Join Peter A. Levine, PhD and Dr. Diane Poole Heller LIVE!
Awakening Aliveness
A Somatic Approach to Healing Attachment Trauma
Learn to apply somatic techniques to help clients release stuck patterns, ease physical tension, and heal attachment wounds stored in the body.
- Five 90-minute LIVE training sessions
- Real client demonstrations with Dr. Levine
- Includes 6 CE credits for eligible professionals!
Our first session starts on February 4, 2025
What is your client’s body telling you about their trauma history?
Your clients may not always have the words to explain their trauma, but their bodies often do.
That tightness in their chest, the weight on their shoulders, or that lingering sense of disconnection––it’s the body’s way of holding onto attachment wounds that were never fully processed.
These patterns often trace back to early relationships with primary caregivers, where safety, care, or connection may have been inconsistent or absent during key developmental stages.
In response, the body learns to protect itself from emotional pain, rejection, or overwhelm. It might do this by holding tension, restricting breath, or shutting down emotionally.
These protective responses are the nervous system’s way of managing overwhelming emotions or preventing further damage when other support isn’t available.
But the body doesn’t always recognize the danger has passed. Over time, these protective patterns can become default responses, shaping how people experience relationships and cope with stress as adults.
Even in safe, supportive environments, the nervous system may still react as if it’s under threat––keeping the body tense, hyper-vigilant, or distant.
This can leave clients feeling stuck, wondering why, despite their best efforts, they can’t relax, open up, or feel fully present in their relationships.
When clients stay stuck in the same patterns week after week, it can leave even the most experienced clinicians questioning their approach.
Clients may gain insight and recognize the roots of their trauma, but their body seems to tell a different story. They remain guarded, tense, or distant, and yet, nothing seems to shift.
It’s frustrating—even exhausting—to feel like you’re doing everything right but still hitting an invisible wall. Without tools to address what’s stored in the body, progress stalls, and both you and your clients stuck.
Why Choose This Course Over Others?
Not Just Theory—Learn How to Work Directly with the Body
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Watch Real Client Transformations
See how body-based interventions help clients release protective responses, ease chronic tension, and help them reconnect with their innate sense of safety and aliveness. -
Get Practical Tools You Can Use Immediately
Master simple, yet effective techniques to identify bracing patterns, release survival responses, and help clients move from rigidity to greater adaptability, connection, and emotional resilience. -
Integrate Somatic Work With What You Already Do
Incorporate a scientific, trauma-informed approach into your existing methods and practices––so you can help people more effectively, support lasting change and restore secure attachment.
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Practice the Techniques as You Learn
Try a new, guided “Put it Into Practice” somatic exercise each week, so you can experience the techniques firsthand and embody them before you use them with clients. -
Build Confidence for Working With Complex Cases
Learn how to recognize subtle body cues, track nervous system patterns, and gently release deeply held protective responses—even with clients who feel stuck or overwhelmed. -
Expand Your Clinical Skills
Learn directly from Dr. Levine––creator of Somatic Experiencing®––though client demos, live teaching, and guided practices. See how to apply somatic principles and bring these tools into your own work.
—All-New Online Training Now Open—
Awakening Aliveness
A Somatic Approach to Healing Attachment Trauma
A 5-Session LIVE Course that begins February 4, 2025
Help clients heal attachment wounds and restore a sense of safety and connection
What You Get For Only $267…
Five 90-minute LIVE, Demo-Based, Interactive Training Sessions
Including Q&A with Dr. Peter Levine and Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Join us LIVE for client demonstrations, practical teaching and in-depth look at how to apply attachment principles and Somatic Experiencing® in your clinical practice.
Each 90-minute session includes core teaching, real client demos with step-by-step explanations from Dr. Levine, and corrective techniques you can integrate with any modality.
Every call wraps up with 30 minutes of Q&A, giving you a chance to ask questions and learn directly from two of the foremost experts in trauma and attachment.
- Session 1: Restoring Aliveness and Easing Chronic Pain After Attachment Trauma
- Session 2: Navigating Procedural Memory from Life-Threatening Experiences Coupled with Attachment Trauma
- Session 3: Working with Generational Trauma and Chronic Bracing Patterns
- Session 4: Releasing Override Patterns to Restore Connection
- Session 5: Supporting Individuation After Early Neglect and Trauma
See Exactly How It’s Done (With Real Clients)
Join Peter and Diane for five LIVE, 90-minute sessions featuring practical teaching, real client demos with step-by-step debriefs, and dedicated time for Q&A.
