300HR Trauma Informed Facilitator Training

Throughout this training you will learn the skills to share trauma-informed practices that include yoga, embodiment, and somatic therapies with all people and all bodies. Embark on this self-journey of wellbeing while simultaneously contributing to collective health and wellbeing for the globe and humans everywhere.

Becoming a Trauma-Informed Facilitator
Body-based trauma therapies and movement modalities are a powerful new approach to mental health with the potential to revolutionize the world and your offerings. This training gives students a rich and comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing trauma from a more integrated, mind-body approach. This training is more than an education, it is a transformational learning experience and an opportunity to expand from a teacher, leader, clinician, or caregiver, to an embodied facilitator, holder of braver spaces, and vessel of social justice and change. Through a holistic and whole-being approach, this training will bring forth interconnected practices in trauma theory, social justice and systemic change, traditional and contemporary somatic and embodied therapies, spirit and energetic body explorations, inclusive physical yoga asana variations, functional anatomy and physiology, and immediate body-based tools and methods to encourage empowerment, nurture resilience, and restore connection between ourselves, our communities, and the globe. 

 This 1 year long 300-hour continued professional development and Yoga Alliance certified training gives you the missing educational pieces as well as the space to explore somatic practices that will be useful for you both personally and professionally.

What is Trauma-Informed Facilitation?

Trauma-informed means taking into account past trauma and the resulting coping mechanisms when attempting to understand the behaviours of those we are working alongside. It means bringing empathy and compassion to every interaction and creating a brave and accessible space for all. It means being solution-based, forward-focused, and growth-minded in order to move into possibility and overall shift.

When it comes to processing and integrating trauma, talk therapy is beneficial but leaves out the body, which is a crucial component when processing trauma. Our approach is both bottom-up, drawing on body-based practices including yoga, breathwork, and sensory awareness; and top-down with education around neuroscience, anatomy, and trauma theory.  

​Why Participate in the Trauma Informed Facilitation Training?

Participating in trauma-informed facilitation training can offer many incredible benefits, both for you, the facilitator, and the individuals you work with. Trauma is a common experience for many people, and it can have a profound impact on one’s life. Trauma-informed training can help you better understand the effects of trauma on individuals, and how it may impact their ability to participate in group settings. It helps us contextualize the people we work with and better understand how to take into account the systems and structures we operate within; this understanding helps us work on the individual level as well as the collective as we work toward social change.

Curriculum:

Module 1 - Trauma, Accessibility, and Diversity: Expanding your Trauma Informed Toolkit

Topics:

• Our Responsibility of Self Care

• The Importance of Personal Practice

• Understanding Trauma 

• Understanding the Brain and Trauma 

• Accessible Movement

• Unpacking Accessibility

• Able Bodied Discrimination 

• Bioindividuality 

• Childhood Trauma, ACEs and Attachment Theory 

• Understanding the Gunas and Trauma 

• Creating and Holding Braver Spaces 

• Invitational Communicaton 

• Trauma and Memory 

• Fascia and Memory

• Neurodiversity 

• Movement Variations & Verbal Cueing 

Module 2 - Embodied Practices: Supportive Somatic Practices

Topics:

• Being an Island of Safety 

• Personal Regulation, Co-regulation, and Balance 

• Supporting Endocrine System & Anatomy of Breath 

• Disembodiment to Re-embodiment 

• Psychological + Integrative Practices 

• Embodying Philosophy 

• Understanding the Threat Response Cycle 

• Our Threat Response Cycle Continued 

• Understanding Chronic Pain and Trauma

• Changing the Story 

• Moving Meditation: Qi Gong as a Practice for Healing

• Orienting, Grounding, & Centering 

• Eco-Somatics: A Journey Home and Dance Therapy 

• Building Tolerance for Discomfort (Titration and Pendulation) 

• Trauma Informed Meditation 

• Finding your Routes of Safety

Module 3 - Social Justice and Systemic Change: The Body as a Catalyst for Equity

Topics:

• Self Compassion, Community Compassion and Global Compassion 

• Nature, Ancestors, Allyship & Change 

• Cultural Appropriation 

• Power Dynamics 

• Living Philosophy 

• Sacred Medicinal Practices 

• Social Injustice in Wellness Community 

• Systems of Oppression 

• Polyvagal Theory 

• Post Traumatic Growth 

• Transgender Inclusivity 

• Cultural Appropriation and Intrinsic Bias

• Mental Health and Addiction

• The Art of Sequencing & Creating a Practice 

• Scope of Practice & Trauma Informed Living

Module 4 - Integrative In Person Facilitator Retreat (*optional)

In Person 5 Night Educational, Experiential Retreat

2025 Dates Coming Soon
***Please email info@somapsych.org for more information about this retreat

This Training is designed for: 

• Experienced, new and novice wellness professionals and wellness business owners hoping to integrate trauma-informed and accessible practices in studios, online and in community settings.

• Health, social service, teachers, community professionals hoping to integrate yoga, embodied, and mindful somatic practices with a trauma-informed approach into their existing practice, organizations, and work.

• Activists, humanitarians and social justice advocates hoping to add somatic awareness, embodied practices and community connection to their social justice and systemic change agendas.

• Those wanting to deepen their own understanding of how movement can be used as an integrated tool in the processing and experiencing of everyday life from a more embodied perspective.

Equity in Investment  

Choosing your tier. We are committed to offering trainings, mentorships and opportunities that are of the highest quality, affordable and accessible while striving to keep equity and mutual exchange at the soul of how we serve.  We recognize that we live in systems of inequity and we strive to find ways of finding balance within this. We feel that the deepest engagement and greatest benefit comes when there is a meaningful mutual exchange. For these reasons, we offer tiered pricing. There is an invitation to reflect on your access to resources and privilege, the value of this work, what you can genuinely afford, and what you might pay for comparable training programs. By committing to what is truly within your means you make it possible for others to show up within theirs and we are all grateful for this.

Personalized payment plans are available. Payment plans are a binding contract between you and SomaPsych. If payments are not kept up-to-date, you may lose access to your course until payments are back on track. Email Esther at info@somapsych.org for registration with details of your payment tier, and installment choice for your plan.

TIER 1 – For those who are financially well-resourced and who are able to contribute to our scholarship fund. Reflects the value of the course in Western economic markets.

TIER 2 – For those on medium incomes and access to financial resources who also are able to contribute to our scholarship fund. 

TIER 3 – For those on low incomes, caring responsibilities and from marginalized communities.

For Tier Pricing please visit the SomaPsych website. Prices are subject to change depending on currency exchange rates.

Scholarships​​​

Application deadline for Scholarship Invitation Inquiry - June 17, 2024

Application deadline for Invited Applicants - July 15, 2024

Scholarships Awarded - July 29, 2024

In addition to our tiered pricing, we also have scholarships available for:

1) People from non-western / low-economy countries and financially marginalized communities, who otherwise would be unable to access a training such as this.

2) People experiencing serious personal / financial hardship.

To apply for a scholarship please complete our scholarship application form. Applications close 12th September 2023. Currently, this mentorship is not offered in person and has limited space online. However, if space is full upon registration you will be offered additional date options.