Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Groesbeek, Netherlands
Dec
10
to Dec 12

Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Groesbeek, Netherlands

Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

With an additional focus on couples, especially who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, or with grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or those who just generally resist being in their bodies.

As an adjunct to "Essential Strategies Of Healing Sexual Trauma” Ariel brings more advanced strategies. In this workshop we will look at:

Professional Content

  • Working with Couples

  • Spicing up long-term relationships

  • Sex and aging

  • How to support female and male survivors

  • When abuse is still happening

  • Low or incompatible Libido

  • Pelvic complaints—including vaginismus, chronic pain and common sexual dysfunctions—for both women and men

  • Infertility

  • Kink and BDSM

  • Porn addiction

  • Working with dissociation, flashback

  • Working with parents of children with gender problems

What you will learn personally

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Learn a variety of strategies working with couples, or those who desire to couple healthily.

Who will benefit

  • Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

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“The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality”- Denmark, In Person
Feb
27
to Mar 1

“The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality”- Denmark, In Person

“The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality”

Discover the subtleties of relating intimately

This workshop examines:  “What happens in myself, my body, and my being in relation to others?”

 Open to:

• Individuals, either coupled or not, and actively sexual or not

• Anyone wanting to heal attachment wounds, hoping to learn to receive and give love and pleasure in new and profound ways

• Couples wanting to improve their physical and emotional intimacy

• People hoping to find satisfying relationships, or for

• Therapists who work with any of the above

 This 3 day workshop focuses on connection to self, the heart and the body, while being in proximity with others. You do not need to be in couple relationship to get great benefit from this program. Nor does your partner need to be present.

 The goal is to identify and experience the subtle and not-so-obvious ways we engage intimately, and how to open to new and yet-to-be explored possibilities of joy, closeness and pleasure.

 We’ll combine lectures, videos, the latest research, small group discussions, movement and dance, plus an array of gentle, respectful exercises to make for a rich and varied program. Mindful embodiment, sensation tracking and self-touch explorations are core practices as we get comfortable with the body as the ultimate “experiencer”. The goal is clearer boundaries, increased pleasure, self-acceptance and self-love, and greater freedom to explore your sexy/sensual self, playfully in new and different ways, without shame.

 After the weekend, participants will:

• get a compact over view of attachment styles

• come away with a clearer understanding of the subtle levels of relating that occur under conscious awareness

• recognize and reduce triggers, enabling genuine wants and needs to emerge…..and learn to communicate these effectively

• learn tools for staying present and embodied

• identify deep desires and yearnings, and notice what gets in the way of opening to them

• practice asking for what you want, and learning to receive

 Topics we will cover include all of the above, plus:

• Identify genuine “yeses” and “noes”, as well as “turn-ons” and “turn-offs” in intimacy.

• Learn about your ”erotic style”

• The basics of sensual touch for both women and men (fully clothed)

plus many more!

REGISTRATION: info@coherence.as

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The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality - Bucharest, Romania; In Person
Apr
10
to Apr 12

The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality - Bucharest, Romania; In Person

The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality

What happens in myself, my body, and my being in relation to others?

Open to:

• Individuals, either coupled or not, and actively sexual or not

• Anyone wanting to heal attachment wounds, hoping to learn to receive and give love and pleasure in new and profound ways

• Couples wanting to improve their physical and emotional intimacy

• People hoping to find satisfying relationships, or for 

• Therapists who work with any of the above

Description:

This 3 day workshop focuses on connection to self, the heart and the body, while being in proximity with others. You do not need to be in couple relationship to get great benefit from this program. Nor does your partner need to be present. It helps us experience the subtle and not-so-obvious ways we engage intimately, and how to open to new and yet-to-be explored possibilities of joy and pleasure.

We’ll combine lectures, videos, the latest research, small group discussions, movement and dance, plus an array of gentle, respectful exercises to make for a rich and varied program. Mindful embodiment, sensation tracking and self-touch explorations are core practices as we get comfortable with the body as the ultimate “experiencer”. The goal is clearer boundaries, increased pleasure, self-acceptance and self-love, and greater freedom to explore your sexy self playfully in new and different ways, without shame.

After the weekend, participants will:

• come away with a clearer understanding of the subtle levels of relating that occur under conscious awareness

• recognize and reduce triggers, enabling genuine wants and needs to emerge and learn to communicate these effectively

• learn tools for staying present and embodied

• identify deep desires and yearnings, and notice what gets in the way of opening to them

• practice asking for what you want, and learning to receive 

Topics we will cover include all of the above, plus:

• Further exploration of boundaries

• Identify genuine “yeses” and “noes”, as well as “turn-ons” and “turn-offs” in intimacy. 

• Learn about your ”erotic style”

• The basics of sensual touch for both women and men (fully clothed) plus many more!

To register contact Florentina: florentinaniculescu@yahoo.com

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Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Cairo, Egypt
Apr
18
to Apr 20

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Cairo, Egypt

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

There will be time to discuss some specific cases. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friendlier with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and awareness

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues


To Register, contact: training@sourceforhelp.com

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The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality - Cairo, Egypt; In Person
Apr
24
to Apr 26

The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality - Cairo, Egypt; In Person

The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality

Discovering the subtleties of relating intimately

“What happens in myself, my body, and my being in relation to others?”