Participate live or watch the recordings on your own time. Learn new techniques and practical exercises you can apply quickly into your clinical work.
Learn Practical Clinical Skills, Tool & Somatic Techniques
Broaden your skills and learn new somatic techniques you can use right away for yourself and your clients.
Join a supportive online community where new and experienced practitioners connect, share insights, and explore ways to integrate body-based trauma-informed approaches to promote growth and healing.
Lifetime Access to Video, Audio, Transcripts & Bonuses
Every live training is recorded and available as video, audio, and transcripts—ready for download to your personal library.
Miss a session or want to revisit the demos when you have a complex case? Access the material anytime to review the material and deepen your understanding at your convenience.
Here’s what You’ll Learn in Each Live Session
Led by Dr. Peter Levine, the originator of Somatic Experiencing® and your host, Dr. Diane Poole Heller
All LIVE sessions meet online for 90 minutes (dates and times listed below)
SESSION 1: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 @ 12 - 1:30 pm MT
Restoring Aliveness and Easing Chronic Pain After Attachment Trauma
In this first session, Dr. Levine works with O’Brien, a 45-year old professional navigating chronic pain, severe fatigue, and nervous system dysregulation. Her challenges stem from early attachment trauma—marked by neglect and emotional disconnection—which left her body stuck in protective survival patterns. Over time, her pain was compounded by multiple accidents and physical injuries, deepening her sense of physical and emotional “shut down.”
Dr. Levine introduces specific somatic techniques that address unresolved trauma held in the body as chronic holding patterns, physical tension, and suppressed vitality. He demonstrates how to safely release survival responses and help clients reconnect with their life force using titration, pendulation, and orienting.
Dr. Levine also shares the Voo Breath Exercise, a sound-based technique used to regulate the nervous system and support clients with unresolved attachment injury, highlighting how to use it with clients who show chronic holding and emotional shutdown to restore a sense of safety and connection.
- Recognize chronic pain as a sign of unresolved attachment trauma—Learn to identify body-based signs of attachment injuries, like physical tension, bracing, and emotional shutdown.
- Use somatic techniques to release holding patterns —See how to apply titration, pendulation, and orienting to guide clients toward safety, ease, and emotional flexibility.
- Implement the VooBreath in clinical sessions—Practice the technique to understand its role in calming the nervous system, releasing stored tension, and supporting emotional connection.
- Help clients move from protective responses to a sense of aliveness—Guide clients out of physical and emotional shutdown, so they can experience vitality, openness, and connection.
SESSION 2: Thursday, February 6, 2025 @ 12 - 1:30 pm MT
Navigating Procedural Memory from Life-Threatening Experiences Coupled with Attachment Trauma
In this session, Dr. Levine works with Mitchell, a 35-year-old man who has survived multiple car accidents, early childhood neglect, and complex medical trauma. His body holds the unresolved procedural memory of near-death experiences alongside attachment wounds from an insecure and abusive upbringing. Mitchell struggles with involuntary body movements, emotional numbness, and finding closure with his traumatic past.
Dr. Levine demonstrates how to work with the body’s unconscious patterns—such as involuntary movements, tension, and postural shifts—that hold the memory of trauma. He explains how to observe and gently guide these procedural memories to completion, helping clients release bound energy and regain emotional and physical regulation. By tracking the body’s natural rhythms of contraction and expansion, practitioners will learn how to support clients in processing complex trauma safely and effectively.
Students will also practice Sensation Tracking with Pendulation, an exercise to develop awareness of how the body contracts and expands while processing trauma.
- Recognize physical cues of unresolved trauma—Learn to identify unconscious tension, posture, and movement patterns that reflect stored trauma from life-threatening events and attachment injuries.
- Work with procedural memory in clinical sessions—Safely address involuntary movements and physical holding patterns to help clients release survival responses and process trauma.
- Support nervous system regulation—Deepen your understanding of titration and pendulation to help clients track sensations, stay present with difficult emotions, and build resilience.
- Address the interplay of developmental and shock trauma—Release the effects of attachment wounds and life-threatening experiences that shape survival patterns and keep clients stuck.
SESSION 3: Tuesday, February 11, 2025 @ 12 - 1:30 pm MT
Working with Generational Trauma and Chronic Bracing
In this session, Dr. Levine works with Nelofer, a 44-year-old woman whose story highlights the intersection of cultural, religious, and generational trauma. Growing up in a strict Muslim family and feeling disconnected from her cultural identity, Nelofer endured sexual exploitation by a trusted community figure and a near-fatal fall in her teens that compounded her physical and emotional struggles.
