Resolving Generational Trauma Somatically
October 18th and 25th, 2024 ONLINE
6 Continuing Education Credits
Antioch University Online
Are you or your clients feeling stuck, weighed down by emotional burdens that don’t seem to be your own? Have you witnessed family patterns of suffering that span generations?
Join us for a transformative Somatic Experiential Healing Class designed to uncover and heal the deep-rooted effects of generational trauma. In this immersive webinar, you’ll:
✅ Discover how generational trauma is stored in the body and affects daily life.
✅ Learn practical Somatic Therapy tools to break free from inherited emotional patterns.
✅ Explore the connection between ancestral wounds and current emotional struggles.
✅ Practice techniques to release trauma and facilitate lasting healing.
Walk away with powerful insights and somatic tools that you can immediately apply to yourself or your clinical practice. This class blends the wisdom of multiple somatic disciplines for a rich, healing experience.
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Course Description: Healing Generational Trauma Through Somatic Therapy We are all the product of a long human lineage—one that influences not just our minds, but our bodies and emotional experiences. Our ancestry carries with it the unresolved emotional wounds of past generations, which manifest in repetitive patterns of adversity, emotional pain, and challenges to wholeness in our daily lives.
Today, generational trauma is not only showing up in individuals but also in society at large. The lingering effects of past abuses and traumas are shaping the volatility and division we witness in our national dialogue. In many ways, our ancestors’ unresolved suffering and longings are expressing themselves through us
This experiential course offers mental health professionals and clinicians the opportunity to delve into the science and practice of healing generational trauma. Through group exercises and somatic techniques, you will explore how ancestral wounds live in our minds and bodies—often without our conscious awareness. Together, we’ll gain deep insights, offering each other support as we apply Somatic Therapy principles for profound healing.
What You’ll Gain:
✅ A clear understanding of how generational trauma impacts emotional and physical well-being.
✅ Practical somatic tools for healing inherited trauma in both personal and clinical settings.
✅Techniques to support your clients in breaking free from generational patterns and finding greater emotional freedom.
✅ A new, transformative lens through which to view and approach your practice and the world around you.
20 Continuing Education Credits – Participants will receive 5 CE credits per class for a total of 20 to be used for CE credit for existing practice requirements.
Register TODAY!
Join us to explore this powerful intersection of somatic healing and generational trauma. Walk away with the knowledge and tools to create lasting change for yourself and your clients.
Enroll now and begin your journey towards healing generational wounds.
COURSE CONTENT
When we experience difficulties that cycle in and out of our lives constantly. When we see patterns in or families that seem to repeat themselves across our family branches. When these patterns are causing issues, emotional suffering, or a general feeling “stuckness”, the answer may be deeper than just our individual shortcomings.
Often, patterns seem to come from our ancestors which make us suffer or not reach our highest potential. How often have we heard stories such: “you are just like your (fill in the family member).”
This gives us clues that underlying struggles are emerging from the past. Indeed, generational trauma is something that is real and lives not only in our experiences, but also in our biology – our very body. This is not only true in our epigenetics (the encoding of present experience in our genetics) but also at a much deeper level. There is also an energetic component which influences several generations over time. In other words, our ancestors both inform our biology as well as how we approach and feel about our present experience. Using the power of Somatic therapy, we are able to locate and permanently deactivate generational trauma.
This course is experiential and will explore each student’s own family tree and how it may be affecting daily life. There will also be an overview of the science and experience of generational trauma and its influence on our lived experience. Students will be encouraged to explore a variety of generational issues such as immigration, discrimination, marginalization, violence, war, poverty, addiction, developmental trauma to name a few. In this phase, students will be able to work through generational trauma in the moment and help bring resolution toward wholeness. Tools such as self-drawn genograms and Bodily Experience Maps will be used to help discharge trapped energy emerging from our lineage.
The classroom will provide a safe and paused container in which to explore how our ancestors truly influence all of us.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to build the healing tree exercise and apply the practice to clinical applications.
Participants will be able to identify four causes of destructive family patterns.
Participants will be able to classify five influences of generational trauma.
Participants will be able to specify and integrate three clinical tools for treatment.