Course Description:

Through the lens of SE,  attachment theory, and current sexuality studies, we’ll combine lectures, videos, the latest research, small group discussions, and movement, plus an array of gentle, respectful exercises to make for a rich and varied program.

The goal is deeper connection to self and others, healthy attachment, clear boundaries and greater freedom to explore your sexy self, playfully in new and different ways, without shame.

This 3 day workshop focuses on connection to self, the heart and the body, while being in proximity with others. You do not need to be in couple relationship to get great benefit from this program. Nor does your partner need to be present. We’ll experience the subtle and not-so-obvious ways we engage intimately, and how to open to new and yet-to-be explored possibilities of joy and pleasure.

Mindful embodiment, sensation tracking and self-touch explorations are core practices as we get comfortable with the body as the ultimate “experiencer”. The goal is clearer boundaries, increased pleasure, self-acceptance and self-love, and greater freedom to explore your sexy self playfully in new and different ways, without shame.

Open to:

• Individuals, either coupled or not, and actively sexual or not

• Anyone wanting to heal attachment wounds, hoping to learn to receive and give love and pleasure in new and profound ways

• Couples wanting to improve their physical and emotional intimacy

• People hoping to find satisfying relationships, or for 

• Therapists who work with any of the above

After the weekend, participants will:

• recognize how your attachment style, old traumas and social conditioning sabotage satisfying intimacy, and how you can begin to heal this

• come away with a clearer understanding of the subtle levels of relating that occur under conscious awareness

• recognize and reduce triggers, enabling genuine wants and needs to emerge…..and learn to communicate these effectively

• learn tools for staying present and embodied

• identify deep desires and yearnings, and notice what gets in the way of opening to them

• practice asking for what you want, and learning to receive 



To Register, contact: training@sourceforhelp.com

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Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma --Part 1 of the 4 part certificate series - The Netherlands, In Person
Apr
28
to Apr 30

Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma --Part 1 of the 4 part certificate series - The Netherlands, In Person

Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma—Part 1

Part 1 of a 4 part series leading to Somatic Sexuality Healing Practitioner Certificate

Who are we at our core?

If we were to remove all of the social conditioning, the religious, racial and cultural messages forced on us, all of the generations of sexism, misogyny and shame, all the judgments and expectations of family and peers, and all the traumas we have experienced:

  • Who are we underneath all of it?

  • How would we inhabit our bodies in ways that reflect our true nature?

  • How would we express and receive affection, sensuality and sexuality… on our terms… in our most genuine and authentic way?

  • How to achieve ease and pleasure in our own bodies, identify biases, and recognise discomfort with sexuality so that we can all be a clear and effective support to clients

  • How do we uncover our desires and attractions, and identify what inhibits them? Are these real, or are these learned?

  • What is the best way to break old patterns in relationships and move towards healthy intimacy?

  • How do we heal specifically what is damaged by the above influences?

    This first module is the foundation of the Full Embodiment (FE) practice.

  • Decades in its formation—FE combines the latest in somatic healing practices and trauma-informed sex education. Recognising the common dilemmas and challenges that practitioners face in their office, plus the countless ways people all over the world struggle with shame, disconnection to their bodies and sexuality, this program is especially designed for all people to find their way home to self, to pleasure and to greater intimacy..

     It examines the developmental imprints and other formative influences that sabotage an easeful, shame-free relationship with ourselves as sexual/sensual beings. We will slowly rebuild that which was scarred by generations of sexual oppression, misogyny and cultural and religious influences.

    Healing Strategies:

  • Participants will develop a personalized, self-paced embodiment practice

  • Time will be spent examining our relationship to sex and sexuality, and then developing new strategies and goals that more authentically express our true or ideal nature

  • We’ll uncover biases and triggers both professionally and personally. The intention is to find ease when discussing sex and pelvic anatomy with clients and intimates.

  • We’ll examine the messages we were given about gender and what it means to be male/female,..and learn to access and embody more authentic beliefs and desires, identities and expressions underneath the shame and conditioning.

  • The focus of this module is on self-exploration and personal enhancement, however it will provide numerous useful strategies for therapists working with sexuality and trauma.

  • There will be suggested readings, journaling, between module peer support and required group supervisions

    The focus is solely on HEALING….We will NOT be working sexual trauma in any workshop….

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friendlier with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and awareness

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Professionals wishing to become more adept at being embodied and sexually more authentic. Clients, partners and non-SE professionals are also welcome to join. But they must be well-regulated and ready to step into the material. We will not have the staff to support high maintenance individuals.

price is €695

To register, contact Anja: anja@bodymindopleidingen.nl


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Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Vilnius, Lithuania
May
20
to May 23

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Vilnius, Lithuania

  • Vilnius, Lithuania Lithuania (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

There will be time to discuss some specific cases. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friendlier with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and awareness

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues


To register contact Agniete Laurinaityte,  
agnietes@yahoo.com

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Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Vienna, Austria
Jul
4
to Jul 6

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Vienna, Austria

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

There will be time to discuss some specific cases. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friendlier with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and awareness

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues


To register contact Claudia Lengauer,  
kassierin@somaticexperiencing.at

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Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality -Groesbeek, Netherlands Part 2
Aug
22
to Aug 24

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality -Groesbeek, Netherlands Part 2

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

Part 2 of the 4 Part Certificate Series

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

There will be time to discuss some specific cases. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friendlier with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and awareness

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

Price—€695

To register, contact Anja De Boer anja@bodymindopleidingen.nl


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The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality - Berlin, Germany; In Person
Sep
5
to Sep 7

The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality - Berlin, Germany; In Person

The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality

Discovering the subtleties of relating intimately

“What happens in myself, my body, and my being in relation to others?”