These experiences left her body locked in chronic bracing patterns, further exacerbated by later back injuries. Although she has achieved success in her career, she continues to struggle with physical pain and freeze responses when managing the stress of large projects.
Dr. Levine demonstrates how specific techniques––such as supportive touch and pendulation––release chronic bracing patterns and can help clients better navigate strong emotions like vulnerability, sadness, and anger. He shows how tracking pain and its periphery can help clients shift attention between discomfort and ease, soften defense, and allow them to reconnect with their emotions.
- Recognize generational trauma in physical patterns—Learn to identify ways in which familial and cultural trauma manifest as chronic tension, pain, and protective postures in the body.
- Support emotional release and physical softening—Apply gentle, effective skills to help clients access and process overwhelming emotions, encouraging greater openness and resilience.
- Navigate the complexity of cultural identity in trauma work—Develop sensitivity to how cultural and familial dynamics influence attachment wounds and chronic physical pain.
- Facilitate the release of partial dissociation—Learn techniques to help clients reconnect with their body and emotions when parts of their experience remain fragmented or disconnected.
SESSION 4: Monday, February 17, 2025 @ 12 - 1:30 pm MT
Releasing Override Patterns to Restore Connection
In this session, Dr. Levine works with Calvin, a 41-year-old man whose early parentification led to persistent override patterns—rigid survival strategies suppressing his emotional and bodily needs to maintain control.
Growing up with an alcoholic father suffering from PTSD, Calvin was forced to manage his father’s volatile behavior while neglecting his own emotions.
These early experiences shaped patterns of emotional detachment and physical bracing that persist even after years of effort to build stability and address the effects of his childhood. Despite progress in many areas, his early survival strategies continue to limit his ability to fully access and express his emotions.
Dr. Levine demonstrates how to work with clients who use override patterns to mask pain and maintain a facade of stability. Using movement, sound, and breathwork, he shows how to gently release these protective responses, supporting clients in accessing their emotions, rebuilding a sense of safety, and shifting from rigid to authentic emotional connection.
- Recognize override patterns in emotional and physical responses—Learn to identify rigid coping strategies, such as hyper-control and emotional detachment that mask deeper pain and overwhelm.
- Support clients in releasing protective responses without collapse—Discover techniques to help clients safely let go of rigid defenses, creating space for authentic emotional expression.
- Work with breath patterns to promote regulation—Explore how to guide clients in shifting from controlled, shallow breathing to natural, rhythmical patterns that encourage ease and connection.
- Facilitate deeper emotional connection—Help clients move past emotional masking so they can experience more aliveness, openness, and real connection with others.
SESSION 5: Thursday, February 20, 2025 @ 12 - 1:30 pm MT
Supporting Individuation After Early Neglect and Trauma
In this final session, Dr. Levine works with Chris, a 44-year-old woman navigating the effects of caregiver neglect, religious abuse, chronic illness, and complex medical trauma.
Raised by emotionally absent parents, she learned to prioritize others’ needs while suppressing her own—a pattern reinforced by the control and isolation of a religious organization where she experienced significant trauma.
While Chris has moved beyond a freeze response, she remains caught in a flight response pattern, struggling to feel grounded or secure in her intimate relationships––disconnected from her own power, voice, and boundaries. Dr. Levine demonstrates how to support healthy individuation.
Using embodied techniques like psychodrama, supportive touch, and somatic movement, he shows how to help clients release physical and emotional patterns tied to caregiving roles, and reclaim a sense of personal agency. He also introduces the Pillow Squeeze Practice, a simple tool for releasing pent-up energy, promoting assertiveness and healthy boundary-setting.
- Support individuation from early caregiving roles—Help clients break self-sacrificing patterns from childhood neglect and prioritize their own needs and desires.
- Help clients reclaim their authentic voice and power—Use psychodrama and embodied sound to help clients express their emotions, access their inner power, and develop a stronger sense of self.
- Nurture healthy assertiveness—Help clients channel pent-up “aggressive” energy to restore a more balanced relationship with their natural drive for boundary-setting and self-protection.
- Address the “flight mode” response—Use movement, touch, and breath to help clients shift from an activated state to feeling more safe, calm, connected, and present.
Join our learning community––and learn how to apply new skills, strategies, and exercises to your personal and professional life.
Enrollment is now open until February 3, 2025
PLUS you’ll also get these Special Bonus Resources!
