MEADOWS: Releasing Somatic Stress from COVID-19
The Invisible Threat
- Speaker:
- Peter A. Levine, PhD
- Duration:
- 58 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Feb 04, 2021
- Product Code:
- POS057770
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Somatic Experiencing®(SE™), developed by Dr. Levine, is a body-oriented therapeutic approach to the treatment of trauma and other stress related disorders. Trauma can come from many things like war and abuse, but it can also come from a difficult birth, a snowboarding accident, or even an invisible threat, like Covid-19.
The trauma response is a set of defensive bodily reactions (fight, flight, freeze) that we initially mobilize in order to protect ourselves both physically and emotionally, but sometimes this protective mechanism gets stuck and we can become frozen in the past, unable to be fully present in the here and now, and unable to move forward in life with joy; detached from history but intruding into the present. This pandemic presents us with unique challenges. With Covid-19, we are working with the nervous system while it is still under an invisible perceived threat from something we are still learning about. Human evolution has prepared us to respond to threats that we can see, identify, and then respond to, as in fight or flight. However, we are now confronted with a potentially lethal pathogen that we do not have an evolutionarily prepared active response. In addition, people may also feel trapped and lonely, worried about a sick loved one, experiencing loss, or in an unsafe environment as they are sheltering in place. For some, the presence of Covid-19 may lead to or exasperate chronic fear, helplessness, anxiety, anger, rebellion, collapse, and depression, as well as various physical symptoms, like chronic pain, IBS, etc.
During this program, Dr. Levine will guide us in how the SE approach gently facilitates the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms, allowing us to better manage stressful times without overload, burnout, or regretful transgressions.
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Speaker
Peter A. Levine, PhD Related seminars and products
Peter A. Levine, PhD, holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethnopolitical warfare. Levine’s international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 22 languages. His recent interests include the prevention of trauma in children, and he has co-written two books, with Maggie Kline, in the area: Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His most recent book: Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past, was recently released to rave reviews. Levine’s original contribution to the field of body psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). Levine was also honored as the recipient of the 2020 Psychotherapy Networker Lifetime Achievement Award.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Peter Levine is the founder and president of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education, the president and editorial director of Ergos Institute Press, and receives a consulting fee from the Meadows Addiction Center. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Levine receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Peter Levine is a senior clinical fellow and advisor to the Meadows Addiction Treatment Center. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Humanistic Psychological Association, and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
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Objectives
- Define how trauma responses are a set of defensive bodily reactions meant to protect us.
- Identify how trauma-based perceptions remain fundamentally unchanged until the internal experience of the body changes.
- Explain how we can trigger and reactivate each other’s traumas causing corrosive and destructive emotions and behaviors in our relationships. We then often attribute these emotions to the other, when it’s our own traumas and dysregulation that have been reactivated.
Outline
I Somatic Experiencing
- Working with the body in the therapy session
- The origins and experiences of trauma
II Trauma Responses to Threat
- Fight, flight and freeze
- Techniques in therapy to move the “stuck” client
III Somatic skills from the SE Model
- Targeting trauma-based perceptions
- Methods to change the internal experience of the body
IV Working with trauma in the unique times of COVID-19 pandemic
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