Open to:

• Individuals, either coupled or not, and actively sexual or not

• Anyone wanting to heal attachment wounds, hoping to learn to receive and give love and pleasure in new and profound ways

• Couples wanting to improve their physical and emotional intimacy

• People hoping to find satisfying relationships, or for 

• Therapists who work with any of the above

This 3 day workshop focuses on connection to self, the heart and the body, while being in proximity with others. You do not need to be in couple relationship to get great benefit from this program. Nor does your partner need to be present. It helps us experience the subtle and not-so-obvious ways we engage intimately, and how to open to new and yet-to-be explored possibilities of joy and pleasure.

We’ll combine lectures, videos, the latest research, small group discussions, movement and dance, plus an array of gentle, respectful exercises to make for a rich and varied program. Mindful embodiment, sensation tracking and self-touch explorations are core practices as we get comfortable with the body as the ultimate “experiencer”. The goal is clearer boundaries, increased pleasure, self-acceptance and self-love, and greater freedom to explore your sexy self playfully in new and different ways, without shame.

After the weekend, participants will:

• come away with a clearer understanding of the subtle levels of relating that occur under conscious awareness

• recognize and reduce triggers, enabling genuine wants and needs to emerge…..and learn to communicate these effectively

• learn tools for staying present and embodied

• identify deep desires and yearnings, and notice what gets in the way of opening to them

• practice asking for what you want, and learning to receive 


Topics we will cover include all of the above, plus:

• Further exploration of boundaries

• Identify genuine “yeses” and “noes”, as well as “turn-ons” and “turn-offs” in intimacy. 

• Learn about your ”erotic style”

• The basics of sensual touch for both women and men (fully clothed) plus many more!


To Register, contact Hanna at SE Germany: seminar@somatic-experiencing.de



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Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - ONLINE
Nov
21
to Nov 23

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - ONLINE

Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

COURSE DESCRIPTION

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

There will be time to discuss some specific cases. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friendlier with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and awareness

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues


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The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality- The Netherlands, Part 3 of 4 Part series
Dec
14
to Dec 16

The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality- The Netherlands, Part 3 of 4 Part series

“The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality”

Discovering the subtleties of relating intimately

Part 3 of the 4 Part Somatic Sexuality Healing Practitioner

This course focuses on the connection to self and the body, while being in proximity with others. You do not need to be in a couple relationship to get great benefit from this program.

Through the lens of Somatic Experiencing,  attachment theory, and current sexuality studies, we’ll combine lectures, videos, the latest research, small group discussions, and movement, plus an array of gentle, respectful exercises to make for a rich and varied program.

The goal is deeper connection to self and others, healthy attachment, clear boundaries and greater freedom to explore your sexy self, playfully in new and different ways, without shame.

This 3 day workshop focuses on connection to self, the heart and the body, while being in proximity with others. You do not need to be in couple relationship to get great benefit from this program. Nor does your partner need to be present. We’ll experience the subtle and not-so-obvious ways we engage intimately, and how to open to new and yet-to-be explored possibilities of joy and pleasure.

Mindful embodiment, sensation tracking and self-touch explorations are core practices as we get comfortable with the body as the ultimate “experiencer”. The goal is clearer boundaries, increased pleasure, self-acceptance and self-love, and greater freedom to explore your sexy self playfully in new and different ways, without shame.

Open to:

• Individuals, either coupled or not, and actively sexual or not

• Anyone wanting to heal attachment wounds, hoping to learn to receive and give love and pleasure in new and profound ways

• Couples wanting to improve their physical and emotional intimacy

• People hoping to find satisfying relationships, or for 

• Therapists who work with any of the above

After the weekend, participants will:

• recognize how your attachment style, old traumas and social conditioning sabotage satisfying intimacy, and how you can begin to heal this

• come away with a clearer understanding of the subtle levels of relating that occur under conscious awareness

• recognize and reduce triggers, enabling genuine wants and needs to emerge…..and learn to communicate these effectively

• learn tools for staying present and embodied

• identify deep desires and yearnings, and notice what gets in the way of opening to them

• practice asking for what you want, and learning to receive 

To Register Contact Anja: anja@bodymindopleidingen.nl

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Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality  Part 4 of 4 - online
Feb
6
to Feb 8

Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality Part 4 of 4 - online

Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

Part 4 of the 4 Part Certificate Series

With an additional focus on couples, especially who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, or with grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or those who just generally resist being in their bodies.