BONUS #1
NEW! 90-Minute Exercise Workshop
with Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Thursday, February 13, 2025 (11 am – 12: 30 pm MT)
Co-Regulation in Action
In this hands-on workshop led by Dr. Diane Poole Heller, we’ll teach you co-regulation skills using three practical, relational resourcing exercises.
Through these exercises, we’ll learn how to overcome fear of connection, strengthen secure attachment skills and address deep-seated attachment wounds.
After learning the techniques with Diane, we’ll break out into smaller groups to give every participant a chance to practice and truly embody the work.
You’ll get to practice interventions that shift trauma-related implicit memories—those subconscious and body-held reactions—into explicit (conscious) awareness for quicker and more effective healing.
BONUS #2
Two Client Demo Video Trainings
with Dr. Diane Poole Heller
In TWO recorded demo sessions, Dr. Diane Poole Heller shows you how to address intergenerational trauma patterns and “parentified child” dynamics.
Using the DARe approach and somatic techniques, these sessions explore practical ways to support emotional regulation and repair attachment wounds.
- Learn how to apply the DARe approach to create emotional space and support secure attachment.
- Discover how to integrate additional somatic techniques to help clients navigate inner child dynamics and unresolved trauma.
- Gain practical tools for tracking physiological markers, such as breath patterns, to guide somatic interventions.
BONUS #3
Trauma Symptoms Checklist + Resilience Checklist from Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Get insights into how trauma might be affecting you or your clients.
Since everyone responds to past trauma differently––and there Is no single way to think, feel, behave, or heal—these practical resources are designed to help you identify common responses and symptoms of trauma and assess progress on the healing journey.
When used in tandem in therapy, these checklists give clients a clear way to see and understand their progress. First, the Trauma Checklist is used to assess a client’s status at the beginning of therapy to set a reference point from which changes or progress can be measured.
Then, the Resilience Checklist gauges progress after therapy—and showcases the benefits of that treatment for health and well-being. You can also use it to streamline report creation and incorporate it into session notes.
- Available to print, download or use digitally as a fillable PDF
BONUS #4
Video Workshop: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™)
Deepen your understanding with this foundational 2.5 hour video workshop, led by SE faculty, Deborah Clydesdale. This training offers a comprehensive overview of the Somatic Experiencing® model, introducing the fundamental skills and terminology essential to the method.
It’s the perfect resource for practitioners new to Somatic Experiencing®, and an excellent refresher for experienced clinicians looking to revisit core techniques applicable to both their personal and professional lives.
What’s covered in the workshop?
- Learn the history and background of Somatic Experiencing®
- Basic overview of the human brain and nervous system
- Basic overview of the neurophysiology of the stress, trauma and human stress response
- Basic approach and skills of Somatic Experiencing®
- Orientation to the SE Professional Training Programs
Now includes 6 CE credits for eligible professionals!
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We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.
Try the Awakening Aliveness: Somatic Approaches to Healing Attachment Trauma course 100% risk-free.
If you don’t feel this training meets your needs, contact our friendly Customer Support Team within 5 days of the first class––on or before Monday, February 10, 2025––for a full refund, no questions asked.
For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.
Who Should Join Us?
Watch the Experts Work—Then Do It Yourself
- Therapists, Counselors, and Mental Health Professionals looking to deepen their understanding of somatic techniques for addressing attachment trauma and chronic survival response patterns in the body.
- Body-Based Practitioners (such as massage therapists, yoga instructors, and physical therapists) seeking tools to underhand and address how trauma and attachment wounds manifest as chronic tension or bracing.
- Social workers and caregivers looking for simple, practical tools to support individuals affected by trauma—and help them rebuild safety, connection, and resilience.
- Educators and advocates who want to understand how attachment shapes behavior and relationships to better support students and communities.
- Individuals on a personal healing journey who want to better understand how the body holds and processes trauma, so they can strengthen emotional resilience, manage stress, and cultivate deeper connections.
- Anyone interested in how body-based practices can unlock stored trauma, support emotional release and nurture greater safety, vitality, fulfillment, and connection to others.
- Clinical professionals trained in traditional approaches who want to integrate somatic practices into their work with trauma and attachment repair.
Meet Your Instructors
Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.
Peter A. Levine, PhD, is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years.
He is the Founder of the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute/Foundation for Human Enrichment and the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education™.
His work has been taught to over 50,000 therapists in over 45 countries.
