Somatic Empathy: Bringing Embodiment into Professional Practice
With Sarah Corrin, RCC, and Swarn Hardy, RCC
Are you somatic-curious? Are you someone who works in a field where you care for others but ignore your own body? We live in a culture where we celebrate those who work long and hard, and override the signals from their bodies for the sake of productivity or helpfulness. What if learning to listen to our bodies was a source of wisdom and guidance, and not just “selfish” or an inconvenience?
This 10-week workshop offers practitioners an opportunity to develop somatic awareness and create an embodied map of well-being. With these abilities, human beings are more equipped to effect personal and social transformation in today’s world.
We will focus on being embodied and attuning to ourselves and each other. We will learn about right hemispheric processing, tracking vitality, attuning to the truth of our own lived experience, and creating a felt sense of safety that comes from being embodied.
This workshop draws on the somatic principles in the lineages of Daniel Siegel, Alan Schore, Stephen Porges, Iain McGilchrist, Sharon Stanley, Lisa Mortimore, and Bill Plotkin.
At a time of present-day, systemic and collective trauma and distress, we are in need of new structures and paradigms for living in right relationship— with land, community, and work. This workshop is designed to bring participants into right relationship with their bodies in service, not only to the individual, but to the collective.
Come and discover what being embodied has to offer to you, your relationships, and your clients. Being embodied helps us move into true adulthood, where we take responsibility for ourselves and learn to listen and respond to our pain and suffering. The development of compassion starts with having somatic empathy with ourselves.
Sarah and Swarn are both Registered Clinical Counsellors certified in Somatic Transformation, a body-based approach to working with complex, developmental trauma. As somatic therapists, we centre the body as the prime locus of therapeutic attention, and embodiment as the primary foundation of individual and collective well-being.
Date: Thursdays 6-8pm, May 16-July 18, 2024
Cost: $500