As an adjunct to "Essential Strategies of Healing Sexual Trauma” Ariel will discuss common issues that arise in supervision. In this workshop we will look at:

Professional Content

  • Working with Couples

  • Spicing up long-term relationships

  • Sex and aging

  • How to support female and male survivors

  • When abuse is still happening

  • Low or incompatible Libido

  • Pelvic complaints—including vaginismus, chronic pain and common sexual dysfunctions—for both women and men

  • Infertility

  • Kink and BDSM

  • Porn addiction

  • Working with dissociation, flashback

  • Working with parents of children with gender problems

What you will learn personally

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Learn a variety of strategies working with couples, or those who desire to couple healthily.

Who will benefit

  • Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

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Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality  Part 4 of 4 - Groesbeek, Netherlands
Apr
28
to Apr 30

Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality Part 4 of 4 - Groesbeek, Netherlands

Further Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

Part 4 of the 4 Part Certificate Series

With an additional focus on couples, especially who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, or with grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or those who just generally resist being in their bodies.

As an adjunct to "Essential Strategies Of Healing Sexual Trauma” Ariel brings more advanced strategies. In this workshop we will look at:

Professional Content

  • Working with Couples

  • Spicing up long-term relationships

  • Sex and aging

  • How to support female and male survivors

  • When abuse is still happening

  • Low or incompatible Libido

  • Pelvic complaints—including vaginismus, chronic pain and common sexual dysfunctions—for both women and men

  • Infertility

  • Kink and BDSM

  • Porn addiction

  • Working with dissociation, flashback

  • Working with parents of children with gender problems

What you will learn personally

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Learn a variety of strategies working with couples, or those who desire to couple healthily.

Who will benefit

  • Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

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Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Groesbeek, Netherlands
Jul
1
to Jul 3

Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Groesbeek, Netherlands

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

There will be time to discuss some specific cases. Those of you wanting client support before this workshop can also present cases here.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friends with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and ease, all parts of it…

  • Develop more awareness, find new levels of pleasure in the embodiment exercises. Maybe even enjoy sex and intimacy more!

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

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Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Prague, Czech Republic
Jun
14
to Jun 16

Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Prague, Czech Republic

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

There will be time to discuss some specific cases. Those of you wanting client support before this workshop can also present cases here.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friends with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and ease, all parts of it…

  • Develop more awareness, find new levels of pleasure in the embodiment exercises. Maybe even enjoy sex and intimacy more!

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

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Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Belfast, Ireland
Apr
12
to Apr 14

Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Belfast, Ireland

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

There will be time to discuss some specific cases. Those of you wanting client support before this workshop can also present cases here.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friends with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and ease, all parts of it…

  • Develop more awareness, find new levels of pleasure in the embodiment exercises. Maybe even enjoy sex and intimacy more!

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

For more information contact: 

cpd@tairseach.ie

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Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Berlin, Germany
Apr
5
to Apr 7

Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality - Berlin, Germany

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, dissociation, flashbacks, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and is aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

There will be time to discuss some specific cases. Those of you wanting client support before this workshop can also present cases here.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friends with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and ease, all parts of it…

  • Develop more awareness, find new levels of pleasure in the embodiment exercises. Maybe even enjoy sex and intimacy more!

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

This event is currently sold out with a waitlist, follow the link below for more information:


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Somatic Experiencing and How it Addresses Sexual Abuse - Leuven, Belgium
Feb
24
to Feb 25

Somatic Experiencing and How it Addresses Sexual Abuse - Leuven, Belgium

Course Description:

To outline a general picture of what trauma is, its origins and consequences, and the specific contribution of SE®. Offer tools for the self-regulation of the nervous system, in order to be present with more possibilities in the here and now.

For Whom?

Professionals seeking new, efficient tools in their work with clients.

•    Mental health care: psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, pedagogues, social workers, coaches, occupational therapists, dance and expression therapists, …
•    From healthcare: doctors, nurses, homeopaths, specialists, midwives, …
•    From body-oriented care: osteopaths, acupuncturists, manual therapists, craniosacral therapists, physiotherapists,…

•    Those who are (often the first) involved in emergencies/disasters: firefighters, police, security officers, …

•    Educational people, yoga teachers, ….

All persons who want to gain more insight into trauma and the health problems associated with it through their work or personally.

Program

•    Definition of trauma through the SE® model
•    What is SE®? Comparison with other therapies
•    Fundamental Principles of SE®
•    Historical and Cultural Perspective of Trauma
•    The Autonomic Nervous System
•    Resilience and self-regulation
•    Videos and demonstrations
•    Group work and practical exercises
•    Explanation about the SE practitioner training

Due to the special topic “Sexual trauma”, the following topics are also discussed:

• The role of the autonomic nervous system and how it presents and influences trauma
• What is unique about SE as a treatment model
• Recognizing the impact that sexual trauma has on an individual, both physiologically and emotionally, and what is the most essential focus for healing
• How neuroscience guides effective treatment and resolution
• Why embodiment is important?

Registration is available in person and online for this hybrid course.

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Bucharest Romania--Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma-The Full Embodiment Model
Sep
8
to Sep 10

Bucharest Romania--Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma-The Full Embodiment Model

The program is aimed at increasing awareness, aliveness and pleasure in our whole bodies. It looks at developmental imprints and other formative influences that interrupt a clear, stress-free relationship with ourselves as fully embodied sexual/sensual beings. It offers transformative experiential practices for all levels of interest—for self-exploration and personal enhancement, healing sexual abuse, as well as providing useful strategies for therapists working with sexuality and trauma. It is open to anyone desiring to learn more about sexuality from a somatic/social/cultural, psychological or physiological perspective.

