In this first podcast I look at the issue of spontaneity and its critical importance in Somatic Experiencing sessions. I take on 3 main ideas in this 20 minute episode: To start with we don’t want profundity. We want brevity. Anything to get things started with a “back and forth” between us and our clients.
Summary: Some SE sessions cause dramatic, even magical, changes. Some of those changes are permanent from the start, which is wonderful. However many magic changes are not permanent and gently preparing clients for the swing back to discomfort is an important part of the process. Every SE practitioner loves the client call that says: “I’ve
Summary: Renegotiation of Freeze/Immobility states is a central piece of the work we do as SE Practitioners and one of the great gifts that SE has to offer. The relief that comes from quelling the compulsion of Freeze is essentially unmatched by anything else we can do for folks (after all: the true Freeze/Immobility state is
Summary: As SEP’s we have a desire to consistently reinforce empowerment, autonomy and self-direction to the extent possible and intelligible. This makes it so we look to maintain a certain economy of feedback that favors client discovery and limits practitioner intervention. [This fits closely with the Intervention : Resiliency ratio]. A good example of this would
Summary: If you look up Stress and Trauma independently on Google you get dramatically different results: Stress = 590,000,000 Trauma = 133,000,000 I think this says something about where the dominant culture directs their attention and how they think of their situation. When marketing our work we’d be wise to be conscious of this. In Peter Levine’s original