The Biodynamics of Trauma with Michael Kern

Many clients who come for treatment carry unresolved trauma at the root of their conditions and symptoms. These experiences undermine the expression of essential health and can keep replaying in our families, relationships, work and life stories. It’s vital that practitioners have a range of skills to help safely and effectively process these traumas, based in an understanding of their physiological basis and the intelligent ways that they are held in the body.
We will be exploring hands-on practices that are effectively combined with verbal skills. We will learn to meet our clients where they are, as well as orienting to the Health that underlies any traumatic patterning. We will explore the regulation of the autonomic nervous system, although working with trauma is not only about working with nerves; it involves supporting the resolution of underlying forces that organise how we function.
This seminar will deeply empower you and your clients to move from being victims of trauma towards finding a deeper experience of our innate intelligence, greater autonomy, healing and integration.
Trauma may be a part of life, but it does not need to be a life sentence.

Topics covered will include:
•tBuilding and contacting resources
•tThe three adaptive responses to safety, danger and life-threat
•tOrienting to safety and slowing things down
•tThe role of embodiment and interoception in trauma resolution
•tThe role of motor action and urges to move
•tSelf-forming
•tBeing in present time, engaging with the client and being reflective
•tBrainstem and cerebellum, developmental trauma and the locus ceruleus
•tThe hypothalamic-pituitary axis, adrenals and the stress response
•tSupporting vagal regulation
•tThe Health that underlies trauma.

Course tutor:
Michael Kern is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and Naturopath, who graduated from the College of Osteopaths in 1987. He has been teaching Craniosacral Therapy for nearly 40 years and is a pioneering exponent of the biodynamic approach, running courses in the United Kingdom, Poland, Denmark, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic and China. He is founder of the Craniosacral Therapy Educational Trust in London, and was a senior tutor for the College of Osteopaths, International Cranial Association, Centre for Professional Development in Osteopathy and University of Westminster. He also is co-founder of the Breath of Life Conferences, which are landmark events bringing together pioneers, authors and teachers in the fields of craniosacral therapy, science and spirituality, trauma, embodiment and allied practices. In addition to teaching thousands of students, Michael has trained many other teachers in this field. He is also author of the visionary book ‘Wisdom in the Body – The Craniosacral Approach to Essential Health’, which is the first book to be published about Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and is now in its third edition and translated into 13 languages.

For bookings and further details:

Caroline Monthelie
Mjörn Apelgården 20
471 73 Mjörn
Sweden
Tel: +46 706 871 871
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.apelgarden.se