This workshop is primarily experiential, and is aimed at healing the shame that both men and women carry from countless generations of negative messages about sex, the body and gender, whether they’re cultural, religious or intergenerational.

Introducing the latest in somatic sex therapy and sexuality research, it is designed for anyone who desires a deep and lasting change. It supports therapists in working with sexuality trauma in their practices, however it is also appropriate for anyone interested in personal exploration. Clinicians, this is your chance to bring, or refer your friends, clients, colleagues and intimates.

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Live in Zurich Switzerland    “The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality” Discovering the subtleties of relating intimately
May
27
to May 29

Live in Zurich Switzerland “The Energetics of Intimacy, Attachment and Sexuality” Discovering the subtleties of relating intimately

This program is one of a multiple part “Full Embodiment” series developed by Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SE Faculty and Somatic Sex Educator. Full Embodiment (FE) is designed to help all people find ease, pleasure and acceptance in all parts of their bodies. It asks “who am I underneath all the historical, social, cultural, religious beliefs that shaped me? What is my most authentic relationship with my body, my sexuality, my sensuality? What is getting in the way of more fulfillment in relationships?”

This course focuses on the connection to self and the body, while being in proximity with others. You do not need to be in a couple relationship to get great benefit from this program.

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Online------Strategies for Working With Sexual Trauma and Sexuality-in English with Turkish translation-
Apr
28
to Apr 30

Online------Strategies for Working With Sexual Trauma and Sexuality-in English with Turkish translation-

As professionals, we encounter and work with sexuality trauma in different ways. 

This seminar aims to provide information on how to work with sexual trauma from a Somatic Experiencing (SE) perspective.

From an SE perspective, sexual traumas can include the following issues: Body image issues, resisting being in one's own body, feeling shame about body and sexuality, sexual or gender identity issues, experiencing sexual incompatibility as a couple, having been sexually harassed/assaulted in adulthood or having experienced sexual trauma in childhood... In addition to these, traumas related to birth/pre-birth and social conditioning in line with gender roles can also be experienced as sexuality trauma. 

In this seminar, our trainer Ariel Giarretto, who specializes in Somatic Experiencing (SE) and sexuality trauma, will share with us information on how to work with sexuality traumas in line with the principles of SE approach. This seminar, which will also include new information and exercises in the field of Somatic Experiencing, aims to provide professionals with new and effective tools to best support people who have experienced sexuality trauma. 

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Countries Hosting "Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality" (see description below) and other live programs occurring in 2023
Mar
31
to Dec 3

Countries Hosting "Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality" (see description below) and other live programs occurring in 2023

Live programs in 2023

Finland 5-6 May

Contact: somaticfinland@gmail.com

France 23-25 June

More Info

Netherlands 2-4 July

More Info

Norway 15-17 September

Contact: barbroandersen@gmail.com

Italy 1-3 December

Contact: segreteria@somatic-experiencing.it

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

  • Learn skills specific to working with male survivors

    There will be time to discuss some specific cases. Those of you wanting client support before this workshop can also present cases here.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friends with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and ease, all parts of it…

  • Develop more awareness, find new levels of pleasure in the embodiment exercises. Maybe even enjoy sex and intimacy more!

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues

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Online Special Workshop
Oct
28
to Oct 30

Online Special Workshop

Special Online workshop! October 28-30, 2022 pacific coast time

Starts 10:00AM-5:00 Friday and Saturday

Ends 10:-00-4:00 Sunday

$325 before 9/15 $350 after 9/16

Advanced Strategies for Working with Sexual Trauma and Sexuality

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material and exercises not covered in the Somatic Experiencing training.

Featured Topics:

• How to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

  • Learn skills specific to working with male survivors

    There will be time to discuss some specific cases. Those of you wanting client support before this workshop can also present cases here:

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-group-case-consults-on-sexual-trauma-and-sexuality-tickets-54763308530

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friends with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and ease, all parts of it…

  • Develop more awareness, find new levels of pleasure in the embodiment exercises. Maybe even enjoy sex and intimacy more!

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, touch therapists, sex educators, intimacy coaches and any practitioner who wishes to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues

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In Denmark- Advanced Strategies for Working with Sexual Trauma and Sexuality—with Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP
Oct
21
to Oct 23

In Denmark- Advanced Strategies for Working with Sexual Trauma and Sexuality—with Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP

  • Gl. Øverødvej Holte Denmark (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Course Description:

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material not covered in the SE training.

Price: DKK 5,200 Lunch, coffee, tea and snacks are included in the price.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

to help those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies actually find ease and pleasure!

  • Help clients with complex histories identify clear goals, so you both know where you’re headed, have the consent you need to nudge a bit, and then take the most direct path to recovery

  • Learn some of the newest science in sex education that will help you explain essential facts to your clients that will normalize behaviors and lessen shame

  • Learn multiple embodiment exercises that support regulation in the present—which helps people who are triggered by daily life find moment-to-moment resource and stability.

