SHARON
PORTER, RPP, SEP, RCST®
Somatic
Trauma Resolution (STR) Course 110
140 Hours Classroom Hours over 20 days of training (usually in 6 modules),
plus 30 documented sessions given, 2 sessions received from STR or SE
practitioners, reading, and 4 written session reports. Materials include
three books (plus one unpublished ms.), and a gymnastic ball. Course may be
taken without certification for the same price.
Prerequisites
a)
Course Description
Somatic Trauma Resolution (STR) is based primarily on Somatic Experiencing,
Peter Levine's groundbreaking work with how to re-regulate our physiology
and nervous system when it has been traumatized. STR teaches the client to
become curious about bodily sensations in a way that opens neural pathways
and allows trauma-bound energy to safely discharge. You will learn
principles of the link between sensations and discharge, the importance of
carefully controlling the level of activation, and how this system is so
precise and reliably effective in building resiliency for future events as
well as healing the effects of overwhelm from the past. The work is usually
done as an adjunct to psychotherapeutic, allopathic, energy healing and
bodywork modalities, and for those who work with traumatized people. With
sufficient experience, some will do STR as a stand-alone modality. Many
experienced practitioners have called it the “missing link” in
healing
because of the grace and ease with which it effectively addresses a
difficult area of healing.
Additional practice, supervision and/or repeating the course at half price
may be required for some students to become proficient in the work.
Personal growth is an important element of training. Some students may make
personal growth their primary objective.
Educational
objectives include:
· Theory of trauma model and its energetic component
· How the nervous system responds when overwhelmed
· Building resources and retraining the nervous system toward greater
resiliency
· How tracking sensations opens the neural pathways to allow trauma-bound
energy to safely discharge
· Exercises to release frozen defensive responses (and come into body)
· Translating Emotions and Meaning into sensations to get discharge
· Greater access to gut feelings and wisdom
· Using your voice tone to support discharge
· Effect on energy fields and craniosacral system
Lectures/Exercises:
Empowering/Successful/Enjoy
Resourcing, incl. intuition, safe place
The Language of Sensations
Three-stage Titrations of
Boundaries (No and That’s My Limit)
Frozen Defensive Responses (Spoken, Physical, Abuse)
Self-Tracking and Self-Care
Following the Resource & Trauma Vortex Waves
Palpating Shock in Field/by Touch
First Aid to Lower Activation level
Scrambling the time sequence: Turned out OK
Tracking Emotions into Discharge
Sensations, Image, Behavior, Affect, Meaning
Responsive sound-making for vocal tones that enhance or inhibit
discharge.
Running Commentary on Principles during Demos
DVD’s (extra charge) for reviewing material
Coupling Dynamics (Under and Over-Coupling)
Wave Back and Forth
Orienting Responses
Holding a container of compassion, loving kindness, sympathetic
joy and equanimity.
Softening the impact, changing the power balance
Inner child with STR
STR in Gestalt Therapy
Questions to organize/complete intention/direction
Releasing Force Vectors from blows, falls, words/sounds
Gymnastic Ball and Bodywork
Communication in relationships, pre-born and after death for transformation
of old patterns Practice/Dyads
Co-dependency and enmeshment issues
Sexual Abuse, Rape
Accidents - resourcing, knowing, slowing and softening
Auto Accidents
Taking History
Pre and post op, anesthesia (incl. dental)
Grief and Loss
Intro to Disasters, Babies/Birth, Children and other Advanced Courses
Integration (previous STR students invited for this)
Six
3-4 day modules spread out through 18 months (Note
that course has been
lengthened for more leisurely integration.) Students are also invited to
attend additional courses at reduced price, as well as to purchase DVD’s
of
courses. (The material may trigger one’s own unresolved trauma, making
it
hard to fully absorb material the first time.)
f) Textbooks
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine;
Sexual Healing audiotape by Peter Levine; Crash Course by Dianne Heller; Ms
or book of cases and Syllabus by Sharon Porter
Cost: Approx. $2,800 depending on sponsor/location
Registration: Deposit of $100 by May 25, 2007 to Denise Davis, 117B CR
250, Durango, CO 81301. Discount of $300 for full payment
by May 18, 2007.
Contact: Denise Davis, registrar, for registration
form: 970-884-1331, cell 970-799-3800; or e-mail freespirit@gobrainstorm.net
For course questions call Sharon Porter 970-731-4553, cell
970-946-4879
Video/discussion of Sharon and STR with a client at Betsy
Allen’s house April 24, 6-8pm. Call Betsy at 259-6241
for reservation
MAKE-UPS. If you absolutely have to miss a day or a module,
you can make it up by reviewing DVD of this course or a
similar course, notes from another student, extra practice,
and,
if necessary, individual practice with Sharon or Betsy
at additional cost. See my web site for state requirements
regarding
absences and refund policy. You still pay for modules missed.
PREREQUISITES: Emotional maturity and stability. I don't
expect you to be perfect, and there are lots of opportunities
for personal growth during the training, but if you are
unstable with lots of unresolved stuff you will have difficulty
learning
the material because you will be triggered all the time.
Some just accept this, get extra sessions before and during
the training, and then take the training a second time
if needed to absorb the material, eventually becoming great
practitioners. That may be okay in some circumstances,
but
talk to me (Sharon) before registering, so there are fewer
surprises.
Satisfactory completion of this course leads to an STRP
certification awarded by my Colorado Approved School, Health
Wave Institute.
Testimonials about
this course
“Sharon
Porter is at the top of my list of the best trainers I
have experienced. Her course in Somatic Trauma Resolution
catapulted me forward in my abilities to sense and intuitively
choose the most effective timing, words, and non-verbal
interventions to reach and help my clients. I have instinctively
modeled my style after Sharon's easy warmth and enthusiastic
delight in clients' breakthroughs. The "map" her
course gave me to the traumatized nervous system and how
to help a client move towards healing has been a very powerful
map for me and my clients.”
Paul Chubbuck, M.A. Psychotherapist
“ I am a body worker, and an energy worker. I can feel stuck
areas of the body, and I did not have any means of permanently
releasing them. This work enables accessing and releasing
of thoughts, beliefs, emotions and realities in a most safe
effective way. Every psychotherapist, every body worker,
every teacher and every person on the planet who interacts
with other human beings needs to learn and practice this
work.”
Morgan de Thouars, Denver M.T.
Sharon Porter is respected
for her pioneering work in the field of Energy
Medicine - training practitioners, presenting
at professional conferences, and seeing clients
with a wide variety of needs. She is the
Program Director of the Health Wave Institute.
Her
credentials include: Certified Somatic Experiencing
Practitioner (SEP), Registered Polarity Practitioner
(RPP), Registered Craniosacral Therapist
(RCST ®),
and approval by the Craniosacral Therapy
Association of North America (craniosacraltherapy.org)
to teach their two-year professional training
in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Advanced
Courses. Her training and experience in Exercise
and Yoga Therapies enables her to select
postures
and movements the client can do at home.
Sharon is Director of Health Wave Institute, approved
and regulated by the State of Colorado, Division of Occupational
Schools. See courses listed on web site.
Sharon lives in Pagosa Springs, Colorado with her husband, Dan Burgess,
RCST ®, who assists her in trainings. She is currently designing
a video training program that will be accompanied by a forthcoming
book.
In Pagosa Springs CO at 26 Limestone Ct., (970)
731-4553
In Santa Monica on Montana Ave., Dan (970) 946-9068, Sharon 946-4879
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