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SE\u2122 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM<\/h1>
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Transform your ability to resolve trauma and chronic stress.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

The SE\u2122 Professional Training program is a dynamic continuing education certificate program designed to support you in making a profound difference with those suffering from trauma or chronic stress.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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WHY SOMATIC EXPERIENCING\u00ae?<\/h2>\n

The Somatic Experiencing\u00ae (\u201cSE\u2122\u201d) Professional Training<\/strong> provides a rich theoretical framework for understanding and addressing trauma physiology.<\/p>\n

Our educational model is highly experiential, offering you tangible skills that can be immediately integrated into your professional practice. Learn how SE, a body-oriented approach, is helping tens of thousands of people resolve trauma and other stress responses. The training is delivered through a combination of lectures, live demonstrations, guided practice sessions with fellow students, audio visual case studies, and suggested readings. Because competent practice of SE requires direct clinical experience, as well as a refined somatic awareness and capacity for self-regulation, becoming an SE Practitioner (SEP\u2122) also entails receiving personal SE sessions to deepen your experiential knowledge of SE.<\/p>\n

Because SE supports regulation of the autonomic nervous system, which underlies every aspect of our physical, emotional, and psychological functioning, the applications of SE are diverse. For example, by working directly with a client\u2019s physiology, SE enhances the depth, effectiveness, and outcome of psychotherapeutic interventions focused on relational, developmental, and psychodynamic issues. SE supports mood regulation, the reworking of addictive patterns, and the prevention or resolution of PTSD. Since trauma can contribute to the formation of many complex syndromes and diseases, SE aids medical professionals in unwinding challenging medical cases. SE techniques are also effective in reducing or eliminating chronic pain and trauma-related symptoms presenting in the musculoskeletal system, making it useful for bodyworkers and other physical-care providers.<\/span><\/span> Coaches may notice how trauma physiology is interrupting a client's progress toward their life goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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LEARN SE™ BASIC PRINCIPLES
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We recommend all future students take advantage of our 3-hour SE\u2122 Basic Principles course<\/h2>\n

This course is an opportunity to present a basic theoretical overview of the SE\u2122
model and how it complements and augments traditional approaches to working with
trauma. This introductory workshop is offered in three formats: 3-hour webinar, 3-hour
in person or full day (6-hour) in person.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve found SE to be the most fundamental work I do with clients. I\u2019m a clinical psychotherapist, dance therapist, Craniosacral therapist, pre and perinatal practitioner and I have two masters degrees. But what SE offered me has worked more than any other skill I\u2019ve been trained in. It\u2019s so basic, intuitively supportive and safe for clients. No matter what happens I know I can resort to slowing down and resourcing . . . SE is wonderful work.<\/span><\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Nadia Natali - Dance Psychotherapist, SEP, Ojai, CA, USA\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Training curriculum & timeline<\/h2>\n

The Somatic Experiencing\u00ae (\u201cSE\u2122\u201d) Professional Training curriculum is delivered through a combination of lecture, demonstration, and guided practice sessions with other students. Course material is taught in 6-8 training modules of 4 to 6 days in length, spaced out over 2\u00bd to 3 years. Training modules may be structured differently in countries outside of the USA. Training modules must be taken in sequence. In exceptional cases, where a student is unable to attend one of the live training modules, we offer supplemental video training modules for our Beginning and Intermediate classes so that students may continue with their local training group (certain restrictions may apply). This timeline supports the integration of the learning, as SE is an embodied approach and requires time between modules to integrate the learning for the practitioner.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Beginning Level<\/span><\/h4>\n

Develop foundational skills in the SE\u2122 biophysiological model for the resolution of trauma. Typically consists of three 4-day live training modules, spaced 2 to 4 months apart.<\/p>\n