An Embodied Approach to Sustaining Change
Join Somatics Expert Staci Haines for Two Exclusive Free Video Trainings:
Somatics in a Time of Overwhelm:
Embodied Healing for Individual and Systemic Trauma:
The Three Core Needs
We are living in overwhelming times, simultaneously navigating a worldwide pandemic, climate change, political upheaval, racial injustice, economic turbulence, and war. As therapists, we’re busier than ever helping clients process the daily stress and trauma of the past few years. How do we find the calm and resilience we need to effect positive transformation in the lives of our clients and society at large?
We all have three inherent needs in order to feel at home in our bodies. If any of those needs are not met, we will automatically “adapt” or create survival strategies to attempt to get those integral needs met.
In Somatics, we explore these adaptive strategies that are often the product of individual or systemic trauma. Although these old patterns once served a useful purpose, ultimately, they keep us stuck in past pain and ways of being that no longer serve us.
In Somatics, we explore these adaptive strategies that are often the product of individual or systemic trauma. Although these old patterns once served a useful purpose, ultimately, they keep us stuck in past pain and ways of being that no longer serve us.
Staci K. Haines is a national leader in the field of Somatics, specializing in intersecting personal and social change. Her latest book, The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice (2019), is based on her work to transform the impact of individual and social trauma and violence, and strengthen the interdependence of personal and social change. Staci is the co-founder and former director of generative somatics (gs), a social justice organization bringing somatics to social and climate justice movements. She leads programs in somatics, trauma, and resilience, and embodied leadership for healers, social change leaders, and innovators. She is also a senior teacher at Strozzi Institute and a Certified Master Somatic Coach. Staci is also the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (1999, 2007), and is the founder of generationFIVE, a community based organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations.
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