  • Learn new techniques that strengthen boundaries, help people “find their voice”, and express genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn advanced strategies for reworking sexual trauma without re-traumatizing, and the order and steps that are most effective for success

  • Learn a variety ways of working shame and helping clients escape from its clutches

  • Learn skills specific to working with male survivors

    There will be time to discuss some specific cases. Those of you wanting client support before this workshop can also present cases here.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

.Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

  • Become friends with your body, and inhabit it with new levels of comfort and ease, all parts of it…

  • Develop more awareness, find new levels of pleasure in the embodiment exercises. Maybe even enjoy sex and intimacy more!

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, practitioners and sexeducators who want to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues

For more info and to register, contact

Gorm Alex Peterson at gap0411@gmail.com.

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WORKSHOP IS FULL---12 CEU units available for purchase through Cassidy--see below for details
Feb
11
to Feb 13

WORKSHOP IS FULL---12 CEU units available for purchase through Cassidy--see below for details

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material not covered in the SE training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT:

Day 1:

  • How to work with those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies

  • Learn multiple exercises to deepen and expand embodiment and pleasure in comfortable, titrated ways

    Day 2:

  • Learn new ways of strengthening boundaries and establishing genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn skills specific to working with male survivors

    Day 3:

  • Learn how to support couples when one is sexually avoidant, or when there are sexual incompatibilities

  • Tools for healing shame

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Become friends with your body, and inhabit it with comfort and ease, all parts of it…

  • Develop more awareness, find new levels of pleasure. Even enjoy sex more!

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

WHO WILL BENEFIT

This is an advanced program for experienced Therapists, psychologists, social workers, MFTs, coaches, and any professional practitioner who wants to become more adept at treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

Workshop Schedule:

  • Friday February 11, 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST includes two 15 minute breaks

  • Saturday February 12, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm PST includes two 15 minute beaks plus 30 min. for lunch

  • Sunday February 13, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm PST includes two 15 breaks plus 30 min for lunch

Cost to attend: $350

No refunds after February 7, 2022

CEUs are available for this program through R Cassidy..

https://www.academeca.com/CEUReg/SeminarInfo.aspx?seminarId=4307

Evaluations and Certificates are available by email and online following course completion at 

https://www.academeca.com/CEUReg/Admin/PrintableEval.aspx?seminarId=4307

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program

Payments can be made through Venmo, Zelle, or Paypal (between friends) via arielgcal@gmail.com

Zelle—the account is under ariel@fullembodiment.org

Feel free to contact me with any questions at ariel@fullembodiment.org


About presenter:

Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP has been a body-oriented trauma therapist for many decades. On staff at the Esalen Institute throughout the 90's, she studied with some of the finest somatic teachers and sexuality /Tantra experts. Trained in a wide variety of somatic therapies, she is primarily informed by Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE), the beautiful, heart-centered work that treats the physiological effects of the trauma, as well as connects people to their deepest, core self. For 19 years she had been full-time SE teaching faculty, training and mentoring professionals all over the globe. She is trained as a bodyworker, and is a certified Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Bodyworker. She has extensive training in pre and perinatal psychology, and attachment and developmental trauma, and volunteered for many years as a doula.


What participants say about the workshop:

“Ariel’s course for SEPs offers brilliant interventions for supporting survivors of sexual assault. The space she creates is safe, welcoming, choiceful, permissive, and gently playful. The experiential components provide powerful tools for recognizing when and how practitioner's own moralizing beliefs and sexual stories diminish our capacities to hold open, accepting space for our clients. She teaches concrete, non-invasive tools for exploration with survivor clients; these tools sustainably cultivate safe, affirming and yet sensuous, intimate connection with self. I appreciate that I was immediately able to integrate these tools into my practice with real ease, which I attribute to Ariel’s skillful translation of her material. And I'm amazed by the ripple effects of this weekend experience: for me the theme of this workshop was radically compassionate self-acceptance of one's sexuality.” K. F. SEP, Somatic Therapist & Anthropologist



“Thank you so much for offering this workshop. This is my second workshop in three years with Ariel. I notice after each weekend that I am more comfortable being in my own body, and way more comfortable talking to clients about their sexual experience, desire, inhibition and embodiment. Sexual Trauma Healing provided me with information, insight and exercises that immediately helped me to work with some of my most challenging clients with more ease and confidence, especially in gently challenging rather than colluding with their discomfort and shame.   Sandy, SEP/MFT Associate

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WORKSHOP IS FULL--CONTACT ariel@fullembodiment.org TO GET ON WAITLIST----Offered Online: Advanced Strategies for Working with Sexual Trauma and Sexuality with Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP
Jul
30
to Aug 1

WORKSHOP IS FULL--CONTACT ariel@fullembodiment.org TO GET ON WAITLIST----Offered Online: Advanced Strategies for Working with Sexual Trauma and Sexuality with Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with debilitating shame, sexual/gender identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material not covered in the SE training.

PROFESSIONAL CONTENT

  • How to work with those most reluctant to inhabit their bodies

  • Learn multiple exercises to deepen and expand embodiment and pleasure in comfortable, titrated ways

  • Learn new ways of strengthening boundaries and establishing genuine “embodied consent”

  • Learn skills specific to working with male survivors

  • Learn how to support couples when one is sexually avoidant, or when there are sexual incompatibilities

  • Tools for healing shame


WHAT YOU WILL LEARN PERSONALLY:

  • Become friends with your body, and inhabit it with comfort and ease, all parts of it…

  • Develop more awareness, find new levels of pleasure. Even enjoy sex more!