Dr. Levine served as a stress consultant for NASA in the early space shuttle development and has served on the American Psychological Association task force for responding to the trauma of large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare.
He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology and is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, which is published in over 29 languages––and his new memoir, An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey.
He is currently a Senior Fellow and consultant at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona as he continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally.
Our goal is to uncover secure attachment, allowing it to prevail over relational trauma or attachment disruptions—or to help us recover more quickly from distress.
Diane Poole Heller PhD, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.
Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships.
She has authored several books, including the widely acclaimed The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.
Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.
She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.
Real Client Sessions Show You Exactly How It’s Done!
Led by Dr. Peter Levine, the originator of Somatic Experiencing® and your host, Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Here’s what’s included…
Awakening Aliveness
A Somatic Approach to Healing Attachment Trauma
A 5-Session LIVE Course that begins February 4, 2025
Learn to apply somatic techniques to help clients release stuck patterns, ease physical tension, and heal attachment wounds stored in the body.
Over 7 hours of LIVE training + 6 CE Credits! Now just $267!
Five LIVE 90-minute Interactive Training Sessions with Peter A. Levine and Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Join Dr. Levine and Dr. Heller for 5 LIVE, 90-minute online sessions that include core teaching, real client demos, practice exercises, corrective techniques, PLUS time for Q&A—where you can ask Dr. Levine questions directly.
Participate live or download the replay recording at your convenience if you cannot make the scheduled times. Learn concepts, frameworks, and somatic techniques to integrate to the work to everyday clinical practice.
Interactive Learning:
Real Client Demonstrations + Debriefs
Watch as Dr. Levine demonstrates five different, real client session—pausing to explain his proven somatic tools and techniques every step of the way. You’ll see firsthand how to facilitate healing with clients and apply these practices to both your personal and professional life.
Each comprehensive debrief will deepen your understanding of trauma and help you integrate the work with existing therapeutic modalities quickly and effectively.
Network with colleagues, ask questions and receive support in our course portal.
Private Course Portal with Downloadable Access to Video, Audio, Transcripts + Additional Bonuses and Resources
Every live training will be recorded. The recorded replay will be available in video, audio and written format, so you’ll be able to access content 24/7/365.
If you miss a training session, want to download transcripts and use them for reference and note taking—or come back to trainings and demos at a later date—you’ll be able to do so at your convenience.
Plus, you’ll get additional complementary resources, worksheets and slide handouts to enhance your learning.
PLUS you’ll also get these SPECIAL COURSE BONUSES!
BONUS #1: New! 90-minute Exercise Workshop with Diane
Join Diane for a live, hands on practical workshop session where she teaches co-regulation skills using practical, relational resourcing exercises.
After learning the techniques, you’ll break out into smaller groups to give every participant a chance to practice and embody the work!
BONUS #2 Two Client Demo Video Trainings from Diane
In these recorded demo sessions, you’ll see how to integrate the DARe approach and somatic techniques to address intergenerational trauma patterns and “parentified child” dynamics.
Learn how to support clients to create emotional space and support secure attachment.
BONUS #3 Trauma Symptoms + Resilience Checklist
Use these practical resources in tandem during therapy to identify common responses and symptoms of trauma—and assess progress.
Available in print, download, or digitally as a fillable PDF, you can assess a client’s status before, during, and after treatment. Great for incorporating into session notes and streamlining report creation!
BONUS #4 Video Workshop: Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing® (SE™)
In 2.5 hours of self-paced video training, you’ll get a comprehensive overview of the Somatic Experiencing® model—as well as an review of the neurophysiology of the stress, trauma, and human stress response.
A perfect refresher and resource for new and experienced clinicians looking to revisit core techniques applicable to both your personal and professional life.
This is the ONLY time this course will be offered LIVE.
Be sure to save your spot today…
You’re protected by our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education and clinical practice.
Try the Awakening Aliveness: Somatic Approaches to Healing Attachment Trauma course 100% risk-free.
If you don’t feel this training meets your needs, contact our friendly Customer Support Team within 5 days of the first class––on or before Monday, February 10, 2025––for a full refund, no questions asked.
For those with financial needs, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. Please contact our Customer Support Team for further information.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can we help you?
Do I need to be a therapist to benefit from this training?
While many of the students who take this course are both new and experienced practitioners (in a wide variety of professional roles), we do have non-therapists who join us and find the exercises and learning very beneficial to their well-being.
Due to the sensitive nature of the material, we do encourage non-therapists who choose to take this course to have therapeutic support in place should the material become activating.
