may include readings, somatic skills practices, audio talks/videos, and themed explorations.
- Daily practice time, amount TBD
Application Process:
Course Registration is a 2-part application process, with rolling quarterly start dates.
- Part One: Written Application
- Part Two: Phone Call Co-Interview
Please bring your questions to our co-interview process, so that we can both determine how best to move forward.
Timing:
As a 1:1 course, the timing is dependent on our mutual availability. Within the application, you'll state options for when the course could work for you. Upon receiving the application, I will cross reference your availability with my own and propose a schedule.
Location: The Everything Space [15 State St. #303, Montpelier, Vermont], with possible field trips to outside locations in central VT
What it costs:
$3000-5000
Tuition Supports & Financial Aid:
- Eligible VT residents can get partial tuition covered by VSAC career advancement grants.
- Shame-free payment plans are possible for this course. Please indicate this when applying.
- We offer several tiers of discounted tuition for folks in need, as well as options for folks to offer community support. Please read through our cost structure frameworks to how we map the different tuition costs and to find yourself within that map.
*The two tiers discounted for Supporting Community Access cost/tuition are $2250 and $1500.
What's next:
Apply for the course!
If you have questions, you can contact Amanda, at [email protected]