  • Get comfortable talking about the body and discussing sexuality issues with your clients and intimates.

WHO WILL BENEFIT

Therapists, psychologists, and practitioners who want to become more adept at somatically treating sexual trauma and sexuality issues.

Workshop Schedule:

  • Friday July 30, 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

  • Saturday July 31, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm PST

  • Sunday Aug 1, 10:00 am - 3:30 pm PST

Cost to attend: $350

Sorry—no CEUs available for this program.

Payments can be made through Venmo, Zelle, or Paypal (between friends) via arielgcal@gmail.com

Zelle—the account is under ariel@fullembodiment.org

Feel free to contact me with any questions—arielgcal@gmail.com (this email works best with the payment options above except Zelle)

WORKSHOP IS FULL—PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER UNTIL YOU HEAR THAT THERE IS SPACE FOR YOU TO JOIN—email me to get put on the waitlist.

What participants say about the workshop:

“Ariel’s course for SEPs offers brilliant interventions for supporting survivors of sexual assault. The space she creates is safe, welcoming, choiceful, permissive, and gently playful. The experiential components provide powerful tools for recognizing when and how practitioner's own moralizing beliefs and sexual stories diminish our capacities to hold open, accepting space for our clients. She teaches concrete, non-invasive tools for exploration with survivor clients; these tools sustainably cultivate safe, affirming and yet sensuous, intimate connection with self. I appreciate that I was immediately able to integrate these tools into my practice with real ease, which I attribute to Ariel’s skillful translation of her material. And I'm amazed by the ripple effects of this weekend experience: for me the theme of this workshop was radically compassionate self-acceptance of one's sexuality.” K. F. SEP, Somatic Therapist & Anthropologist

“Thank you so much for offering this workshop. This is my second workshop in three years with Ariel. I notice after each weekend that I am more comfortable being in my own body, and way more comfortable talking to clients about their sexual experience, desire, inhibition and embodiment. Sexual Trauma Healing provided me with information, insight and exercises that immediately helped me to work with some of my most challenging clients with more ease and confidence, especially in gently challenging rather than colluding with their discomfort and shame.   Sandy, SEP/MFT Associate

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CANCELLED-Milan, Italy---Opening to Desire--Beyond Trauma and Attachment--- presented by Kekuni Minton and Ariel Giarretto
Dec
11
to Dec 13

CANCELLED-Milan, Italy---Opening to Desire--Beyond Trauma and Attachment--- presented by Kekuni Minton and Ariel Giarretto

A primary complaint around sex for most couples (and many individuals) is the death of sexual desire in the relationship.  In many cases the problem may be attributable to the need to work through both the developmental and traumatic beliefs that we have about our own sexuality.  These beliefs are in turn underpinned by a corresponding relationally-engendered pattern in the body that may “turn off” the machinery of desire toward our partner. 

 

In this workshop we will explore the psychology of desire, the obstacles to desire in the mind and body, and how to open to the healing power of sexual desire.

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RESCHEDULED October 2022  Denmark- Advanced Strategies for Working with Sexual Trauma and Sexuality with Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP
Oct
30
to Nov 1

RESCHEDULED October 2022 Denmark- Advanced Strategies for Working with Sexual Trauma and Sexuality with Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP

CANCELLED—-All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with sexual identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material not covered in the SE training.

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RESCHEDULED Fall 2023  Zurich, Switzerland --The Energetics of Intimacy and Attachment--with Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP
Oct
25
to Oct 27

RESCHEDULED Fall 2023 Zurich, Switzerland --The Energetics of Intimacy and Attachment--with Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP

Exploring the subtleties of the body in relationship.

This workshop examines: “What happens in myself, my body, and my being in relation to others?”

It examines the layers of physiological and emotional experience that occur while being in proximity with others. You do not need to be in a couple relationship to get great benefit from this program. Nor does your partner need to be present. The weekend will be both experiential and educational, and professionals will walk away with valuable new ways of working with couples and individuals who struggle with intimacy.

You will discover the subtle and not-so-obvious ways that you engage intimately, and how to open to new and yet-to-be explored possibilities of joy, closeness and pleasure. The goal is to identify authentic availability vs reactive boundaries, leading to greater freedom to explore your sexy self playfully in new and different ways, without shame.

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Tokyo, Japan: Healing Sexual Abuse and Assault--The Full Embodiment Model with Ariel Giarretto MS, LMFT, SEP
Sep
25
to Sep 27

Tokyo, Japan: Healing Sexual Abuse and Assault--The Full Embodiment Model with Ariel Giarretto MS, LMFT, SEP

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with sexual identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material not covered in the SE training.

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London, England: Healing Sexual Abuse and Assault- The Full Embodiment Model with Ariel Giarretto MS, LMFT, SEP
Jul
3
to Jul 5

London, England: Healing Sexual Abuse and Assault- The Full Embodiment Model with Ariel Giarretto MS, LMFT, SEP

A special training designed for the SE community!! All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with sexual identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material not covered in the SE training.