Please note, the material in this course is not meant as a substitute for therapy. And if you are currently working with any mental health professional, we encourage you to invite them to join this program with you as well.
How long can I access the course materials?
You’ll have lifetime access to ALL training materials, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, demos, resources and bonuses too. You may also download, print or save materials at any time to your professional reference library for personal use. In the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable.
Will taking this course qualify me as SE™ trained?
Taking this program does NOT replace the 8-module training through Somatic Experiencing to be “SE Trained.” This program DOES ensure you will be “SE Informed” on fundamental skills and terminology essential to the method.
Are the class sessions live or pre-recorded?
There are a total of five, 90-minute LIVE sessions, streamed online via Zoom. Additionally, you’ll be able to submit questions each week and during the live session, which includes time for Q&A.
Client demos have been pre-recorded by Dr. Levine for each session (along with slide handouts, audio and transcripts). Dr. Levine will review each demo during the live session thoroughly—pausing to explain his process and techniques at every step of the way. You may also review the client demos at your own pace in the personal learning portal (Kajabi) at any time.
Every live call and workshop will also be recorded and stored inside your personal learning portal (Kajabi), so you watch and re-watch at any time. Again, in the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable. However, to get the most out of this course, we highly recommend you attend the live sessions if you can.
What if I can’t make it to the live calls—should I still take this course?
We would love to have you join each session live, but we recognize that you may already have prior commitments. If you’re unable to join us, we do record all sessions and training (including the Q&A), so you can still receive all the information and training you need.
Many of our students are unable to some (or all) of the live sessions and still find the recorded training, plus client demos, additional resources, audio, transcripts and course bonuses to be highly valuable and relevant to their learning goals. Additionally, the course materials are yours to download (other than client demos) and keep in your professional reference library, so you can come back and revisit the material at any time.
Are CE credits available for the course?
The LIVE, ONLINE sessions for this course have been approved for a total of 6 CE credit hours. These credits are already included in your purchase price.
If you are an eligible licensed clinical professional counselor or licensed social worker—and you need CE credits, you will need to attend all live sessions (excluding the bonus exercise day).
Attendance will be taken at each session to verify your eligibility.
Upon completion of the course, you will be sent an activity evaluation link, which must be completed within 60 days after the last program session (Monday, April 21, 2025). Upon submission of the activity evaluation, participants can print their certificate or statement of credit immediately.
Also, a Certificate of Completion is available to all students at the end of the course upon request at no additional charge.
Note: It is the participants responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.
Are there any discounts or scholarships available for this course?
I’m having trouble completing the purchase. How can I get support?
If you have additional questions or need technical support, please contact our Customer Support Team for help.
What is the refund policy for the course?
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education, personal growth and clinical practice.
If you enroll in Awakening Aliveness: Somatic Approaches to Healing Attachment Trauma and you decide to withdraw from the course for any reason, you may cancel your participation within 5 days of the course start date and request either a full refund or credit for a future course.
You must make this request in writing to our Customer Support Team on or before Monday, February 10, 2025. Refunds will be issued in the same form of payment made, and may take up to four weeks to process.
Continuing Education (CE) Credits
Licensed Mental Health Professionals
Do you need CE credits?
This course has been approved for 6 CE credit hours
Course Level: Beginning to advanced practice professionals
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals
Continuing Education Credit has been approved for the following professions:
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Licensed Professional Counselors
(MUST attend live calls to be eligible)* - Licensed Clinical Social Workers
*ONLY THE LIVE ONLINE SESSIONS ARE APPROVED FOR CE CREDITS.
To be eligible, professionals must attend ALL SIX monthly sessions. Attendance will be taken to verify eligibility.
A Certificate of Completion is available to all participants at the end of the course at no additional charge upon request.
It is the participants’ responsibility to check their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for this state. For detailed information regarding CEs, please contact our Customer Support Team.
Information on Continuing Education Credit for Health Professionals
- CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.
- LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.
- For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact Trauma Solutions Customer Support
- For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly.
- For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at ce@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate a minimum of three somatic techniques for addressing chronic pain and fatigue.
- Identify and summarize at least three physical cues that indicate the presence of stored trauma in the body.
- Explain how to recognize and address “override patterns” that may mask strength or stability.
- Detail two or more ways generational trauma manifests in physical holding patterns.
- Explain and demonstrate the application of pendulation to facilitate the release of trauma held in the body.
- List and describe somatic strategies for addressing complex trauma, including medical trauma and attachment injuries.