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Costa Rica: Eros Unbound: Sensuality, Shadow, and Transcendence--with Tom Callanan and Ariel Giarretto
Jan
17
to Jan 22

Costa Rica: Eros Unbound: Sensuality, Shadow, and Transcendence--with Tom Callanan and Ariel Giarretto

This workshop will offer the latest in our new material on expanding erotic potential and pleasure. We step away from emphasizing trauma for now, and take a deeper and more playful look at exploring our healthy, erotic capacity. A full 6 day program. Bring your spouses and partners!

Join Ariel and Tom for our first residential retreat where we present our newest material on embodied sexuality. Next January, in the astonishing beauty of Costa Rica, we explore three powerful and effective avenues to deepen sexual pleasure and intimacy: sensuality, shadow and transcendence. 

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Stockholm, Sweden: Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma, Presented by Ariel Giarretto - the Full Embodiment Model
Oct
11
to Oct 13

Stockholm, Sweden: Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma, Presented by Ariel Giarretto - the Full Embodiment Model

The program is aimed at increasing awareness, aliveness and pleasure in our whole bodies. It looks at developmental imprints and other formative influences that interrupt a clear, stress-free relationship with ourselves as fully embodied sexual/sensual beings. It offers transformative experiential practices for all levels of interest—for self-exploration and personal enhancement, healing sexual abuse, as well as providing useful strategies for therapists working with sexuality and trauma. It is open to anyone desiring to learn more about sexuality from a somatic/social/cultural, psychological or physiological perspective.

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New workshop for somatic professionals just added!! A special training designed specifically for the SE Community
Sep
6
to Sep 8

New workshop for somatic professionals just added!! A special training designed specifically for the SE Community

All of us work with clients who have experienced sexual trauma as a child, sexual assault as adults, with couples who grapple with sexual incompatibilities, or people who struggle with sexual identity, body image and just generally resist being in their bodies.

This workshop is designed to tackle just these issues, and aimed at helping practitioners acquire a variety of new and effective tools to best serve these clients—even the toughest ones. Introducing material not covered in the SE training.

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Oakland, CA: Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma - Ariel Giarretto & Tom Callanan
May
10
to May 12

Oakland, CA: Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma - Ariel Giarretto & Tom Callanan

  • Oakland, California USA (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join Ariel Giarretto, LMFT, and Tom Callanan, Somatic Sex Educators and Trauma Specialists for three powerful and deeply experiential yet gentle days. This workshop is designed for anyone wanting to find more ease, comfort, as well as passion and pleasure in their bodies and their sensuality. Through a variety of mindfulness and embodiment practices, backed by the latest research on sexuality, the exploration is on "who am I underneath everything I have ever been told about my body, my gender, and my sexuality? If I were to move aside all the cultural, religious, social and familial influences, what is my most genuine relationship to myself and my sensuality that I long to (deserve to) have?"

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Live, Online Webinar--"Attachment, Trauma and Sexuality-Coming Home to the Self"
Mar
23
to Mar 24

Live, Online Webinar--"Attachment, Trauma and Sexuality-Coming Home to the Self"

  • Live, Online Interactive Webinar (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

For those of you who can’t travel to a live workshop, here is your chance to join Ariel for a 5 hour live, interactive webinar, spread out over 2 days . It will introduce some of the topics covered in the longer workshops, however there will a stronger emphasis on attachment and its effects on developing sexuality. It is aimed at healing the shame that both men and women carry from countless generations of negative messages about sex, the body and gender, whether they’re cultural, religious or intergenerational. It will provide useful tips for therapists in working with sexuality trauma in their practices.

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Flat Rock, North Carolina (near Asheville): Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma - The Full Embodiment Model    WORKSHOP IS FULL-WAITLIST ONLY   email me to be added
Mar
8
to Mar 10

Flat Rock, North Carolina (near Asheville): Uncovering the Roots of Sexuality Trauma - The Full Embodiment Model WORKSHOP IS FULL-WAITLIST ONLY email me to be added

  • The Lakeside Meeting Space at Highland Lake Cove (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join Ariel Giarretto, LMFT, Somatic Sex Educator and Trauma Specialist for three powerful, deeply experiential, yet gentle days. This workshop is designed for anyone wanting to find more ease, comfort and, of course, passion and spice in their bodies and their sensuality. 

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The Energetics of Intimacy and Attachment - Embodied Relating
Nov
9
to Nov 11

The Energetics of Intimacy and Attachment - Embodied Relating

Exploring the subtleties of the body in relationship.

Workshop in Berkeley, California, November 9-11, 2018

The Embodied Relationships Workshop revisits key concepts and practices covered in the Foundation Workshops and takes that connection to ourselves and our bodies to the next level of application - relationship to others.

This workshop examines: “What happens in myself, my body, and my being in relation to others?”

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The Energetics of Intimacy and Attachment: Exploring the subtleties of the body in relationship
Oct
11
to Oct 16

The Energetics of Intimacy and Attachment: Exploring the subtleties of the body in relationship

Exploring the subtleties of the body in relationship. 

Workshop in Naxos Greece, October 11-16, 2018

This workshop examines: “What happens in myself, my body, and my being in relation to others?”

The workshop focuses on connection to self and the body, while being in proximity with others. You do not need to be in couple relationship to get great benefit from this program. Nor does your partner need to be present.

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